Depraved’s Soundtrack Hits Quantity 2 on the Billboard Charts

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

At present sitting on the #2 spot on Billboard‘s Prime Album Gross sales within the Soundtracks and Vinyl Album charts, the Wicked soundtrack debuted as a document breaker. Based on Deadline, “the Common Footage, Verve Data, and Republic Data soundtrack to Half One of the film musical was stored 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 expect Kendrick Lamar’s muuuustaaaaard seems to be good with Ariana Grande’s Pink and Cynthia Erivo’s Green.

Based on 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 prime 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 finally 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 items earned within the week ending November 28—the largest week for a full-length theatrical movie soundtrack since Woman Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born earned 143,000 items in its second week;” Depraved has a number of bops (“Standard,” “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 prime 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 reside bodily media!

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

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