Almost everyone in the world has a strong affinity to watching movies. We have all been consumed inside the seats of a cinema, reveling in the greatness of the actors we see on the silver screen, savoring the well-written story and relating to whichever movie character we can. Aside from absorbing all of the cheesy lines, the impressive technology used and the different perspectives thrown in between the scenes, we are also suckers for a movie’s official theme song.
While many regard theme songs as nothing but avenues to earn more money (from the end standpoints of movie and song producers that is), we must not discount the fact that it would not have an official award given at the Oscar’s or the Grammy’s for nothing. Despite the fact that you might have forgotten all the meaty dialogues thrown in, the song is still unforgettable, waiting for you to sing it when triggered.
Below are some of the most successful and most memorable movie soundtracks that have been part of almost everyone’s memory. They have gained a wide audience through album sales, track streams and number of minutes played on-air, making them the cream of the crop out of the extensive cistern of theme songs ever known to humanity.
It might come-off as a surprise but the best movie theme song to have stayed the longest in the illustrious Billboard Hot 100 Charts would be Debby Boone’s ‘You Light Up My Life’. Used in the movie with the same title, it was originally sang by Kasey Cisyk and remade by Pat Boone’s daughter.
The soulful and heartfelt way of singing this ballad made it stay as the number 1 track for 10 consecutive weeks, grabbed an Oscar statuette and tied with Barbra Straisand’s Evergreen for the Grammy’s Best Original Soundtrack.
Quite expectedly, also grabbing the top spot is the timeless duet of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie for the song Endless Love. Brooke Shields starred in the movie of the same title as the official theme song, and this duet stayed for a long 27 weeks on the charts, tagging it as the best duet hit of all time.
If you think that Bryan Adam’s monstrous song (Everything I Do) I Do It for You is nothing but a love song, think twice as it’s been used as the soundtrack of the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. While it can be said that Adam’s career in that era was quite established already, the use of this track in the movie gave it a huge boost in sales and patronization.
Straying away from the funky disco tune that they are known for, the Bee Gees shushed the whole music community when they released the ballad How Deep Is Your Love for the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977. Also for the same movie, the Bee Gees produced Night Fever to remind their growing fan base in that moment of how flexible they can be as performers.
Dubbed as one of Whitney Houston’s biggest tracks of all time, I Will Always Love You has been iconic and reminiscent of how great Houston’s career was.
Used in the movie The Bodyguard, one trivia that surrounds this song is that it was written by another respected artist Dolly Parton in 1973, but only ballooned when Houston sang it in 1992.
Before the success of The Bodyguard’s official soundtrack, Boyz II Men led the charts for thirteen weeks with the song End of The Road, co-written by Babyface and used for the Eddie Murphy movie, The Boomerang.
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