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The story features several soundtracks that made it onto the list in the last year to compete for the coveted "Best Soundtrack" award at this year's Billboard Music Awards.Ĭounting down from #100, here are the best movie and TV soundtracks of all time. The list is based on Billboard’s methodology and ranking (centered primarily on retail and digital sales in the U.S.), along with the soundtrack’s performance on the Billboard 200 chart. To determine the best movie and TV soundtracks of all time, Stacker mined data from Billboard to rank the top 100 out of 1,675 soundtracks. The best of these soundtracks are powerful enough to stick with us for a lifetime.
Many heighten the film or show’s atmosphere while some just represent a terrific collection of songs. There is no shortage of top-notch soundtracks from any given era. One of the most famous examples: “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, a song that helped make “Titanic” a meteoric smash hit, while also benefiting from the film’s unstoppable popularity. In the time since, movies or TV shows and music have formed a mutually beneficial relationship. Even during the silent era, there was a musician perched in the theater, playing deftly alongside the moving images. Not only was the Warner Brothers film a huge hit for Streisand and Peters, the soundtrack was a hot seller, too, even at Columbia’s $8.98 list price – a new high for a single LP.The connection between visual media and music goes back to the dawn of cinema itself. But all the Kris Kristofferson stuff was the first thing up on the shoot schedule. I actually wrote that as the last thing, which I think bothered her. She put it on tape for me, and I took it home. There’s the big love song.’ I asked her for the melody. “She sat down and played on a guitar, the melody for ‘Evergreen’ that she’d written,” Williams told writer Carl Wiser. To help promote the movie even more, Barbra’s big single from the album was clumsily (but cannily) titled not just “Evergreen” but “Love Theme from ‘A Star is Born’ (Evergreen).” Streisand wrote the melody for the song on guitar, and Paul Williams provided the lyrics both won Grammy and Oscar awards for the song. The soundtrack to A Star is Born featured the film’s stars Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson singing the tunes of a variety of amazing songwriters: Rupert Holmes, Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher, Kenny Loggins, the Bergmans, and Donna Weiss. According to Variety, “the campaign had Columbia concentrate its $400,000 budget over a two-week period with Warners-controlled ads that also plugged the paperback and film.” purchase the movie’s soundtrack album, which was released nearly a month before the movie hit theaters by Columbia Records. Jon Peters, the film’s producer and Barbra’s beau, designed a brilliant publicity campaign in which audiences would see Scavullo’s iconic photography on the film’s posters and advertising, hear “Evergreen” on the radio, buy a paperback novelization of the film, and …. Streisand’s big remake of A Star is Born was set to hit theaters around Christmas 1976. To date, the album has sold over four million copies and is considered the first “mega-soundtrack album,” predating Grease and Saturday Night Fever a few years later. Streisand was the darling of Top 40 Pop radio, with her song “Evergreen” selling millions, too. The album was certified Platinum (with over one million records sold) by the RIAA merely two months after it was released to stores. Digitally edited by Stewart Whitmore for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA.Ī Star is Born, the soundtrack album to Barbra’s 1976 film, was also her third number one album (after People and The Way We Were ), with monumental sales.Remastered from the original master tapes by Stephen Marcussen.