As of January 2009, the album offered 169,000 items in C***da in response to Nielsen Company.
Thomas Hausner from PopMatters wrote that the album "is overpopulated with recycled pop that's indistinguishable and synthetic, one thing Madonna's soothing arpeggiating vocals cannot alleviate". "I share this with my coronary heart breaking," Pam wrote on the SGM Survivors blog.
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In C***da, the album debuted at the top of the C***dian Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Music C***da (MC) for shipments of 80,000 copies. Hard Candy was her first album to top the chart in 18 years since I'm Breathless (1990). Madonna also became the primary international artist in Japanese chart history to have number-one albums in three consecutive a long time.