Depraved’s Soundtrack Hits Quantity 2 on the Billboard Charts

It’s not shocking that Wicked, already the U.S. field workplace’s highest-grossing film based mostly on a Broadway musical, may be very practically topping the album charts, too.

Presently sitting on the #2 spot on Billboard‘s High Album Gross sales within the Soundtracks and Vinyl Album charts, the Wicked soundtrack debuted as a document breaker. In accordance with Deadline, “the Common Footage, Verve Data, and Republic Data soundtrack to Half One of the film musical was saved from the #1 spot on the chart (dated Dec. 7) by the debut of Kendrick Lamar’s shock album GNX, which marks his fifth consecutive chart-topper.” However hey we predict Kendrick Lamar’s muuuustaaaaard appears good with Ariana Grande’s Pink and Cynthia Erivo’s Green.

In accordance with Deadline, reporting off Billboard’s figures, “Depraved had the biggest debut gross sales week for a stage-to-screen musical movie since Dreamgirls,” which was launched in 2006, and “the final time a stage-to-screen musical soundtrack debuted within the high 5 was when Chicago hit No. 4 on the February 1, 2003 , peaking at No. 2 every week later. The final stage-to-screen film musical soundtrack to ultimately attain the highest two was Les Misérables, which spent every week at No. 1 on the January 19, 2013, chart.”

Different wins by Depraved‘s soundtrack embody it having launched “with 139,000 equal album models earned within the week ending November 28—the most important week for a full-length theatrical movie soundtrack since Girl Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born earned 143,000 models in its second week;” Depraved has a number of bops (“Widespread,” “Dancing By way of Life,” “Defying Gravity”) that appear prone to additional propel its success. The songs have additionally generated digital streams with “67.66 million” hits, which isn’t solely enormous for a soundtrack however “the biggest streaming week ever for a stage-to-screen musical movie soundtrack.”

On high of that, “of Depraved’s opening-week sum, album gross sales comprise 85,000,” with Depraved soundtrack vinyl gross sales representing practically 39,000 copies. Lengthy dwell bodily media!

Depraved is now in theaters, with Depraved Half Two arriving November 21, 2025. Yow will discover the Depraved soundtrack with all its accessible collectible releases here, however we’re left eager to know one factor: the place’s the Mondo launch?

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