Hamilton (album)
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | |
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Cast recording by | |
Released | September 25, 2015 |
Recorded | August 16–21, 2015 |
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Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the
Commercial performance
The cast album for the musical premiered in September 2015 on
The album was the highest-selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at number one on the Top Rap Albums chart, the first cast album to ever do so.[2] It achieved the largest first week sales for a digital cast album and was the highest-charting cast album debut since 1963.[1] It sold 169,000 copies in 2015, and a further 739,000 copies in 2016, making it the fifth best-selling album of 2016.[6] It was certified 6x Multiplatinum by the RIAA on April 4, 2019, making it the best-selling cast recording of all time.[7] That record was extended when the album was certified 7× platinum on September 16, 2020.[7] As of July 2020 the album has sold 1.97 million pure copies.[5] On June 26, 2023, it became the first cast album to receive a Diamond certification.[8]
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 85/100[9] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
Billboard | [11] |
Pitchfork | 6.9/10[12] |
Rolling Stone | [13] |
Vice | A[14] |
Hamilton was met with critical acclaim. Billboard called the album an "eye-popping debut", giving it a 5-out-of-5 star review and listing it at number 2 on the magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2015.[11] Rolling Stone gave it a 4.5-out-of-5 star rating, listing it at number 8 on the magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2015.[13][15] Robert Christgau wrote in Vice, "I can attest that the intrinsic intellectual interest [Lin-Manuel Miranda] powers up here is so impressive it's exciting".[14]
Track listing
All tracks are written by
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Ramos
- Diggs
- Onaodowan
- Miranda
- Ramos
- Diggs
- Onaodowan
- Odom Jr.
- Cast
- Miranda
- Ramos
- Onaodowan
- Diggs
- Cast
- Renée Elise Goldsberry
- Soo
- Jasmine Cephas-Jones
- Odom Jr.
- Cast
- Thayne Jasperson
- Miranda
- Cast
- Jonathan Groff
- Cast
- Jackson
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Cast
- Odom Jr.
- Miranda
- Cast
- Soo
- Cast
- Goldsberry
- Cast
- Ramos
- Onaodowan
- Diggs
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Odom Jr.
- Cast
- Ramos
- Miranda
- Jon Rua
- Odom Jr.
- Cast
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Ramos
- Jackson
- Cast
- Soo
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Diggs
- Jackson
- Cast
- Jackson
- Miranda
- Cast
- Odom Jr.
- Miranda
- Odom Jr.
- Miranda
- Goldsberry
- Soo
- Jackson
- Cast
No. | Title | Performer(s) | Length |
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1. | "What'd I Miss" |
| 3:56 |
2. | " The Adams Administration" | Cast | 0:54 |
12. | "We Know" |
| 2:22 |
13. | "Hurricane" |
| 2:23 |
14. | "The Reynolds Pamphlet" | Cast | 2:08 |
15. | "Burn" | Soo | 3:45 |
16. | "Blow Us All Away" |
| 2:53 |
17. | "Stay Alive (Reprise)" |
| 1:51 |
18. | "It's Quiet Uptown" |
| 4:30 |
19. | "The Election of 1800" |
| 3:57 |
20. | "Your Obedient Servant" |
| 2:30 |
21. | "Best of Wives and Best of Women" |
| 0:47 |
22. | "The World Was Wide Enough" |
| 5:02 |
23. | "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" | Cast | 3:37 |
Total length: | 71:15 2:22:13 |
Interpolations
- "My Shot" contains elements of "Shook Ones Pt. II" written by Albert Johnson and Kejuan Waliek Muchita; "Going Back to Cali" written by Osteen Harvey Jr., Roger Troutman and Christopher Wallace; and "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from South Pacific, music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
- "Right Hand Man" contains elements of ".
- "Ten Duel Commandments" contains elements of "Ten Crack Commandments" written by Christopher E. Martin, Christopher Wallace, and Khary Kimani Turner.
- "Meet Me Inside" contains elements of "Earl Simmons.
- "Cabinet Battle #1" contains elements of "The Message" written by Clifton Nathaniel Chase, Edward G. Fletcher, Melvin Glover, and Sylvia Robinson.
- "Say No to This" contains elements of "Nobody Needs to Know" from The Last Five Years, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.
- "Cabinet Battle #2" contains elements of "Juicy (It's All Good)" written by Sean Combs, James Mtume, Jean-Claude Olivier, and Wallace.
- "Blow Us All Away" contains elements of "Ten Crack Commandments" written by Martin, Wallace, and Turner; and "Shook Ones Pt. II" written by Johnson and Muchita.
- "The World Was Wide Enough" contains elements of "Ten Crack Commandments" written by Martin, Wallace, and Turner.
Notes
- Lin-Manuel Miranda made a conscious decision to exclude one scene in the performance from the cast album, "Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us", also known as Laurens' Interlude.[16]
Personnel
Cast
Ensemble vocals
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Production
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Musicians
Additional musicians for recording
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[55] | Platinum | 70,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[56] | Platinum | 20,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[57] | Platinum | 15,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[58] | 2× Platinum | 600,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[7] | Diamond | 5,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Song certifications
Title | Certifications |
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"Aaron Burr, Sir" | |
"Alexander Hamilton" | |
"A Winter's Ball" | |
"Best of Wives and Best of Women" |
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"Blow Us All Away" |
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"Burn" | |
"Cabinet Battle #1" |
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"Cabinet Battle #2" |
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"Dear Theodosia" | |
"Election of 1800" |
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"Farmer Refuted" | |
"Guns and Ships" | |
"Helpless" | |
"History Has Its Eyes On You" |
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"Hurricane" |
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"I Know Him" | |
"It's Quiet Uptown" |
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"Meet Me Inside" |
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"My Shot" | |
"Non-Stop" | |
"One Last Time" |
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"Right Hand Man" | |
"Satisfied" | |
"Say No to This" |
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"Schuyler Defeated" |
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"Stay Alive" | |
"Take a Break" |
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"Ten Duel Commandments" |
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"That Would Be Enough" |
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"The Adams Administration" |
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"The Reynolds Pamphlet" |
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"The Room Where It Happens" | |
"The Schuyler Sisters" |
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"The Story of Tonight" | |
"The Story of Tonight (Reprise)" |
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" Wait For It "
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"Washington on Your Side" |
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"We Know" |
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"What Comes Next?" |
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"What'd I Miss" |
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"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" |
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"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" | |
"You'll Be Back" | |
"Your Obedient Servant" |
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Awards
Year | Award type | Categories | Results |
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2016 | Grammy Award
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Best Musical Theater Album[63] | Won |
NAACP Image Award
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Outstanding Duo, Group, or Collaboration[64] | Nominated | |
2017 | Billboard Music Award
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Billboard Music Award for Top Soundtrack/Cast Album[65] | Won |
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