Along with Kate Bishop and her other recent nerdy roles, Hailee Steinfeld also has a prolific pop music career with 2016’s “Starving” being her biggest hit to date, reaching #12 on the Billboard charts and going 4x Platinum in the US as well as being a hit in many other countries around the globe.

Originally written in 1976 by Don Schlitz a number of artists tried their hand at “The Gambler”, including Johnny Cash, but Kenny Rogers is the one who made it explode in popularity in 1978. The song was so massive that it even spawned a series of TV movies starring Kenny Rogers himself as the title character.

Possibly looking to copy some of the success of Titanic and its massive power ballad “My Heart Will Go On”, Celine Dion was offered “There You’ll Be” for Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor but she turned it down and country superstar Faith Hill performed the song instead.

Coming out around the same time as other hip-hop movies like Breakin’, Beat Street, and Wild Style, Krush Groove was a fictionalized take on the founding of Def Jam Recordings featuring a slew of 80s hip-hop superstars playing themselves, including Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, New Edition, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys, The Fat Boys, Sheila E. and more.

All of the Milla Jovovich starring Resident Evil movies leaned toward alt-metal and nu-metal for their soundtracks but it seems like the song that had the most impact was Killswitch Engage’s “The End of Heartache”, which appeared on the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack in 2004.

Although never officially released as a single, “Till I Collapse” from Eminem’s album The Eminem Show (and featuring Nate Dogg) made its way around the world of sports, video games, and movies like 2011’s Real Steel, where it was featured in the movie’s trailers along with appearing on the soundtrack.

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation arrived in 1997 from Saban but only lasted one season when it was canceled in 1998. There was enough time in that period however to make a ridiculous 90s music video for the show’s theme song, which featured all the Turtles, Splinter, and the new villain, Dragon Lord.

A huge hit when it was released alongside the movie in 1991 and eventually going Platinum, the soundtrack for New Jack City saw co-stars Ice-T and Christopher Williams providing tracks along with Keith Sweat, Troop/Levert, Queen Latifah, Color Me Badd and more.

Freddy and Jason have had a long history with soundtrack songs from the likes of Dokken, Alice Cooper, The Fresh Prince, The Fat Boys, and more but since 2003 was firmly in the era of Nu-Metal, Ill Niño provided Freddy vs Jason its end credits song and main soundtrack single, “How Can I Live”.

If you saw Halloween Kills this past weekend, you probably heard “Hunter’s Moon” from Swedish hard rock/heavy metal group Ghost on the soundtrack, which is the first new single from the band since 2019.

Although she co-starred with him on the first two Doctor Dolittle movies, Raven-Symoné didn’t appear in the 2003 Eddie Murphy movie The Haunted Mansion, instead contributing a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic “Superstition” and appearing in a tie-in music video.