Fresh off La La Land’s record-breaking night at the Golden Globe Awards, the film’s soundtrack is set to leap into the top five of next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart. Industry forecasters suggest the soundtrack could earn around 35,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Jan. 12, for a gain of perhaps 55 percent compared to the previous (pre-Golden Globes) frame.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the new Jan. 28, 2017-dated Billboard 200 chart — where La La Land could hit the top five — is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, Jan. 15.