Almost 11 years in the past to the day, Daft Punk’s famed Tron: Legacy soundtrack debuted atop Billboard‘s High Dance/Digital Albums chart. Now, as 2021 attracts to an in depth, the album has as soon as once more discovered its method to #1.
As if that wasn’t a formidable sufficient testomony to the diehard loyalty of the Daft Punk fandom, the gross sales knowledge validates that 94% of the ten,000 album items offered between December tenth by the sixteenth have been bodily copies.
To uncover what’s driving the sudden 1,364% uptick from the prior interval, we’d like look no additional than the discharge of the brand new clear blue and clear editions of the vinyl print, which only in the near past went on sale. As with the 2010 authentic vinyl launch, the brand new version arrived as a Goal unique.
With the robots having referred to as it quits in February of this 12 months, the frenzy round new, restricted version collectibles that includes Daft Punk is more likely to develop into increasingly feverish as time passes.
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In line with Billboard, this current resurgence in reputation for the Tron: Legacy album has earned the soundtrack its eleventh whole week within the #1 spot on the chart and its first since April, 2011.
