The “Encanto” soundtrack is the second Top 100 No. 1 for a Disney animated film and the first for its writer and co-producer, Lin-Manuel Miranda. The movie has become the success of the moment to no one’s surprise.
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The song, performed by Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the film’s cast, becomes the second No. 1 of a Disney animated film. The Billboard Hot 100 combines official audio and video streaming, radio and sales data. Thus, the song becomes the number 1 number 1133 of the Hot 100 in the 63-year history of the list.
“Bruno” has over 76 million streams on Spotify (US only) and also leads the world’s YouTube video chart, becoming the biggest hit in recent Disney history, also leading the Top 200 for albums, in addition to singles. Historical data. In addition, the soundtrack is the first to spend three weeks at number 1 since ‘A star is born’, in 2018.
“Breaking Free,” by Zac Efron, Andrew Seeley and Vanessa Anne Hudgens, for “High School Musical,” hit No. 4 on February 11. 2006. The insistent ‘Let It Go’ by Idina Menzel, from ‘Frozen’, reached fifth place in 2014. You have to look to the mid-90s, Vanessa Williams’s ‘Colors of the Wind’ for ‘Pocahontas’ or Elton John’s work for ‘The Lion King’ to find a similar hit. .
But with the single and the album of ‘Encanto’ it is the first time that Disney gets that one of its songs and its soundtrack Simultaneously lead the Billboard 200 and the Hot 100respectively, since the days of the ‘Aladdin’ soundtrack, from which the timeless ‘A Whole New World’ came out, in February 1993.