The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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Soundtrack album by various artists | |
Released | December 8, 2017 |
Recorded | 2017 |
Genre | |
Length | 39:51 |
Label | Atlantic |
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Singles from The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the film The Greatest Showman . It was released in full on December 8, 2017, by Atlantic Records. [1] The album contains all of the film's musical numbers, but none of the film's underscore. The first pre-order release was on October 26, 2017, with two promotional singles: "The Greatest Show" and "This Is Me". A third, "Rewrite the Stars", followed on November 17, 2017. [2] [3] [4] "This Is Me" was released on December 8, 2017, as the album's official lead single. [5] In Australia, "Rewrite the Stars" was released to radio on July 20, 2018. [6]
Produced by Greg Wells, Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the album became a global success following the release of the film, topping the charts in several countries including the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan. The album also reached number one on iTunes in over 77 countries. [7] [8] In the United Kingdom, the album was a commercial success and was the best-selling album of 2018. [9] It became only the second album in 30 years to spend 11 consecutive weeks at number 1 [10] and, in its 20th week atop the UK Albums Chart, [11] it became the longest-running soundtrack at number 1 in 50 years. [9] With combined sales of over 1.6 million, it was 2018's best-selling album in the United Kingdom. [12] It was also the best-selling album of 2018 in the United States, with 1,491,000 in pure album sales, but third at 2,499,000 in album equivalent units. [13]
The album's single "This Is Me" won Best Original Song – Motion Picture at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, [14] and was nominated for Best Song at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards [15] and Best Original Song at the 90th Academy Awards. [16] The album received positive reviews and has sold over 5.3 million copies worldwide. [17] The album also won the Grammy Award for "Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media" at 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
The first pre-order release was on October 26, 2017, with the soundtrack released in full on December 8, 2017, by Atlantic Records. [1]
It debuted at number 71 on Billboard 200, and later stayed at number one for two weeks. [18] On January 7, 2018, the soundtrack had been on the top of the Billboard 200 for two weeks, reaching its top in its fourth week of availability. It had sold 106,000 copies at that point. [19] In its third week, it attained the number two slot. The Greatest Showman beat that week's top album in traditional album sales (70,000 vs. 65,000) and was the top-selling album of the week, but did not top the Billboard 200 due to TEA units and SEA units. [20] As of December 2019, the album have sold over 1,731,000 pure copies in the United States. [21]
By February 7, 2018, the soundtrack was a breakout hit at number 1 on the UK album charts and number 2 in the United States. [22] On February 8, 2018, Stereogum published an article stating that "statistically speaking, The Greatest Showman is by far the most popular album of the year so far." [23]
By February 27, it was the top album on iTunes. [18] By March 23, 2018, it had been the number one in the UK for eleven straight weeks. It had sold 465,000 copies, with around 40% of those sales on CD and vinyl. [24] By April 6, the album climbed back up the charts for its 12th non-consecutive week at number one. [25] As of February 24,2019 [update] , the soundtrack had totalled 28 non-consecutive weeks at number one on the UK official album chart, making it the longest reigning album of the decade, ahead of Adele's 21 , which notched 23 weeks at number one. [26] [27] [28]
The album was selected for the 2017 Oprah's Favorite Things list. [29] By February 23, 2018, the track "This Is Me" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2018 Academy Awards. [30] According to Sky News on March 25, 2018, "music critics have put the album's success down to the feel-good, uplifting pop tunes which are also old school at the same time." [31]
Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com called the 11 songs "memorable," praising the vocal performances of the leads. [32] The women's magazine Bustle gave it a positive review, particularly certain vocal performances. [33] Stereogum described the soundtrack music as eclectic in its influences, giving it a negative reception for "[serving] up earnest buoyancy in many high-fructose flavors." [23] Also noting the eclectic mix of musical genres, The Ringer writes that "the bombastic tunes mix EDM gleams with stadium-rock grunts, chest-pounding ballads with peppy empowerment anthems, a thoroughly modern and disconcertingly eager post-genre assault designed to barnstorm as many Spotify playlists as possible. It's a gilded cheese ball, pushing exhilaration to the point of exhaustion." [34] The Guardian wrote that the album brought "a whole lot of self-empowerment, enlivened with some deracinated R&B beats, and given the necessary gravitas by some power ballads of the sort that make one imagine the singer filmed from below with a wind machine blowing in their face." [22]
Keala Settle performed "This Is Me" live on The Graham Norton Show on February 9, 2018. [35] Later she performed it on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on February 21, 2018. [36] She also performed the song at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony on March 4, 2018. She also performed the song on The X Factor in November 2018.
