In the wake of her excellent international results, Madonna easily achieved her 10th number 1 in Spain after selling 11,000 copies of ‘Confessions II’ in its first week. Quevedo’s ‘El Baifo’ has come close to doubling these days, which last week was number 1 with 6,027 units and this week falls to number 2 with 5,772 copies. In total, Quevedo has accumulated 89,000 copies of his third album (double platinum), being this year’s great bestseller in our country.
According to Promusicae, ‘Confessions II’ by Madonna has shipped 10,875 copies in its first week, although it must be remembered that this entity only covers 90% of the market (there are small stores that do not count). Of these almost 11,000 copies, 9,748 have been real sales and 1,127 streaming points.
Only those 1,127 streaming points would have been enough for ‘Confessions II’ to enter at number 9 in Spain, but evidently its strength is the physical format, in which it has swept. 4,923 vinyl copies earn it number 1 also on the vinyl subchart, multiplying number 2 almost by 10. Of course, the only bad news is that no song from this album ends up appearing in the top 100 singles despite the radio support for ‘Bring Your Love’.
‘Confessions II’ is Madonna’s 10th number 1 album in Spain, having previously achieved this position with ‘Like a Virgin’, ‘True Blue’, ‘Like a Prayer’, ‘Ray of Light’, ‘Confessions I’, ‘Hard Candy’, ‘MDNA’, ‘Rebel Heart’ and the live ‘Confessions Tour’. This means that – as in the United Kingdom – Madonna has achieved number 1 in Spain for 5 consecutive decades. ‘Madame
Olivia Rodrigo drops to number 4 with ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’, an album of which she has already sold 22,009 units here; while Rosalía rises from 10th to 9th place with 209,067 accumulated ‘LUX’. The most voluminous success of the last 2 years is of course ‘I should have thrown more photos’ by Bad Bunny, which already has 344,627 copies in Spain and continues to move around 3,000 weekly.
Madonna has left little room for new features, but Sienna Spiro’s ‘Visitor’ arrives at number 18, ‘Splat!’ from Deep Purple to number 40; and Amaia returns to 83 with ‘If I open my eyes it is not real’, of which there are 29,281 accumulated copies.
