Overview
- Confessions II, released July 3, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 134,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 9, industry tallies show.
- The opening week included roughly 114,000 in traditional sales and about 20.1 million on‑demand streams, marking Madonna's best streaming week to date.
- The No. 1 debut is Madonna's 10th on the Billboard 200 and coincides with the album reaching No. 1 in the U.K., giving her 13 U.K. chart‑toppers and the first U.S. female artist to earn a U.K. No. 1 across five decades.
- Madonna supported the release with Club Confessions pop‑ups in Los Angeles and New York, a Tribeca short film and surprise appearances that helped drive attention to the record and its songs.
- Critics have widely praised Confessions II (Metacritic average ~84) as her strongest work in roughly 20 years, a reception that could amplify sales and streaming after her July 19 World Cup halftime performance.