Update on two classic Madonna albums

Great chart news for two classic Madonna albums. RIAA has finally certified the Bedtime Stories and Music albums
3xPlatinum (3,000,000). Certifications are based on the number of shipped copies and not sold ones.

Bedtime Stories has been selling 2,297,000 copies so far according to Soundscan records and another 195,000 copies through BMG’s Record Music Clubs.
Music sold 2,903,000 copies according to Soundscan and another 97,000 copies through BMG’s Record Music Clubs.

For both albums sale figures from Columbia’s MUSIC CLUBS are still not known.
Sales in Music Clubs are not monitored by Soundscan but they generally are not very relevant.

Right now Madonna has 62 Platinum certifications, which are:

MADONNA
5xPlatinum (5,000,000) (October 2000)

LIKE A VIRGIN
Diamond=10xPlatinum (10,000,000) (May 1998)

TRUE BLUE
7xPlatinum (7,000,000) (May 1995)

WHO’S THAT GIRL
Platinum (1,000,000) (September 1987)
(1,300,000 shipped)*

YOU CAN DANCE
Platinum (1,000,000) (January 1988)
(but 1,700,000 shipped)*

LIKE A PRAYER
4xPlatinum (4,000,000) (July 1997)

I’M BREATHLESS
2xPlatinum (2,000,000) (July 1990)
(but 2,200,000 shipped)*

THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION
Diamond=10xPlatinum (10,000,000) (October 2001)

EROTICA
2xPlatinum (2,000,000) (January 1993)
1,873,000 Soundscan + 84,000 MC BMG=1,957,000 sold

BEDTIME STORIES
3xPlatinum (3,000,000) (November 2005)

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
3xPlatinum (3,000,000) (October 2000)
2,061,000 Soundscan + 179,000 MC BMG=2,240,000 sold

EVITA
5xPlatinum (2×2,500,000)** (March 1999)
(but 2,600,000 shipped)*

RAY OF LIGHT
4xPlatinum (4,000,000) (March 2000)
(3,792,000 Soundscan + 459,000 MC BMG=4,251,000 sold)

MUSIC
3xPlatinum (3,000,000) (November 2005)

GHV2
Platinum (1,000,000) (December 2001)
(1,321,000 Soundscan + 90,000 MC BMG=1,411,000 sold)

AMERICAN LIFE
Platinum (1,000,000) (July 2003)
663,000 soundscan

TOTAL= 62xPlatinum

* Shipped copies according to Warner on September 1997
** RIAA doubles figures for double albums.