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\n\tWarriors<\/em>, the star-studded concept album inspired by the 1979 cult film The Warriors<\/em>, makes a splash on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts. The set, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a> and Eisa Davis, debuts at No. 1 on the Compilation Albums<\/a> chart, and in the top 25 on both the Top Album Sales<\/a> and Top Current Album Sales<\/a> rankings (all dated Nov. 2).<\/p>\n \n\tThe new 24-song project was released on Oct. 18 and boasts such artists as Cam\u2019ron, Ghostface Killah, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Marc Anthony, Nas, Billy Porter, Busta Rhymes, RZA and Shenseea. In addition, two cast members from the 1979 film also appear on the album: James Remar and David Patrick Kelly. Warriors<\/em> was available to purchase in its first week as a digital download, CD and vinyl LP.<\/p>\n \n\tThe album is produced by Mike Elizondo and executive-produced by Nas.<\/p>\n \n\tIn The Warriors<\/em> film, a Coney Island street gang (The Warriors) must travel across New York to get back home while numerous other gangs try to murder them as revenge for an assassination they\u2019re falsely accused of. The Warriors<\/em> album flips the gender of the title gang to female, an idea motivated \u201cin response to seeing GamerGate happen online around 2015,\u201d Miranda recently told Billboard<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEvery plot point is wrinkled or changed in some fundamental way. I got excited by the notion of writing women\u2019s voices surviving the night.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAmong the voices on the album is Hill, who performs the song \u201cIf You Can Count.\u201d The singer-songwriter has not released a studio album since 1998 and rarely releases new studio material. Miranda says Hill\u2019s track was \u201cthe first song we wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe had no plan B. We wrote it to Lauryn Hill\u2019s voice \u2026 the fact that she trusted us and sang the song we wrote will always be among the greatest honors of our careers, but then added so much of herself to it, added background vocals. She\u2019s a co-producer on that track and she earned every bit of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n