Official Albums Chart Top 100 on 8/9/2023

Is it really not released until next month? This is really bizarre if so!

The album is not released until 6th October but can be pre-ordered which should only affect sales on the day of release.  The track list appears to be available on apple, spotify etc so surely the album is released?.  I don't understand how this works at all.......

Agree! I think it's a combination of Kylie's and other fandoms joining forces to try and bring Madonna down, but It'll never happen as Madonna is far to big. FEL and her upcoming sold out global tour are a huge success, whereas poor old Kylie is going to Vegas where all the other has-beens go. The only reason the 1000 seat venue has sold out is because the UK gays are following her, not because American's like her, but that won't stop them screaming about it. Anyway, the chart battle for #1 should be interesting and I'll laugh my socks off if Drake or Doja pip her to the post after all the effort she's put in. I wonder what excuses her fans will come up with. Any guesses?

What is probablhy more amazing, is that that 39th week is surpassed by all but 27 hits in the top 100. 7 of those are this week's new entries.

Personally, I still count it only as 9 weeks. Not because it's Madonna, but because that's the metric used by the Official Charts since 1989, including today in print.

Here we go! *Sigh*

Well, it's a fair point he makes. Absolutely tons of albums these days do spend significant (on paper) lengths of time in the charts, don't they? And quite a lot of that is because the OCC are publishing a Top 100 these days, so some get the chance to just meander around down in the 80s and 90s – sometimes for ever and a day – without necessarily reaching any great height or ever logging any major sales.

I mean, look just two places further up. There's Nicki Minaj at no.90, with an album that has been on the charts for 46 weeks. You can argue that makes it a bigger hit than Madonna's 39-week album. Yet it peaked at only 67, on its week of entry an entire year ago. It just happens to have managed to spend virtually the whole time since pootling around the bottom end of the 100, averaging around... well, no.90.

So you can't sanely call that a big hit album in any very meaningful sense, surely? But, by the same token, you can't really call Madonna's remix collection a big hit album in many meaningful senses either, because all but a handful of those 39 weeks have been spent pootling around the bottom end of the 100 too.

I've no axe to grind here. Madonna's awesome. But month after month I'll dip in here and end up watching these arguments with puzzlement, because at this stage of the game it doesn't matter a jot one way or the other whether a collection of remixes of her old hits spends 1 month or 9 months in the lower reaches of the UK charts in 2023. She's got nothing to prove to anyone. In a largely youth-fixated industry and culture, especially on the female side, it's mostly just brilliant that an album from a 65-year-old woman is still finding a certain traction beyond those first few weeks. (Just as Kylie is also awesome, and it's brilliant that a 55-year-old woman is still having hit singles and albums in that same industry in this day and age. Why in the flying f**k fans of either one feel the need to diss the other all the time I have no idea, though. Does this happen with, say, Diana Ross or Kate Bush?)

And Kylie having this week her second top 20 in this year...and Madonna not having a top 40 on her own anymore

and she still remains a sad, forgotten disco dolly that nobody else in the world cares about. I can't wait for Drake or Doja to wipe the floor with her on release week. lmao

oh, that’ll be a really intense battle. think it might go to kylie tho because of her countless cd/vinyl formats of the album, even if i’ll be rooting for drake 

Not that I'm a Kylie fan, but we said it would be out of the top 75 by October. In it's original run, it was! Barring a fluke #27 re-entry a few weeks ago and the dizzy heights of #69 once in February, hasn't been seen there since.

Just objective fact. Her marketing team really are lacking, if the charts are anything to judge by. She is being surpassed by both older acts (Queen, Abba, Elton John) and obviously newer acts (Taylor, Ed, Olivia), with no significant events to match anything by these artists in the last 20 years.