Sales figures

It is with great joy I'm able to report both Madonna's new single 4 Minutes and her upcoming album Hard Candy are doing extremely well. With not even a physical single released yet, 4 Minutes is already entering single charts very high based upon legal downloads alone. For instance, in the UK, 4 Minutes had entered the official Top 40 at number 7. The single isn't even released until over 3 weeks, so how great is that?

Even better news is the fact that the album, Hard Candy, is both number 1 and 2 in a lot of countries in the iTunes pre-orders. There is a deluxe edition being released that has some extra tracks on, and since iTunes counts this as a seperate release, the deluxe edition is #1 while the standard edition is #2. Let me state again, this is only on pre-orders, so I can't even imagine how much it will sell when the actual release date has come. Also, Madonna's constantly somewhere in the Top 3 on Amazon, again, only on pre-orders.

So, with both 4 Minutes and Hard Candy becoming smash hits (with radio airplay going like mad as well!), it seems this will be yet another year with Madonna on top, where she belongs! Now if only they would announce those tourdates!