In the Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the cast album to the Broadway production In the Heights. Released on June 3, 2008, the album features 23 songs with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and performed by the cast members. The album was one of the best-selling cast albums in the 2000s, sold around 500,000 copies and certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. It won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, the following year.
The recording was distributed in a double album by Ghostlight Records with its vice president Kurt Deutsch and Andres Levin, produced the album with Miranda. The album featured 23 songs with 12 in the first disc and 11 in the second disc and was packaged in a 68-page booklet that contains the photos of the cast members and the song lyrics. The cast members performed the songs live at the Virgin Megastore retail chain in Times Square, 1540 Broadway at 46th street, to commemorate the release of the cast recording and unveiled a post-performance CD to the customers.
On July 30, 2018, Ghostlight Records issued a 3-LP vinyl box set of the original cast recording, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the album's release, and was exclusively made available through the Barnes & Noble retail stores. The box set consisted of 21 tracks with newly remastered audio and a 12-inch booklet accompanying. It was again re-issued in a red, blue and white-colored vinyl in a special "limited edition" box set and released as a Barnes & Noble exclusive on September 4, 2020 in conjunction with the Vinyl weekend (September 4âÂÂ6).
The album debuted at number 82 on Billboard 200 for the week beginning with June 21, and topped the Cast albums chart beating the recording of ', South Pacific, Wicked and Legally Blonde.
Credits adapted from liner notes