Today in Madonna History: July 18, 2004

July 18, 2026 By sonicboy19 in 2004, July Tags: Canada, Crazy For You, Live Videos, Papa Don't Preach, Re-Invention World Tour, Toronto 1 Comment

On July 18 2004, Madonna played the first of three sold-out dates at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre during her Re-Invention Tour. Playing to a combined total of over 52,000 fans, the shows were the only Canadian stop on the tour and marked her first concerts in Canada in eleven years.

At the second show Madonna proclaimed to those in attendance that they were the best audience of the tour thus far, while the final Toronto date saw Madonna in an uncharacteristically playful mood. Interrupting the show’s normally swift progression between Papa Don’t Preach and Crazy For You, she joked about the infamous 1990 threats of arrest and whipped the audience into a cheering frenzy with her self-described “unprofessional” behaviour.

Today in Madonna History: July 13, 2026

July 13, 2026 By Jay in 2026, July Tags: American Life, Billboard Canadian Albums, Canada, Celebration, Confessions II, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Evita, Finally Enough Love, Hard Candy, I'm Breathless, MDNA, Music, Ray of Light, Rebel Heart, The Immaculate Collection, True Blue 1 Comment

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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 3, 1987

July 3, 2026 By sonicboy19 in 1987, July Tags: Awards, Canada, Certification, Toronto, True Blue (Album) 1 Comment

On July 3, 1987, Madonna accepted a rare Canadian Diamond Album certification award at a press conference at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel on the eve of her sold-out concert at CNE Stadium. The certification award was presented by WEA Music Canada president Stan Kulin to commemorate over one million units sold of the True Blue album in Canada.

Madonna would receive a second Canadian Diamond Album certification for Like A Virgin in 1992.

Today in Madonna History: June 29, 1998

June 29, 2026 By sonicboy19 in 1998, June Tags: Canada, Canadian Singles Chart, Charts, Ray Of Light (Album), Ray Of Light (Single), Remix Videos 1 Comment

On June 29 1998, Madonna’s Ray of Light single peaked at #3 on RPM’s Top 100 Canadian Singles chart.

As with all the Canadian singles from the Ray of Light album, the title track was issued by Warner Music Canada as a 2-track CD single and as a CD maxi-single. In the U.S., the album’s CD singles were issued in cardboard sleeves with “draw pack” trays and the CD maxi-singles in “FLP digipak” cases, while in Canada the two configurations for each of the album’s four domestic singles were packaged in standard CD jewel cases with printed inserts.

Today in Madonna History: June 16, 1990

June 16, 2026 By sonicboy19 in 1990, June Tags: Canada, Canadian Singles Chart, Certification, Vogue 1 Comment

On June 16 1990, Vogue hit #1 on the Canadian Top 100 Singles chart by RPM magazine.

Vogue would top the chart for three weeks in Canada and would earn a platinum sales certification – a fairly unusual distinction in Canada, where singles are rarely certified.