“Like a Virgin” Returns After 28 Years

Billboard ‘s Keith Caulfied reports about Madonna’s Like a Virgin coming back to the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 21) at #124, with the help of a special promo pricing of its digital release.

Madonna’s classic album, Like a Virgin, returns to the chart for the very first time since 1987.
Like Panic! at the Disco’s Death of a Bachelor, Like a Virgin was also sale priced for just 99 cents during the tracking week in the Google Play store. Consumers snapped up the set, yielding 5,000 in digital sales (up 1,028 percent – a gain from less than 1,000 sold the previous week) of its total 6,000 sales for the week (up 888 percent). Its 6,000 units total (nearly all from pure album sales) were up 835 percent.

Thanks to Google, Like a Virgin scores its best sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991, and its first week on the Billboard 200 chart since Sept. 19, 1987. The effort was Madonna’s second studio album, and first No. 1, spending three weeks atop the chart in 1985.

Read the full story by Keith Caulfield on Billboard.com.