Madonna‘s new album MDNA is on track to set the record for the biggest second week sales drop in history, Forbes reports. According to Forbes‘
sources, sales of the album will drop by 88 percent, from 359,000
copies in its first week of release to around 46,000 in its second week
in stores.
The album’s first-week sales figures were reportedly
inflated by CDs that were bundled with the purchase of some concert
tickets for her upcoming tour. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 185,000 copies of MDNA were
sold as part of the ticket package deal, meaning that only 179,000
copies count as individual album sales. Without these ticket package
sales, MDNA would have placed at Number 2 on the charts behind Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee, which moved 199,000 copies in that week.
