Commercial Performance
In the United States, the song was aimed and promoted at the Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary format of radio. Warner Bros wanted to establish the song as a hit at those formats before they attempted to bring it to Top 40 CHR radio stations. However, the song reached a peak of 21 on this chart on the issue dated January 27, 2007. It was also used in the soundtrack of the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada and received minimal airplay on the CHR stations. After its release to iTunes, the song climbed up the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and peaked at five, failing to progress further and chart on the Hot 100. It became Madonna's 37th number-one single on the Hot Dance Club Play chart reaching the top on the issue dated November 18, 2006. "Jump" became Madonna's seventh number-one single on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. The song sold 31,000 digital downloads and 8,000 physical singles in America according to Nielsen SoundScan. It became her fourth consecutive number-one single on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.
In the United Kingdom, "Jump" debuted at number 59 on the singles chart and reached a peak of nine the next week, thus becoming Madonna's fourth top ten single from the Confessions on a Dance Floor album there. In Australia, the song debuted at 29 on the chart, which became its peak. In Italy, "Jump" became the third number-one single from the album, remaining in the top ten for 13 consecutives weeks. In the European nations, "Jump" peaked inside the top ten in countries like Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Spain, and the top 40 of the rest of the countries such as Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland.
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