'Hamilton' Hits No. 2 on Billboard 200, Is Highest-Charting Cast Album Since 1969
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billboard.comSet also captures biggest streaming week ever for a cast album. The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical surges to a new peak on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set vaults from No.
14 to No. 2 in the wake of the show's Disney+ premiere on July 3. The album earned 102,000 equivalent album units (up 294 percent) in the U.S.
in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that sum, 32,000 are in album sales (up 592 percent). The last cast recording to reach the top two on the chart was the original cast album of Hair, which spent 13 weeks at No.
1 in 1969. The Hamilton album is basking in the glow of the Disney+ streaming premiere of the filmed version of the Broadway stage show, with
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