Madonna Charts Eighth #1 Album With ‘MDNA’

Robbie Daw | April 4, 2012 9:15 am

Two icons who rose to prominence in the 1980s lock down the top two spots on the album chart this week, as Madonna’s MDNA and Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee debut at #1 and #2 on Billboard‘s Top 200, respectively. Her Madgesty’s 12th studio album sold 359,000 copies in its first week — up from the 280,000 that her last LP Hard Candy opened with in 2008 — and thus becomes her eighth chart-topping album in the US. Richie’s country-tinged tenth album Tuskegee debuts with 199,000 sold. Madonna’s opening-week sales were aided by the fact that concert-goers who purchased tickets to her fall North American tour were given the option of receiving either a physical CD or digital download copy of MDNA. Those who opted for the album therefore contributed to the 359,000 total copies sold.

Madonna’s chart-topping albums, to date, are as follows:

1. Like A Virgin (1984) 2. True Blue (1986) 3. Like A Prayer (1989) 4. Music (2000) 5. American Life (2003) 6. Confessions On A Dance Floor (2005) 7. Hard Candy (2008) 8. MDNA (2012)

Here’s how the rest of her studio LPs charted:

1. Madonna (1983), #8 2. Erotica (1992), #2 3. Bedtime Stories (1994), #3 4. Ray Of Light (1998), #2

Two other albums crashed into the Top 10 this week: Shinedown’s fourth offering Amaryllis (#4, 106,000) and Vulnerable (#8, 32,000), the fifth LP from Utah rockers The Used.

The Top 10 Of Billboard’s Top 200 Chart

1. Madonna, MDNA *new* *1 week* 2. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee *new* 3. Adele, 21 4. Shinedown, Amaryllis *new* 5. Various, The Hunger Games soundtrack 6. One Direction, Up All Night 7. Katy Perry, Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection 8. The Used, Vulnerable *new* 9. Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball 10. Various, Now 41