‘Frozen’ Becomes Longest Running #1 Soundtrack Since ‘Titanic’

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The seemingly unstoppable soundtrack to the hit Disney film Frozen has returned to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, making it the first soundtrack to earn the most weeks at #1 since Titanic ‘s 16 straight weeks reign at #1 in 1998.

With this week’s Billboard 200 reflecting the tracking week ending February 23, where the Frozen album sells 89,000 copies by the way, the soundtrack still moves down 11% from its #2 spot with 100,000 last week.

Speaking of last week, Eric Church’s The Outsiders , falls to #2 in its second week with 74,000 (down 74%).

Since Billboard began using SoundScan to track sales in May of 1991, only three other soundtracks have spent at least five weeks in the #1 spot besides Frozen and Titanic : Waiting to Exhale (five weeks in 1996), The Lion King (10 weeks in 1994 and 1995) and The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992 and 1993).

The last film soundtrack to spend four weeks atop the Hot 100 was 2003′s Bad Boys II .

Currently in its 13th week on the Billboard 200, Frozen has sold 1,141,000 copies in the U.S. and has spent the last eight straight weeks lodged in one of the top two positions.

The last album to spend more time within the top two rungs was Taylor Swift ‘s Red , which notched 10 weeks in the region between November 10, 2012, and January 12, 2013. Take a look at the full Top 10 below:

#1. Frozen Soundtrack (89,000)
#2. Eric Church – The Outsiders (74,000)
#3 Cole Swindell – Cole Swindell (63,000)
#4. Now 49 (45,000)
#5. Beyoncé – BEYONCE (35,000)
#6. Lorde – Pure Heroine (30,000)
#7. Katy Perry – PRISM (26,000)
#8. Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox (23,000)
#9. Issues – Issues (22,000)
#10. Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love, Marriage & Divorce (21,000)

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