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Within the first three days of its release, "Defying Gravity" had been streamed on Spotify 4.9 million times; "Popular" followed suit with 4.6 million streams. [ 43 ] In the U.S., the album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with 139,000 album-equivalent units , and topped the Top Album Sales chart with 85,000 sales.
In 2005, it received the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. The album peaked at number 33 on the US Billboard 200 in 2024 and has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was recorded by the cast of the musical's 2024 film adaptation and released as Wicked: The Soundtrack.
Wicked: The Original Motion Picture Score is the film score composed by John Powell and Stephen Schwartz for the 2024 film Wicked by Jon M. Chu, the first of the two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. It was released by Republic Records on December 6, 2024.
“Wicked,” one of Broadway’s most popular modern-day classics, is coming to the big screen, with a soundtrack arriving in tandem with the film’s release. “Wicked: The Soundtrack” is ...
'Wicked' Tops December as 2024 U.K., Ireland Box Office Matches 2023 With $1.3 Billion ... As a 20-year aficionado of “Wicked” as a show, my only problem with “Wicked” as a movie is how ...
The song appears in the first part of Universal Pictures' two-part film adaptation of Wicked, released on November 22, 2024, sung by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible. [2] It was released on the same day as part of the soundtrack album Wicked: The Soundtrack (2024) by Republic Records and Verve Records. [3]
The Oscar-winning composer shares his writing process for Wicked's iconic songs, from 'Popular' to 'Defying Gravity'
Their version of the song was released on the same day as part of the soundtrack album Wicked: The Soundtrack (2024) by Republic Records and Verve Records. [42] "Defying Gravity" was released to US contemporary hit radio stations on December 3, 2024. [43] The song appears as the finale of the film, ending with Elphaba's signature "battle cry".