Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Mamma Mia! film cast
Released	Standard version: July 8, 2008 Deluxe edition: November 25, 2008
Recorded	2007
Genre	Pop
Length	69:57
Label	Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Producer	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus (executive)

Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack ^[1] is the soundtrack album for the 2008 Universal Pictures musical film Mamma Mia!, based on the stage musical of the same name. It features performances by the film's cast including Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Ashley Lilley, and Rachel McDowall. The recording was produced by Benny Andersson who along with Björn Ulvaeus had produced the original ABBA recordings. Also many of the musicians from the original ABBA recordings participated in making the soundtrack album. In keeping with the setting, the musical arrangements featured the use of traditional Greek instruments, most noticeably the bouzouki.

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Track listing

CD

"Honey, Honey" - Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall - 3:07
"Money, Money, Money" - Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski - 3:06
"Mamma Mia" - Meryl Streep - 3:34
"Dancing Queen" - Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski - 4:04
"Our Last Summer" - Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Amanda Seyfried & Meryl Streep - 2:57
"Lay All Your Love on Me" - Dominic Cooper & Amanda Seyfried - 4:29
"Super Trouper" - Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski - 3:53
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall - 3:51
"The Name of the Game" - Amanda Seyfried - 4:55
"Voulez-Vous" - Full Cast - 4:35
"SOS" - Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - 3:19
"Does Your Mother Know" - Christine Baranski & Philip Michael - 3:01
"Slipping Through My Fingers" - Meryl Streep & Amanda Seyfried - 3:50
"The Winner Takes It All" - Meryl Streep - 4:57
"When All Is Said and Done" - Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - 3:17
"Take a Chance on Me" - Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Phillip Michael & Christine Baranski - 4:01
"I Have a Dream/Thank You for the Music" (Hidden track) - Amanda Seyfried - 8:33

iTunes version
No.	Title	Length
17.	"I Have a Dream"	4:18
18.	"Thank You for the Music"	3:44

Deluxe edition

The Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack features the original soundtrack (with no new songs) and a bonus DVD that features a "Behind the Music" special that shows some of the recording process for the movie, as well as a music video for "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" featuring Amanda Seyfried. The booklet for the deluxe edition is different from the original, containing all the lyrics, an article written by Musical Director Martin Lowe, taping location info, and additional photos from the movie.

Excised songs

"Chiquitita" - Christine Baranski & Julie Walters
"I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" - Full Cast
"Waterloo" - Full Cast

Sales

The album peaked at #1 in the USA on the Billboard 200 albums chart in August 2008.^[2] It was certified Platinum by the RIAA on August 18, 2008, and has sold 1,694,000 copies in the United States as of July 2014.^[3] Worldwide, the soundtrack has sold over 5 million copies to date, spending a total of 2 weeks at #1 on the world charts.

The album had outsold the top 10 albums in the UK Albums Chart by 20 June 2008; however, it was ineligible for the main chart.^[4] In New Zealand, the album debuted at number 8 on July 14, 2008, and climbed to number one the following week. In Greece, it peaked at number one on the international chart^[5] and number 1 on the main albums chart for many weeks.^[6] In Australia, the album reached #1 in its second week on the ARIA Albums Chart, knocking off the highly successful Coldplay album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.

"Honey, Honey" has also charted at #16 on the Norwegian Singles Chart and #50 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, due to high download sales. Other tracks selling well enough to chart in Australia include "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (#70), "Lay All Your Love on Me" (#85), "Dancing Queen" (#96) and "Mamma Mia" (#98).

Charts

Chart	Peak position	Copies sold	Certification
UK Top 20 Compilations Chart	1	1,500,000+	5x Platinum^[7]
Sweden Top 40	1	120,000+	3x Platinum
French Top 200 Chart	8	200,000+	Platinum
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	1	140,000+	2x Platinum
Brazil Top 10 CD	9^[8]	60,000+	Platinum
New Zealand Top 40	1	30,000+	2x Platinum
Irish Albums Chart	1	20,000+	Platinum
Austrian Albums Chart	1	30,000+	Platinum
Greek Top 50 Albums Chart	1	30,000+	2x Platinum^[5]
Norway Albums Chart	1	40,000+	Platinum
Finnish Albums Chart	1	30,000+	Platinum
Danish Albums Chart	1	30,000+	Platinum
Polish Albums Chart	1	100,000+	Diamond^[9]
Portuguese Top 30 Albums Chart	1	40,000+	2x Platinum
Swiss Albums Chart	1	30,000+	Platinum
Hungarian Top 40 Albums Chart	1	30,000+	5x Platinum
Canadian Top 100 Albums Chart	1	80,000+	Platinum
German Albums Chart	2
Russian Albums Chart^[10]	20
Czech Republic Albums Chart	1	10,000+	Gold
Mexican Top 100 Albums Chart^[11]	2	50,000+	Gold^[12]
Mexican Top 20 International Albums Chart^[13]	2	50,000+	Gold^[12]
Dutch Top Albums	5	30,000+	Gold
Spanish Top 100 Albums Chart	1	80,000+	Platinum
Estonian Albums Chart	2	5,000+
European Top 100 Albums Chart	3	3,000,000+	3x Platinum ^[14]
US Billboard 200	1	1,800,000+	Platinum
US Comprehensive Charts	1
US Billboard Top Soundtracks	1
Belgium Flemish Albums Chart	5	15,000+	Gold
Belgium Wallonia Albums Chart	7	15,000+	Gold
Italian Compilation Chart	1	40,000	Gold

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Rank
German Albums Chart ^[15]	23
UK Compilation Chart	1
Swiss Albums Chart^[16]	73

Accolades

Grammy Award
- Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media—nominated

Cast

Amanda Seyfried as Sophie Sheridan
Meryl Streep as Donna Sheridan
Pierce Brosnan as Sam Carmichael
Stellan Skarsgård as Bill Anderson
Colin Firth as Harry Bright
Julie Walters as Rosie
Christine Baranski as Tanya
Dominic Cooper as Sky
Philip Michael as Pepper

Musicians

Benny Andersson - piano, keyboards
Rutger Gunnarsson - bass, bouzouki
Per Lindvall - drums
Lasse Wellander - guitars, bouzouki
Jörgen Stenberg - percussion
Lasse Jonsson - acoustic guitars
Jan Bengtson - flute, piccolo, baritone saxophone
Pär Grebacken - recorder, clarinet, saxophones
Perra Moraeus - alto saxophone
Leif Lindvall - trumpet
Calle Jakobsson - tuba
Kalle Moraeus - bouzouki, guitar, violin

References

↑ "Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack". Amazon.co.uk.
↑ Katie Hasty, 'Mamma Mia!' Leaps To No. 1 On The Billboard 200, Billboard.com, August 13, 2008
↑ Grein, Paul (2014-07-02). "Chart Watch: Ed Sheeran's Transatlantic #1". Yahoo Music. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
↑ "Mamma Mia is top selling UK album". BBC. 20 July 2008.
1 2 "Ελληνικό Chart". Ifpi.gr. Archived from the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
↑ "Ελληνικό Chart". Ifpi.gr. Archived from the original on 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
↑ Platinum Status UK Archived July 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ "ABPD — Associação Brasileira de Produtores de Disco — July 20 - July 26, 2009". Abpd.org.br. 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
↑ "Bestseller charts and awards :: Diamond Certification Awards". Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
↑ Россия Top 25: Centr - Эфир в норме (in Russian). 2M-online.ru. 13 December 2008. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
↑ Mexican Top 100 Albums Chart AMPROFON. October 9, 2008.
↑ "News > Mamma Mia goes Gold in Mexico!". Universal.com.mx. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
↑ Mexican Top 20 International Albums Chart AMPROFON. April 11, 2008.
↑ "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards - 2010". Ifpi.org. 2005-09-01. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
↑ ":: MTV | Album Jahrescharts 2008 | charts". MTV.de. 2009-12-18. Archived from the original on 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
↑ "Swiss Year-End Charts 2009". Media Control. Hung Medien. Retrieved February 6, 2009.

External links

Amazon

Preceded by Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album July 21, 2008 - August 25, 2008	Succeeded by 2 by Sneaky Sound System
Preceded by Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay	New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart number-one album (first run) July 21, 2008 - July 28, 2008	Succeeded by ...Hits by Phil Collins
Preceded by ...Hits by Phil Collins	New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart number-one album (second run) August 11, 2008 - August 25, 2008	Succeeded by All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot
Preceded by Love on the Inside by Sugarland	*U.S. Billboard* 200 number-one album** August 23, 2008 - August 30, 2008	Succeeded by A Little Bit Longer by Jonas Brothers

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