On November 12 1994, Madonna’s Bedtime Stories was the week’s highest debut on the Billboard 200 album chart, peaking at #3 with sales of 145,000 units.
While the figure represented a 15% drop in first-week sales from her previous long player, Erotica, the album proved to be a commercial grower in America – where the runaway success of its second single, Take A Bow, would push its overall U.S. sales tally well beyond that of its predecessor.
Illustrating urban/r&b’s U.S. chart domination at the time, Bedtime Stories was held back from the top spot by the Murder Was The Case soundtrack (performed by Snoop Doggy Dogg) and Boyz II Men’s II.
Exhibit M-Love Tried to Welcome Me-One of Madonna’s saddest and best ballads! Beautiful and underrated song!
I’ll Remember was kept from the top spot by All-4-One’s “I Swear”.
Bedtime Stories is 3x Platinum with around 2.3 million sales at SoundScan while Erotica is 2x Platinum with around 1.8 million sales at SoundScan.
Thanks for the correction! I always get those two bands confused…their songs sounded nearly identical, and even their names are similar. Cheers! 🙂