THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Soundtrack Was 2018’s #1
Best-Selling Album!
.
.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK EARNS TOP SPOT AS THE #1 BEST-SELLING ALBUM GLOBALLY FOR ALL OF 2018 WITH SALES NEARING 6 MILLION ALBUMS WORLDWIDE
.
.
The 3x ARIA Platinum certified and 2x Grammy Award nominated soundtrack has proven a worldwide phenomenon; amassing four billion global streams and countless multi-platinum certifications! THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Reimagined, the all-star companion album; is approaching 500 million streams in less than two months since its release!
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack has earned the title of 2018’s best-selling album in the world. Since its release in December of 2017, the soundtrack has proven to be an unquestionable worldwide sensation.
In addition to going 3x platinum in Australia, the album has earned 2x platinum certification in the US, Taiwan and Hong Kong; as well as 4x platinum certification in the United Kingdom and South Korea; 3x platinum in Ireland and Singapore; platinum in Canada, New Zealand, Japan, China, the Philippines and Indonesia; and gold in Mexico, Russia and Norway.
Among its many other historic chart successes, the album spent all of 2018 in the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart; with 49 of those weeks spent in the top 10. The album spent five weeks #1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart; the first soundtrack to do so since 2014’s Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The album also spent 31 weeks among the top 10 on the US SoundScan/Billboard 200, including two weeks at #1; the most weeks atop the chart for a live-action theatrical film musical soundtrack since 2007’s Dreamgirls soundtrack.
The soundtrack, featuring all songs written by GRAMMY®, Tony® and Academy Award-winning duo Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen); was recently honored with 2 GRAMMY® nominations for the 61st Annual GRAMMY® Awards: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Song Written for Visual Media for the soundtrack’s 3x ARIA platinum certified version of ‘This Is Me’; performed by KEALA SETTLE & THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Ensemble (and boasting 800 million global streams).
.
.
These nominations follow countless other accolades, including single ‘This Is Me’ winning Best Original Song – Motion Picture at the 75th Golden Globe Awards and nominated for Best Original Song at the 90th Academy Awards.
In November, Atlantic Records released an unprecedented all-star companion album THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Reimagined; which sees songs from the film covered by a remarkable cast of artists. The album immediately ascended into the #1 position on the US iTunes Top Albums chart and in Australia, it debuted at #4 on the ARIA Albums chart; with global streams are now approaching 500 million.
.
.
Among the tracks were ‘Rewrite the Stars’ featuring multi-platinum artists ANNE-MARIE and JAMES ARTHUR, PANIC! AT THE DISCO’s rework of ‘The Greatest Show’ and multiple GRAMMY® Award-winner KELLY CLARKSON’s stunning take on ‘Never Enough’. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Reimagined also came accompanied by P!NK’s chart-topping version of ‘A Million Dreams’ and the ‘A Million Dreams (Reprise)’ performed by her daughter WILLOW SAGE HART, which reached #2 on the US iTunes overall Top Songs chart.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: Original Movie Soundtrack is produced by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul; GRAMMY® Award-winning (and 5x nominee) Atlantic Records President, West Coast Kevin Weaver (Furious 7, Suicide Squad, The Fault in Our Stars, The Fate of the Furious); and GRAMMY® Award-winning Atlantic Records President, A&R Pete Ganbarg (Twenty One Pilots, Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording, Dear Evan Hansen: Original Broadway Cast Recording).
20th Century Fox’s THE GREATEST SHOWMAN is a bold and original musical that tells the story of P.T. Barnum; a visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerising spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. THE GREATEST SHOWMAN was directed by Michael Gracey and stars Academy Award-nominee Hugh Jackman alongside Academy Award-nominee Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Zac Efron and Rebecca Ferguson.
.
Follow THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER
.
.
