Madonna earns her first placement on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in six years as “Bring Your Love,” her collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, makes its debut. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Madonna attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG25/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
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When Billboard unveils its latest charts this Tuesday (July 14), Madonna is expected to reclaim No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the leading albums chart in the United States. According to the chart company, her new studio album, Confessions II — the follow-up to her Grammy-winning Confessions on a Dance Floor — is projected to open in the top position.
Ahead of the release of Confessions II, Madonna previewed the much-discussed dance project with four tracks, though only two are currently appearing on any Billboard charts. The standout among them, “Bring Your Love,” featuring pop heavyweight Sabrina Carpenter, is now charting in several places. The song enters one ranking while rising to a fresh peak on another, arriving just before the Queen of Pop is set to flood multiple lists with her latest release, already embraced by critics and fans.
Madonna Debuts “Bring Your Love” on a Radio Chart
“Bring Your Love” completes a sweep of Billboard’s three pop-focused radio charts by debuting on the Adult Contemporary ranking. Billboard tracks pop radio performance across Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Adult Contemporary, each spotlighting a different corner of the format. With its latest debut, the Madonna and Carpenter collaboration is now present on all three charts at once, just as Confessions II prepares to become one of the week’s biggest-selling albums in America.
Madonna Has Racked up Dozens of AC Smashes
With the arrival of “Bring Your Love,” Madonna notches her thirty-eighth career entry on the Adult Contemporary chart. Carpenter, meanwhile, adds her twelfth appearance on the tally — still less than one-third of Madonna’s total — thanks to the energetic dance-pop single.
Madonna Charts Her First New Hit In Half a Decade
“Bring Your Love” also gives Madonna her first Adult Contemporary hit in more than six years. Her previous new entry on the chart came in June 2019 with “Crave,” her collaboration with hip-hop artist Swae Lee. That single ultimately rose to No. 11, falling just one spot short of giving Madonna another top 10 success on the list.
“Bring Your Love” Matches a 2001 Hit’s Peak
Upon its debut, “Bring Your Love” matches the Adult Contemporary chart peak of Madonna’s “What It Feels Like for a Girl,” which reached the ranking nearly 25 years earlier. That song entered the Adult Contemporary chart in June 2001 and climbed to No. 27 the following week.
Seven of Madonna’s 38 smashes have peaked in lower positions, while 15 cuts have climbed into the top 10. Five of those wins – “Take a Bow,” “I’ll Remember,” “Cherish,” “Live to Tell” and “La Isla Bonita” – conquered the ranking.
Sabrina Carpenter Ties Her Lowest Peak
For Carpenter, “Bring Your Love” is now tied as her worst performer on the Adult Contemporary chart, though the list moves slowly, and the single may very well rise in the coming weeks as the two artists continue to promote it. “Bring Your Love” is now on the same level as Carpenter’s solo cut “Bed Chem,” which debuted on the roster in February 2025 and reached its high point a month later.
“Bring Your Love” Hits a New Pop Chart High
At the same time that “Bring Your Love” lands on the Adult Contemporary chart for the first time, the collaboration rises to a new high point on the immensely competitive Pop Airplay roster. In its ninth week on the top 40 list, “Bring Your Love” improves two spaces to No. 22.
As it steps up, “Bring Your Love” breaks out of its tie with “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” a collaboration with both Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., which stalled at No. 24 14 years ago. It also pushes past “You Must Love Me,” which only surged as high as No. 23 back in 1996.
“Bring Your Love” Slips on Several other Billboard Charts
“Bring Your Love” is just getting started on the Adult Contemporary chart, and it’s performing better than ever on the Pop Airplay list, but it seems like the song’s best days may be behind it when it comes to the Adult Pop Airplay ranking. This frame, the single slips from No. 22 to No. 25 after breaking into the top 20 – but only barely – as it reached No. 20 in late May.
“Bring Your Love” is matched with “4 Minutes,” a collaboration with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, and “American Pie” as one of Madonna’s eighth highest-rising hits. It is one of her 10 top 20 smashes on the radio chart.
“Love Sensation” Drops on the One Chart It Appears On
Last week, “Love Sensation,” another one of the four Confessions II tunes Madonna shared to hype the world for the then-upcoming album, almost cracked the top 10 on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay roster, but it looks like it may not be able to reach that region. This time around, “Love Sensation” falls from No. 11, its peak position, to No. 14.
