PR: The Hobbit Achieves Highest Billboard Chart Debut in Franchise
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK ACHIEVES HIGHEST BILLBOARD CHART DEBUT
IN FRANCHISE SOUNDTRACK HISTORY
2 CD Special Edition Soundtrack Also Available
(December 19, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music has announced this morning that the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack has achieved unprecedented chart success on this week’s Billboard Charts. Entering at #30 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is now the highest charting debut of all four of filmmaker Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, including The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and is the top-selling motion picture soundtrack in the country this week. The film, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), opened nationwide on Friday, December 14, 2012.