Loren Allred performed "Never Enough" live at "Church by the Glades" on April 16, 2018.
Hugh Jackman opened the 2019 Brit Awards with "The Greatest Show". [37]
Settle performed "This Is Me" again on December 19, 2021 at the Royal Variety Performance.
All tracks are written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; track 1 co-written by Ryan Lewis
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Greatest Show" (performed by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya) |
| 5:02 |
2. | "A Million Dreams" (performed by Ziv Zaifman, Jackman, Michelle Williams) |
| 4:29 |
3. | "A Million Dreams (Reprise)" (performed by Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Jackman) |
| 1:00 |
4. | "Come Alive" (performed by Jackman, Settle, Daniel Everidge, Zendaya) |
| 3:45 |
5. | "The Other Side" (performed by Jackman and Efron) |
| 3:34 |
6. | "Never Enough" (performed by Loren Allred) |
| 3:27 |
7. | "This Is Me" (performed by Settle) |
| 3:54 |
8. | "Rewrite the Stars" (performed by Efron and Zendaya) |
| 3:37 |
9. | "Tightrope" (performed by Williams) |
| 3:54 |
10. | "Never Enough (Reprise)" (performed by Allred) |
| 1:20 |
11. | "From Now On" (performed by Jackman) |
| 5:49 |
Total length: | 39:51 |
Notes
Title | Performer(s) | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||
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US [43] | AUS [44] | CAN [45] | IRE [46] | FRA [47] | NZ [48] | SPA [49] | UK [50] | ||||
"The Greatest Show" | Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Keala Settle, Zendaya, and The Greatest Showman Ensemble | 88 | 42 | — | 9 | 110 | — [upper-alpha 1] | — | 20 | ||
"A Million Dreams" | Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman, and Michelle Williams | — [upper-alpha 2] | — | — | 45 | 199 | — [upper-alpha 3] | — | 22 | ||
"A Million Dreams (Reprise)" | Hugh Jackman, Austyn Johnson, and Cameron Seely | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Come Alive" | Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zendaya, and Daniel Everidge | — [upper-alpha 4] | — | — | 70 | — | — [upper-alpha 5] | — | 55 | ||
"The Other Side" | Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron | — [upper-alpha 6] | — | — | 54 | — | — [upper-alpha 7] | — | 48 | ||
"Never Enough" | Loren Allred | 88 | — | — | 39 | 97 | — [upper-alpha 8] | 81 | 24 | ||
"This Is Me" | Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble | 58 | 10 | 74 | 8 | 52 | 13 | 66 | 3 | ||
"Rewrite the Stars" | Zac Efron and Zendaya | 70 | 24 | 71 | 21 | 115 | 32 | 82 | 16 | ||
"Tightrope" | Michelle Williams | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Never Enough (Reprise)" | Loren Allred | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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"From Now On" | Hugh Jackman and The Greatest Showman Ensemble | — [upper-alpha 9] | — | — | 65 | — | — [upper-alpha 10] | — | 71 | ||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart. |
Notes
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Greatest Showman. [71]
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [161] | 3× Platinum | 210,000‡ |
Austria (IFPI Austria) [162] | 2× Platinum | 30,000‡ |
Belgium (BEA) [163] | Gold | 10,000‡ |
Canada (Music Canada) [164] | 2× Platinum | 160,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [165] | Platinum | 20,000‡ |
France (SNEP) [166] | Gold | 50,000‡ |
Germany (BVMI) [167] | Gold | 100,000‡ |
Ireland (IRMA) | — | 64,400 [168] |
Italy (FIMI) [169] | Platinum | 50,000‡ |
Japan (RIAJ) [170] | Platinum | 250,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [171] | 2× Platinum | 30,000‡ |
South Korea (Gaon Chart) | — | 4,726 [172] |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [173] | Gold | 20,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [174] | 8× Platinum | 2,400,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [175] | 4× Platinum | 1,682,000 [176] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
The Greatest Showman: Reimagined | |
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Soundtrack album by various artists | |
Released | November 16, 2018 |
Recorded | 2018 |
Genre | Pop |
Length | 45:51 |
Label | Atlantic |
Producer | Greg Wells, Justin Paul (also exec.), Benj Pasek, Kevin Weaver, Pete Ganbarg, Brandon Davis, Jordan Carroll |
Singles from The Greatest Showman: Reimagined | |
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The Greatest Showman: Reimagined is a re-recording of the soundtrack, featuring new versions of the original songs now sung by the likes of Pink, Kesha, Kelly Clarkson, and more. The album was released on November 16, 2018. [177] [178]
