Platinum-Selling CD Hits Top of the Billboard Chart
NEW YORK, Aug. 13 -- MAMMA MIA! The Movie Soundtrack is
the bona fide hit of the summer, reaching #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart
and achieving platinum status after its impressive fifth part week of release.
The must-have CD is also #1 on the Billboard Soundtrack Chart for the
fourth consecutive calendar week, and was the pinnacle selling album on iTunes for three
consecutive weeks. The disk has taken on a life of its possess on the heels of
the successful film -- its debut marked the highest charting week ever in
history for an ABBA transcription.
Further fuelling the MAMMA MIA! phenomenon is the Original Cast Album,
which likewise recently rose to #1 on Billboard's Broadway Chart and remains
there for the third week in a row, eight astounding years later its
official release.
Chris Roberts, President, Classics and Jazz International/Chairman,
Decca Label Group, commented, "Audiences of all ages are responding to the
timelessness and the feel-good ingredient that is MAMMA MIA!. The music
resonates with ABBA fans, as well as a young citizenry who are just
discovering these songs for the first clock time." At long last the music of ABBA
finally sits at the top of the pop charts in America."
Mixed, mastered and produced by ABBA's musical geniuses Benny Andersson
and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the soundtrack is the ultimate souvenir from the hit
film. Andersson and Ulvaeus reunited in Stockholm with the musicians who
played on the original ABBA songs to record the disc in February 2007. It
was the first time the musicians had played the songs together since ABBA
toured more than 25 years agone. Along with producing the recording,
Andersson as well played keyboards. He commented, "We didn't have to think
about it -- it was in the fingers."
Both MAMMA MIA! The Movie Soundtrack and Original Cast Album ar
available now on Decca and Decca Broadway severally.
hTTP://www.mammamiamovie.com / http://www.deccarecords-us.com
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