ENTERTAINMENT: Soundtrack album OF Suicide Squad tops Billboard 200 charts
DC comics have done it again! They have come out with another amazing smash hit that has zoomed past many a competitors and emerged at the coveted No. 1 spot on the of the Billboard 200 chart on their debut.
By the time news last came in on 11th of August, the Suicide Squad had already set the cash registers rolling with the upbeat music of the original soundtrack; the figure of the total sales that were reported stood at an astounding 1,82,000 copies sold which was a record in itself.
This was a record of the highest sales of a movie soundtrack and it has come about after smashing hit sales of The Shades of Grey which soared to the top of the charts with second place sales amounting to another awesome figure of 2,10,00 albums sold as reported by the official Billboard report.
The album for the movie was the handiwork of Atlantic Records and happens to be loaded with an assortment of some amazing numbers by the following artists / groups / albums / movies:
- Wiz Khalifa, Rapper,
- Lil’ Wayne, Rapper,
- Skrillex,
- Twenty one Pilots,
- Panic at the Disco, Quintet of Pop Rock which had been the top selling charts for albums for the last week.
The added spice which wowed the lovers of Suicide squad and resulted in the success of the album was also lent to the album by such tracks as:
- Sucker for pain,
- Standing in the Rain,
- Purple Lamborghiini.
The best seller album continued to top the charts but there was a veritable dent in its sales figures after Blink 82, the Rock band came up with the debut of their smash hit album California which topped the charts with a 2,10,000 sales of its albums.
The resounding success of Suicide Squad, the soundtrack, is in spite of the mediocre to bad reviews that it received at the hands of the critics who review movies; it is therefore, a considerable achievement that the movie earned P2.7 billion ($ 58.7 million); these were the results of global screenings in 62 nations which touched 15650 screenings approximately.
The global gross earnings were to the tune of P 21.2 billion ($465 million) for the Warner Bros. picture that was directed by David Ayer.
Umrao Singh umraoz.wordpress.com
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