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Pop Charts: “Black Panther” Soundtrack Rules, Thunders to Number 1 As Movie Opens Big

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“Black Panther” isn’t just a hit in movie theaters.

The soundtrack album featuring “Pray for Me,” the monster hit from Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd, is number 1 today. The album sold 50,000 copies in downloads and CDs but get this– another 100,000 from streaming. The total is 156,000 copies.

The album has five or six more hits on it, too, with Khalid, SZA, and other artists– so look for it to have staying power during the movie’s lifetime in theaters.

Kendrick and SZA’s “All the Stars” is already the number 3 streamed song in the country.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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