‘Depraved’ Broadway Forged Album Hits Billboard 200 Most sensible 40 for First Time

The unique Broadway solid recording of Depraved reaches the highest 40 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the primary time, just about 21 years after its unencumber in December 2003. The set jumps 79-33 at the chart dated Dec. 7, following endured buzz generated by way of the not too long ago launched movie adaptation of the long-running level display.

The Broadway display, which opened in New York in October 2003, introduced with Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel within the lead roles of Glinda and Elphaba (performed by way of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo within the movie).

Depraved is solely the 7th musical solid album to succeed in the highest 40 of the Billboard 200 within the closing 25 years, following Bruce Springsteen’s solo display Springsteen on Broadway (2018) and the unique Broadway solid recordings of Expensive Evan Hansen (2017), Hamilton: An American Musical (2015), If/Then (2014), The E book of Mormon (2011) and Disney’s The Little Mermaid (2008).

The brand new Depraved movie opened in U.S. theaters on Nov. 22 and has earned greater than $260 million on the U.S. and Canada field place of job. Its soundtrack debuts at No. 2 at the Billboard 200, marking the absolute best debut for a soundtrack of a big-screen adaptation of a level musical.

Within the monitoring week finishing Nov. 28, as mirrored at the Dec. 7-dated Billboard 200 chart, the Depraved Broadway solid recording earned 22,000 similar album devices (up 60%) whilst the Depraved movie soundtrack begins with 139,000 devices.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in response to multi-metric intake as measured in similar album devices, compiled by way of Luminate. Gadgets contain album gross sales, monitor similar albums (TEA) and streaming similar albums (SEA). Each and every unit equals one album sale, or 10 person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand reputable audio and video streams generated by way of songs from an album. The brand new Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart can be posted in complete on Billboard‘s site on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

The unique Broadway solid recording of Depraved had up to now peaked at No. 66 at the Billboard 200 in March of 2014. Chenoweth and Menzel starred within the Broadway display from its opening via July 2004 and January 2005, respectively. Depraved has endured to play on Broadway since its premiere in 2003, and with greater than 8,100 performances, it’s the fourth-longest operating display in Broadway historical past.

The unique Broadway solid recording of Depraved additionally spends a 350th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Forged Albums chart, which ranks the week’s top-selling musical level display albums. Depraved has the second-most weeks at No. 1 on Forged Albums because the record started in January of 2006. The unique Broadway solid recording of Hamilton: An American Musical leads the pack with 411 weeks at No. 1.

The Depraved solid album additionally debuts at the Most sensible Streaming Albums chart at No. 38, the place the Depraved film soundtrack debuts at No. 4.