Hamilton (album)
Album of the stage musical Hamilton
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- Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the cast album to the 2015 musical Hamilton .
- The recording features the original Broadway cast, which includes Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr.
- The recording achieved the largest first week sales for a digital cast album and is the highest-charting cast album since 1969.
- After being certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2023, Hamilton became the best-selling cast album of all time.
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WikipediaHamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the cast album to the 2015 musical Hamilton. The musical is based on the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The recording features the original Broadway cast, which includes Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Jonathan Groff, as well as ensemble members Jon Rua, Thayne Jasperson, Sydney James Harcourt, Ephraim Sykes, Ariana DeBose, and Sasha Hutchings.
The recording achieved the largest first week sales for a digital cast album and is the highest-charting cast album since 1969. It was the highest-selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at number one on the Rap Albums chart, the first cast album to ever do so. After being certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2023, Hamilton became the best-selling cast album of all time. In 2025, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
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