Lin-Manuel Miranda has a half-million reason to celebrate…
The original Broadway cast recording of the 36-year-old Puerto Rican actor, composer, rapper and writer’s critically acclaimed musical Hamilton has crossed the half-million sales mark in the U.S, according to Billboard.com.
The cast recording to Hamilton, which recently won 11 trophies at this year’s Tony Awards, slips one position to No. 4 on the most recent Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 9).
The set sold another 32,000 copies in the week ending June 23, bringing its cumulative total to 522,000.
Hamilton is the No. 12 largest-selling cast recording in the U.S. since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (Only 12 cast albums have sold a half-million copies in the U.S. since 1991.)
Hamilton is also the biggest selling cast album released in more than 10 years. The last cast recording released with greater sales is the original Broadway cast recording of Jersey Boys, which bowed on November 1, 2005 and has sold 1.4 million to date.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).