Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)

Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture
Standard artwork
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedAugust 4, 1987 (1987-08-04)[1]
Recorded1986–1987
Genre
Length39:25
LabelRCA
Dirty Dancing chronology
Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture
(1987) 		More Dirty Dancing
(1988)
Singles from Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture
  1. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
    Released: July 10, 1987
  2. "Hungry Eyes"
    Released: October 1987 (US)
  3. "She's Like the Wind"
    Released: December 1987 (US)[2]
  4. "Yes"
    Released: February 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture is the original soundtrack to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. It was released on August 4, 1987, by RCA Records.[4] The album went on to sell 32 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.[5][6] In the United States, the album spent 18 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and has been certified 14-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[4][7] With shipments of at least 3.25 million copies, it is the all-time best-selling album in Germany.

A follow-up album, More Dirty Dancing, was released in March 1988. The album Ultimate Dirty Dancing, released in December 2003, contains every song from the motion picture Dirty Dancing in the order it appears in the film.

Due to the strong resurgence of vinyl record sales, for the film's 30th anniversary in 2017, Dirty Dancing received a vinyl reissue, along with a Blu-Ray remaster with a 5.1 surround soundtrack and previously unreleased material.

  1. ^ "RIAA". Recording Industry Association of America.
  2. ^ Patrick Swayze Featuring Wendy Fraser - She's Like The Wind, retrieved October 23, 2020
  3. ^ AllMusic review
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference RIAA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Taneja, Nikhil (December 9, 2008). "Those chart busters". The Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on October 10, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  6. ^ "Black Eyed Peas go Dirty Dancing - Havana Nights". Havana Journal. February 8, 2004. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  7. ^ Powell, Lucy (September 16, 2006). "The time of your life". The Times. Retrieved January 3, 2010.[dead link]