Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones is a remix album by American singer Madonna, released through Warner Records. Its abridged 16-track edition, simply titled Finally Enough Love, had a pre-release on streaming services on June 24, 2022, while the full 50-track edition and all physical formats were released on August 19, 2022. The album marks Madonna achieving a record 50 number ones on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, the most number ones of any artist on any single Billboard chart. The title derives from the lyrics of her 50th number one, "I Don't Search I Find". It is also the first release in a multi-year reissue campaign with Warner, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Madonna's recording career.[1]
Finally Enough Love received generally favorable reviews from critics. Commercially, the album peaked at number one in Australia, Belgium, Portugal, French-speaking Switzerland (Romandie), the Netherlands, and the international album chart of Croatia, while reaching the top five in France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The album debuted at number eight in US Billboard 200, making Madonna the first female artist in the USA to have a top-ten album in the last five consecutive decades (1980s–2020s). Madonna also became the first woman to have an Australian number-one album in five different decades. Finally Enough Love was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Commercial performance[edit]
According to a representative for Rhino Records, the pre-sales of the vinyl format of Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones sold out in less than 48 hours.[38] Finally Enough Love entered at number eight on the Billboard 200, with 30,000 album-equivalent units. It became the top-selling album of the week, with pure sales of 28,000 units, consisting of 23,000 physical and 5,000 digital copies.[39] In doing so, Madonna became the first woman with a top-ten album in each of the last five decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s;[40][39] among women only Barbra Streisand has top-ten albums in most decades, with six (1960s–2010s).[41][42] Finally Enough Love is the first remix album to reach the top ten on the Billboard 200 since 2014, and the highest-charting electronic/dance remix album since 2010.[40][39] Additionally, the album topped the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums, and Billboard 200's components Top Current Album Sales as well Vinyl Albums, with 12,000 copies on vinyl, making it Madonna's largest sales week for a vinyl album since Luminate Data began tracking sales in 1991.[39] As of April 2023, the compilation had sold 25,000 vinyls in the US according to Luminate.[43]
With three-day physical sales of 2,160 copies in Japan, the album debuted at number 22 on the Oricon Albums Chart as well as number six on the Oricon International Albums Chart.[44][45] It also entered Billboard Japan's Hot Albums chart at number 25, based on combined physical and digital units.[46] Finally Enough Love debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart dated August 29, 2022, making it Madonna's 12th number-one album in Australia.[47] She broke her tie with U2 and Eminem to become the second act with the most chart-topping albums in Australia, behind the Beatles and Jimmy Barnes, each having 14 number ones. Madonna also became the first ever woman to have a number-one album in five different decades in Australia.[48]
In the United Kingdom, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at number three, with sales of 14,132 units. It became Madonna's 23rd top-ten entry on the chart.[49] According to the Official Charts Company, the compilation had sold 88,394 copies in the UK, as of July 2023.[50] On August 25, 2023, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified the album Gold, for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 100,000 units in the United Kingdom.[51] As of March 14, 2024, the album accumulated 52 non-consecutive weeks on the chart, making this her tenth album to do so.[52] In France, Finally Enough Love debuted and peaked at number two with 6,400 album-equivalent units, of which 92% represented physical copies.[53] The compilation also debuted at number two in a number of European countries, including Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, while topping the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal, as well as the Croatian International album chart.[54]
Impact and recognition[edit]
Tamara Palmer from Grammy Awards' official website lumped Madonna with other artists in "reinvigorating the art of the remix" in 2022, further commenting that Finally Enough Love brings back the concept of a big budget remix album in the mainstream music spotlight.[38] Turkish newspaper Hürriyet named Madonna one of the most important representatives of disco culture in the 1980s, and gave her credit for being part of the rise during the ongoing decade.[55] Variety's Mike Wass called her "the reigning monarch of clubland".[56] Helen Brown from Financial Times recognizes Madonna's longevity with the release of this album, and quotes John Earls of Classic Pop magazine as saying: "After assiduously avoiding it for so long, is her biggest acknowledgment of pop mortality" as a capitulation to the "lucrative" nostalgia market.[57]
Upon release, the culture editorial staff of Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter picked it up as one of their five favorite "cultural events" of the week.[58] Variety ranked album's tracks, with "Into the Groove (You Can Dance Remix Edit)" topping the list, describing the song: "Is arguably the template for the club-pop hybrids that started in the '80s and continue to be released to this very day".[56] The song was nominated at the Gay Italia Awards in the category International Song of the Year.[59]