Madonna's highly anticipated sequel to her 2005 blockbuster 'Confessions On a Dancefloor' has left the charts 5 weeks after release.

Confessions II chart-run:

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Confessions II campaign:

• Sabrina Carpenter as a featured artist on the lead single 'Bring Your Love '

• Times Square takeover

• Grindr partnership

• World Cup halftime show performance for over 1 billion people

Albums released by artists around the same age or older and their Billboard 200 performance:

• Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions: 31 weeks

• Tony Bennett - Cheek to Cheek: 30 weeks

• Cher - Closer to the Truth: 24 weeks

• Tony Bennett - Love for Sale: 8 weeks

• Cher - Dancing Queen (ABBA covers): 8 weeks

• Cher - Christmas: 8 weeks

• Elton John - The Diving Board: 8 weeks

• Madonna - Confessions II: 5 weeks

Don't worry, deluxe is coming with 7 extra songs

ngl attacking madonna in 2026 is not a cute look and i say this as someone who doesnt care bout the new album at all

Nice! It also leads as most nominated video for the VMAs this year, so what an accomplishment to Madonna -- Not only did she get a #1 on the BB 200, even if her streams are declining, but she also is still the leader in pop imagery and videography! What an icon!

what went wrong ?

imagine how tired we are

i say this as a liddo

outlasted 143 and harlequin mind you

That's not that bad all the pre digital era chart no more than 3 weeks

Madonna could had more weeks of her team focus on a single to make the streams stable, they are messy Bring Your Love was left months ago, they refuse to release Danceteria as singles & they randomly decide to release Love Sesation Kylie Remix, this era had potential but the rollout is a mess

So Madonna is this week's target for discord gang

I don't care, it's still album of the year.

she should add die with a smile by bruno mars dance remix at the end of the tracklist to keep the album charting

4 minutes ago, truthteller said:

outlasted 143 and harlequin mind you

I would hope so

Releasing a #1 album 40 years into your career at the age of 68... Whew not everyone can achieve that. You're one of a kind, M

Still one of the best albums this year. Now what?

Already outsold all but 2 of those albums listed globally after only 5 weeks

MADONNA: THE BIGGEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME!

wow 4 weeks longer than I was expecting! congrats to the Queen of Pop

but also:

Lady Gaga's album Harlequin spent 1 week on the US Billboard 200 album chart.

"Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions: 31 weeks" - Why did you need to include his collab album that had feats with Dua Lipa, Britney Spears, Lil Nas X, Nicki Minaj, Charlie Puth, Years & Years, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, Gorillaz, etc?

Elton John - The Diving Board: 8 weeks - The one that peaked at #4 and sold 47k first week? This even before the streaming era so of course he had more weeks on chart?

"Tony Bennett - Cheek to Cheek: 30 weeks" and "Tony Bennett - Love for Sale: 8 weeks" - Again...why did you include his collab albums with Gaga and not his studio albums? His album release when he was around Madonna's age happened in 1993, it was called Steppin' Out and peaked at 128. His latest studio album? It released in 2015 and peaked at #98.

"Cher - Closer to the Truth: 24 weeks" - again...before the streaming era. of course it charted longer. The album peaked at #3 and only sold 64k...Madonna literally at Cher's age at that point debuted at 140k lmao. What is this...

"Cher - Christmas: 8 weeks" - That album released and peaked outside of the top 30, sold around 20k and is nowhere near the sales that Madonna's Confessions II has Even in terms of streams Confessions II has already done like 65% of its streams.

Are you telling me if Cher, Elton, etc released a studio album right now it would do better? Look at everyone who's a legacy act and that has released material: Celine, Rolling Stones, Mariah etc...everyone leaves the charts after 3 weeks. Madonna doing 5 inside the charts in the USA (so far) is great for her.

Exactly who are you trying to fool here? Did the VMAs nominations really broke you that much?

'Grindr partnership' always sends me.

Whatever, still jamming to Read My Lips.

4 minutes ago, #Beautiful said:

she should add die with a smile by bruno mars dance remix at the end of the tracklist to keep the album charting

Or she could get the biggest hitmaker of recent years on her lead single and still fail to chart for more than a month

why are we comparing albums from like 2013 to Confessions II?

These threads only make you look foolish nnnn

Gaga will be lucky enough to debut inside the top 20 in her 60s if this trend keep going