THE GREAT GATSBY Soundtrack Lands at No. 2 on Billboard Album Chart
By: Tyler Peterson May. 15, 2013
The Great Gatsby, the companion album to the Baz Luhrmann-directed movie of the same name, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week, selling 136,840 copies and becoming the best-selling movie soundtrack since The Hunger Games. This is the third soundtrack from a Baz Luhrmann film to reach the top three, following William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!
The Great Gatsby had a very impressive opening in theaters this past weekend, taking in more than $50 million at the domestic box office.
Luhrmann stated, "It is enormously satisfying to have fans embrace both the movie and the soundtrack so completely. Music was front and center in F. Scott Fitzgerald's very beautiful and very modern novel, The Great Gatsby, and so we followed him in doing the same with this contemporary translation. JAY Z, Anton Monsted, Jeymes Samuel and I had the benefit of working with some of today's greatest artists on this film version of The Great Gatsby. Blending modern-day music with the sounds of the Jazz Age had an immeasurable impact on the film, and I'm so pleased that the soundtrack is allowing audiences to enjoy the music long after they leave the theater."
The first single is BRIT Award winner Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful," which was written specifically for the film. Watch the video here.
The album was produced by Baz Luhrmann and executive produced by Shawn "JAY Z" Carter, who is also an executive producer on the film, and features original new music from artists that span several genres, including rock innovators Florence + the Machine, The xx, Gotye, and Jack White, multi-platinum artists U2, Beyonc, will.i.am, Fergie, and Jay Z himself, as well as newcomers Emeli Sand and Quadron's Coco O. Anton Monsted is the executive music supervisor.
Also available digitally is The Great Gatsby - The Jazz Recordings (A Selection of Yellow Cocktail Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby), which features The Bryan Ferry Orchestra performing songs from and inspired by the film.
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