{"id":760861,"date":"2026-07-13T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:40:09","slug":"madonna-tops-albums-chart-with-confessions-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760861\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Tops Albums Chart With “Confessions II”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMadonna<\/a> is back at No. 1 as her latest album Confessions II has debuted atop Billboard\u2019s 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed <\/a>on Sunday, marking the pop icon\u2019s 10th number one in her career.<\/p>\n

\n\tConfessions II opened with 134,000 units overall, Billboard reported, with 114,000 coming from traditional sales. The album also earned 20.1 million first-week streams.<\/p>\n

\n\tMadge spent the months leading up to the release heavily promoting the album, debuting lead single \u201cBring Your Love\u201d during Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s headlining set<\/a> at Coachella back in April. She\u2019d follow up that surprise appearance with pop-up shows in West Hollywood <\/a>and in New York\u2019s Times Square, as well as with a short film<\/a> at Tribeca Film Festival last month.<\/p>\n

\n\tConfessions II is Madonna\u2019s first album since 2019\u2019s Madame X, which itself opened at No. 2 at the time. Her latest record is garnering significant critical acclaim, as Confessions II is widely being lauded as her best album since 2005\u2019s original Confessions on a Dance Floor. <\/p>\n

\n\tMadonna managed to beat out Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which came in at No. 2 this week but still sat above 100,000 units in its fourth week on the chart. Ella Langley\u2019s Dandelion took third, Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem came in fourth and Drake\u2019s Iceman rounds out the top 5.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith her No. 1 secured, Madonna will continue her album campaign with a co-headlining slot at the inaugural FIFA World Cup Halftime Show, where she\u2019ll perform alongside Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna is back at No. 1 as her latest album Confessions II has debuted atop Billboard\u2019s 200 albums…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,13847],"class_list":["post-760861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-madonna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760861","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=760861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}