Today in Madonna History: July 13, 2026

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On July 13, 2026, CONFESSIONS II debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart.

The album became Madonna’s ninth No. 1 studio album in Canada and her eleventh chart-topping album overall, including The Immaculate Collection and Celebration.

Madonna’s albums have reached the following peaks on Canada’s national album charts:

Studio albums

  • Madonna — No. 16
  • Like a Virgin — No. 3
  • True Blue — No. 1
  • Like a Prayer — No. 2
  • Erotica — No. 4
  • Bedtime Stories — No. 4
  • Ray of Light — No. 1
  • Music — No. 1
  • American Life — No. 1
  • Confessions on a Dance Floor — No. 1
  • Hard Candy — No. 1
  • MDNA — No. 1
  • Rebel Heart — No. 1
  • Madame X — No. 2
  • CONFESSIONS II — No. 1

Soundtrack albums

  • Who’s That Girl — No. 4
  • I’m Breathless — No. 3
  • Evita — No. 5

Live albums

  • I’m Going to Tell You a Secret — No. 4
  • The Confessions Tour — No. 2
  • Sticky & Sweet Tour — No. 36

Collections

  • You Can Dance — No. 11
  • The Immaculate Collection — No. 1
  • Something to Remember — No. 4
  • GHV2 — No. 11
  • Celebration — No. 1
  • Finally Enough Love — No. 22

More than four decades after her self-titled debut reached No. 16 in Canada, Madonna returned to the top of the Canadian Albums chart with CONFESSIONS II.

Today in Madonna History: July 12, 2026

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On July 12, 2026, Billboard announced that Madonna’s CONFESSIONS II had debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving her the tenth U.S. No. 1 album of her career.

The album opened with 134,000 equivalent album units, marking Madonna’s biggest week since the Billboard 200 adopted its current album-equivalent methodology in 2014. It was also the largest week for a dance album in 2026.

Of that total, 114,000 came from traditional album sales—her strongest sales week since 2012—while 20.1 million official on-demand streams gave Madonna the biggest streaming week of her career for an album.

Vinyl accounted for 59,000 copies sold across 15 variants, delivering Madonna’s largest vinyl sales week since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

CONFESSIONS II also debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart.

With the achievement, Madonna became the first artist to earn a No. 1 album in the 2020s after also topping the Billboard 200 in three earlier decades: the 1980s, 2000s and 2010s.

More than 41 years after Like a Virgin became her first U.S. No. 1 album, Madonna returned to the top of the Billboard 200 for the tenth time.

Today in Madonna History: July 11, 1987

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On July 11 1987, Madonna’s True Blue album was certified 5x platinum (5 million units) in the USA.  The album went on to sell an estimated 19 million units worldwide.

How many copies of True Blue do you own? Cassette? 8-Track? LP? CD? 

Today in Madonna History: July 10, 2026

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On July 10, 2026, Madonna returned to the top of the charts as CONFESSIONS II debuted at No. 1 in the United Kingdom, Australia, France and Italy.

In the UK, the album became Madonna’s 13th chart-topper and her first since MDNA in 2012. The achievement made her the first American female artist to score No. 1 albums across five different decades — the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.

Madonna also tied Elvis Presley for fifth place among the artists with the most No. 1 albums in UK chart history. CONFESSIONS II additionally topped the Official Vinyl Albums Chart as the week’s biggest-selling album on vinyl.

The album’s international success continued with No. 1 debuts on Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart and Vinyl Albums Chart, France’s official albums chart and Italy’s official FIMI albums chart. In Australia, it became Madonna’s 13th No. 1 album, placing her behind only Jimmy Barnes, The Beatles and Taylor Swift among the artists with the most chart-topping albums in the country.

Also released on July 10 was CONFESSIONS II: Afterhours Edition, a new 22-track digital edition featuring the original album and a six-track bonus set of remixes.

Afterhours Edition bonus tracks:

  1. I Feel So Free (Peggy Gou Energy Mix)
  2. Bring Your Love (Stuart Price Afterhours Mix)
  3. Bring Your Love (Twilight Mix)
  4. Bring Your Love (Peaktime Dub Remix)
  5. Love Sensation (salute’s infinite passion remix)
  6. Love Sensation (Floorplan Mix)

The two Love Sensation remixes by salute and Floorplan had not previously been released. CONFESSIONS II: Afterhours Edition is available through digital and streaming platforms.

Today in Madonna History: July 9, 2026

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On July 9, 2026, Madonna was announced as the cover star of upcoming issues of Japan’s INROCK and the UK’s Classic Pop.

The August 2026 issue of INROCK, Volume 512, was set to include a 16-page Madonna special, a centre-bound photo feature and a collectible pin-up. The feature examined Madonna’s feminist influence and the way it continued to shape a younger generation of artists.

For the cover, Madonna appeared with Sabrina Carpenter in a black-and-white image connected to the “Bring Your Love” visual campaign. It marked Madonna’s first INROCK cover in 18 years.

The double-cover issue, with Ariana Grande appearing on the reverse, was scheduled to reach Japanese newsstands on July 15, 2026. The announcement also arrived ahead of the Japanese domestic release of Confessions II on July 29, 2026 through Warner Music Japan.

Madonna also led Classic Pop Issue 107, dated August 2026. The issue featured a world-exclusive interview exploring her relationship with music, creativity and live performance.

Stuart Price also appeared in the issue, looking back on writing and producing Confessions on a Dance Floor with Madonna and sharing behind-the-scenes memories from the album’s creation.

The issue also included features on Dionne Warwick, Natalie Imbruglia, A Flock of Seagulls, The Specials, Laura Nyro, Kim Wilde, T’Pau and Marc Almond.

Today in Madonna History: July 8, 1991

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On July 8, 1991, Madonna began filming A League Of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, directed by Penny Marshall.

Today in Madonna History: July 7, 2026

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On July 7, 2026, Madonna released Confessions II: Grindr Edition, a new digital version of the album featuring audio from her June 4 surprise performance in Times Square, presented in partnership with Grindr.

The free pop-up concert was streamed live from Times Square through Grindr and featured new material alongside Confessions on a Dance Floor favourites. The partnership also included merchandise and a Grindr-exclusive picture disc.

The alternate editions were released digitally, with several appearing through the iTunes Store:

  • Confessions II — 16-track Deluxe Album
    The complete main album, featuring 16 continuously mixed tracks.
  • Confessions II: Icon Edition
    An expanded digital edition featuring the bonus song “Hot Sauce,” named after the Absolut Hot Sauce cocktail created for Madonna and Absolut’s Confessions II campaign. The cocktail was part of the Absolut Icon promotion, which featured Absolut and Tabasco drinks inspired by the album.
  • Confessions II: Film Edition
    A digital presentation built around the music and sequencing featured in Confessions II – The Film, the short visual project directed by TORSO.
  • Confessions II: Instrumentals
    Instrumental versions of the album tracks, placing the focus on the production, arrangements and continuous dance-floor mix.
  • Confessions II: Grindr Edition
    The newly released digital edition featuring six bonus live songs from Madonna’s Times Square performance: “I Feel So Free,” “Bring Your Love,” “Love Sensation,” “Get Together,” “I Love New York,” “Hung Up.”

The release brought one of the most visible moments of the Confessions II campaign into the album’s official digital catalogue.