Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ ID PR) The ROCK OF AGES: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, released June 5th by WaterTower Music, debuted today at #1 on multiple Billboard charts - locking in the #1 Soundtrack, #1 Indie and #1 Hard
Music chart positions according to SoundScan. Additionally, the soundtrack took the #15 spot on Billboard's Top 200 chart.
"And with the film's opening this Friday, we expect interest in our record to remain high for some time."
"We're thrilled with these #1 chart positions before Rock of Ages has even hit theatres," said WaterTower
Music head Jason Linn. "And with the film's opening this Friday, we expect interest in our record to remain high for some time."
This hit album features 20 rousing anthems that defined a generation—reinvigorated for the film by a stellar cast including Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Akerman, Mary J. Blige, Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise. The soundtrack for the film, which the Los Angeles Times calls "a love letter to spandex-clad guitar gods," has earned rave reviews in advance of the film's theatrical debut, June 15th.
Directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray), New Line Cinema's Rock of Ages is the film adaptation of the smash hit, five-time Tony®-nominated Broadway musical which tells the story of small town girl Sherrie and city boy Drew, who meet on the Sunset Strip while pursuing their Hollywood dreams. Executive
Music Producer Adam Anders (Glee) helps tell the rock 'n' roll romance through cast versions of the heart-pounding hits of Def Leppard, Poison, Journey, Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, Foreigner, Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake, and more.
As the larger-than-life, arena-rocking champ "Stacee Jaxx," the Rock of Ages
Soundtrack features
Tom Cruise belting out Bon Jovi's classic "Wanted Dead or Alive," Def Leppard's hit "Pour Some Sugar On Me," and Guns 'N Roses anthem "Paradise City." Cruise also duets with Malin Akerman on Foreigner's power ballad, "I Want To Know What Love Is," and shares the mic with
Julianne Hough on The Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane."
The album also features an extraordinary medley of Night Ranger's "Sister Christian,"
David Lee Roth's "Just Like Paradise," and Poison's "Nothin' But A Good Time," which features Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta, Russell
Brand and Alec Baldwin.
Also echoing through the soundtrack are mash-ups of songs that ruled the airwaves in the `80s, including Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero" / Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N Roll"; Extreme's "
More Than Words" / Warrant's "
Heaven"; Pat Benatar's "Shadows Of The Night" / Quarterflash's "Harden My Heart"; and Starship's "
We Built This City" woven into Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It," all performed by the film's cast.
The full track list for the album is as follows:
1. "
Paradise City" - Tom Cruise
2. "Sister Christian" / "
Just Like Paradise" / "Nothin' But A Good Time" - Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
3. "Juke Box Hero" / "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" -
Diego Boneta, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough
4. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" - Catherine Zeta-Jones
5. "Waiting For A Girl Like You" -
Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough
6. "
More Than Words" / "
Heaven" - Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta
7. "
Wanted Dead Or Alive" - Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough
8. "
I Want To Know What Love Is" - Tom Cruise, Malin Akerman
9. "I Wanna Rock" -
Diego Boneta
10. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - Tom Cruise
11. "Harden My Heart" - Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige
12. "Shadows of the Night" / "Harden My Heart" - Mary J. Blige, Julianne Hough
13. "
Here I Go Again" -
Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Tom Cruise,
14. "
Can't Fight This Feeling" - Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin
15. "Any Way You Want It" - Mary J. Blige, Constantine Maroulis, Julianne Hough
16. "Undercover Love" -
Diego Boneta
17. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige
18. "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise
19. "
We Built This City" / "
We're Not Gonna Take It" - Russell
Brand / Catherine Zeta-Jones
20. "
Don't Stop Believin'"- Julianne Hough,
Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Mary J. Blige
To learn more about the film and soundtrack visit www.rockofagesmovie.com
