‘A STAR IS BORN’ SOUNDTRACK DEBUTS AT #1 ON BILLBOARD 200

The official motion picture soundtrack to Warner Bros. Pictures, Live Nation Productions and Metro Goldwyn Pictures’ ‘A Star Is Born’ has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with over 231,000 in equivalent album consumption units.

Released via Interscope Records, the album makes this Lady Gaga’s fifth consecutive #1 album and puts her in the lead for the most #1 albums by a female artist this decade. The Soundtrack has also earned the highest album-sales week for a music film soundtrack since ‘Frozen’ in April 2014 and the biggest week for a soundtrack since the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’  album in 2015.

Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh
Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh



The soundtrack to A Star Is Born is available at all digital retailers HERE.

In addition, the album reached #1 on iTunes in over 75 countries, including the U.S. It has also debuted at #1 on the Official UK Top 40 Albums Chart.

Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh
Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh

Hailed as “impenetrably perfect” by Rolling Stone, the soundtrack to ‘A Star Is Born’ was released on October 5 (the same day the film opened). The double album features new music from its principal stars: six-time Grammy Award-winner Lady Gaga and the film’s director, four-time Oscar-nominated actor Bradley Cooper.

Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh
Photo credit: Peter Lindbergh

Performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, the soundtrack’s lead single ‘Shallow’ is currently #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has held the #1 spot on iTunes since the day after its September 27th premiere. The original song was written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt.

Watch the official video for ‘Shallow’:

Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - Shallow (from A Star Is Born) (Official Music Video)

Featuring 19 songs in a wide variety of genres and musical styles, the soundtrack to ‘A Star Is Born’ also includes15 dialogue tracks capturing many of the movie’s unforgettable moments. As a result, the album takes listeners on a journey that mirrors the romantic and musical arc of the two lead characters: Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine, and Lady Gaga’s Ally.

‘A Star Is Born’ is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.  It is rated R for language throughout, some sexuality/nudity and substance abuse.

Visit the official website for further information about ‘A Star Is Born’.

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