• Madonna is loose, limber, and ready to party again on Confessions II | Paste
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• Madonna’s ‘Confessions II’ rewrites the record books with a first in music history | mlive | July 14, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
“Confessions II” debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, earning the Michigan native her 10th No. album.

• Madonna’s CONFESSIONS II Debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 | Broadway World
Confessions II, the latest album from multi-GRAMMY award-winner Madonna, has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart, marking her 10th #1. The first-week sales reached 134,000 in the U.S. while also securing a 13th #1 debut in the U.K. She is the only U.S female artist to have #1 albums across five decades in the U.K. 

• Madonna Reflects on 'Confessions II' Success | Rolling Stone Australia | July 14, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Madonna said she was 'grateful and surprised' after her hotly anticipated 'Confessions II' debuted in the top spot on the Billboard 200.

• Madonna In Conversation + Film Premiere: Confessions II | 2026 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca
An exclusive conversation with Madonna and filmmakers Solomon Chase and David Toro (TORSO), moderated by Jimmy Fallon, following the premiere of Confessions II. The 10-minute cinematic work threads together the first six tracks of her new album through seamless, minute-long excerpts, reimagining the music video format. The project offers a bold, immersive entry point into the album’s opening chapter, extending the legacy of Confessions on a Dance Floor through a vivid exploration of reinvention, nightlife, and self-expression.

• Madonna Dominates ARIA Charts with New Album | Rolling Stone Australia | July 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Madonna has done it again. The pop icon has soared to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with 'Confessions II'. 

• ‘Confessions II’ Review: Madonna’s Club-Ready Comeback | Wall Street Journal
A follow-up to her 2005 dance-music album, the singer’s latest release is her finest work in two decades.

• Madonna writes autofiction | iramadison.substack.com
Confessions II, what I read in June, and meeting Nene Leakes

• Millennium-Era Madonna Is Back in Full Force on 'Confessions II' | Exclaim!
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• ‘Confessions II’ Review: Madonna’s Club-Ready Comeback | Wall Street Journal
A follow-up to her 2005 dance-music album, the singer’s latest release is her finest work in two decades.

• Madonna's irresistible contradictions | Salon | July 8, 2026, 1 p.m.
With "Confessions II," Madonna reworks her scrapped biopic into an autobiographical album worthy of the big screen.

• Madonna was always anti-nostalgia. But looking back on Confessions II has revitalised her music | The Guardian | July 7, 2026, 7:34 a.m.
The veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories

• Confessions II Is the Madonna Memoir We’ve Been Waiting For | Harper's BAZAAR | July 6, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
The icon’s new album is a pulsing reflection on loss and how dance floors have helped her endure

• Listen: Madonna's CONFESSIONS II Album Now Available | Broadway World
Madonna has dropped her eaglery eagerly anticipated new album Confessions II, which serves as a follow-up to the 2005 counterpart, Confessions on a Dance Floor. Listen to it here.

• 'CONFESSIONS II': Madonna lets her guard down on the dancefloor | Crack Magazine
Looking back has never come naturally to Madonna. On 'CONFESSIONS II', she does so without succumbing to nostalgia, delivering her most honest, cohesive and creatively liberated album in over 20 years.

• We are all Madonna now | Washington Post | July 6, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
The darkness of “Confessions II” has somehow made Madge relatable.

• Madonna - CONFESSIONS II | Northern Transmissions | July 5, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
CONFESSIONS II by Madonna album review by Sam Franzini for Northern Transmissions. The legendary multi-artist's LP is out via Warner Records

• Death and the dance floor: Madonna is (finally) facing her mortality | The Independent | July 5, 2026, 5 a.m.
For years, she boasted of her own indestructibility, but on her new album ‘Confessions II’, Madonna seems to be haunted by death and in mourning for the freedom of her youth. It’s a kind of vulnerability that has made her more human, and the most creatively interesting that she’s been in decades, writes Adam White

• Music Review : Confessions II – Madonna | Novastream | July 5, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
Twenty years after she first turned the world into a giant disco with Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna has finally returned with the spiritual and sonic successor, Confessions II. The album wa…