BURBANK, Calif., March 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Platinum-certified Frozen soundtrack maintains the No. 1
slot on the Billboard Top 200 album chart spending seven
non-consecutive weeks in the top position according to Nielsen
SoundScan. Selling 202,000 copies in the week ending
March 23, the soundtrack has sold
over 1.6 million copies and over 5 million combined digital tracks
in its 17th week of release. Frozen is the first
album to sell a million units in 2014.
The Oscar-winning song "Let It Go," performed by Idina Menzel, has sold over 2 million copies and
is expected to be certified double Platinum by the end of the
week. The track is in the Top 15 (*13) at Mainstream AC radio
and is #33* and climbing at Adult Top 40 radio. "Let It Go"
is currently the #2 song on the iTunes singles chart and #2 on the
overall Billboard's Digital Song chart. The film video
version of Idina's "Let It Go" has been viewed more than 150M times
on YouTube and Demi Lovato's "Let It Go" music video has been
Vevo-certified for surpassing 100M views.
The album maintains its No. 1 position on Billboard's Soundtrack
Chart, peaked at No. 1 on the iTunes Overall Chart (and in 31
countries), plus Amazon's Overall Music Category, Pop, and Overall
MP3 charts. The Frozen album has held the #1 position
for 5 non-consecutive weeks at Spotify and worldwide, is
approaching 110M album streams.
The soundtrack features eight original songs from Oscar-winning
songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez
and songwriter Robert Lopez plus
score by the composer of last year's Oscar-winning short
"Paperman," Christophe Beck.
The Frozen soundtrack, the Frozen two-disc deluxe
edition and the digital deluxe edition soundtrack (featuring 23 and
27 additional tracks respectively, including demos, outtakes and a
"Let It Go" instrumental karaoke track) are available at physical
and online retail.
The Disney Karaoke Series: Frozen album will be available
in physical and digital formats on April 15. The physical
album will feature all 8 songs from the film with CD + Graphics (CD
+ G) technology which allows the song lyrics to appear on a
television screen when played in a CD + G machine.
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