Top Gun (soundtrack)

Top Gun
Special Expanded Edition cover, which is mostly identical to the original cover apart from the longer tracklist
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedMay 15, 1986[1]
Genrevarious
Length38:38
LabelColumbia
Producer
Top Gun soundtracks chronology
Top Gun
(1986) 		Top Gun: Maverick
(2022)
Singles from Top Gun
  1. "Danger Zone"
    Released: April 1986
  2. "Take My Breath Away"
    Released: June 1986
  3. "Mighty Wings"
    Released: June 1986
  4. "Heaven in Your Eyes"
    Released: July 1986
  5. "Playing with the Boys"
    Released: August 1986[2]
  6. "Top Gun Anthem"
    Released: 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records.

The album reached number one in the US charts for five nonconsecutive weeks in the summer and autumn of 1986. It was the best selling soundtrack of 1986 and one of the best selling of all time.[4][5] The song "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin went on to win both the Academy Award for Best Original Song[6] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[7] According to Allmusic, the album "remains a quintessential artifact of the mid-'80s", and the album's hits "still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the era."[5]

In 1999, the album was reissued as a "Special Expanded Edition" with additional songs, and in 2006, it was reissued again as Music From and Inspired by Top Gun: Deluxe Edition, containing additional songs not in the film. In March 2024, soundtrack specialist label La-La Land Records released a limited edition (5000 copies) double CD containing Harold Faltermeyer's entire original score with the second disc containing all the songs from the classic soundtrack, the additional songs featured in the film but not released until the Special Expanded Edition and, for the first time since its appearance on the B-side of "Take My Breath Away", "Radar Radio" by Giorgio Moroder and Joe Pizzulo, briefly heard in the film's final scene playing on a radio before Maverick and Charlie are reunited while "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" plays on the jukebox.[8]

  1. ^ "RIAA". Recording Industry Association of America.
  2. ^ "Kenny Loggins singles".
  3. ^ Allmusic review
  4. ^ Denisoff, R. Serge; Romanowski, William D. (December 31, 2011). Risky Business: Rock in Film. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412833370.
  5. ^ a b "Top Gun [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "The 59th Academy Awards | 1987". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  7. ^ "Winners & Nominees 1987". www.goldenglobes.com. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  8. ^ "Top Gun Limited Edition 2 CD Set". La La Land Records.