"According to Bloomberg Business, the soundtrack has sold close to 4 million copies worldwide, outselling the next most popular album, Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys, by about 2-to-1.
The record has also racked up an impressive amount of streams across multiple platforms, with the track “The Greatest Show” currently sitting at over 100 million streams on Spotify.
“The Greatest Showman,” which stars the likes of Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zendaya and Zac Efron, was met with mediocre reviews upon release and never led the box office. However, the movie quickly gained a cult-like status, mostly due to its catchy soundtrack.
According to Warner Music, The Greatest Showman has become the best selling soundtrack since “Frozen’’ in 2014.
The record has also enjoyed immense success overseas, spending 23 weeks among the top five albums in the UK, surpassing the record set by Adele’s “21” for the longest chart run in at least three decades. The soundtrack has also been certified platinum in over 10 countries, including Singapore, Australia and South Korea.
With Drake’s new album Scorpion breaking streaming records, it’s probably not long before it overtakes The Greatest Showman as the year’s best selling album, but for now, Jackman and co are on top."
"According to Page Six, the impromptu concert took place at Tao in Los Angeles where Hugh Jackman was sharing a meal with his Greatest Showman costar Keala Settle and Australian TV personality Gus Worland when the songs "This is Me" and "From Now On" were played inside the restaurant. Since musicals are all about people breaking into song randomly in the middle of public places, it's only fitting that Jackman and Settle broke out into song in the middle of a bunch of strangers.
If I'm being honest, this whole thing sounds a little suspicious. The fact that a pair of songs from The Greatest Showman began to play in a restaurant while two of the stars were eating there is awfully coincidental. One song happening to pop on the speaker system would be one thing, but with two playing, one wonders if some of the staff was trying to make something happen at that table. If so, it worked. Also, I wish I'd been there.
The Greatest Showman never found first place at the box office, but it remained in the top ten from the weekend it opened in December until March of this year, slowly collecting millions. It finished its box office run with a global take of $434 million, which is huge for a movie that reportedly cost less than $100 million to make. It's 2018 domestic take is enough to still make it actually the tenth highest grossing movie of this year.
The song "This is Me" was the breakout hit of the film. Performed by Keala Settle, the song was nominated for an Academy Award. While the song didn't win the award, the performance at the ceremony was by far the showstopping moment of the night."
"Hugh Jackman took the holiday as an opportunity to hit up one of the most iconic gyms in the world, Gold's Gym in Venice, California, for a celebratory morning sweat session. But he wasn't the only notable person putting in some work in for the Red, White, and Blue: Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the stars who made the gym's original Venice location "The Mecca of Bodybuilding" back in the 1970s, also dropped in for a lift.
"What a way to start the 4th! With @schwarzenegger and Pete ... at the original @goldsgym in Venice. #4thofjuly," Jackman wrote on Instagram.
"Fantastic to see you and train together!" Schwarzenegger responded on Twitter.
Arnold wasn't done responding to his celebrity friends on social media after acknowledging his morning session with Jackman. He also answered the #Flex4Forces challenge from massive White House chef and veteran Andre Rush, and showed off his still-formidable biceps."
"Just ten albums have racked up more weeks at Number 1 than Greatest Showman, three of which are soundtracks from the 1950s when the Official Albums Chart was first launched when for its first few years it was only a Top 5 or Top 10 and mostly comprised of soundtracks.
With the Motion Picture Cast Recording still flying high at the top, there's a handful of classic albums it could overtake in the coming weeks. Two Beatles albums - With The Beatles (1963) and A Hard Day's Night (1964) - each logged 21 weeks at Number 1, while Adele's multi-million selling 21 albums from 2011 achieved 23 weeks at the summit.
Still, the album has some way to go before it overtakes the longest-reigning Number 1 studio record, Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water, which notched up a staggering 33 weeks at Number 1 between 1970 - 1971."
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