Something skipped the attention of both Billboard and ourselves when reporting the Billboard 200 and album sales totals this week: Guardians of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 broke the million-albums sales mark last week with its 35,000 haul last week, bringing it to platinum status. Had it managed to sell just a tad faster in the last weeks of 2014, the mainstream soundtrack accompaniment to the film Guardians of The Galaxy would have been just the third album released during the year to attain platinum status, joining Taylor Swift and 1989 as well as Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour as albums reaching platinum. The soundtrack for Frozen was the second highest-selling album of 2014, being the last soundtrack album to reach the million-album mark (although it was technically released during 2013).
Awesome Mix Vol. 1, which is still only available as a whole album (individual tracks of of the collection aren't available for download on iTunes, while only the cinematic score is available on streaming services), sold 35,000 copies during the last week, making it the second highest-total on the albums charts (and no. 8 on the new Billboard 200 metrics). That number allowed it to just crack a million, to 1,003,000 copies sold.
The album was released on July 29 and reached the top of the Billboard 200 during August. It was the first soundtrack albums consisting entirely of previously released music to achieve that feat. All of the songs on the album consist of pop tracks from the '70s—including Marvin Gaye's rendition of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" and The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." The selection of songs play into the film, stored on a mixtape left to protagonist Peter Quill by his mother.
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