Following a fan-created viral campaign, Mariah Carey’s Glitter soundtrack scores its best sales week in over 16 years and returns to a number of Billboard charts.
The Soundtracks chart ranks the most popular soundtracks of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming equivalent albums. The new Nov. 24-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites today, Nov. 20.
The surge in sales is owed to a fan awareness campaign that started on Nov. 9 with the hashtag #JusticeForGlitter. Through the hashtag’s use on Twitter, fans of Carey have been encouraging people to buy the album, which was released in 2001. The set, which also doubles as the soundtrack to the Carey film of the same name, debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold 666,000 copies in the U.S. through Nov. 15.
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