The first woman to top the album and film charts in one week
History is written by the victors, with one woman setting an impressive benchmark by topping the album charts and box office in the same week.
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Sat 15 February 2025 3:00, UK
Musicians have long dabbled in acting and vice versa, with some faring much better than others. Of course, a select few have conquered both worlds, but only one woman got to make history as the first to have a number-one album and movie released in the same week.
Regardless of gender or whether it’s a single or an album, only six artists have ever had their music sitting pretty at the top of the charts at the same time one of their onscreen outings has been nestled at the top of the box office in the United States, and the two don’t even need to be mutually exclusive.
The most recent inductee into the exclusive club was Bad Bunny, who released his fourth solo studio record, Un Verano Sin Ti, in May 2022. However, it proved so popular that it was still flying high in the top spot at the beginning of August when David Leitch’s Bullet Train, where he played the assassin The Wolf, debuted as the biggest movie in the country.
Other artists have accomplished it with singles as opposed to albums, even if they haven’t been released concurrently. Harry Styles’ song ‘As It Was’ was 15 weeks deep into its chart-topping run before Don’t Worry Darling opened at number one, Beyoncé’s ‘Check on It’ topped the singles charts at the same time as Steve Martin’s The Pink Panther conquered the box office, and Eminem was flying high with 8 Mile in the top spot and his Academy Award-winning hit ‘Lose Yourself’ pulling double duty in November 2002.
However, none of them took top billing in a feature film released in the same week as a studio album before both landed at the summit. Only two people can claim that honour, making it somewhat ironic that the first woman did so with a record and a movie that could very generously be described as mediocre at best.
January 2001 was a month to remember for Jennifer Lopez, who saw her sophomore studio album J.Lo and her star vehicle opposite Matthew McConaughey in the insipid rom-com The Wedding Planner make history by conquering their respective fields.
When the dust had eventually settled, the record had shifted in excess of eight million copies worldwide, and the frothy romance recouped its production budget more than three times over in ticket sales, combining to form a history-making month for the actor and singer, who’d accomplished something that no other woman had accomplished before.
Was J.Lo, the album, up to much? No, not really, unless anyone has a deep-seated affinity for early-2000s pop. What about the movie? Again, not really, unless anyone has a deep-seated affinity for the exact kind of early-2000s rom-coms that made McConaughey become so disillusioned with his profession that he vanished from the public eye and only returned when he’d reinvented himself as a powerhouse dramatist.
Still, Lopez did something nobody had ever done, and she should be commended for it. Nobody would call her the greatest pop star of the modern era, and only the bravest or most foolhardy of souls would even contemplate calling her a good actor, but it’s the victors who always write history.
Who was the first person to achieve it?Lopez may have been the first woman to release a number-one album and movie in the same week, but she wasn’t the first person overall. In fact, that particular trailblazer went one step further by throwing a number-one single into the mix, too.
The accompanying soundtrack album to Prince’s smash hit musical drama Purple Rain was released over a month before the film, but it was still at the top of the charts when the feature arrived, making him the first to perch themselves upon the musical and cinematic bestsellers list simultaneously.
This being Prince, of course, he didn’t stop there. When Purple Rain hit cinemas in July 1984, ‘When Doves Cry’ was coming towards the end of its five-week reign as his first number-one single. Refusing to let up, the album’s second single, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’, dropped seven days before the movie premiered to the general public to ensure that nobody would stand in the way of history.
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