It’s official: Barbie is slaying on the field workplace, and he or she’s additionally smashing the music charts.
Barbie: The Album (through Atlantic) leads the U.Okay.’s compilations chart and three tracks from it climb into the nationwide singles chart high 5 — Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For” (up 10-3 on a 71% week-on-week acquire in chart gross sales, through Interscope), Dua Lipa’s “Dance The Evening” (up 15-4 on a 86% carry in chart gross sales, through Warner Data) and Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua‘s “Barbie World” (up 20-5 with a 115% enhance in chart gross sales, through Atlantic/Capitol/Republic).
Till now, no movie soundtrack has concurrently landed three high 5 singles within the U.Okay.
The primary movie soundtrack to bag three simultaneous U.Okay. high 10s was 1978’s Saturday Evening Fever (“Evening Fever,” “If I Can’t Have You,” “Extra Than A Lady”), and the Grease soundtrack from the identical yr launched three high 10 hits (“Summer time Nights,” “Grease,” “Hopelessly Devoted To You”).
Disney’s Encanto from 2022 turned the primary animated movie soundtrack to say three simultaneous high 10s (“We Don’t Discuss About Bruno,” “Floor Stress” and “The Household Madrigal”).
It’s a great week for Aqua, with not one however two high 40 appearances. Powered by the favored Margot Robbie-starring movie, “Barbie World,” which interpolates Aqua’s one-time U.Okay. No. 1 “Barbie Woman,” offers the Norwegian pop outfit their first U.Okay. high 5 spot in 25 years, since 1998’s “Flip Again Time,” the Official Charts Firm stories. It’s Aqua’s sixth U.Okay. high 10 look, Minaj’s fifteenth and Ice Spice’s first.
“Barbie Woman,” in the meantime, reenters the highest 40 for the primary time in 25 years, at No. 40, with a 91% week-on-week uplift in mixed gross sales, in response to the OCC. The kitsch traditional from 1997 is a member of the U.Okay.’s million-seller membership, coming in at No. 16 on the all-time listing.
Barbie playtime doesn’t finish there; a complete of six entries from the soundtrack seem within the U.Okay. high 40, printed Friday, July 28, together with cuts by Charli XCX, “Ken” actor Ryan Gosling, and Lizzo.
Barbie: The Album is the present No. 1 in Australia, the place it turns into the primary soundtrack since Encanto to steer the ARIA Chart.
Based on The Hollywood Reporter, the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie film has raked in $774.5 million on the world field workplace in simply 12 days.
On the high of the singles chart mountain within the U.Okay. is Dave and Central Cee’s “Sprinter” (Reside Yours/Neighbourhood), which wins the chart race for an eighth consecutive week, forward of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” (Geffen), which holds at No. 2.
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