The album sold over 11 million copies worldwide, of which four million were sold within the first ten days. Īfter charting five albums at number two on the Billboard 200 during the 1990s, Madonna returned to the top of the chart with Music (2000). Madonna scored her best-selling studio album of the decade with Ray of Light (1998), which sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
All of them reached multi-platinum status in the US. Her next releases under Maverick were the studio albums, Erotica (1992) and Bedtime Stories (1994), as well as Something to Remember (1995), a collection of Madonna ballads. She was paid an advance of $60 million and received 20% royalties from the music proceedings, the highest rate in the industry at the time, equaled only by that of Michael Jackson. In 1992, Madonna founded her own record label, Maverick Records, as a joint venture with Time Warner. The latter became her second diamond-certified album in the US and remains the best-selling compilation album by a solo artist with global sales of over 30 million units. Madonna entered the 1990s with the release of I'm Breathless (1990), which contained songs from and inspired by the film Dick Tracy, and her first greatest hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection (1990). Madonna's fourth studio album, Like a Prayer (1989), made her the woman with most Billboard 200 number-one albums of the 1980s (second overall, behind only Bruce Springsteen). During 1987, she released two albums that reached platinum status in the United States: the Who's That Girl soundtrack and her first remix compilation, You Can Dance. Her third studio album, True Blue (1986), reached number one in a record-breaking 28 countries and was once named the best-selling album by a woman of all time by the 1992 edition of Guinness World Records. She followed the debut album with Like a Virgin (1984), which became her first chart-topper in various countries and was certified diamond by the RIAA. It peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 and was certified five-time platinum by the RIAA. The first release under the label was her self-titled debut album, Madonna (1983). In 1982, Madonna signed a recording contract with Sire Records, a label owned by Warner Bros. She holds the all-time record for the most number-one albums by a female artist in major music markets such as Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
She is ranked by the RIAA as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and third highest-certified female artist in the United States, with 64.5 million album units. In their 2006 press release, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) confirmed that Madonna's albums alone had sold over 200 million copies worldwide. Recognized as the world's best-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records, Madonna has accumulated a total record sales of more than 300 million units worldwide. Madonna during the promotion of Madame X (2019), her ninth number-one album on the Billboard 200.Īmerican singer Madonna has released 14 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, six live albums, six compilation albums, and 36 other limited releases.
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