The Kesha version of "This Is Me" was originally released as a non-album single on 22 December 2017, to promote the original soundtrack, but later featured on the soundtrack's re-release. [179] Leading up to the album's release, the songs "A Million Dreams" and "A Million Dreams (Reprise)" performed by P!nk and her daughter Willow Sage Hart respectively, were released as promotional singles along with the pre-order of the album on October 24, 2018. [180] On November 2, 2018, Panic! at the Disco's cover of "The Greatest Show" was released as second promotional single. [181] On 16 November, the day the soundtrack was released, the video for James Arthur's and Anne-Marie's "Rewrite the Stars" was released. [182]
All tracks are written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; except "The Greatest Show" written by Pasek, Paul and Ryan Lewis and "This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix)" written by Pasek, Paul and Missy Elliott. Credits adapted from Tidal [183]
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Greatest Show" (Panic! at the Disco) |
| 2:54 |
2. | "A Million Dreams" (Pink) |
| 4:33 |
3. | "A Million Dreams (Reprise)" (Willow Sage Hart) |
| 0:48 |
4. | "Come Alive" (Years & Years and Jess Glynne) |
| 3:35 |
5. | "The Other Side" (Max and Ty Dolla Sign) |
| 3:30 |
6. | "Never Enough" (Kelly Clarkson) |
| 3:24 |
7. | "This Is Me (The Reimagined Remix)" (Keala Settle, Kesha and Missy Elliott) |
| 4:25 |
8. | "Rewrite the Stars" (James Arthur and Anne-Marie) |
| 3:38 |
9. | "Tightrope" (Sara Bareilles) |
| 3:38 |
10. | "From Now On" (Zac Brown Band) |
| 4:20 |
11. | "The Greatest Show" (bonus track, Pentatonix) |
| 3:25 |
12. | "Come Alive" (bonus track, Craig David) |
| 3:47 |
13. | "This Is Me" (bonus track, Kesha) |
| 3:54 |
Total length: | 45:51 |
No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Greatest Show" (performed by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) |
| 5:02 |
2. | "A Million Dreams" (performed by Ziv Zaifman, Jackman, Michelle Williams) |
| 4:29 |
3. | "A Million Dreams (Reprise)" (performed by Austyn Johnson, Cameron Seely, Jackman) |
| 1:00 |
4. | "Come Alive" (performed by Jackman, Settle, Daniel Everidge, Zendaya and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) |
| 3:45 |
5. | "The Other Side" (performed by Jackman and Efron) |
| 3:34 |
6. | "Never Enough" (performed by Loren Allred) |
| 3:27 |
7. | "This Is Me" (performed by Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) |
| 3:54 |
8. | "Rewrite the Stars" (performed by Efron and Zendaya) |
| 3:37 |
9. | "Tightrope" (performed by Williams) |
| 3:54 |
10. | "Never Enough (Reprise)" (performed by Allred) |
| 1:20 |
11. | "From Now On" (performed by Jackman and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) |
| 5:49 |
Total length: | 39:51 |
Notes
Title | Performer(s) | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
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US | AUS | BEL | CAN | FRA | GER | IRL | SCO | SWI | UK | |||
"The Greatest Show" | Panic! at the Disco | — [upper-alpha 1] | — | — | — | — | — | 39 | 22 | — | 82 |
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"A Million Dreams" | Pink | 90 | 26 | 6 | 80 | 81 | 70 | 44 | 2 | 16 | 11 | |
"Come Alive" | Years & Years and Jess Glynne | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 69 | — | 80 | |
"The Other Side" | Max and Ty Dolla Sign | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 84 | |
"Never Enough" | Kelly Clarkson | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | 59 | |
"Rewrite the Stars" | James Arthur and Anne-Marie | — [upper-alpha 2] | 67 | 7 | 85 | — | 100 | 12 | 4 | 44 | 7 |
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"This Is Me" | Kesha | — | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | 54 | — | — |
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [189] | 4 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [190] | 17 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [191] | 86 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [192] | 12 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [193] | 55 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [194] | 47 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [195] | 13 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [196] | 5 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [197] | 38 |
UK Compilation Albums (OCC) [198] | 1 |
US Billboard 200 [199] | 3 |
US Compilation Albums ( Billboard ) [200] | 1 |
Chart (2018) | Position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [201] | 50 |
Chart (2019) | Position |
Australian Albums (ARIA) [202] | 54 |
US Compilation Albums (Billboard) [203] | 1 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [204] | Platinum | 300,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [205] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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