Last week was no fluke: Lionel Richie tops the Billboard 200 again this week with his album “Tuskegee,” which sold 114,000 copies its fourth week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The pop veteran can now feel vindicated, as many believed he deserved to earn a No. 1 album over Madonna’s “MDNA,” which is falling … Continue Reading →
Madonna’s “MDNA” had a big debut on last week’s Billboard chart, selling 359,000 copies its first week, but the set is about to crash hard on this week’s chart: Rolling Stone (via Forbes) says “MDNA” will fall to around 46,000 copies its second week, an 88 percent tank job, representing the biggest second-week sales decline … Continue Reading →
Madonna — she’s pretty popular, you may have heard of her — lands her eighth No. 1 album with “MDNA,” which sold a very healthy 359,000 copies its first week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That’s up from 28 percent from her last album, 2008′s “Hard Candy,” which sold 280,000 copies its first week. … Continue Reading →
Madonna employs Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. as cheerleaders and gets a team of football players to shield her from acid rain in “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the first video from her upcoming “M.D.N.A.” The video opens with the following words of wisdom: “Fans can make you famous, a contract can make you rich, the … Continue Reading →
According to her Facebook page, Madonna has titled her forthcoming new album M.D.N.A. Acronym (Madonna Don’t Need Antlers? Most Donuts Necessitate Awards?), or is Madonna just looking to eliminate extraneous letters from her life in 2012? We’ll know soon. Until then, she’s performing at something called the Super Bowl next month. M.D.N.A. is tenatively due out this … Continue Reading →