The chart above via HitsDailyDouble won’t be exactly the same as what the Billboard 200 reveals on Sunday, but it’s still a virtual guarantee that Madonna will be #1 on the “official” music industry chart from Billboard. (HitsDailyDouble and Billboard almost always show the same numbers in terms of the overall rankings, but exact sales can differ.) Note that she sold over 107,000 physical units of _Confessions II_ , dwarfing and utterly humiliating whoever the person is below her, who only sold 18,000. This will be Madonna’s 10th #1 on the Billboard 200, extending her streak as the most successful female on the charts since the 1980’s. She obviously should’ve had 11 #1s, but _Ray Of Light—_ which debuted at #2 in 1998 and sold a staggering 371,000 units—was absurdly blocked by the Celine Dion shipwreck song in 1998. A fun look back at her Billboard 200 history:

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