On July 25 2001, Madonna played the first of five sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden during her Drowned World Tour.
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Today in Madonna History: July 24, 1987
On July 24 1987, Madonna performed her Who’s That Girl World Tour at the Astrodome in Houston, in front of 40,000 fans.
The title Who’s That Girl Tour came to Madonna during rehearsals one-day when she looked at a gigantic image of herself projected on a screen on the stage. She commented,
“Oh god, what have I done? What have I created? Is that me, or is this me, this small person standing down here on the stage? That’s why I call the tour ‘Who’s That Girl?’; because I play a lot of characters, and every time I do a video or a song, people go, ‘Oh, that’s what she’s like.’ And I’m not like any of them. I’m all of them. I’m none of them. You know what I mean.?”
Today in Madonna History: July 23, 1988
On July 23 1988, Madonna – Ciao Italia: Live From Italy hit #1 on the Top Music Videos chart in the US.
Today in Madonna History: July 22, 2003
On July 22 2003, the first photos from the GAP jeans campaign featuring Madonna and Missy Elliot were released.
Today in Madonna History: July 14, 2026
On July 14, 2026, the official visualiser for Madonna’s “Danceteria” was released on Apple Music and Spotify.
The visualiser accompanied the third single from Confessions II, which had been released on July 10.
Every stream counts, so be sure to watch the new visualiser and stream “Danceteria” on your favourite streaming service to help support the song as it continues its chart run.
Watch the “Danceteria” visualiser on Apple Music.
https://music.apple.com/ca/music-video/danceteria/6790636840
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
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.
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