The Greatest Showman has claimed the top spot for the UK’s Number 1 Christmas album. The film’s massively successful cast recording takes this years Christmas Number 1 album crown, with its strongest sales week to-date.
The collection, of 11 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, sold 69,000 units across sales and streams to rack up a 23rd non-consecutive week at Number 1. This weeks sales are made up of, 85%, pure sales, which includes CD, vinyl and download.
The album, which was released on the 8th of December 2017, has not exited the Top 5 albums chart all year. According to the BPI, the album has officially gone 5x platinum this week.
This sees, ‘The Greatest Showman’ hold off a challenge from Michael Buble’s ‘Love’, which rebounds from 3 to 2. Meanwhile, George Ezra’s ‘Staying At Tamara’s’ completes the Top 3 Christmas albums chart.
Meanwhile, ‘The Greatest Showman’s’ mega-popular Motion Picture Cast Recording has received a new lease of life from an all-star voices. ‘The Greatest Showman – Reimagined’, which was released on the 16th of November 2018, brings together some of the world’s biggest recording artists today, to sing their own versions of the music movie’s popular hits.
The rejuvenated album sees, Keala Settle’s Oscar-nominated song ‘This Is Me’ recieve vocal additions from Kesha and Missy Elliot for its Reimagined remix, while UK Top 40 entry ‘A Million Dreams’ will be sung by P!nk. The album also sees the ‘What About Us’ singer’s daughter, Willow Sage Hart, make her singing debut on a reprise of her mum’s track.
Panic! At The Disco, whose real name is Brendon Urie, takes on ‘The Greatest Show’. While, Kelly Clarkson takes on ‘Never Enough’, which was originally sung by Loren Allred, in the film.
The newly revitalised album, features some of the biggest talent emanating from the UK today. While massively successful across the world, ‘The Greatest Showman’ original album has seen most of its success on UK shores. Having many British artists covering songs on the Reimagined edition to cater to a UK audience, was a conscious choice from Kevin Weaver, Atlantic Records’ President, West Coast.
Speaking to Variety, Weaver said: “The album just went four times platinum in the UK and spent more weeks at number one than Adele’s ‘21’ or any other record in the last 30 years. So it was important to me to really try to do something to serve the UK market, so that’s the why I put James Arthur and Anne-Marie on one of the most important songs, and why I put Jess Glynne and Years & Years on ‘Come Alive,’ and why I added a Craig David version of ‘Come Alive’ as a bonus track — to be thoughtful to the success of the album in the UK, wanting to include elements that honoured that.”
Continuing he said: “From a purely streaming perspective, the song that actually streams more than anything else is ‘Rewrite the Stars’,” says Weaver. They gave that to the duo of James Arthur and Anne-Marie.”
The Full Tracklist for ‘The Greatest Showman – Reimagined':
- The Greatest Show – Panic! at the Disco
- A Million Dreams – Pink
- A Million Dreams (Reprise) – Willow Sage Hart
- Come Alive – Years & Years and Jess Glynne
- The Other Side – MAX and Ty Dolla $ign
- Never Enough – Kelly Clarkson
- This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix) – Keala Settle, Kesha and Missy Elliott
- Rewrite The Stars – James Arthur and Anne-Marie
- Tightrope – Sara Bareilles
- From Now On – Zac Brown Band
Bonus Tracks:
- The Greatest Show – Pentatonix
- Come Alive – Craig David
- This Is Me – Kesha
- Rewrite The Stars (Acoustic) – Zendaya
