The Batman, the dark new opus of the adventures of the masked vigilante, remains in first place at the North American box office for the second week in a row, according to provisional figures from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations published on Sunday. With $ 66 million in revenue from Friday to Sunday in the United States and Canada, the film from Warner Bros. now exceeds 238 million dollars in tickets sold in the United States, to which are added 224 million dollars internationally. What justify its budget of 200 million dollars. Why The Batman is a huge success But the man bat is not only the heyday of dark rooms. This week, Spotify saw a surge in popularity for Nirvana’s track “Something in the Way”, from the 1991 album Nevermind, which is currently enjoying a second life. Already used in the film’s trailer, the track appears twice in a remastered version on the soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino. A week after the release of The Batman in North American theaters, the track saw its listening explode by more than 1,200% on the streaming platform and thus climbed to third position in the Spotify Top 50 in the United States. , behind Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”, which features on the soundtrack of the Disney animated film Encanto. US research firm MRC Data also reports that the track has recorded 3, 1 million streams across all platforms within four days of the film’s release, according to Variety. Also according to the American media, the masked vigilante also boosted sales of the album Nevermind, which is currently ninth in the best-selling CDs and vinyls in the Amazon Music ranking.
