Well, apparenty the soundtrack to her premature pregnancy is the soundtrack to “Juno,” the film about a teenage kid (Ellen Page) who gets unexpectedly knocked-up (if you haven’t paid attention). It might make sense, the soundtrack was on the top of the digital sales chart a day ago.
The assertion made by the New York Post is ridiculous (not to mention tres classy), but it’s probably only helping to fuel the “Juno” hype machine which is riding in full force – the film was No. 1 at the Boxoffice on Monday and is on track to be the number 1 movie at the Boxoffice this weekend (which would kind of be a pretty amazing and unprecedented move for a small $2.5 million dollar indie in its fifth week of release).
“[Spears] loves it and it’s helping her through her difficult time,” the Post “insider” said (they prolly just made the quote up). Either way her her rep is wisely denying she’s a big fan of the soundtrack. What would Kimya Dawson think?
Oh, and as Slashfilm has just pointed out, you can download the “Juno” script for free along with “The Darjeeling Limited,” “The Savages,” and other free Fox Searchlight scripts over at their awards page. Diablo Cody‘s “Juno” script is sure to at least get a nomination (and is probably a safe bet to win the Oscars – the indie ghetto always gets this award).
Juno Salesfigures
We had mentioned that “Juno” is number 1 on the current digitial Soundscan charts and the physical release debuted at number 8 on the regular Soundscan album charts today. Wait, how can that be? We previously reported that the physical release was due January 15, right? Well, Rhino people tell us the album did so well digitally they bumped up the release to this past Tuesday (January 8) and Soundscan actually counted digital sales in their album chart. Has this ever been done before? Bueller?