The Grammy-winning soundtrack to the blockbuster movie The Bodyguard (USA, 1992), starring Whitney Houston (USA, 1963-2012) as music star Rachel Marron, is the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time with more than 44 million copies sold worldwide.
What movie has the best-selling soundtrack of all time?
The Bodyguard was and still is the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time. A hit-making sensation that reached No. 1 almost everywhere across the globe, its success was testament to the sheer talent of the late, great Whitney Houston.
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
The cost of sending Hadfield and his guitar to the ISS was estimated to be in excess of $20,000,000 (the price paid by Dennis Tito to Russia for his trip to the ISS). This would technically make Hadfield's the most expensive music video of all time.
It was never a hit single and got almost no play on Top 40 radio. There's even a dispute over the exact title. Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times.
Catchy pop hit "As It Was" by global superstar Harry Styles has been confirmed as the most streamed track on Spotify (2022) with a massive 1.5 billion plays throughout the year.
It was the high-point of the Hollywood musical. [Note: In 1978, the film's status as the most successful musical was finally surpassed by Grease (1978). However, it was earlier ousted by the box-office epic The Godfather (1972).]
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Some suggest that the first music video was created in 1894 by Joseph Stern and Edward Mark, who set a recording of their song “The Little Lost Child” to a moving slide show and marketed it as an “illustrated song.” Though the average American did not yet own equipment to play a recording of the song, over 2 million ...
The number one is, of course, Alfred Newman. The American composer, passed away in 1970, won 9 statuettes, the third highest number of Oscars ever won by an individual (Walt Disney won twenty-six, Cedric Gibbons won eleven).
This depends on how successful the singer or songwriter is. But if talking like for like in terms of the success of a hit, the songwriter will make more than the singer. This is down to the way royalty splits work. Those who do both stand to make the most money of all.
Did you know that A Visit to the Seaside (1908) was the first commercially produced film in natural color? This eight-minute British short film used the Kinemacolor process to capture Brighton Southern England seafront shots.
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison.
In 1906, the first feature-length silent film was produced in Australia, titled The Story of the Kelly Gang. The film was directed by Charles Tait and depicted the adventures of the outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang. The film was more than an hour long, making it the longest narrative film seen in the world at the time.
With over 6,600 different recorded versions, 'Amazing Grace' has been hailed as the most recorded song on the planet by a Nashville music executive by the name of Jerry Bailey.
Inder Sabha is a Bollywood movie with a maximum number of songs. The movie was released in 1932 with 70 songs. It revolves around a King and celestial power.
