Madonna scores her first No. 1 on one of Billboard’s radio charts in nearly two decades as “I Feel So Free” climbs to the Dance/Mix Show Airplay list’s summit. Madonna in concert in Tokyo, Japan. She wears the famous outfit designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (Photo by THIERRY ORBAN/Sygma via Getty Images)
Thierry Orban
Madonna’s upcoming album, Confessions II, her fifteenth full-length, will arrive in just over a month. The project, a sequel to her critically and commercially successful Confessions on a Dance Floor, is scheduled to drop on July 3, and the superstar has already shared two songs from the project.
The first, “I Feel So Free,” is being pushed largely to electronic dance fans, while follow-up “Bring Your Love,” a collaboration with pop musician Sabrina Carpenter, is present on several of Billboard’s pop-only charts. Both tracks appear on multiple rankings, but only one of them reaches No. 1, earning the singer her first ruler in nearly two decades.
Madonna Sends “I Feel So Free” to No. 1
After only a month on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, “I Feel So Free” boogies to No. 1. Last frame, the cut sat at No. 8, but now it is the most successful tune in the nation via radio stations that focus on that one format.
Madonna Now Claims Eight Dance Chart Leaders
Madonna has now racked up eight champions on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. She first reached the highest rung a little more than two decades ago with “Hung Up.” That cut led the charge for eight weeks and remains her longest-running ruler.
Notably, half of all of Madonna’s No. 1s on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay roster come from the original Confessions on a Dance Floor. That roundup includes “Hung Up,” “Sorry,” “Get Together” and “Jump,” all of which held on for multiple periods.
Here are all of Madonna’s No. 1s on Billboard‘s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.
- “4 Minutes” with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
- “Get Together”
- “Give It to Me”
- “Hung Up”
- “I Feel So Free”
- “Jump”
- “Miles Away”
- “Sorry”
“I Feel So Free” Ends a Nearly Two-Decade-Long Drought
Billboard reports that “I Feel So Free” isn’t just one more leader for Madonna, it’s her first No. 1 on any radio ranking in 18 years. The last time she sat in the top space on any tally that ends with the word Airplay was back in late 2008. On the last Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart published that year, “Miles Away” hit the summit and would go on to spend two weeks in charge.
Peggy Gou Helps “I Feel So Free” Soar to No. 1
Thanks to a recently released remix of “I Feel So Free” by producer Peggy Gou, the track not only surges to the penthouse on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, it also returns to two other lists. “I Feel So Free” reenters the Dance Digital Song Sales tally at No. 3 and finds its way back to the all-genre Digital Song Sales ranking, where it narrowly sneaks back onto the 25-space rundown, coming in second-to-last place. Purchases of the original “I Feel So Free” and the remix are grouped together, which helps explain the sudden uptick in sales.
Madonna’s “Bring Your Love” Climbs to a New Peak
As “I Feel So Free” reaches its important new high on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay tally, “Bring Your Love” also climbs to a previously unknown peak. The Carpenter duet pushes from No. 22 to No. 20 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart. At the same time, it falls from No. 26 – its high thus far on the Pop Airplay list – but it only slips one spot. “Bring Your Love” falls outside the top 10 on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart, dipping from No. 9 to No. 11.
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