Idk I don't get fakeness vibes from Madonna's charts unlike what we all have felt with Shakira and her massively fake stats (including these supposedly hundreds of millions of people who watch her videos but never bought the songs? So fake).
UKMix debunked the 41 country lie a long time ago. They made a list of every country with a chart during its release and even included AirPlay and digital charts where it went #1 but didn't go #1 on the overall country's chart and the total countries came to like 26.
Still more than any Mariah single. The perks of being global
]iHype is under the age of 16, grew up in the US in the AL eras and when Madonna was blacklisted on the radio, I wouldn't be surprised if he only knew 4 minutes