Madonna Achieves 10th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘CONFESSIONS II’

Madonna earns her 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her new studio album, CONFESSIONS II, debuts atop the list dated July 18. With the arrival, the Queen of Pop gets her first No. 1 album of the 2020s and becomes the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s to have also topped the chart in three other decades.

Further, Madonna becomes only the fourth act to have achieved at least 10 No. 1s each on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. On the latter, she has 12 leaders.

CONFESSIONS II launches with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 9, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for a dance album this year. It also scores Madonna her best week, by units, since the Billboard 200 transitioned to an equivalent album units-ranked list in December 2014. CONFESSIONS II additionally yields Madonna’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and her largest pure album sales week in more than a decade.

The new album is the sequel to 2005’s chart-topping Confessions on a Dance Floor, and reunites Madonna with her main collaborator from that project, DJ/writer/producer Stuart Price. CONFESSIONS II was announced on April 15, released on July 3 and marks Madonna’s first new studio album since 2019’s No. 1 Madame X. The new set was preceded by its Hot 100 hit “Bring Your Love,” with Sabrina Carpenter.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Ken Carson captures his second top 10-charted title as xperiment debuts at No. 7, Sienna Spiro makes her chart debut with the No. 9 bow of her first full-length studio album, Visitor, and the late Toby Keith returns to the top 10 following the July 4 holiday.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 18, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of CONFESSIONS II’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 114,000 (Madonna’s best sales week since 2012 — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 19,000 (equaling 20.1 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Madonna’s largest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

CONFESSIONS II was initially widely released as both a 12-track and 16-track album. The project’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 15 vinyl variants, four CD editions, one cassette and six digital download editions. Of the album’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprised 59,000 — Madonna’s biggest week on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991).