THE GREATEST SHOWMAN : Soundtrack

[jo]

This time, it's the turn of THE GREATEST SHOW to highlight a sports event!

[jo]

Feb 27, 2018 18:53:53 GMT -5 jo said:

A great talent and great SHOWMAN fan brings us a violin medley --

It looks like she is a very popular talent -- check out her medley from Les Miserables.

[jo]

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THE GREATEST SHOW has inspired this half-time show at a sports event!







What next -- marching bands at half-time

[jo]

It looks like the music of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN is now inspiring a lot of dance acts!

[jo]

More dance covers!

[jo]

I've only just found this MTV feature/analysis of individual songs from the movie. It is not a complete list and though and is missing FROM NOW ON, THE GREATEST SHOW, COME ALIVE and NEVER ENOUGH.

www.mtv.com/news/3055063/greatest-showman-pasek-paul-break-down-music-this-is-me/

[jo]

DRUM cover as Hugh sings FROM NOW ON --

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www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2018/03/06/this-is-me-leads-the-post-oscars-sales-bump-even-though-it-lost-the-trophy/#29c2792a5615

[jo]

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BillBoard reports on the audio streams on Saturday/Sunday of Oscar weekend. THIS IS ME accounted for 51 % of all audio streams which included all 5 nominees! Hands down -- the most popular song of all - whether with the listening public or the applauding Oscar audience!

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-drive-big-streaming-gains-sufjan-stevens-mary-j-blige-1092611

The Greatest Showman’s “This Is Me” — written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and performed on the Oscars by Keala Settle — collected the most streams, by far, of the nominees on Sunday. It snared 517,000 on-demand audio streams on the day of the Oscars, though it was down 2 percent compared to its haul on Saturday (527,000). The decline in streams for the song is not alarming, as many viewers of the Oscars were likely already familiar with the tune. The song is the only one of the nominees, thus far, to have dented the Billboard Hot 100 chart (hitting a No. 58 high on Jan. 27), and the tune was used frequently during NBC’s television coverage of the Winter Olympics.

Collectively, the nominated songs earned 1 million on-demand audio streams on the day of the Oscars, up 13 percent compared to a day earlier (890,000). If one removed the sizable streams of the hit "This Is Me" — as it represented a whopping 51 percent of the nominees' streams on Sunday — then the rise for the remaining four tunes would equal 34 percent (climbing from 363,000 to 488,000).

PS: I have noticed since Oscar talk started for the past season started, there seemed to be a bias from The Hollywood Reporter especially when NOT reporting on the remarkable box office journey of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ( especially one publication like FORBES would report on it week after week). For this article, why use the headline of the big streaming gains of Sufjan Stevens and Mary J. Blige songs...when one song swept away 51% of all the audio streams?? Either it is poor journalism or they really do NOT want to praise THE GREATEST SHOWMAN one way or the other

[jo]

This is remarkable!

How can a song that has been loved by so many and whose significance was one of the movie's central themes ... but has also touched the lives of so many, including this Children's Choir?

"Is a puzzlement!"

[jo]

Except maybe for A MILLION DREAMS, it didn't seem that the other songs were ever intended as musical numbers that kids would love to sing! Amazing!

[jo]

Or for that matter, school or summer camp presentations

[jo]

Hope Hugh gets to see this - might be great for his visits to the gym

THE GREATEST SHOW --






I didn't realize they also did this cover ( I might have already posted it) .

THE OTHER SIDE --

[jo]

The Irish voices are singing A MILLION DREAMS --

[jo]

And again from the British Isles, this time from Cymru ( aka Wales...aka the land of song) -- school kids are singing THIS IS ME in a presentation.

Btw --

Wales is often referred to as "the land of song",[358] and is notable for its harpists, male choirs, and solo artists.

If I may share a personal experience -- we once went to a Michael Ball concert in Cardiff, Wales ( he is part Welsh) and the morning after, we took the train back to London. It was such a happily noisy train ride -- because we happened to have ridden with what was probably the whole countryside of Wales who were singing in loud choruses all the way to London ... It so happened to be the day when Wales would be in a rugby match with England and they were cheering the team as early as that! We knew bits of a traditional Welsh song ( Bread of Heaven) because Michael taught us the chorus during the previous night concert...and sang softly along - it was that infectious

Jo

[jo]

The covers continue -- in different guises!

[jo]

The blending of voices is beautiful -- too bad it is only a short clip of A MILLION DREAMS!

[jo]

More British Isles singing - this time from Edinburgh ( Scotland), with A MILLION DREAMS --

[jo]

D'accord!

How true -- the magic of the musical score lies not just in the catchy melodies and beats but even more so in the well-written lyrics! That is where the resonant messages of the storytelling work their magic!

[jo]

The soundtrack album continues its amazing record run at the top of the UK charts!


www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-greatest-showman-album-matches-ed-sheerans-number-1-chart-run__22085/

[jo]

Hugh Jackman Retweeted

[jo]

Singled out by Hugh!

The "forgotten" song from the soundtrack -- but one of the best character songs in the storyline!

http://instagram.com/p/BgKrV85j-Nf

[jo]

Mar 10, 2018 21:36:54 GMT -5 jo said:

Hugh Jackman Retweeted