It’s official: myself Barbie filled at the box office, its soundtrack is no less in influence on the charts.
Barbie: The Album (Atlantic/Warner Music) topped the UK compilation chart, with three of its tracks reaching the top five singles. It’s about What I was made for Billy Eilish (moved up from tenth position to third), dance the night Dua Lipa (fifteenth to fourth) e barbie world Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice (20th to 5th).
An unprecedented achievement for a soundtrack Barbie
No soundtrack has ever hit three tracks simultaneously in the top five in the UK before..
The first film to get three top three tracks in the UK at the same time was Saturday Night Fever 1978 (night heat, If I can’t have you, More than a woman). Same result for the soundtrack Lubricantthe same year (Summer nights, Lubricant, Hopelessly devoted to you).
One of enchanted The 2022 Disney soundtrack was the first animated film soundtrack to have three songs in the top ten (We don’t talk about Bruno, Surface pressure AND Family Madrigal).
Aqua’s return to the standings
It’s a good week for Aquawho see not one but two top 40 appearances. On the impulse of a movie with Margot Robbie barbie world Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice (samples barbie girlNo. 1 in the UK at the time) gives the Danish group their first top 5 spot in 25 years, as turn back time 1998, according to the Official Charts Company. This is Aqua’s tenth entry in the top 10, Nicki Minaj’s fifteenth and Ice Spice’s first.
Meanwhile barbie girl returns to the top 40 for the first time in 25 years, right at position #40. The 1997 pop classic is one of the singles to sell over a million copies in the UK: to be exact, it is the sixteenth best-selling single in the history of the country.
#1 in Australia
Barbie: The Album currently #1 in Australia. This is the first soundtrack to top the chart since enchanted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Greta Gerwig film grossed $774.5 million worldwide in just twelve days..
At the top of the UK Singles Chart we find Sprinters Dave and Central C (8th week in a row) ahead of a vampire Olivia Rodrigo.