The “Glee”/Madonna celebration is in full swing on the Billboard 200 albums chart, where “The Power of Madonna” soundtrack to last week’s Queen of Pop-themed show debuts at No. 1 with 98,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Additionally, the “Glee” cast’s version of Madonna’s 1989 No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Like a Prayer” was the biggest selling individual track from the show last week, debuting at No. 10 on the Digital Songs chart with 87,000 downloads sold. “Prayer” will debut at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart tomorrow when it’s unveiled on billboard.com.
But the party also extends to the diva’s own catalog of her original recordings as well. For example, her appropriately titled “Celebration” greatest hits album re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 85 with 6,000 (up 219%). That’s the package’s best sales week since Christmas. (In the show last week, “Glee” character Sue Sylvester gave the title some ridiculous product placement when she held the CD in her hand during an appeal to have Madonna’s music blasted through the school’s intercom.)
All told, Madonna’s catalog of albums saw a 44% jump in sales, selling 17,000 this past week (up from 12,000).
Her digital song download tally this week also got a big bump. Her total track sales totaled 108,000 for the week ‹ up 169% compared to the week previous (40,000). Her two biggest-selling songs of the week were “4 Minutes” and “Like a Prayer” (each selling 12,000 with gains of 183% and 267%, respectively).
Billboard
10. Madonna – Sticky & Sweet Tour – 27.907
Australia (DVD Chart): 3-3-
Austria (DVD Chart): 3-
Belgium (Flanders): 4-4-
Belgium (Wallonia): 4-4-
Brazil (DVD Charts): 11-3-
Czech Republic (DVD Chart): 2-
Denmark: 27-
Finland: 39-7
France: 6-
Germany: 11-
Hungary (DVD Chart): 1-1-
Ireland (DVD Chart): 2-2-
Italy: 2-4-
Japan: 10-
Mexico: 6-1-
Netherlands: 4-10-
New Zealand: 20-
Norway (DVD Chart): 20-
Poland: 37-5-
Portugal: 1-
Spain: 3-
Sweden: 5-
Switzerland: 5-
Taiwan: 13-14-
UK: 17-40-
…Next week, based on one-day sales reports from those retailers with working leases on their stores, Bieber should return to the top, boasting a total that will top 100k….
The week’s top debut will be Slash’s self-titled Dik Hayd/EMI Label Services solo bow, featuring vocal cameos from the likes of Fergie, Ozzy Osbourne, Kid Rock, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Motorhead’s Lemmy and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, along with fellow GNR alum Duff McKagan and Dave Grohl, among others. The album is showing some surprising strength with a first-week total in the 50-60k range.
Other debuts include Madonna’s CD/DVD of her Sticky and Sweet tour on Warner Bros., now looking at between 25-30k, while Daptone’s neo-soul diva Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings is in the 20-25k range…
Hits Daily Double
Australia (DVD Chart) – #3
Belgium: Flanders – #2 / Wallonia – #4
Finland – #39
Ireland (DVD Chart) – #2
Italy – #2
Netherlands – #4
UK – #17
16 Crazy Love – Michael Bublé
17 Sticky & Sweet Tour – Madonna ~12.500
18 I Speak Because I Can – Laura Marling
1 Lady GaGa
2 Boyzone
3 Justin Bieber
4 Madonna
5 Glee Cast
Austria – #8
Belgium – #4
Germany – #9
Ireland – #40
Italy – #2
Netherlands – #11
Switzerland – #11