What does this teach us? Make fun of it all you want, but don’t underestimate “Twilight.” The vampire-tween cultural phenomenon just exhibited its zeitgeist power and influence once again by capturing the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts today, debuting on the top (and knocking off AC/DC) with 164,700 copies sold in its first week on store shelves.
Those numbers help it become the the year’s third soundtrack to top the chart, following “Mama Mia” and the uber-successful, “Juno” soundtrack. And of course, it’s only week one.
The album, which includes songs by Linkin Park, Perry Farrell, Paramore, Muse,”Twilight” bohunk Robert Pattison himself, plus other bands we’re not really that fond of. In fact, we kind of dissed the soundtrack and the politics surrounding it in a recent MTV podcast. Take a listen.
Want more, can’t get enough? There’s a second “Twilight” soundtrack disc of the instrumental score (called Twilight: The Score) composed by Carter Burwell (“No Country For Old Men”) that comes out December 9, if you want to pretend-fly around your room with the music on full blast, dry humping your pillow while screaming, “Bella, Bella!” and your mom nods out on Xanax downstairs.
Listen: Carter Burwell – “Bella’s Lullabye”