The almanac awash 359,000 copies back it debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, but has back plummeted to 46,000 copies in its additional anniversary of release.
While abounding acts would be beholden to advertise 400,000-plus units, it's a anticlimax for one of the best greats, not to acknowledgment a record-setting dropoff.
Is she the Immaterial Girl?
Madonna MDNA Cover
Interestingly, in its aboriginal anniversary of release, her administrator Guy Oseary said of MDNA:
“People are absolutely digging it. We feel acceptable about the album. It's her 12th anthology and the aforementioned adventure she had 30 years ago. That’s an amazing accomplishment.”
Some critics accede that it's the aforementioned adventure as 30 years ago. They aloof don't see it as a big affairs point for Madonna. Said the Los Angeles Times:
"MDNA added than annihilation sounds like an anthology fabricated by addition who absent blow with the desires of today’s music... the Madonna of today has absent the art of surprise."
Ouch.