Madonna did, however, stage a well-publicized club show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on April 30, which was streamed online via MSN. Last week, the only chat show she visited was BET’s “106 and Park” (May 2).
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In fact, she has yet to perform on American TV to promote this album. During “E=MC2’s” release week, Carey pulled out all the stops and performed on “American Idol,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Good Morning America.” During “Hard Candy’s” release week, Madonna did not perform on TV. For those chart watchers (and diva enthusiasts) who are trying to draw comparisons between “Hard Candy’s” 280,000 bow and Mariah Carey’s 463,000 start with her new “E=MC2,” hold your horses. The last time the chart housed seven or more albums that each sold at least 100,000 was - no surprise - the sales week ending Dec. So far in 2008, there has yet to be a week that busy. 2 album, the debuting “Some Hearts” by Carrie Underwood, started with more than 300,000. Each of the top seven albums that week on the Billboard 200 sold more than 100,000. 15, just as the Christmas shopping season was kicking into high gear, which partially explains its bigger opening. However, that discofied album was released on Nov. Madonna’s last studio effort, 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor” started with 350,000 when it bowed at No. (Digital downloads accounted for a whopping 26% - 73,000 - of the album’s overall first-week, easily making it No. That’s a bigger number than the 225,000-250,000 range that Billboard projected last week based on the set’s first-day sales figures. “Candy” earns the third biggest sales week of the year as well, with 280,000 sold in its first week. Only Barbra Streisand, with eight, has more. 1 - the second-most among all female artists. Madonna’s “Hard Candy” takes its expected bow atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving the queen of pop her seventh No. A whopping 26% of the album’s first week sales were downloads sold through digital retailers … Other high debuts this week come from Lyfe Jennings, the Roots, Def Leppard, Portishead, Mudcrutch and Tim McGraw … In Progress Reports, we’ve got news on Coldplay, James Otto and Weezer. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 280,000, giving the diva her seventh chart-topper and the third biggest sales week of the year. Madonna’s “Hard Candy” album makes a sweet entrance at No.
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