This has to be a bit of a disappointment for Madonna!
The Queen of Pop's new CD, Hard Candy, went on sale this Tuesday and it is expected to move between 275,000 and 300,000 copies its first week in America, which should easily put it at #1.
Good….but not great by any means!
Madonna's last CD, Confessions…, debuted to about 350,000 copies its first week.
AND, that was without much radio support for first single Hung Up.
The fact that radio has been behind M's new single, 4 Minutes, in a big way makes her expected debut for Hard Candy that much more disappointing.
Mariah Carey, on the other hand, not only sold about 475,000 copies of her new CD, E=MC2, but….that was also Mimi's biggest debut week ever.
A lot of the blame must be handed to Madonna. She hasn't done as much promotion for the new record as she should.
She's barely done any TV!
Mariah, on the other hand, pimped her new album out hardcore, doing tons of appearances from morning television to TWO nights on the widely-watched American Idol.
Madge got lazy! She did many many magazine covers and interviews but not enough TV.
She hasn't done ANY talk shows! NOT ONE!
Then, Madonna had the balls (or naivete) to refuse to talk about the CD during her junket last week - Today show, Access Hollywood - because she wanted to focus on her documentary, which screened at the TriBeCa film festival.
Mimi hustled and it paid off. She WANTED her new album to do well. And it did.
Madonna, not so much.
Permalink
/
348 comments (RSS) »
