Les Miserables Soundtrack

Les Miserables Soundtrack Disc Cover

Soundtrack

Upon its release, Les Misérables debuted at number thirty-three on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Billboard Soundtracks chart, selling 43,000 copies in less than three full days of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.The following week, it sold 136,000 copies to jump to number two on the Billboard 200. The soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 in its third week on the chart, selling 92,000 copies. The total of 178,000 copies sold from the ten days of sales made it the tenth best-selling soundtrack album of 2012.The album has sold 526,000 in the United States as of 31 March 2013.

The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number five with first-week sales of 13,844 copies,before rising to number one the following week on sales of 55,954 copies.So far, the album has spent four non-consecutive weeks atop the chart.

In Japan, the album reached number eleven on the Japanese Albums Chart, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in March 2013, denoting shipments of 100,000 copies.

The music is written by Claude-Michel Schönberg; the lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer based on the French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. 



Movie

Misérables is a 2012 British epic musical drama film produced by Working Title Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the musical of the same name by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg which is in turn based on the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo. The film is directed by Tom Hooper, director of The King's Speech, scripted by William Nicholson, Boublil, Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, and stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Seyfried. The film tells the story of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who becomes mayor of a town in France. Soon exposed, Valjean agrees to take care of Cosette, the illegitimate daughter of the dying Fantine, but as a fugitive must also avoid being captured again by police inspector Javert. The plot spans 17 years and is set against a backdrop of political turmoil, which in the film culminates in the June Rebellion of France.