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The Suicide Squad Soundtrack Also Had a Killer First Week

The squad smashed it. Photo: Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc

Suicide Squad’s second week at the box office may have suffered a sharp drop, but its musical sidekick debuted right on par with the film’s opening. The scatterbrained Suicide Squad soundtrack is your new No. 1 album, entering the Billboard 200 at the top. In its first week, the compilation — featuring new songs from Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Kehlani, Grimes, and Panic! at the Disco’s cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody†— started with 182,000 album equivalents, 128,000 of which were pure sales. That makes it the best-selling debut for a soundtrack since 2015’s Fifty of Shades Grey. It’s also the only soundtrack to hit No. 1 this year, and the first since Disney Channel’s Descendants did it nearly a year ago. Further adding to the soundtrack’s success: Twenty One Pilots’ contribution, “Heathens,†is sitting just outside the Top 10, at No. 11 last week. Suicide Squad at No. 1 means Drake has been dethroned for two consecutive weeks — last week, DJ Khaled took top honors — though he’s still only been bumped to the second slot.

Suicide Squad Soundtrack Debuts at No. 1