The Empire cast has released 4 soundtrack albums, twelve extended plays (EPs), and 29 singles.
Empire features on-screen performance-based musical numbers, which are original songs of popular songs, with genres ranging from R&B to pop and Rap & Hip-Hop.
For the first season, the group's debut album, Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1, was released by Columbia Records on March 10, 2015, The soundtrack received positive critical reception and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, 110,000 copies in the first week.
[3] As of December 2015, the album has sold 470,000 total copies in the United States.
[4] In January 2016, the album was certified Gold in the United States.