‘Wicked: For Good’ Is a Box Office Smash — Is Its Soundtrack on Its Way to Similar Success?

Wicked: For Good bowed in November to blockbuster box office numbers, and has already racked up nearly $270 million in the U.S. alone, according to Box Office Mojo — numbers that may even result in the sequel becoming a bigger hit that the 2024’s successful original Wicked.

Will its soundtrack also threaten to surpass the original? So far, it’s closer to on par with the original, matching its No. 2 debut on the Billboard 200 — with 122,000 in first-week units, down a tick from the 139,000 bow for Wicked the first — while notching four songs on the Hot 100, led by “For Good” (No. 43), the climactic duet between Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda.

Are the numbers better or worse than we expected? And has the sequel or its soundtrack changed our opinion at all about the bala