This is our listing of the Top Pop Movie Soundtracks since 1950. Our Pop Culture Criteria is based upon factors such as initial box office draw, spawning of prequel and/or sequel, crossover into other genres and overall impression on our society.
Top Pop Movie Soundtracks
Grease
1978
Notable Tracks: Grease, You’re the One That I Want, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted to You, Sandy and Greased Lightnin’.
Saturday Night Fever
1977
Notable Tracks: How Deep Is Your Love, More Than a Woman, Stayin’ Alive, If I Can’t Have You, Boogie Shoes and Night Fever.
Vision Quest
1985
Notable Tracks: Only the Young, Change, Lunatic Fringe, Hot Blooded and Crazy for You.
The Big Chill
1983
Notable Tracks: I Heard It Through the Grapevine, My Girl, The Tracks of My Tears, Joy to the World, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, I Second That Emotion, Dancing in the Street, What’s Going On, Bad Moon Rising and Wouldn’t It Be Nice.
Footloose
1984
Notables Tracks: Footloose, I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man), Let’s Hear It for the Boy, Holding Out for a Hero, Almost Paradise, Dancing in the Sheets and Somebody’s Eyes.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
2000
Notable Tracks:
American Graffiti
1973
Notable Tracks: (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock, 16 Candles, Runaway, That’ll Be the Day, At the Hop, Surfin’ Safari, Little Darlin’, Barbara Ann, Ain’t That a Shame, Johnny B. Goode, and I Only Have Eyes for You.
Dirty Dancing
1987
Notable Tracks: (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life, Be My Baby, She’s Like the Wind, Hungry Eyes, Stay, and In the Still of the Night.
Purple Rain
1984
Notable Tracks: Let’s Go Crazy, Jungle Love, When Doves Cry, The Bird, Purple Rain and I Would Die 4 U
The Bodyguard
1992
Notable Tracks: I Will Always Love You, Someday (I’m Coming Back), I’m Every Woman, I Have Nothing, Run to You and (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding.
Pretty in Pink
Goodfellas
Space Jam
Back to the Future
High School Musical
The Sound of Music
Forrest Gump
Titanic
Frozen
Fame
Flashdance
Jailhouse Rock
Ocean’s 11
Help!
Rock and Roll High School
Boogie Nights
The Graduate
A Star is Born
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