Madonna: This is not the marketing plan of a legacy artist content on calling it a day and merely leaning on her deepest core of longtime fans to buy a record. She's out all night; she's causing a spectacle. More than four decades into one of the most celebrated careers of all time, Madonna is still an artist demanding to be heard.

A critical success already, the question now turns to the charts, where we'll see just how many people are going to listen.