{"id":614357,"date":"2026-08-01T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T00:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T00:58:16","slug":"madonnas-love-sensation-from-confessions-ii-no-1-on-dance-airplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/614357\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna&#8217;s &#8216;Love Sensation&#8217; From &#8216;Confessions II&#8217; No. 1 on Dance Airplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/madonna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a> scores her ninth career No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/dance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dance\" data-tag=\"dance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dance<\/a> Airplay chart, and her second from her new album, Confessions II, as \u201cLove Sensation\u201d rises to the top of the Aug. 8-dated ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe track, released in June ahead of the album\u2019s July 3 arrival, climbs 2-1 with a 28% increase in plays among the chart\u2019s 24\/7 dance reporters during the July 24-30 tracking week, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe song follows \u201cI Feel So Free,\u201d which topped Dance Airplay in May, becoming Madonna\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/madonna-i-feel-so-free-first-number-1-radio-hit-18-years-1236255170\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first radio No. 1 in 18 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHere\u2019s an updated look at all of Madonna\u2019s Dance Airplay No. 1s since the chart began in 2003:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTitle (weeks at No. 1, peak year)<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cLove Sensation\u201d (one week to date, 2026)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Feel So Free\u201d (one, 2026)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMiles Away\u201d (two weeks, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGive It 2 Me\u201d (one, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c4 Minutes,\u201d feat. Justin Timberlake &amp; Timbaland (one, 2008)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJump\u201d (five, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGet Together\u201d (four, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSorry\u201d (seven, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHung Up\u201d (eight, 2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMadonna ties Ellie Goulding for the fifth-most leaders in the chart\u2019s history, trailing only David Guetta (21), Calvin Harris (19), Rihanna (12) and The Chainsmokers (11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOutside of Dance Airplay, Madonna has charted across 10 other currently active Billboard radio rankings throughout her career: Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult Contemporary, Rhythmic Airplay, R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Airplay, Latin Airplay, Latin Pop Airplay, Tropical Airplay, Holiday Airplay and the all-format Radio Songs chart. (Fellow Confessions II single \u201cBring Your Love,\u201d with Sabrina Carpenter, reached all three pop\/adult charts, as well as Dance Airplay.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Queen of Pop has an even more extensive history on Billboard\u2019s (currently inactive) Dance Club Songs chart, where she achieved a record 50 No. 1s from 1983 through 2020, when \u201cI Don\u2019t Search I Find\u201d became her 50th. She is the only artist with at least 50 leaders on any single Billboard chart. To celebrate the milestone, Madonna released the Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones in August 2022. The set bowed at No. 1 on Top Dance Albums and No. 8 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn July, Confessions II earned Madonna her landmark 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. She became just the fourth act with at least 10 No. 1s on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100, where she has collected 12. She joined The Beatles, Drake and Taylor Swift for the feat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tConfessions II opened with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening week, marking Madonna\u2019s biggest week by units since the Billboard 200 transitioned to that methodology in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAll charts dated Aug. 8 will update Tuesday, Aug. 4, on Billboard.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna scores her ninth career No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Dance Airplay chart, and her second from her new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,4812,1880,18,117,1881,1883,19,17,2624],"class_list":["post-614357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chart-beat","tag-dance","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-dance","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117017543339940219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}