As of January 2009, the album sold 169,000 items in Canada in response to Nielsen Company. Thomas Hausner from PopMatters wrote that the album "is overpopulated with recycled pop that's indistinguishable and synthetic, something Madonna's soothing arpeggiating vocals can not alleviate". "I share this with my coronary heart breaking," Pam wrote on the SGM Survivors blog. In Canada, in a 2002 choice regarding a case wherein three people were engaged in sexual intercourse, the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta declared part 159 of the Criminal Code in its entirety to be null, including the provisions criminalizing anal intercourse when greater than two persons are collaborating or present. In Canada, the album debuted at the top of the Canadian Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Music Canada (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 additionally grew to become the primary international artist in Japanese chart historical past to have number-one albums in three consecutive decades.
