Suicide Squad: The Album

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Suicide Squad: The Album
Soundtrack from various artists

Publication
(s)

5th August 2016

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records , Atlantic Records

Format (s)

CD , download

Genre (s)

different

Title (number)

14th

running time

50:57

Single releases
20th June 2016 Heathens
June 24, 2016 Sucker for pain
July 22, 2016 Purple Lamborghini
August 1, 2016 Gangsta

Suicide Squad: The Album is the official soundtrack for the 2016 movie Suicide Squad and was released on August 5, 2016 via Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records . A separate album of music used in the film, the music of which was composed by Steven Price , was released three days later through WaterTower Music .

Track list

Included on the album

# Artist title length Remarks
1. Skrillex and Rick Ross Purple Lamborghini 3:35 3. Single
2. Lil Wayne , Wiz Khalifa , Ty Dolla Sign , X Ambassadors , Logic and Imagine Dragons Sucker for pain 4:03 2nd single
3. twenty one pilots Heathens 3:15 1. Single
4th Action Bronson , Mark Ronson and Dan Auerbach Standing in the Rain 3:22
5. Kehlani Gangsta 2:57 4. Single
6th Kevin Gates Know better 3:27
7th Grace feat. G-Eazy You don't own me 3:19
8th. Eminem Without me 4:50
9. Skylar Gray Wreak Havoc 3:48
10. Grimes Medieval Warfare 3:00
11. Panic! at the disco Bohemian Rhapsody 6:03
12. Was Slippin 'Into Darkness 3:48
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son 2:21
14th ConfidentialMX feat. Becky Hanson I started a joke 3:10

Additional songs

The following songs can be heard in the film, but are not in the official album:

success

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Suicide Squad: The Album
  DE 9 08/12/2016 (16 weeks)
  AT 3 08/19/2016 (14 weeks)
  CH 3 08/14/2016 (15 weeks)
  UK 2 
gold
gold
08/18/2016 (5 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
08/27/2016 (70 weeks)
Singles
Heathens
  DE 9 06/24/2016 (37 weeks)
  AT 4th 07/01/2016 (35 weeks)
  CH 3 07/03/2016 (42 weeks)
  UK 5 06/30/2016 (36 weeks)
  US 2 07/09/2016 (39 weeks)
Sucker for Pain ( Lil Wayne , Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons feat. Logic , Ty Dolla $ ign & X Ambassadors )
  DE 8th 07/01/2016 (29 weeks)
  AT 6th 07/08/2016 (26 weeks)
  CH 16 07/31/2016 (22 weeks)
  UK 11 08/05/2016 (22 weeks)
  US 15th 07/16/2016 (22 weeks)
Purple Lamborghini
  DE 85 08/12/2016 (4 weeks)
  AT 56 08/19/2016 (7 weeks)
  UK 61 08/12/2016 (5 weeks)
  US 33 08/27/2016 (10 weeks)
Gangsta
  AT 54 02.09.2016 (3 weeks)
  UK 57 08/18/2016 (5 weeks)
  US 41 08/27/2016 (12 weeks)

In the United States alone, the album sold 182,000 copies, of which 128,000 units were sold from traditional recordings. This makes Suicide Squad: The Album the best-selling soundtrack in the United States since the official album for the film Fifty Shades of Gray, which sold more than 200,000 copies at the time. This allowed the album Drakes Views - which had previously dominated the US charts for weeks - and Skillets Uprising to relegate to places two and three respectively. Suicide Squad: The Album climbed to number one in the US album charts . The soundtrack reached number two in the United Kingdom and number three in Switzerland . In Germany and Austria , Suicide Squad entered 9th place. The soundtrack also reached number one in Australia , Canada and New Zealand .

The main single Heathens of the duo twenty one pilots went into several international single charts, although the song was "leaked" before the actual release and Atlantic Records tried to locate the person with a lawsuit on the Reddit website after they denied the IP address to release the affected user. The song reached chart listings in Austria , Germany , the United Kingdom , the United States and Switzerland . In Australia and New Zealand , the single received gold for 15,000 and 35,000 units sold respectively, and silver in the UK for 200,000 music sales.

The song Sucker for Pain by Wiz Khalifa , Lil Wayne and Imagine Dragons also hit international charts. Purple Lamborghini by Dubstep -DJ Skrillex and Rick Ross also entered the singles charts internationally, including in Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States . Gangsta , the fourth single, this time Kehlani made chart entries in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Press reviews

Entertainment Weekly's Maria Sherman wrote that the concept of the film and the accompanying soundtrack showed that comic book readers would love the bad guys. The soundtrack is a compilation of cross-genre and surprising collaborations by various musicians. The cover versions of Leslie Gores You Don't Own Me and Queens Bohemian Rhapsody are sometimes better than their original versions. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic was largely unimpressed by the composition of the songs. Despite the presence of twenty one pilots , whom the author describes as the rock band of 2016, he calls the soundtrack a musical throwback. All in all, the heart of the album is manicured chaos mixed with a lot of shine and volume.

Toni Hennig from the German online music magazine Laut.de scrutinized every song on the album and was of the opinion that most of the pieces were successful and in some cases even had hit potential. He described the collaboration between Skrillex and Rick Ross as daring, but due to its synth passages, the drop bass from Skrillex and the aggressive flow, the piece turned into a banger. He also describes the collaboration of several rappers such as Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla Sign with the rock band Imagine Dragons as unusual. The rappers complement each other well and the part of Imagine Dragons can also be heard. The song Without Me , published by Eminem in 2002 , has a leading role in the film, but is rather a foreign body in the soundtrack. The bohemian Rhapsody cover by Panic! at the Disco comes across successfully due to the choir passages and the driving drums, even if Brendon Urie puts a lot of bombast into the song. Only the Bee Gees cover I Started a Joke could have been left out, according to the author. All in all, the soundtrack is a successful mixture of rap , hip-hop , R&B , pop and rock music with a few cool classics. However, like the film, the soundtrack provides entertaining action without any further depth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jay Jayson: Comicbook.com : Suicide Squad Movie Soundtrack Revealed (Eng.)
  2. ↑ Chart tracking: DE AT CH US UK
  3. ↑ Gold & Platinum Database of the RIAA in the USA (Eng.)
  4. ↑ Gold & Platinum Database of the BPI in Great Britain, accessed April 5, 2017 (English)
  5. ↑ Keith Caulfield: Billboard : 'Suicide Squad' Soundtrack Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart (Engl.)
  6. ↑ Victoria Hernandez: HipHopDX : "Suicide Squad: The Album" Debuts At # 1 On Billboard Top 200 Chart (engl.)
  7. ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Twenty One Pilots' record label seeking legal action against whoever leaked "Heathens"
  8. ^ Maggie Dickman: Alternative Press : Twenty One Pilots' "Heathens" leak source remains unknown after Reddit refuses to work with label
  9. ↑ Awards Singles: NZ - AU - UK
  10. ↑ Maria Sherman: Entertainment Weekly : Suicide Squad: The Album Review (Eng.)
  11. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Allmusic : Suicide Squad: The Album Review (Engl.)
  12. ↑ Toni Hennig: Laut.de : Suicide Squad: The Album Review