For much of her decades-long career, Madonna has been known as not only a genre-bending talent and headline-grabber, but also a certified hitmaker. She has maintained a presence on the American airwaves throughout the years, even as several of her most recent albums have failed to produce the kind of smash that she could be counted on to generate for so long.
Madonna and her team are still leaning on support from radio to help turn her full-length Confessions II – the recently released sequel to her Grammy-winning Confessions on a Dance Floor – into a bestseller when it launches on the Billboard charts in a little more than a week. Several songs have been pushed from Confessions II as singles, and all three of them appear on at least one Billboard list at the moment. Two of those cuts establish new peaks on different airplay tallies as Madonna continues to heavily promote her latest cuts in the hopes of scoring yet another summer smash.
Madonna Nears the Top 10 With “Love Sensation”
At the moment, “Love Sensation” can only be found on one roster published by Billboard in America. The tune, the third single from Confessions II, rises five spaces and makes a home at No. 11 on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. That ranking is the only radio tally published by Billboard that focuses on electronic dance music.
“Love Sensation” Keeps Growing to New Heights
“Love Sensation” has become a smash on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart in no time. Last week, the single debuted at No. 16, and in its second frame, it nearly gives Madonna her eleventh top 10 win. Instead, “Love Sensation” leaps over “Hollywood” and “Girl Gone Wild,” and ties “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” a decade-plus-old collaboration with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., within Madonna’s discography and only misses out on the top 10 by a single space, at least for now.
“I Feel So Free” Climbs Again
“I Feel So Free,” the first taste of Confessions II Madonna released this spring, can also be found on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. Just like “Love Sensation,” it is present nowhere else, and it is also on the rise.
“I Feel So Free” improves five spaces – the same number as “Love Sensation” – climbing to No. 31. “I Feel So Free” has now spent 10 frames on the genre-focused airplay tally, and it didn’t take long for it to become Madonna’s eighth career champion back in late May.
“Bring Your Love” Hits a New Peak at Pop Radio
While Confessions II is clearly meant to cater largely to fans of dance and electronic music, Madonna is a pop icon, and she recruited Sabrina Carpenter for the single “Bring Your Love,” which feels like it was meant to appeal to a more top 40-loving audience. This time around, in its eighth week on the Pop Airplay chart, “Bring Your Love” ascends to No. 24, its new peak position.
Coincidentally, “Bring Your Love” is now matched with “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” as both have stalled at No. 24. That does make the duet one of Madonna’s less impressive performers on the most competitive of Billboard‘s three pop radio rankings. She has seen 14 songs climb into the top 10, and amazingly, only one, “Take a Bow,” reached the throne in February 1995. That cut ruled more than three decades ago, and it spent a month on top.
“Bring Your Love” Appears on Four Billboard Lists
Unlike both “I Feel So Free” and “Love Sensation,” “Bring Your Love” does appear on multiple additional lists as it surges higher than ever on the Pop Airplay tally. “Bring Your Love” keeps at No. 22, two rungs beneath its peak, on the Adult Pop Airplay list. The track can also be found just outside the top 10 on both the Hot Dance/Pop Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, where it comes in at Nos. 12 and 14, respectively.
