The Sunday Soundtrack Charts February 3rd 2008

Posted by Jorn Tillnes
February 3, 2008

A new feature in 2008 for Soundtrack Geek is The Sunday Charts and will chart based on sales numbers from Amazon. I will feature Movie Scores, Movie Soundtracks, Anime Soundtracks and Game Soundtracks. It will be interesting to see the changes over a period of time, and look at the trends. Soundtrack charts are hard to come by so I decided to make one. There will probably be a few surprises for you each week and I hope it is as interesting to you as it is to me.

Here are the top 10 in all categories for Sunday February 3rd 2008.

020308-2033-thesundaych1 The Sunday Soundtrack Charts February 3rd 2008

  1. Atonement by Dario Marianelli (151 overall)
  2. There Will Be Blood by Jonny Greenwood (172 overall)
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King by Howard Shore (232 overall)
  4. The Mission by Ennio Morricone (396 overall)
  5. Pride & Prejudice by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (463 overall)
  6. The Last of the Mohicans by Trevor Jones & Randy Eidelman (585 overall)
  7. 3:10 to Yuma by Marco Beltrami (732 overall)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Howard Shore(827 overall)
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End by Hans Zimmer (846 overall)
  10. The Holiday by Hans Zimmer (847 overall)

Comment: Nothing surprising, interestingly 50% of the scores were originally made before 2007. Composers Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer with 2 scores on the list. Only 2 out of 5 nominees for Best Music Original Score at the Academy Awards are present, the 3 missing are Michael Clayton by James Newton Howard (Not in the top 60, overall 7634), The Kite Runner by Alberto Iglesias (Currently nr. 11, overall 910) and Ratatouille by Michael Giacchino (Currently nr. 17, overall 979).

020308-2033-thesundaych2 The Sunday Soundtrack Charts February 3rd 2008

  1. Juno (2 overall)
  2. Once (7 overall)
  3. Across the universe (18 overall)
  4. Sweeney Todd (60 overall)
  5. Into The Wild (64 overall)
  6. Music and Lyrics (147 overall)
  7. Hairspray (156 overall)
  8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (169 overall)
  9. I’m Not There (175 overall)
  10. Notting Hill (184 overall)

Comment: Juno is a phenomenon. Over 250.000 sold already and is the first soundtrack for a movie nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards to reach nr.1 at Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. Perhaps surprising is that the old classic O Brother, Where Art Thou and also Notting Hill is in the list.

020308-2033-thesundaych3 The Sunday Soundtrack Charts February 3rd 2008

  1. Halo 3 by Michael Salvatori (477 overall)
  2. Kingdom Hearts (2307 overall)
  3. Halo (2509 overall)
  4. Mass Effect by Jack Wall (2588 overall)
  5. Halo 2 vol.1 (3459 overall)
  6. Guitar Hero 3 (3587 overall)
  7. Halo 2 Vol.2 (4137 overall)
  8. Ten Years of Resident Evil: The Official Soundtrack (7090 overall)
  9. Gears of War by Kevin Riepl (8754 overall)
  10. Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth by Kow Otani (11402 overall)

Comment: Halo with 4 out of 10, nothing more to say. It’s also interesting to notice the overall sales of Halo 3, which is in the top 500 overall. That is really wiping the floor with the competition outselling even 5 movie scores in the Top 10 Movie Scores list for this week.

020308-2033-thesundaych4 The Sunday Soundtrack Charts February 3rd 2008

  1. Pokemon X: Ten Years of Pokemon (3121 overall)
  2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex by Yoko Kanno (4754 overall)
  3. Pokemon: The First movie (7085 overall)
  4. Fooly Cooly OST 1: Addict by Shinkichi Mitsumune (7670 overall)
  5. Wolf’s Rain by Yoko Kanno (8066 overall)
  6. Final Fantasy, Vol.8 by Yoshiniro Kitase (8301 overall)
  7. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (8527 overall)
  8. Paprika by Susumu Hirasawa (8914 overall)
  9. Fooly Cooly OST 2: King of Pirates by Shinkichi Mitsumune (9900 overall)
  10. Cowboy Bebop Remixes: Remixes for Freelance (13856 overall)

Comment: Pokemon and Final Fantasy are a given here. I expect that to be a regular on the Sunday charts.

[tags] 3 10 to yuma, alberto iglesias, amazon, billboard top 200, dario marianelli, ennio morricone, game soundtracks, halo 3, james newton howard, jean yves thibaudet, jonny greenwood, juno, kite runner, last of the mohicans, lord of the rings the two towers, michael clayton, michael giacchino, pirates of the caribbean, pirates of the caribbean at world s end, pride prejudice[/tags]

Rate this soundtrack:
charts

If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.

Comments
Comment by The Boom Operator on February 4, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

Great new feature! Thanks for saving me the trouble ;)

I’m gonna be adding a new weekly feature over at the drive-in speakerbox on thursdays, so stay tuned!

Comment by Soundtrack Geek on February 5, 2008 @ 4:08 am

Cool, I will check it out. Can’t wait!

Comment by Josh Baker on June 18, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

I looking for a song by Scott Pearson, from the soundtrack “February One”, do you know of a good website to download and purchase soundtracks?

Thanks, Josh

Comment by Soundtrack Geek on June 18, 2008 @ 8:11 pm

Is it this guy? http://www.scottpearson.net/ You can always shoot him an email and hear what he says.

Leave a comment

(required)

(required)