Madonna’s new single “Bring Your Love,” featuring Sabrina Carpenter, has opened with a solid showing in the U.K., debuting at No. 29 on the Official Singles Chart this week. The song also lands at No. 4 on both the Official Singles Sales chart and the Official Singles Downloads chart, while arriving at No. 78 on the Official Streaming chart.
The release is the first single from Madonna’s upcoming album Confessions II, the follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, and the numbers give her another reminder of how differently she now moves across the market. The sales and download debuts are strong enough to matter on their own, but the streaming position shows that even one of pop’s most recognizable names still faces a harder climb where listeners play songs on demand rather than buy them outright.
For Madonna, the sales result is especially notable because it matches her previous best on the Official Singles Sales chart. “Erotica” reached No. 5 in November 2022, and “Bring Your Love” has gone one better with a No. 4 launch. On the Official Singles Downloads chart, the new track also arrives in a familiar winning lane for her: Madonna’s first hit on that ranking was “Hung Up,” which spent seven weeks at No. 1, and “4 Minutes,” with Justin Timberlake, held the top spot for nearly a month.
The streaming side tells a more complicated story. “Bring Your Love” is only Madonna’s fifth placement on the Official Streaming chart, and it is one of just two tracks of hers to miss the top 40 there. “Bitch I’m Madonna,” with Nicki Minaj, remains her lowest-peaking hit on that chart, stalling five places above the new single. By comparison, “Into the Groove” peaked at No. 35, “Like a Prayer” reached No. 40, and “Popular,” her collaboration with the Weeknd and Playboi Carti, stands as her only top 10 on the streaming list.
That split matters because “Bring Your Love” is being sold as the first statement from Confessions II, and expectations around the project are already high. The song has the kind of support that can push a release up the charts: Madonna’s long reach, the anticipation around a sequel to one of her best-known albums, and Carpenter’s current popularity. Last month, Madonna came close to the top of the download chart with “I Feel So Free,” which missed No. 1 by a single place, and this new single keeps her recent momentum alive even if the streaming number is less impressive than the sales result.
In the end, “Bring Your Love” answers two questions at once. It shows that Madonna can still turn a new release into a proper U.K. chart event, and it shows that in 2026, even a star of her scale still needs more than name recognition to break through on streaming. The sales are strong, the debut is real, and the old pop machine still works — just not in every lane equally.
