Madonna feels “grateful and surprised” by the positive reaction to her album Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II.
The pop superstar’s latest record – a follow-up to her 2005 album of the same name – debuted at number one on America’s Billboard 200 chart following its release on July 3 – and Madonna has now revealed she is thrilled by the album’s chart success and the glowing reviews from critics.
In a post on Instagram, she wrote: “Words cannot express how grateful and surprised I am by the incredible reception Confessions on a Dance Floor has received!!
“Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this and who has helped make this dream come true. Especially my Fans. The Goodwill and positivity has been incredible. I’m still pinching myself.
“I can’t believe it’s #1 all around the world.My dream was to make people dance this summer!! To bring people JOY! Dreams do come true. Thanks and love!”
Madonna previously admitted she wasn’t expecting to achieve chart success with her latest project, just as she didn’t for its companion record, 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor.
Speaking to Graham Norton on a BBC special which aired in the UK in June, she explained: “I don’t have any expectations. I have been doing this for a long time. You know, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
“[With the first Confessions] it was mind-blowing as we didn’t have any idea how brilliant it was. No, I am just kidding. But it was a huge success. It took me by surprise.
“I’m excited for people to hear the whole album because it’s a whole story. It’s a whole journey.”
A particularly emotional track on the album, Fragile, is about Madonna’s late brother Christopher Ciccone, who died in 2024 after battling cancer, and she admitted she has yet to play the personal song to her 95-year-old father Silvio because she worries it will be too much for him.
Asked if he had heard it, Madonna said: “No. I am going to see him soon and he will. I don’t want to push him over the edge.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the Beautiful Stranger singer hinted she could finally headline Glastonbury next year.
She said: “I think I will do promo tours for a while and then, in the summertime, something bigger … “
Graham replied: “That sounds really exciting, I think I know what you’re talking about … Is it in this country?”
Madonna teased: “It could be … Why do you have to know everything?”
The Vogue hitmaker was expected to perform at the festival in 2024 after Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis was seen in the audience at one of the London dates on her Celebration tour in 2023, but Madonna returned to the recording studio with producer Stuart Price immediately after the run of shows ended.
She said: “Finally, when the tour ended, for the last year it’s just been one big soundcheck. We have been playing in the studio. Hence Confessions II.”