Barbie movie soundtrack breaks UK singles chart record

Barbie's already taken implicit the container bureau and present the film's soundtrack is acceptable to conquer the UK euphony charts.

The medium features 17 archetypal songs by immoderate of the biggest names successful popular including Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish and Nicki Minaj.

And tracks from the pink, sparkly LP are expected to bring the Kenergy to the Official Singles Chart later.

Dance the Night Away, What Was I Made For and Barbie World are each tipped for the apical 20.

You mightiness deliberation that recruiting specified a star-studded line-up for a movie soundtrack would beryllium hard work.

But the film's euphony supervisor George Drakoulias tells BBC Newsbeat you'd beryllium wrong.

"Nobody said no," helium says. "Everybody was truly excited."

That included 2 stars astatine the apical of George's privation list, Nicki Minaj and Lizzo, on with superstar writer and shaper Mark Ronson.

George says helium enticed Mark connected to the task with a elemental substance message: "Hey Barbie?"

"He called maine close backmost and we sent him a script," says George. "That started the shot rolling."

The soundtrack's besides played a large portion successful Barbie's monolithic selling campaign.

Songs from the medium person been steadily released successful the run-up to the film's release, which George says has "helped substance excitement for the movie".

"It was a cleanable symbiotic narration of the euphony driving the movie and the movie driving the music," helium says.

"Once you saw the movie and however good the euphony works, arsenic soon arsenic they near the theatre radical went retired and got the album."

And, this being Barbie, carnal copies of the soundtrack are disposable successful "cotton candy" vinyl and connected transparent pinkish cassette tapes.

George refuses to uncover his favourite way but says helium was "blown away" by Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For.

He says the vocalist was shown conscionable 25 minutes of the movie and managed to "take what she'd seen and encapsulate it into this heartbreaking opus of being a woman".

George says he's precise arrogant of the medium and its occurrence successful the charts is "the icing connected the cake".

"It's Barbie's world, we conscionable unrecorded successful it," helium says.

As precocious arsenic 2018, The Greatest Showman soundtrack sold 2.1m copies successful the UK, outpacing caller releases by Drake and Ariana Grande.

But the thought of chart-topping artists moving unneurotic connected a blockbuster movie had mostly fallen retired of favour successful the epoch of superhero franchises and cinematic universes.

Even earlier that, young big movies similar Twilight and Hunger Games were aligning themselves with credible alternate artists similar Paramore, Iron & Wine and The National. Lorde adjacent curated the (superb) euphony for Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt 1.

Over the past fewer years, determination person been flickers of the accepted soundtrack medium returning. OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried was a breakout deed from past year's Top Gun Maverick; and Post Malone & Swae Lee's Sunflower (from Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse) was a apical 3 azygous successful 2018.

But, conscionable similar the movie, the Barbie soundtrack is confounding expectations. The tracklist is similar a who's who of modern popular - Lizzo, Ice Spice, PinkPantheress, Dua Lipa. Is this the opening of a caller era?

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