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Encanto is the first soundtrack to hit number one in over 2 years.

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And it's taking the charts by storm like many of our favorite

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soundtracks of the past.

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With a surprise success of we don't talk about Bruno.

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Which has now become the highest charting song from a Disney

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animated film in over 25 years.

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Let's take a look back at the history of hit soundtracks

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and what factors, catapult a sound track to success.

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This is billboard explains.

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When a soundtrack smashes the charts soundtrack featuring

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music that accompanies Phil musicals, TV shows and more have

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been around about as long as the Billboard charts themselves.

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And West Side Story was one of the first true Blockbuster

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soundtracks.

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I did not marry after its release in 1962,

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the soundtrack spent a record 54 weeks at number one on the billboard

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200 West Side.

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Story was a soundtrack in the traditional sense,

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a compilation of various artists and songs pulled roughly

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from a film.

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Old friend in the late sixties and into the 70s films.

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Like The Graduate and Saturday Night Fever introduced,

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a different concept of what a soundtrack could be a collection

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of songs driven by a specific artist.

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What the Saturday Night Fever?

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Soundtrack also accomplished was capturing experience

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of the movie, the pulse of the Disco era like a snapshot

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of that moment and pop history.

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In the eighties, Prince's Purple Rain, one of the greatest

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rock and roll albums of all time was a prime example of when

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a soundtrack success and Legacy, surpasses that of its accompanying

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film, then came the 90s.

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Can I use was really sort of the golden age for the soundtrack,

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The 90s were to erupt when you really had to have the soundtrack

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soundtrack in particular.

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The Bodyguard established, not only the power of an artist,

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Focus soundtrack. But what happens when you have a monster

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single?

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The early 2000, saw it soundtracks dialing up the star power

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for the fast forward to today.

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How are soundtracks finding success.

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Now, one approach Remains the artist driven album,

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but with a Twist, the curated soundtrack like black panther,

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which had Kendrick Lamar as a creative force behind it contributing

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producing and carrying the music from the book.

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That the magic elements of the film.

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Many modern soundtrack still follow the classic single strategy

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Like A Star is Born, which led with Lady Gaga and Bradley

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Cooper's chart-topping, smash shallow, and then there are soundtracks

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it, encouraged listeners, to fully relive, the experience

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of the movie, like the greatest Showman.

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Which proved traditional soundtracks, can still come out on top

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especially ones that audiences enjoy experiencing on repeat

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enter Disney's and cancel storytelling through music.

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That really shines in the movie, The songs are just full of life

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and they found an audience that just wants to play the songs

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over and over.

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Like we don't talk about Bruno which isn't your typical Disney

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Head song and get it really sword on streaming single,

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creative Force Behind the Music, a big hit single recreating,

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the magical Movie experience and cancel checks,

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all the boxes for a soundtrack smash.

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But no matter what's Behind the Music,

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as long as there are movies that capture our hearts.

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There will always be soundtracks that capture the charts.