“Book of Mormon” Joins List of Broadway Billboard Hits
Photo by Joan Marcus.
With the help of serious mainstream press coverage and 9 Tony wins, The Book of Mormon Cast Album rose to #3 on the Billboard 200 chart this week, the highest placement for a Broadway album in 42 years. Helping push it to the top, producers took a page from Lady Gaga’s playbook and offered the recording last week on Amazon for $1.99.
All this talk of Broadway and Billboard got me thinking about the last time a showtune hit the top of the singles chart…not counting jukebox musical songs that were hits before they were inserted into shows. After the jump, let’s take a look at videos of the three highest charters from the post-Broadway-Standard era. (Or, at least the ones I could find without a research staff at my beck and call…)
