
Madonna's Life Is Coming To The Small Screen — And Her Music Is Back On The Charts
There's a lot of excitement around Madonna at the moment. In the first half of 2025, she began teasing that she is working on a new album, and there are even reports that she has played it for some people. There's no word yet on when Confessions 2 — apparently a sequel to her Grammy-winning Confessions on a Dance Floor — will arrive, but the mere mention that she is back in the studio is thrilling to many of her longtime fans.
A new Netflix miniseries around her life has also recently been announced. Again, there isn't a solid timeline, and hopefully this doesn't end up like her feature film, which went through several starts and stops and may now be dead in the water as she pivots to a series.
Amidst all of this excitement, fans in the United Kingdom have also recently returned to buying some of Madonna's biggest hits — the ones that turned her into the global superstar she is today — sending multiple cuts back to different tallies as they keep buying in various formats.
Two of Madonna's songs appear on the charts in the U.K. at the moment. There's no overlap in terms of which rankings they appear on, and both of them only find space on one list apiece. Between the two, 'Erotica' is the top performer. That track reenters the Official Physical Singles chart at No. 75. The cut debuted on the list in 2017 and was last seen in the second-to-last position in December.
'Like a Prayer' is also a bestseller again, but only barely this frame. It breaks back onto the Official Singles Downloads chart at No. 97. The classic only debuted on that tally in May of last year and was a consistent bestseller for months. It's only been a few weeks since 'Like a Prayer' last appeared on the downloads-only list.
Both 'Erotica' and 'Like a Prayer' have reached the top 10 on their respective tallies, but neither one has hit No. 1, despite ranking among her most familiar tunes. Coincidentally, the two have spent exactly 36 weeks each on the rosters where they currently reside. Of course, the tracks have been around for decades and are still relatively new to these rosters, but they enjoyed major success on the Official Singles chart — the ranking of the most-consumed songs in the nation — many years before they debuted on either of these two lists.
Madonna also enjoys a similar performance on the albums rankings, as two projects appear on one list apiece. The Immaculate Collection jumps almost 50 spaces on the Official Album Downloads chart, surging from No. 93 to No. 47. At the same time, Finally Enough Love drops just four spots to No. 96 on the Official Albums Streaming tally.
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