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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” Soundtrack Logs 29th Week in the Billboard 200 Top 10

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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton soundtrack is showing its longevity…

The original Broadway cast recording of the 40-year-old Puerto Rican composer/lyricist, actor & playwright’s Hamilton: An American Musical has logged its 29th non-consecutive week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200—the longest cumulative run by any cast recording since the Broadway cast album to Hello, Dolly! was a fixture in the top 10 for 35 consecutive weeks from March 4, 1964 to October 31, 1964.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's final Hamilton curtain call

Hamilton surpasses the cast album to Hair, which logged 28 consecutive weeks in the top 10 in 1969.

Hello, Dolly! and Hamilton were the biggest Broadway blockbusters of the decades in which they first appeared.

Hello, Dolly! opened on January 16, 1964 and ran for 2,844 performances. It was, for a time, the longest-running Broadway musical in history.

Hamilton Cast Recording

Hamilton opened on August 6, 2015 and had run 1,919 performances as of March 11, 2020 when Broadway shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hello, Dolly! won 10 Tony Awards, including best musical. Hamilton took home 11, also including best musical.

The Hello, Dolly! cast album topped the Billboard 200 in June 1964, on the first chart following that year’s Tony Awards (which were held on May 24 that year). The album’s rise to No. 1 ended a 16-week lock on the top spot by The Beatles.

Hamilton has had a series of peaks, but has yet to top the chart.

It debuted at No. 12 in October 2015, reached a new peak of No. 11 in May 2016 amid the buzz over its record-setting 16 Tony nominations, another new peak of No. 3 in June 2016 following the Tony Awards, and yet another new peak of No. 2 last month after Disney+ premiered the filmed version of the Broadway show.

None of the songs from Hamilton have become chart hits in the traditional sense, though several are well-known, including “My Shot,” “Room Where It Happens,” “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” and “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down),” which includes the crowd-igniting line “immigrants (we get the job done).”

Hamilton won a Grammy for best musical theater album. Hello, Dolly!, surprisingly, did not. It lost to the Funny Girl cast album.

If Hamilton logs six more weeks in the top 10, it will tie Dolly! for the longest run in the top 10 by a cast album since August 1963, when Billboard combined separate stereo and mono charts into one comprehensive chart.

Before that, when there were multiple album charts, several cast albums had even longer runs in the top 10. Here are three of the most prominent examples. My Fair Lady had 173 weeks in the top 10. The Sound of Music had 105. The Music Man had 66.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” Soundtrack Reaches No. 2 on Billboard 200 Chart

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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is proving its endurance…

The original Broadway cast recording of the 40-year-old Puerto Rican Broadway star’s Hamilton: An American Musical has surged to a new peak on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set rises from No. 14 to No. 2 in the wake of the show’s Disney+ premiere on July 3. 

Lin-Manuel Miranda's final Hamilton curtain call

The Grammy-winning album earned 102,000 equivalent album units (up 294 percent) in the U.S. in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that sum, 32,000 are in album sales (up 592 percent).

The last cast recording to reach the top two on the chart was the original cast album of Hair, which spent 13 weeks at No. 1 in 1969.

Until this week, Hamilton was tied with the original Broadway cast recording of The Book of Mormon as the highest charting cast album since 1969, as Mormonpeaked at No. 3 in 2011.

The set previously peaked at No. 3 on the July 2, 2016-dated chart, following the 2016 Tony Awards, where the musical won 11 prizes, including best musical.

Hamilton Cast Recording

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 18-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 14.

Of Hamilton’s unit haul of 102,000 for the week, 67,000 are in SEA units (equating to 90.41 million on-demand streams for the set’s tracks – easily the biggest streaming week ever for a cast recording), 32,000 are in album sales, and 4,000 are in TEA units.

Hamiltoncelebrates its 250th week on the Billboard 200 chart. The set has never left the tally since its debut at No. 12 on the October 17, 2015-dated list. That’s the longest run by any cast album since the highlights edition of the original London cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera, which has logged 331 weeks on the list between 1990 and 1996.

With 102,000 equivalent album units earned, Hamilton tallies the biggest week for any cast recording since Billboard and Nielsen Music/MRC Data began tracking albums by units in December 2014. Hamilton beats its own record, as it previously held the biggest week, by units, for a cast album since December 2014 – when it net 62,000 units on the July 2, 2016-dated chart.

So far, Hamilton has sold 1.97 million copies in the U.S. After being certified 6 times platinum by the RIAA in 2019, Hamilton became the best-selling cast album of all time. It won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” Soundtrack Spends 150th Week on Billboard 200

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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton soundtrack has some serious legs…

The 38-year-old Puerto Rican composer, lyricist, playwright and rapper’s Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical reaches a landmark of longevity on the Billboard 200, as it spends a 150th week on the chart.

Hamilton

In the last 50 years, only three other cast albums have spent at least 150 weeks on the tally: the highlights edition of the original London cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera (331 weeks between 1990 and 1996), the full original London cast recording of Phantom(255 weeks between 1987 and 1993) and the original Broadway cast recording of Hair (151 weeks between 1968 and 1971).

Hamiltonhas never ranked lower than No. 60 in its 150 weeks on the list and has spent the past 132 weeks lodged in the top 40. It peaked at No. 3 on the tally dated July 2, 2016.

Through August 9, the album has earned 3.34 million equivalent album units, of which 1.6 million are in traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music. The set has generated 2.23 billion on-demand audio streams for its tracks.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Miranda’s “Hamilton” Cast Recording Soars to No. 3 on Billboard 200 Chart

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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is making its mark on the music charts…

The original Broadway cast recording for the hit musical soars into the top three of the Billboard 200 chart, following its big night at the Tony Awards.

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The set’s rise from No. 13 to No. 3 makes it just one of only three cast recordings to reach the top 10 in the last 50 years, and the highest charting in five years, since The Book of Mormon also peaked at No. 3.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 2-dated chart (where Hamilton races to No. 3) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, June 21.

Hamilton Cast Recording

Hamilton moved 62,000 units in the week ending June 16 (up 119 percent) with 45,000 of that figure in traditional album sales — up 164 percent.

Hamilton debuted at No. 12 last year and previously peaked at No. 11.

Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards, including best musical, and performed a number of times on the CBS broadcast of the awards. Hamilton equals the chart high of The Book of Mormon, which also reached No. 3 after its multiple Tony Award wins back in 2011.

Hamilton and The Book of Mormon are the highest charting cast recordings since 1969, when Hair spent 13 weeks at No. 1. They are the only cast albums to reach the top 10 in the past 50 years.

Hamilton’s sales haul of 45,000 copies sold is the biggest sales week for a cast recording since The Book of Mormon back in 2011. After the Tony Awards, Mormon sold 61,000 copies — fueled in part by a $1.99 sale price in the Amazon MP3 store. That said, Hamilton didn’t escape the sale pricing last week: it was marked down to $3.99 in the Google Play store for a portion of the tracking week.

Mormon’s 61,000 sales week continues to be the largest for a cast recording since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991.

So far, Hamilton has sold 489,000 copies in the U.S. It is the No. 13 biggest selling cast recording since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991.