Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original motion picture soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It was released on November 27, 1985, by Scotti Bros. Records.
The soundtrack was hugely successful on the strength of two top-five singles, Survivor's "Burning Heart" (personally commissioned for the film by Sylvester Stallone), which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and James Brown's "Living in America", which reached #4, as well as Robert Tepper's lone top-40 hit, "No Easy Way Out", which reached #22. The album reached the top ten on the US Billboard 200 album chartThe Billboard 200 Chart Listing For The Week Of Feb 22 1986 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.RIAA Gold and Platinum Searchable Database "The Sweetest Victory" by Touch features lead vocals by Marq Torien, who in 1988 rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of BulletBoys.
It is the only score to a Rocky film not composed by Bill Conti, though it does incorporate some music he composed for the first film.
Track listing
Re-releases and covers The 2006 reissue, remastered by BMG, featured the bonus track "Man Against the World" by Survivor, a song written for but ultimately cut from the final movie tracklist.
"Eye of the Tiger" was covered and partially sampled over 80 times
"No Easy Way Out" was covered multiple times by:
Bullet for My Valentine — on their 2008 "Scream Aim Fire" album (as Bonus track for Japanese release) Eve To Adam — on their 2018 album "Ithaca" in 2019 they released a music video for this cover.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Beast in Black — on their 2019 "From Hell with Love" album and other artists
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (1985–1986)PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report) 32US Billboard 200Rocky 4 (Soundtrack) - Original Soundtrack. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Accessed on August 9, 2013. 10
Chart (2026) Peakposition US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) 23
Year-end charts Chart (1986)PositionAustrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 11Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 15German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 25Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 15US Billboard 200 65
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