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``Tarzan'' Soundtrack Swings Up the Charts as Movie Rules the Box-Office Jungle.


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After only its fifth week in release, the "Tarzan" soundtrack -- which shipped platinum (over 1 million units) -- jumps into the top 10 of Billboard magazine's "Top 200" album chart, selling a total of over 270,000 units in just five weeks.

Following the box-office success of the movie (which opened at No. 1 with a cumulative total of over $44 million in less than a week), the album jumped from No. 30 on the chart last week to No. 10 this week with over 110,000 units sold.

The "Tarzan" soundtrack also climbed up Billboard's "Top Soundtracks" chart to No. 3.

In other "Tarzan" news, Phil Collins still has something to sing about as the first single from the album, "You'll Be in My Heart "You'll Be in My Heart" was the main single from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan. Written and performed by Phil Collins, it appears on as well as various other Disney compilations. A version of the single performed by Glenn Close also appears on the soundtrack. ," stays at No. 1 on Adult Contemporary radio playlists for the seventh week in a row, making it Collins' longest-running No. 1 A/C single ever.

The song, which impacted at Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations across the country on April 5, 1999, had the most first-week adds of any song in the history of A/C radio.

"You'll Be in My Heart" is Collins' seventh A/C No. 1 and the first A/C No. 1 from an animated Disney film since Michael Bolton Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his soft rock ballads and powerful tenor vocals.  topped the chart for three weeks in the summer of 1997 with "Go the Distance" from "Hercules."

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The "Tarzan" soundtrack was released May 18, 1999 on Walt Disney Records Walt Disney Records is a record company and part of The Walt Disney Company.

The label was established in 1956 under the name Disneyland Records; its first release was A Child's Garden of Verses. The company changed to its current name in 1989.
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