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Chuck Arnold of Rolling Stone compared the soundtrack to those of The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games while noting that the Weeknd's " Earned It" brings " Bond-theme drama" to the soundtrack. Kenneth Partridge of Billboard rated the soundtrack three-and-a-half out of five stars, writing that the soundtrack "wisely skews mainstream". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the soundtrack received an average score of 65, based on 7 reviews. In contrast to the near-universal panning of the film, its soundtrack has received generally favorable reviews from music critics.
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Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores As of July 2015, it had sold 89,000 copies in the country. The album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 18,000 copies. As of January 2017, it had sold 913,000 copies in the United States. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with sales of 258,000 units (210,000 copies of traditional albums) in its first week behind Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late.
" I'm on Fire", a Bruce Springsteen cover performed by Awolnation, was released as the fourth promotional single on February 9, 2015. Two further promotional singles, "One Last Night" by Vaults and " I Know You" by Skylar Grey, were released on February 3, 2015. "Salted Wound" by Sia was released as the first promotional single on January 27, 2015. With Goulding and the Weeknd in the Hot 100's top 10 together, Fifty Shades of Grey is the latest soundtrack to generate concurrent top 10 hits. Ellie Goulding's " Love Me like You Do" was released as the second single on Januit reached number one on the national charts of 16 countries including the UK Singles Chart, and peaked at number three on the Hot 100 and was included on her third album Delirium. " Earned It", performed by the Weeknd, was released as the album's lead single on December 23, 2014, peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was included on his second album Beauty Behind the Madness. The soundtrack was preceded by the release of two singles. James announced the soundtrack would be released on February 10, 2015. It's the only song that's in the movie twice." In the end, he wrote 'Earned It' and it's the biggest song of his career to date. Some were working and some weren't, but he just kept at it, and kept at it, and kept at it. Tom Mackay, a manager at Republic Records, explained: "He worked on a number of songs for a number of scenes. By the end we left her spinning her wheels about what she had to do to deliver just the right song to us for the film." The Weeknd was involved in the project very early. played us songs and we would say, 'That's good, but could it be more of this, or less of that?'.
Knobloch said: "She thought it was an opportunity to do something that aligned nicely with her brand and agenda." Sia was approached by Knobloch and music supervisor Dana Sano with a scene they had in mind: "It's a pivotal moment, when the two protagonists have an ecstatic and intimate first sexual encounter. There was a very deliberate effort to create as much original material as possible, to tailor the production, the lyrics, and the performance."īeyoncé was one of the first singers approached for the film. Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing at Universal said: "We really wanted the songs to be part of the fiber of the film - nothing crowbarred in or just auxiliary to the experience. Meetings about the album took place nearly two years prior the album's release when plans of a film were announced.