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Suicide Squad (soundtrack)

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Released
  
August 5, 2016

Length
  
50:57

Movie
  
Suicide Squad

Recorded
  
2016

Release date
  
5 August 2016

Label
  
Atlantic Records


Genre
  
Alternative pop hip hop rock indie rock

Producer
  
Skrillex Beat Billionaire Alex da Kid Mike Elizondo Tyler Joseph Mark Ronson Jmike Djemba Djemba T-Collar Quincy Jones Parker Ighile Eminem Jeff Bass DJ Head Jason Evigan Claire Boucher Butch Walker Jerry Goldstein John Fogerty Kyle Biane John Samuel Hanson

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, American Music Award for Top Soundtrack

Awards
  
Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Soundtrack

Similar
  
The Ultimate Hits, Blurryface, Awaken - My Love!, Gunslinger, Cosmic Hallelujah

Suicide Squad: The Album is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. The album was released on August 5, 2016, by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records. A separate film score album, titled Suicide Squad (Original Motion Picture Score) and composed by Steven Price, was released on August 8, 2016, by WaterTower Music. The digital edition of the film score album contains eight bonus tracks. It received mixed to positive reviews by critics, and the Collector's Edition received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 2017 ceremony.

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Commercial performance

In the United States, the soundtrack debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with 182,000 equivalent album units. It was also the best-selling album of the week, selling 128,000 copies in its first week on the chart.

Suicide Squad was certified gold in the United States on September 23, 2016, for 500,000 units composed by sales, streaming and track-equivalent units. It was certified platinum for shipping over 1 million equivalent-units on November 16, 2016. As of March 2017, it has sold 536,000 copies in the country.

Additional music

Though these songs appear in the movie, they are not included on the soundtrack album.

  • The Animals – "The House of the Rising Sun"
  • Lesley Gore – "You Don't Own Me"
  • Rick James – "Superfreak"
  • The Rolling Stones – "Sympathy for the Devil"
  • AC/DC – "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
  • Kanye West – "Black Skinhead"
  • Rae Sremmurd featuring Bobo Swae – "Over Here"
  • Black Sabbath – "Paranoid"
  • The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
  • K7 – "Come Baby Come"
  • Henryk Górecki – "Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)"
  • Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit In The Sky"
  • Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"

    • Songs

    1Purple LamborghiniSkrillex & Rick Ross3:36
    2Sucker For Pain (with Logic - Ty Dolla $ign & X Ambassadors)Logic - X Ambassadors - Lil Wayne - Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons - 4:04
    3HeathensTWENTY ØNE PILØTS3:16

    References

    Suicide Squad (soundtrack) Wikipedia
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