Did you know?: Frozen ousts The Lion King as longest-running animated film soundtrack

Hakuna matata? The soundtrack for Disney’s hit film Frozen has ousted Disney’s 1994 The Lion King as the animated film soundtrack with the longest run. Frozen secured 11 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, earning its best sales week. Lion had held the top spot on the chart for 10 weeks.

Frozen, which features the Oscar-winning song Let It Go, sold 259,000 copies last week, bringing its total US sales to 2.3 million since its release in November 2013.



Four new albums debuted in the top 10 of the chart this week, starting with hip-hop artiste August Alsina’s Testimony at no 2. Rockers Needtobreathe entered the chart at no 3 with Rivers in the Wasteland, R&B singer Jason Derulo secured the no 4 spot with Talk Dirty, and singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson came in at no 5 with Lights Out.

For the week ended April 20, overall album sales totalled 5.3 million, down 2 per cent compared to the same week in 2013, Billboard said. 

Published in The Express Tribune, April 26^th, 2014.

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