Hamilton (album)

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Hamilton
Soundtrack by Various Artists

Publication
(s)

September 25, 2015

Label (s) Atlantic Records

Format (s)

CD, music download, stream

Genre (s)

Musical , hip-hop , R&B

Title (number)

46

running time

2 h 22 min 12 s

production

Alex Lacamoire , Bill Sherman , Lin-Manuel Miranda , Ahmir Thompson and Tarik Trotter from The Roots

Hamilton is the recording of the Broadway production of the musical Hamilton . Text and music are by Lin-Manuel Miranda , who also plays Alexander Hamilton .

Music genre

Hamilton combines musical music with various influences from popular music, in particular hip-hop and contemporary R&B, but also British invasion pop.

occupation

roll Singer
Alexander Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda
Aaron Burr Leslie Odom Jr.
Eliza Schuyler Philippa Soo
Angelica Schuyler Renée Elise Goldsberry
George Washington Christopher Jackson
King George III Jonathan Groff
Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson Daveed Diggs
Hercules Mulligan / James Madison Okieriete Onaodowan
John Laurens / Philipp Hamilton Anthony Ramos
Peggy Schuyler / Maria Reynolds Jasmine Cephas-Jones
Samuel Seabury Thayne Jasperson

Track list

Disk 1

  1. Alexander Hamilton (Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:56
  2. Aaron Burr, Sir (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan) - 2:36
  3. My Shot (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 5:33
  4. The Story of Tonight (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:31
  5. The Schuyler Sisters (Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:06
  6. Farmer Refuted (Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:52
  7. You'll Be Back (Jonathan Groff, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:28
  8. Right Hand Man (Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 5:21
  9. A Winter's Ball (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:09
  10. Helpless (Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 4:09
  11. Satisfied (Renée Elise Goldsberry, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 5:29
  12. The Story of Tonight (Reprise) (Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr.) - 1:55
  13. Wait For It (Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:13
  14. Stay Alive (Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:39
  15. Ten Duel Commandments (Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Rua Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:46
  16. Meet Me Inside (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:23
  17. That Would Be Enough (Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda) - 2:58
  18. Guns and Ships (Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:07
  19. History Has Its Eyes On You (Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:37
  20. Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 4:02
  21. What Comes Next? (Jonathan Groff) - 1:39
  22. Dear Theodosia (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda) - 3:04
  23. Non-Stop (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 6:25

Disk 2

  1. What'd I Miss? (Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:56
  2. Cabinet Battle # 1 (Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan) - 3:35
  3. Take A Break (Phillipa Soo, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry) - 4:46
  4. Say No To This (Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 4:02
  5. The Room Where It Happens (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 5:18
  6. Schuyler Defeated (Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr.) - 1:03
  7. Cabinet Battle # 2 (Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan) - 2:22
  8. Washington On Your Side (Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:01
  9. One Last Time (Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 4:56
  10. I Know Him (Jonathan Groff) - 1:37
  11. The Adams Administration (Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 0:54
  12. We Know (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan) - 2:22
  13. Hurricane (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:23
  14. The Reynolds Pamphlet (Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:08
  15. Burn (Phillipa Soo) - 3:45
  16. Blow Us All Away (Anthony Ramos, Ariana DeBose, Sasha Hutchings, Ephraim Sykes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:53
  17. Stay Alive (Reprise) (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 1:51
  18. It's Quiet Uptown (Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 4:30
  19. The Election of 1800 (Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:57
  20. Your Obedient Servant (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 2:30
  21. Best of Wives and Best of Women (Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda) - 0:47
  22. The World Was Wide Enough (Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 5:02
  23. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton) - 3:37

Compared to the musical, the piece Tomorrow there'll be more of us , in which Hamilton learns of John Lauren's death, is missing on the non-stop recording .

Commercial win

Hamilton reached # 9 on the Billboard 200 album charts and # 1 in the Rap Albums and Broadway Cast Recordings categories . In July 2018, the album was certified six times platinum in the USA . In Great Britain it was awarded a platinum record.

reception

Rolling Stone rated Hamilton 4.5 / 5 stars and ranked it as the eighth best album in 2015. It proves "that a cast soundtrack LP can function as a powerful, cohesive, invigorating pop experience in the 21st century." In her rating for Allmusic (4/5 stars), Marcy Donelson named the high information density of the lyrics as possible Critic point: "If the show has one major weakness, it is that there is so much information in the songs - facts, reading of documents, summaries of events - if it weren't for an exceptionally entertaining performance, it would be certainly boring and some will find that it is anyway. "

Hamilton won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Recording .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Blur, 'The Magic Whip' - 50 Best Albums of 2015. In: Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Various Artists Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording Album Review. In: Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Explicit]. In: Billboard. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Rap Music: Top Rap Albums Chart. In: Billboard. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Cast Albums: Jun 04, 2016. In: Billboard Chart Archive. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
  6. ^ Gold & Platinum - RIAA. In: RIAA. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (American English).
  7. ↑ BPI's Gold & Platinum Database in Great Britain, accessed August 22, 2020
  8. ↑ Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] - Lin-Manuel Miranda. Songs, reviews, credits. In: AllMusic. AllMusic, accessed May 27, 2016 .
  9. ^ Past Winners Search. In: The GRAMMYs. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .

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