The road to the release of Madonna‘s new album, ‘Rebel Heart,’ has been all sorts of rocky.
As widely reported, last December the legend’s 13th studio effort was thrown into disarray after several songs were leaked onto the internet months ahead of plan – forcing a rushed iTunes release of six songs. Unfortunately for the Material Girl, the entire album was spilt onto the inter-web in unmastered form shortly after.
Three months and a BRITs fall later, the singer is rejoicing this week. For the LP officially landed in stores worldwide.
And though performing well out of the gate in most territories, all eyes are on how the ‘Living For Love’ led set is to sell on home soil.
Wonder no more. The predictions are in! Details below…
According to Hits Daily Double, the 56-year-old diva is duking it out with an unlikely foe – the cast of ‘Empire.’
The season one soundtrack of the FOX series was also released this week and is giving the singer a run for her chart money – as is Country star Luke Bryan.
All three releases are heading towards the 100,000 mark in sales – making it relatively difficult to decipher who’ll clinch the top spot.
Peep how the numbers are shaping up below…
Madonna (Live Nation/Interscope) – 100-110k sales (115-125k w/streams)
Empire (Turn First/Columbia) – 90-100k sales (115-125k w/streams)
Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) – 85-95k sales (95-105k w/streams)
No word on if the confirmed bundling of ‘Rebel’ will impact the sales total. Stay tuned.