Just five weeks after its debut on Billboard’s Hot 100 at #50, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has reached the top of the pop chart. Performed by Encanto film cast members Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, and Stephanie Beatriz, the song marks composer Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first #1 single and only the second song from a Disney animated film to reach those heights, following “A Whole New World” from Aladdin in 1993. “I feel like this is my ‘Send in the Clowns,’ which was the late Stephen Sondheim’s biggest hit and probably the most random of an incredible career and life making music,” Miranda told People magazine, “but I’ll take it!”
Only three other Disney songs have come close to the top spot in the past three decades: “Let It Go” from Frozen (#5 in 2014), “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas (#4 in 1995), and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King (#4 in 1994). The popularity of “Bruno” has also kept the film’s soundtrack at the top of Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. You can listen to “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” below.