'Wicked' earns biggest debut for soundtrack on BB200 this decade, surpassing 'Barbie'

[TaylorSwift 161,526]

The Wicked film soundtrack takes a bow at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the highest debut ever by a big-screen adaptation of a stage musical.

Wicked launches with 139,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 28 . Wicked 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.

Of Wicked’s opening-week sum, album sales comprise 85,000 (it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales, SEA units comprise 52,000 (equaling 67.66 million on-demand official streams of the album’s tracks; it’s No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 2,000. With 67.66 million streams generated by its songs, Wicked has 2024’s biggest streaming week for any soundtrack, and the largest streaming week ever for a stage-to-screen musical film soundtrack.

 

 

[ShayCristoforo 10,607]

They did an amazing job with this movie. I’ve been a Wicked super fan for a long long time. And I think this was masterfully done. Deserved 

[bionic 50,110]

Its one of the best films of all time. This should be getting all the hype and praise Barbie got

[littlepotter 76,549]

1 hour ago, bionic said:

Its one of the best films of all time. 

[Guest]

Deserved. Much better than Barbie.