Jason English
Lunchtime Quiz: Name the Best-Selling Movie Soundtracks
by Jason English - March 9, 2010 - 11:30 AM

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Here’s a holdover from Reader-Submitted Quiz Week, courtesy of Gary Colemere of Chandler, Arizona. Enjoy!

Can you name the nine top-selling film soundtracks in U.S. history (per the RIAA, as of Feb 2010)? We were going to ask you for the top ten, but since O Brother Where Art Thou and Grease are tied for tenth, let’s see if you can name the nine soundtracks to sell more than those two. You’ve got three minutes. Good luck!

Take the Quiz: Name the Best-Selling Movie Soundtracks

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Comments (8)

  1. Crapped out at :30 with two left. The two I missed should have been obvious to me. But I am surprised at how many I did get.

    Fun quiz.

    posted by EV on 3-9-2010 at 1:14 pm

  2. Ditto on the surprised. Just missed Saturday Night Fever (probably could have gotten, but blanked on the name) and Top Gun (… really?)

    posted by Kevin on 3-9-2010 at 1:41 pm

  3. Started out thinking not a problem. Surprised when Funny Girl not a match,
    then no Singing in the Rain, no mention of West Side Story. Read the question again and said “Oh soundtracks!” No Shaft, no Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, no time left! Zero for nine and shaking my head at the results.

    posted by Older Ears on 3-9-2010 at 2:05 pm

  4. I got three right! Titanic, Forrest Gump, Dirty Dancing (my all time favorite movie).

    I knew there’d be a Disney movie in there, and started guessing, but didn’t get the right one.

    Fun quiz today!

    posted by Kelly on 3-9-2010 at 2:56 pm

  5. How is Star Wars not on the list?

    Also thought of Benny & Joon and the Breakfast Club.

    posted by DMC on 3-10-2010 at 4:41 am

  6. I can’t believe Garden State, the Wedding Singer and Flashdance were not on there, and I picked the wrong Disney Movie (Beauty and the Beast).

    posted by Shannon on 3-10-2010 at 12:55 pm

  7. Surprised Hard Day’s Night wasn’t one.

    posted by Colleen on 3-10-2010 at 3:49 pm

  8. I guessed Hard Day’s Night too! I only got three :( can’t believe I missed Dirty Dancing, naturally one of my favorites! I thought “Beaches” might be on there too… maybe that was just my middle school girlfriends who were obsessed

    posted by amber on 3-10-2010 at 4:50 pm

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