Hugh Jackman is ECSTATIC as The Greatest Showman soundtrack album goes platinum – WATCH

A smash hit, the album has been No 1 in the UK album chart for the last 11 weeks, while topping iTunes in over 77 countries.

Now The Greatest Showman’s star Jackman has taken to Twitter to express his utter delight that the soundtrack has gone platinum.

Speaking in a selfie video, the 49-year-old star said: “So I just found out that The Greatest Showman album went platinum!

“I’m like ‘Whhhaaattt?!’”

Jackman continued: “That is unbelievable. I’m blown away. I’m so grateful to you all. Your support means everything to me.

“So thank you so much for getting behind this soundtrack and getting behind this movie. Thanks!”

Jackman didn’t specify in which region he was celebrating The Greatest Showman going platinum, seeing as the target changes in different countries relative to the population.

The album has reached such heights in both the UK and Australia, so presumably he was referring to the latter as a native Aussie.

Current figures indicate the soundtrack has sold over 70,000 copies in Australia and over 465,000 in the UK.

Meanwhile it’s gone Gold in the US at 500,000, which is impressive nonetheless as an artist has to sell over 1 million to go platinum in America.

However The Greatest Showman is set to lose its UK No 1 album reign this week.

Having matched Adele’s 21 record, the album looks ready be dethroned by George Ezra’s latest album.