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Recorded
  
2015–2016

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Release date
  
2 December 2016

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Released
  
December 2, 2016 (2016-12-02)

Producers
  
Alicia Keys, Bill Sherman, Emile Haynie, J.Period

Genres
  
Hip hop music, Contemporary R&B

Similar
  
Hamilton, Awaken - My Love!, A Pentatonix Christmas, Blue & Lonesome, Simply Christmas

The Hamilton Mixtape is a mixtape album featuring assorted songs from the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton performed by various artists.

Contents

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Background

In 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda began a project entitled The Hamilton Mixtape that would eventually transform into the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton. During the development of the musical production, Miranda frequently communicated that a "mixtape" of select songs from the show's score was being recorded.

On November 3, 2016, Miranda announced on Twitter that the mixtape was complete and would be released on December 2, 2016. Preorders for the album began on November 4, 2016, and two songs were officially released: Kelly Clarkson's "It's Quiet Uptown" and The Roots' "My Shot." "The following Friday, at midnight in all time zones, "Satisfied" and "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" were released, followed by "Wait For It" and "Wrote My Way Out" the Friday after. In a tweet on November 9, 2016, Miranda implied that the album released on December 2 would only be the first volume, with a Volume 2 coming shortly after.

Commercial performance

The Hamilton Mixtape debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 187,000 album-equivalent units, of which 169,000 were pure album sales. It marks the largest sales in a week for a compilation album since Cruel Summer by GOOD Music in 2012, and is the first compilation album to reach number one since Now 50 in 2014.

Notes

  • "My Shot (Rise Up Remix)" contains elements of "Shook Ones Pt. II" written by Albert Johnson and Kejuan Waliek Muchita; and "Going Back to Cali" written by Osten Harvey, Jr., Roger Troutman, and Christopher Wallace.
  • "Wrote My Way Out" samples the instrumental and some vocals from "Hurricane" performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
  • "An Open Letter (Interlude)" is a cover of an early demo of "The Adams Administration"
  • "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" features a sample of "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)" featuring vocals from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Christopher Jackson.
  • "Valley Forge" is a previously unreleased demo for a song cut from the show and shares many lines with what later became "Stay Alive."
  • "Take a Break (Interlude)" features a sample of "Take a Break" performed by Phillipa Soo and Anthony Ramos.
  • "Say Yes to This" features the instrumental and backing vocals of "Say No to This" as performed by the Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
  • "Congratulations" is a cover of a song of the same name that existed in the original Off-Broadway production but did not stay after the transition to Broadway. Portions of the song were adapted into The Reynolds Pamphlet.
  • "Stay Alive (Interlude)" features samples of "Stay Alive" as performed by Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
  • "Washingtons by Your Side" features the hook from "Washington by Your Side."
  • "Cabinet Battle 3" features an interpolation of "Hail Mary" by 2pac.
  • "Who Tells Your Story" features a sample of "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" in the chorus performed by the Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton.

    • Songs

    1No John Trumbull (Intro)The Roots0:46
    2My Shot (feat Busta Rhymes - Joell Ortiz & Nate Ruess) [Rise Up Remix]Busta Rhymes - The Roots - Nate Ruess - 4:31
    3Wrote My Way OutNas4:21

    References

    The Hamilton Mixtape Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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