{"id":621,"date":"2024-12-02T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=415553"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"omg-the-wicked-soundtrack-just-broke-an-absolutely-insane-record-in-its-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2024\/12\/02\/omg-the-wicked-soundtrack-just-broke-an-absolutely-insane-record-in-its-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Omg, the Wicked soundtrack just broke an absolutely insane record in its first week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like everyone is screaming “Defying Gravity”<\/a> at the top of their lungs this week because the Wicked<\/a> soundtrack has just broken a huge record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The album contains all 12 songs from the new movie, including “No One Mourns the Wicked”, “What Is This Feeling?” and “A Sentimental Man”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In its first week, the soundtrack has shot straight in at number two on the Billboard 200, just losing out to Kendrick Lamar\u2019s new album GNX.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty insane for a musical soundtrack, and Wicked has just earned the highest debut for a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical EVER.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDDIv4dTnfl\/<\/p>\n

\u201cWicked logs the biggest week for any stage-to-screen musical soundtrack since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by equivalent album units in December 2014,\u201d Billboard<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It had 139,000 equivalent album units in the week ending November 28, which is the biggest week for a full-length theatrical film soundtrack since A Star Is Born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s musical earned 143,000 units in its second week in October 2018.<\/p>\n

Album units is a measurement that includes both physical album sales and streaming. It works out how many albums would need to have been sold to get the same streaming revenue.<\/p>\n

That 139,000 album units consists of an impressive 85,000 pure album sales and 67.66 million official streams of the album\u2019s tracks on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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i can't even sleep without thinking about the wicked soundtrack it's THAT serious pic.twitter.com\/6zm1BXUlUt<\/a><\/p>\n

— arianators wildin (@arianatorswildt) November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n