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Topic: soundtracks

Jared Leto in "Tron: Ares" (Disney Enterprises, Inc.)

6 soundtracks hit a high note in 2025

Melanie McFarland

Kenny Loggins (Nick Spanos)

Kenny Loggins, movie soundtrack legend

Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck publicity portrait for the film 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', 1986. (Paramount/Getty Images)

The essential "John Hughes Mixtapes"

John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney emerge from a forest in a scene from the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (Universal/Getty Images)

22 best movie soundtracks of the 2000s

Todd Gilchrist - Mental Floss

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Bradley Cooper as Jack and Lady Gaga as Ally in "A Star Is Born" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Bradley Cooper bests Springsteen

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

13 '80s soundtracks to reissue

Matthew Broderick in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (Paramount Pictures)

Bueller's missing soundtrack

(AP/John Shearer)

We've never had an ELO break

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Benjamin Wheelock

Lorde (AP/Paul A. Hebert)

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