“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” From Disney’s ‘Encanto’ Sets New Chart Records This Week
It took a Disney song about a crazy uncle to dethrone Adele.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” the hit song from Disney’s smash Encanto, has become the first tune from a Disney film to reach the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since “Aladdin” did it with “A Whole New World” in 1993. “A Whole New World” was Disney’s first number one song.
Five weeks after its debut at number 50, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” replaced Adele’s “Easy on Me” as the top dog on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this past week, ending the latter’s 10-week run at number 1, pushing it to down to number 2.
That’s not the only new record the song set: it’s the first from Disney Records to score the top position on the charts/ Disney’s other chart-topping songs include High School Musical‘s “Breaking Free” and Frozen‘s “Let It Go,” which only reached the No. 5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the peak of its popularity in 2014.
“Bruno” has also broken the record for the song with the most credited singers: Stephanie Beatriz, Adassa, Mauro Castillo, Rhenzy Feliz, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, and “cast of Encanto” all combined forces to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100, and it is the first penned by a solo writer (Miranda) since Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” in 2017.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” sees the members of the Madrigal clan — the multigenerational Colombian household whose members all have magical abilities except Mirabel (Beatriz), and those who married in — telling Mirabel about her Uncle Bruno (John Leguizamo), the family’s black sheep and an enigmatic figure who vanished after causing havoc with the local villagers with his power to see into the future.
Encanto, which debuted to great success in late December, tells the story of the magical and madcap Madrigal family, who live in an enchanted house in the mountains of Colombia. It features colorful visuals and lavish musical numbers from Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton).