The soundtrack to the a cappella-centric comedy “Pitch Perfect 2,” which blew past “Mad Max” in its opening theatrical weekend, moved 107,000 units during the week ending May 17, enough to give the franchise its first chart-topping tie-in. (In 2012 the soundtrack to the original “Pitch Perfect” peaked at No. 3 as it went on to sell 1.2 million copies.) “Pitch Perfect 2,” which mixes a cappella reworks of hits like Kris Kross’s “Jump” and Fall Out Boy’s “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)” with cameos from the likes of Snoop Dogg and Jessie J, tallied 92,000 traditional album sales, with the rest of its chart points coming from streaming and download activity.
“Pitch Perfect 2” is one of three soundtracks in the top five of the most recent Billboard 200 — the “50 Shades of Grey” soundtrack, which boasts top-10 tracks from the Canadian miserablist The Weeknd and British songbird Ellie Goulding, is at No. 3 with 48,000 equivalent album units, while the “Furious 7” soundtrack, which contains Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s chart-topping Paul Walker remembrance, “See You Again,’’ lands at No. 5 with 41,000 units moved. It’s the most soundtracks in the albums chart’s top 5 since 2007, when the Disney-fueled phenomena “High School Musical 2” and “Hannah Montana 2” joined the “Hairspray” soundtrack in the Billboard 200’s upper echelons.
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