Year’s Top-Selling Singer Isn’t Kanye -- It’s Jackman
- ‘A Million Dreams,’ ‘The Other Side’ become camp songs
- Soundtrack from ‘Greatest Showman’ breaks Adele’s U.K. record
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Halfway through a year filled with new work from some of the most popular artists alive, the best-selling album is the soundtrack to a movie musical with Hugh Jackman that never led the box office.
“The Greatest Showman’’ has sold almost 4 million copies for Atlantic Records, outpacing works from Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake. Music from the film based on the life of circus promoter P.T. Barnum has outsold the next most popular album of the year, Post Malone’s “Beerbongs & Bentleys,’’ by about 2-to-1.