{"id":612550,"date":"2026-04-29T04:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612550\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:02:12","slug":"madonna-returns-to-billboards-dance-charts-with-i-feel-so-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612550\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Returns to Billboard\u2019s Dance Charts With \u2018I Feel So Free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMadonna<\/a>\u2019s \u201cI Feel So Free,\u201d the first song released from her forthcoming Confessions II studio album (due July 3 via Warner Records), debuts on four Billboard charts (dated May 2), including a No. 1 arrival on the Dance Digital Song Sales<\/a> tally. It also takes a bow on Digital Song Sales<\/a>, Hot Dance\/Pop Songs<\/a> and Dance\/Mix Show Airplay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track arrived exclusively via iHeartRadio\u2019s Pride Radio on Friday, April 17, before becoming widely available through streaming services and digital download stores, alongside an official visualizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to its No. 1 entrance on Dance Digital Song Sales (Madonna\u2019s second leader on the 16-year-old chart), \u201cI Feel So Free\u201d arrives at No. 6 on the all-genre Digital Song Sales<\/a>, marking her first appearance on the ranking since 2024, when \u201cLike a Prayer\u201d debuted on the ranking, 35 years after its release, following its appearance in the movie Deadpool & Wolverine. \u201cFree\u201d becomes her 10th top 10 on Digital Song Sales, which started in 2004.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of \u201cLike a Prayer,\u201d DJ Josh Fawaz\u2019s cover climbs 5-3 on Dance Digital Song Sales and debuts at No. 19 on Digital Song Sales and No. 11 on Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI Feel So Free\u201d also opens at No. 12 on Hot Dance\/Pop Songs<\/a> \u2014 Madonna\u2019s first entry on the one-year-old chart, following seven appearances on Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> (the latter chart is now a DJ-centered ranking<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, the track debuts at No. 14 on Dance\/Mix Show Airplay<\/a>, Madonna\u2019s 17th entry on the 23-year-old ranking and first since \u201cPopular,\u201d with The Weeknd and Playboi Carti, in 2023. It\u2019s also her highest-charting song on the list in 14 years \u2014 since \u201cGive Me All Your Luvin\u2019,\u201d featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., in 2012 (No. 11 peak).<\/p>\n

\n\tEven more impressively, only four songs have had higher debuts on Dance\/Mix Show Airplay this decade: \u201cLooking for Me\u201d (Paul Woolford, Diplo and Kareen Lomax; No. 4 in 2020), \u201cDon\u2019t Forget My Love\u201d (Diplo and Miguel; No. 12 in 2022), \u201cFavour\u201d (FISHER and Tones and I; No. 12 a week ago) and \u201cYou\u201d (Regard x Troye Sivan x Tate McRae; No. 13 in 2021).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe May 2-dated charts reflect the April 17-23 tracking week, as reported by Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tDance Digital Song Sales ranks the week\u2019s top-selling download songs in the dance genre, while Digital Song Sales is the overall weekly sales chart for all downloaded songs. Hot Dance\/Pop Songs is a multimetric chart that blends streams, airplay and sales to rank the week\u2019s most popular dance\/pop tracks and the Dance\/Mix Show airplay tally ranks the week\u2019s most popular songs ranked by radio airplay detections at dance-formatted stations and mix show plays on mainstream top 40 and select rhythmic stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna\u2019s \u201cI Feel So Free,\u201d the first song released from her forthcoming Confessions II studio album (due July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[33337,88,27063,216,498],"class_list":["post-612550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-chart-beat","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-dance","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}