Jukebox musical was led by the success of "Mamma Mia!", built around the music of ABBA. Reception of jukebox musicals has been divided, with the most common criticism being that there is too much focus on how many songs can be fit into the musical. Some jukebox musicals, like "Lennon" and "Good Vibrations" have been critical and financial flops. Others, like "Jersey Boys" and "All Shook Up" have been popular with both fans and critics. The term "jukebox musical" dates at least to 1962, following "Jukebox" (1939), though the general genre—motion pictures consisting largely of hit recordings—dates to the 1940s and 1950s.
Jukebox musical songs. Other films described as jukebox musicals take all their songs from a single concept album featuring an integrated song cycle with a story arc, sometimes labeled a rock opera. Both the movies of The Who's "Tommy" and of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" adapted the entire song cycle of a single album which already revolved around a fictional character. Although jukebox musicals had achieved success for years (for instance "Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story", the musical about the life of Buddy Holly which ran in the West End for 13 years from 1989 to 2003), a surge in popularity