The last "blockbuster" song

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It seems a fair proportion of the big movies of the 80’s and 90’s had blockbuster songs associated with them - either by a big name band or solo artist (or sometimes a duet)

I’m thinking of things like “Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves” with “Everything I do (I do it for you” by Bryan Adams", and “The Three Musketeers” with “All for Love” by Rod Stewart, Sting and Adams (again).

The last movie that I can remember having the “big song” was Armageddon, in 1998, with “I don’t want to miss a thing” by Aerosmith.

After that, I don’t really remember there being another movie that had a big hit associated with it.

Now granted, most of the songs were crap, and the whole idea would probably be seen as naff now - but was “Armageddon”/“I don’t want to miss a thing” the last version of this phenomenon, or just the last successful version.

Feel free to name other examples.

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I seem to remember a lot of the early 2000’s superhero movies (like Spiderman) have various big rock songs with them. I think the waning popularity of the music video did them in. They would always have some giant video featuring scenes from the movie. Now it’s just “this song plays during the credits.”

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I have absolutely no recollection of this song, and it was #1 for three weeks.

And the fact that the three sang together makes me lose respect for each one of them. :wink:

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Iron & Wine’s “Such Great Heights” was included on the Garden State soundtrack in 2004. Maybe not “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” levels of popularity, but it was a tremendous hit.

5

I think that’s one of the brain’s defence mechanisms.

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I’m surprised the last few James Bond movies didn’t produce any monster hit singles. Napoleon Dynamite had that White Stripes song, but it wouldn’t fill up a stadium.

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Uh, the tripe that was, “My Heart Will Go On,” from Titanic? Grrrr…

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That came out a year before Armageddon, which is sort of the dividing line of the last big movie theme film.

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Oh! How about “I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow” from O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)?

10

I believe that was a folk song.

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The Transformers movie from last year had that Linkin Park song. (I’m being really specific here, no?) I don’t know how much mainstream airplay that song got, but it was on the rock station I listen to all the freaking time for a couple of months.

2012 tried to go that route - it had a big anthem sung by Adam Lambert straight off his American Idol run. I don’t know how successful that was, though, as I’ve never seen the movie or heard the song, that I know of.

ETA: Apparently the Transformers movie I’m thinking of was the second one, from 2009.

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I think it was the video that made Beavis and Butt-head start vomiting also.

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The song “All Star” by Smash Mouth came out in 1999 and was used in a few different movies, but many people probably remember it from Shrek in 2001.

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And “Hero” by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback on the Spider-Man soundtrack (alluded to by **enalzi **above) was a pretty big hit.

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It wasn’t something you were likely to hear on Top 40 radio, but I seem to recall it got a lot of play on CMT and country music stations back in 2000 and 2001.

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I think they ALL had a Linkin Park song, that came in on the end credits.