Hamilton (album)

Hamilton
Cast recording by Various artists
Released 16 October 2015
25 September 2015 (digital)
Genre Broadway Cast Recording, Rap, R&B/Hip-Hop
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Alex Lacamoire, Bill Sherman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ahmir Thompson & Tarik Trotter from The Roots
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard
Rolling Stone

Hamilton is the official companion album to the 2015 musical Hamilton. The musical is based on the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It achieved the largest 1st week sales for a digital cast album and is the highest charting cast album since 1963.[1] It was the highest selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at #1 on the Rap Album chart, the first cast album to ever do so.[2]

Debut and reception

The cast album for the musical premiered in September 2015 on NPR's show "First Listen."[3] Its digital release on September 25, 2015 debuted on numerous charts and was released in stores as a 2-disc set on October 16, 2015. It debuted at #1 on the Top Broadway Albums chart as well as #3 on Top Rap Albums, #5 on the Top Digital Albums, and #9 on the Top Current Albums chart.[1] Hamilton's debut was the second biggest first week sales of a Broadway cast album, just behind the cast album for the musical Rent. It debuted at #12 on the overall Billboard 200 chart for sales, with over 2.1 million streams combined from digital service providers, the largest streaming debut for a cast album ever.[1]

The album was the highest selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at #1 on the Rap Album chart, the first cast album to ever do so.[2] It achieved the largest 1st week sales for a digital cast album and was the highest charting cast album debut since 1963.[1] Billboard called the album an "eye-popping debut," giving it a 5-out-of-5 star review and listing it at #2 on the magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2015."[4] Rolling Stone gave it a 4.5-out-of-5 star rating, listing it at #8 on the magazine's "Top 50 Albums of 2015."[5][6]

Track listing

Disc 1
No. TitlePersonnel Length
1. "Alexander Hamilton"  Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Company 3:56
2. "Aaron Burr, Sir"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan 2:36
3. "My Shot"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom Jr., Company 5:33
4. "The Story of Tonight"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Company 1:31
5. "The Schuyler Sisters"  Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Company 3:06
6. "Farmer Refuted"  Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 1:52
7. "You'll Be Back"  Jonathan Groff, Company 3:28
8. "Right Hand Man"  Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Company 5:21
9. "A Winter's Ball"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda,Company 1:09
10. "Helpless"  Phillipa Soo, Company 4:09
11. "Satisfied"  Renée Elise Goldsberry, Company 5:29
12. "The Story of Tonight (Reprise)"  Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. 1:55
13. "Wait For It"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Company 3:13
14. "Stay Alive"  Company 2:39
15. "Ten Duel Commandments"  Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Rua, Leslie Odom, Jr., Company 1:46
16. "Meet Me Inside"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson, Company 1:23
17. "That Would Be Enough"  Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda 2:58
18. "Guns and Ships"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Company 2:07
19. "History Has Its Eyes On You"  Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 1:37
20. "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)"  Company 4:02
21. "What Comes Next?"  Jonathan Groff 1:39
22. "Dear Theodosia"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda 3:04
23. "Non-Stop"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Company 6:25
Disc 2
No. TitlePersonnel Length
1. "What'd I Miss?"  Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Company 3:56
2. "Cabinet Battle #1"  Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan 3:35
3. "Take A Break"  Phillipa Soo, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry 4:46
4. "Say No To This"  Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt, Company 4:02
5. "The Room Where It Happens"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Company 5:18
6. "Schuyler Defeated"  Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. 1:03
7. "Cabinet Battle #2"  Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan 2:22
8. "Washington On Your Side"  Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Company 3:01
9. "One Last Time"  Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 4:56
10. "I Know Him"  Jonathan Groff 1:37
11. "The Adams Administration"  Company 0:54
12. "We Know"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan 2:22
13. "Hurricane"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 2:23
14. "The Reynolds Pamphlet"  Company 2:08
15. "Burn"  Phillipa Soo 3:45
16. "Blow Us All Away"  Anthony Ramos, Ariana DeBose, Sasha Hutchings, Ephraim Sykes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 2:53
17. "Stay Alive (Reprise)"  Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Company 1:51
18. "It's Quiet Uptown"  Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Company 4:30
19. "The Election of 1800"  Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 3:57
20. "Your Obedient Servant"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 2:30
21. "Best of Wives and Best of Women"  Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda 0:47
22. "The World Was Wide Enough"  Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company 5:02
23. "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story"  Company 3:37

Chart history and awards

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Rap Albums 1
Broadway Cast Albums 1
Billboard Top 200 12
Top Current Albums 9
Year Award type Category Result
2016 Grammy Award Best Musical Theater Album[7] Pending
NAACP Image Award Outstanding Duo, Group, or Collaboration[8] Nominated

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Caulfield, Keith (7 October 2015). "Hamilton's Historic Chart Debut: By The Numbers". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 Estevez, Marjua (18 November 2015). "Hamilton Broadway Album Tops Billboard Rap Chart". Vibe. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  3. Jekket, Frannie (21 September 2015). "Review: Cast Recording, 'Hamilton'". NPR Music. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  4. Gale, Alex (1 October 2015). "Hamilton, the Best Broadway Musical in Years, Boasts an Equally Thrilling Cast Recording: Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. Spanos, Brittany (25 September 2015). "Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. "Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2015". Brooklyn Vegan. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  7. Ward, Marguerite (22 December 2015). "Hamilton Fan Art: Animation Student Beautifully Recreates Scenes from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway Smash Hit". International Business Times. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  8. "Creed Tops 47th Annual NAACP Image Award Nominations". Ebony. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

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