Madonna Has Biggest Drop In Record Sales History
Last week Madonna's new album was number one and sold 359,000 copies. Those are pretty good numbers in today's market. This week though she set a world record for the biggest second week sales plunge. This week she only sold 46,000 units which is an 88 percent drop and a record. It turns out that people were not buying Madonna's record because they liked it but because you could buy the record as a package with a concert ticket which made everything less expensive. In fact, if you take out the number of people who bought the packages, Madonna would not have even been number one.
Still though, to have number one records (kind of) in each of the past four decades is pretty amazing. Lionel Richie was probably ticked off he was not number one last week.
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Madonna's still talented, but she needs to do less juvenille music. It's like she's getting less sophisticated as time goes on. I wonder what she'll be doing when she's 60? A few short years away...
smart marketing
Good for Madonna maybe now she will sit her ass down somewhere.
Maybe now she should focus on properly raising her children for once. Obviously, whatever she's been doing ain't working.
Maybe now she should focus on properly raising her children for once. Obviously, whatever she's been doing ain't working.
@ Jennifer. I think Madonna is a very strict parent...at least, that's what I've read. Her kids were not allowed to watch TV growing up and they had to study all the time. Just because her daughter was caught smoking doesn't make Madonna a bad mother. Do you realize that peer pressure plays a larger role than the parent when a kid hits their teens? My parents were the strictest parents, always there for me. I was smoking at Lourdes age. When my parents caught me...OMG...the wrath. Never smoked again. Kids sample and experiment in their teens years. Everyone in my highschool did just about, and lots of them with drugs. I don't think it's fair to call someone a bad parent when their child experiments.
Madonna still has a lot to say with her music. Her upcoming tour will sure to be the mega money maker/audience record breaker. Her tours are her strength. But yes, I do wish she would approach music in a more sophisticated manor. The dubstep/techno/dj of the moment music she makes is SO not meant for her anymore.
Like alot of successful people, her career is what she excels at. Probably why she's such a lousy human being !
But she has had a phenomenal career.
And coincidentally, a search for Madonna's new cd on eBay gives 359,000 listings
lol, seachica
I can honestly say I have never bought a single album of hers. Somehow I managed to ramble through life despite the glaringly obvious hole that was not filled by basic hooks and techno music blaring out of my speakers. I just don't see buying them now either. I do, however, have my eye on a Cat Empire CD I want....
Very driven people just simply cannot sit back and relax, even after a long and illustrious run of success, to enjoy their wads and wads of money...or their families.
And when she smashed cake into Guy's face, she said "that's for making me work so hard" or something. Like it's HIS fault! Right. Dude prolly hasn't had a day off in years because of her...
I must say that Madonna remains the Queen of Marketing. Like in the old days when record sales were established by how many were moved into the stores.
As for her Lourdes: my best friend teaches at La Guardia High School where she attends. He had her for a social studies class. He said that she's really a sweet girl. I asked him if he ever asks her to take the papers home and have them "signed by a parent -- but for you Lourdes, must be your mother" I think it will be interesting to see when she graduates ... will Madonna steal the spotlight and perform?
It couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
Word got out that the record SUCKS!
hahahaha that is all
Record sales these days is a joke. Seems like every week there is a new number one. Does anybody stay in the top spot for 2 weeks or more anymore?
This is what Enty said, but explains it in a different way:
Her label, Interscope, joined up with Live Nation (owner of Ticketmaster) to combine album “sales” with ticket sales for Madonna’s upcoming tour. Meaning that everyone who paid an exorbitant amount for a ticket to one of Madonna’s upcoming tour dates got a free copy of MDNA, and then Interscope counted those free albums into the sales numbers. Which may have inflated the “359,000 copies” number by as much as 185,000. Meaning that maybe Madonna only sold 179,000 copies of MDNA, and the rest were given away for free. Meaning that Lionel Richie’s new album totally out-sold her.
why would you pay the $$ to go her lip sync? Don't get it
Madonna ought to retire. Period. obviously doesn't get that this generation has its own women idols like Rihanna, Nicki M and Lady Gaga. She's no longer relevant and clearly doesn't understand current trends in music. Her crap is so dated that she's embarrassing herself. Go away, Madonna, before you become a joke.
Madonna is, was, forever will be an untalented cumbag. She stopped being relevant around 1995 or so, and sorry, a slutty chick in her 50's? thats just gross
Everything she's done in the last 20 years sounds the same. Not sure why anyone would drop money on it.
Madonna has been very successful over the years because she doesn't give up when things don't go well. Maybe she does need a new direction with her music, but I'm sure she'll figure it out. She's a leader, not a quitter.
Vadge really has to realize it's not 1994 now.
Lionel Richie has gone country! Yeeha!
It reminds me of the Katherine Heigl movie One for the Money. They sold buy one get one groupons and counted them toward opening weekend numbers. It did well the first week. :)
hey, whatever it takes so I don't have to be bombarded by pictures of gristle crotch anymore.
you can only autotune and photoshop so much before it's just not funny anymore and it becomes a joke.
Agreed
"Gristle Crotch...." ? Oh God! LOLOLOLOL!
Prince did this for his Musicology tours years ago and his CD was listed in the top 10 for weeks. At the time, Billboard said no one else would be allowed to put the sale of the CD within the concert ticket price and have it count on the charts but apparently they've backed off from that stance because I've heard that other established artists have done it since. I think it would be great if the lesser-known bands could take advantage of that set-up in order to gain ground in the industry instead of artists who've been around for years and years and are probably swimming in royalties.
Patty, it's funny that you asked that, because Adele's 21 is expected to be #1 next week for the 24th week!!! It's going to tie with 'Purple Rain' if it does, and be one of only 8 albums in Billboard's history to do that.
Madonna and her ways drove my mother crazy because of her influence on me when I was a teen (via music vids on tv....MTV used to play music videos). It is funny to think she never let her kids watch tv. Without all the "bad" parents out there, she never would have made all her money.
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