Madonna (album) - Chart Performance

Chart Performance

In the United States, the album was released on July 27, 1983. It entered the Billboard 200 albums chart at number 123, the week of November 5, 1983. The album had a slow and steady climb, and peaked at eight on the Billboard 200 on the week ending October 20, 1984, almost a year after its release. It also peaked at twenty on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Within a year, the album sold 2.8 million copies in the United States. It placed at seven on the year-end chart for 1984 and at 25 on the year-end chart for 1985, with Madonna becoming the top pop artist for the year 1985. Seventeen years since its release, the album was certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of five million copies across United States. After the advent of the Nielsen SoundScan era in 1991, the album sold a further 450,000 copies.

In Canada, the album was released on March 10, 1984, and debuted at eighty-seven on the RPM Albums Chart. After six weeks, the album reached a peak of fifty-seven on the chart. It entered the chart again, at position ninety-five, on August 4, 1984. After twenty-nine weeks, it reached a new, much higher peak of sixteen. The album was present on the chart for forty-seven weeks and was ranked at position fifty, on the RPM Top 100 Albums of 1984 list. In the United Kingdom, the album was released on February 11, 1984, and charted on the UK Albums Chart, reaching a peak of thirty-seven and present on the chart for twenty weeks. After a re-release titled Madonna – The First Album in July 1985, the album charted again on the UK Albums chart. It reached a higher peak of fourteen and was present on the chart for eighty weeks. Six months since the re-release, the album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipment of 300,000 copies of the album. In Australia, the album reached a peak of ten, on the Kent Music Report albums chart and was certified triple platinum. The album reached the top ten in Sweden, Netherlands, France and New Zealand; the last three markets, it was certified platinum. It was also certified platinum in Hong Kong and gold in Germany and Spain. Worldwide the album has sold more than ten million copies.