Unstoppable success of ‘Furious 7’ spreads, movie soundtrack tops Billboard 200

Unstoppable success of ‘Furious 7’ spreads, movie soundtrack tops Billboard 200

'Furious 7' reaches the top of the box office and Billboard 200.

The seventh installment in the Fast & Furious saga, Furious 7, is now the top of both the box office and the Billboard 200 as the film’s soundtrack landed at Number One in its third week of release.

Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again,” which was a tribute to the late Paul Walker, added another $60 million and moved Furious 7 to 111,000 in total album sales to claim the top spot. In its three weeks on the charts, Furious 7 has moved from Number 17 to Number Two to Number One, Billboard reports.

Furious 7‘s Billboard 200 victory was due to the fact that only one new album, All Time Low’s Future Hearts, managed to sneak into the Top 10. The Maryland punk bank scored their career-best debut as Future Hearts earned a Number Two spot with a total of 80,000 total albums sold.

All Time Low sold more “pure” albums than Furious 7, but because the Billboard 200’s new metric allows for single downloads to count toward album sales, the 464,000 standalone purchases of Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” last week launched the soundtrack to Number One on the album chart. The song made a new record on Spotify’s single-day and weekly plays records, with 4.2 million listens on April 13th and 21.9 million the week of April 6th.

Meanwhile, the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack has proven to be more successful than the film itself, finishing the week at Number Three. The film itself has dropped to Number 21, according to Box Office Mojo. Maroon 5’s V leaps from out of the Top 10 up into Number Four thanks to the continuing success of the album’s smash single “Sugar.” Also, for the fifth straight week, Taylor Swift’s 1989 remained locked onto Number Five; the album hasn’t dropped out of the Billboard 200’s Top Five since it was released last October.

Furious 7 might finally face some competition next week due to new releases from Tyler, the Creator and Dwight Yoakam.

Be social, please share!

Facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedintumblrmail