Twisters: The Album enters the Billboard 200 (dated Aug. 3) at No. 7. It’s the first country-dominated soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie to make the prime 10 on the all-genre chart since Country Strong, which reached No. 6 in January 2011.

(*10*) is just the second nation soundtrack from a theatrically-released movie to debut in the prime 10, after Hannah Montana: The Movie, which opened at No. 2 in April 2009. The album, which reached No. 1 three weeks later, featured star Miley Cyrus’ pop/nation crossover hit “The Climb.”

Other country-dominated movie soundtracks to succeed in the prime 10 embody Urban Cowboy (No. 3 in 1980), George Strait’s Pure Country (No. 6 in 1992), Hope Floats (No. 4 in 1998), Coyote Ugly (No. 10 in 2000), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (No. 1 in 2002) and Walk the Line, from the Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic (No. 9 in 2006).

Twisters has already climbed greater than the soundtrack to the unique Twister, which peaked at No. 28 in 1996. That Warner launch was principally rock and featured such artists as Tori Amos, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham.

The new album, launched on Atlantic, options such established nation artists as Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, Shania Twain and Jelly Roll, in addition to such rising stars as Bailey Zimmerman, Breland and Tanner Adell. (Notably, each albums got here from the Warner Music Group household of labels.)

Twain additionally had a monitor (“No One Needs to Know”) on the Twister soundtrack. She was one in all the few non-rock artists on board for that album, together with ok.d. lang and Alison Krauss & Union Station. On the new album, she groups with Breland to carry out “Boots Don’t.” She is the solely artist to seem on each albums.

The arrival of Twisters ends a notable drought in latest months for soundtracks. Three weeks in the past, the highest-ranking soundtrack on the Billboard 200 (Barbie: The Album) was means down at No. 172. That marked the first time that the highest-ranking soundtrack on the Billboard 200 had ranked that low in the greater than seven years that the Billboard 200 and the Top Soundtracks chart have adhered to the similar chart components.

Since Feb. 11, 2017, each charts have ranked the hottest albums of the week in the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA).

Twisters is the first soundtrack from any style to seem in the prime 10 since Barbie: The Album (which, like Twisters: The Album, was launched on Atlantic) ended its prime 10 run in September.

This marks the first time that no soundtracks appeared in the prime 10 in the first six months of a calendar yr since 1987. The first soundtrack to make the prime 10 that yr (Beverly Hills Cop II) did so in the concern dated Aug. 1.

There are solely two different years since 1956 – when the Billboard 200 bowed as a daily, weekly characteristic – the place no soundtracks appeared in the prime 10 in the first six months of the yr. In 1972, the first soundtrack to make the prime 10 that yr (Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly) did so in the concern dated Oct. 7.  In 1976, the first soundtrack to make the prime 10 that yr (Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same) did so in the concern dated Nov. 6.

Soundtracks have been an enormous a part of the album market since the introduction of the Billboard 200. On the first chart – March 24, 1956 – soundtracks to Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals held two of the prime three spots. Oklahoma! and Carousel have been No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. (A non-soundtrack, Harry Belafonte’s Belafonte, was No. 1.)

At least one soundtrack appeared in the prime 10 each week from that first chart on March 24, 1956 by Dec. 22, 1958. In the mid-Nineteen Sixties, there was a fair longer profitable streak. At least one soundtrack appeared in the prime 10 each week from July 25, 1964 by June 10, 1967.

Twisters ranked No. 1 at the boxoffice final weekend, however falls to No. 2 this weekend behind the new Deadpool & Wolverine. The unique Twister was No. 1 for 2 weekends in May 1996. Isaac Chung directed Twisters, which stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Jan de Bont directed the unique Twister, which starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton.