TWITTER WATCH: Lin-Manuel Miranda Announces HAMILTON Cast Album #1 on Billboard's Rap Album Chart

The theatre award season is still several months away, but it seems like there's rarely a week that goes by without Lin-Manual Miranda's inventive Broadway smash HAMILTON making headlines somewhere.

After winning approval from President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as being quoted by presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, being referenced on Saturday Night Live and helping to earn its author a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, Miranda has announced on Twitter that HAMILTON's original Broadway cast recording has reached the #1 sport on Billboard's Rap Album Chart.

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From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: AlexanderHamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.