Barbie film soundtrack breaks UK singles chart record | Ents & Arts News

The soundtrack for the brand new Barbie film has taken over the UK singles charts by breaking earlier data, the Official Charts Firm has mentioned.

Barbie: The Album, which accompanies the Greta Gerwig-directed comedy has change into the primary movie soundtrack to land three prime 5 songs on the similar time.

American singer Billie Eilish’s contemplative What Was I Made For? has reached quantity three this week, whereas Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night time is now at quantity 4 and in fifth place is the transforming of Aqua’s Barbie World by rappers Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.

The film in regards to the Mattel doll, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and was one of the vital highly-anticipated movies of the yr, hit UK cinemas final week and has taken field places of work by storm.

The Barbie album, which encompasses a star-studded line-up, additionally has Charli XCX’s energetic Velocity Drive, whereas Gosling’s dramatic ballad which brings some Kenergy, titled I am Simply Ken and Lizzo’s bouncy bop Pink function within the prime 40.

Vue Worldwide has mentioned it had the biggest weekend for UK cinema ticket sales in four years following the discharge of Barbie and Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller on physicist J Robert Oppenheimer.

The corporate mentioned greater than 2,000 of Vue’s screenings for Barbie have been bought out.

However the movie’s success isn’t restricted to the UK, because the film made a record-breaking debut in cinemas final weekend, with $162m in ticket gross sales in the USA and Canada.

Speaking at the European premiere in London, Robbie, who performs the beloved title character, instructed Sky Information why Barbie’s on-screen world is so particular.

“To actually do one thing surprising and enjoyable and intelligent and foolish on such an enormous scale, it looks like a really distinctive alternative,” she mentioned.

“Barbieland looks like a feminine utopia. However you do, by the tip of the movie, see the flaw in that – I imply, a hierarchy in anybody’s energy isn’t essentially the most effective factor. However it’s enjoyable, it’s totally fairly.”

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In the meantime, her co-star Gosling, who performs Barbie’s arm sweet, mentioned he was impressed by his personal kids to do the movie.

He instructed Sky Information: “All issues Barbie landed in my home on the similar time – Barbie the doll and likewise the movie.

“It was simply type of like a Barbie avalanche, I needed to reckon with it.”