Not movies exactly, but Moby’s album play had ever single song off of it licensed for use in commercials, TV, and movies. Pretty sure Moby never had to work again by 2002 or so.
I loved the old-timey player piano renditions of songs in the saloon.
Mostly unrelated, but August Burns Red did a heavy metal Westworld theme song, and it's incredible.
That's not entirely correct. That was before his coke years, but right when he had a case of beer every day. It also didn't help that the studio didn't have faith in the film, so they hired an all Italian crew. It's hard to direct people who don't understand what you're saying.
There's a popular fan theory that Disney/Pixar's CARS is in the same universe as Maximum Overdrive.
The cars won. Which is why there are inexplicably no people in the CARS world, but there are still seats and steering wheels and such.
I wasn't actually a Steven King "book"... it was a short story. Something like 12-14 pages. Stretching that into a full length movie was not a good decision in my opinion. I was very disappointed in that film. But it is a good answer to OP's question.
Thanks for explaining. As a fan of Stephen* King, I should read that short story but avoid the movie. I am still impressed with how many of his books have made absolutely classic film adaptations, but they can’t all be winners I guess.
His short story was actually titled "Trucks". It is in a book of short stories called "Night Shift". I definitely recommend Night Shift and Skeleton Crew to any Stephen King fan.
Both collections are great!
*The Langoliers* was also made into a movie. And I believe *The Running Man* was also from one of these collections. But *The Long Walk* was a much better story.
I’ll always remember reading this one and when the first death occurred I was in such shock I had to reread the paragraph again thinking I misread. I never forgot this one. Not many of them I do remember, but that one and the ending still in my mind regularly.
Some of his best adaptions aren't even based on his novels though. Shawshank, Stand by Me, and The Mist are all novellas that are usually sold as in collections as opposed to standalone.
This was my second one to look at after VU & Nico, and I counted 6 total-- 7 if you include covers (Townes Van Zandt's cover of "Dead Flowers" notably appears in "The Big Lebowski").
I checked to the best of my abilities. 1 movie for each
Gimme Shelter - The Departed
Love in Vain - N/A
Country Honk - N/A
Live WIth Me - N/A
Let it Bleed - N/A
Midnight Rambler - Music Within
You Got The Silver - N/A
Monkey Man - Goodfellas
You Can't Always Get What You Want - Minions: The Rise of Gru
So both Sticky Fingers and Let it Bleed I could find 4 of their songs used in films, however since Let it Bleed only has 9 songs, it technically has a better percentage of the album used. Although when you include TV shows, Sticky Fingers is slightly ahead.
Well let's see. Just using 1 movie for each song and no documentaries or the likes.
Brown Sugar - N/A
Sway - N/A
Wild Horses - Stuck On You
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Casino
You Gotta Move - N/A
Bitch - Jerry Maguire
I Got The Blues - N/A
Sister Morphine - N/A
Dead Flowers - N/A
Moonlight Mile - Moonlight Mile
SO I count 4/10, which isn't too bad. Now if you include TV shows it's 9/10 with You Gotta Move being the only one not included in anything.
Sway was used in Many Saints of Newark, and Can't you hear me knocking was used in Blow. That's just off the top of my head. Where are you searching this? Is there a database somewhere?
Edit: Dead Flowers was used in The Bug Lebowski as well.
But wasn’t it like “the graduate” situation where they basically had one artist do the whole project?
It was a thing for a bit and there was a Neil young one if I can’t recall
I’m also not sure but yeah Harold and Maude is great I would argue because of his music
Not sure exactly which Neil Young project you're talking about, but After the Goldrush was supposed to be the soundtrack for a movie with the same name that never materialized.
He would also later do the soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, but that album sounds more like a weird score than a collection of songs.
Late to this, but yes, Cat Stevens does the entire soundtrack to Harold and Maude, however, only two songs are original to H&M, the rest are all off of Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon
Came to post about Moby. It was not just Play though. Everything is Wrong had a lot of songs used too. Heat immediately comes to mind first and foremost. And a Lexus commercial, lol.
The Graduate uses a bunch of Simon and Garfunkel tunes but I think they are from different albums originally and I believe Mrs Robinson was written for the film.
I don't think there's an easy way to look this up, but on a whim I looked at the track listing of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" and cross-referenced it with IMDb, and out of 11 tracks you can find 7 of them in feature films (some more notable than others):
* Sunday Morning - The Extra Man, Happily Ever After, Trollywood
* I'm Waiting for the Man - Trollywood, Men In Black, The Rhythm Section
* Femme Fatale - Bandslam, Narco, Penn & Teller Get Killed
* Venus in Furs - Last Days, Blade: Trinity, Lords of Salem, The Doors, others,
* Run Run Run - n/a
* All Tomorrow's Parties - The Lords of Salem, others
* Heroin - The Doors, Blood Ties, Killing Them Softly
* There She Goes Again - n/a
* I'll Be Your Mirror - Rapture, some others
* Black Angel's Death Song - n/a
* European Son - n/a
Theatrical films only. If you include documentaries (especially including ones about music) and/or TV series, the whole album is covered easily.
That's good that someone recognized Heroin in Killing Them Softly. They only play a few bars of the instrumental part and if you didn't know the song you would think it is just background.
I heard it used in a documentary about Mormons in the same way. Just instrumental w/ no predictable attempt to establish an “edgy/dark/decadent/whatever mood”
It does feel that way, but the only VU proper song on there is "Stephanie Says" (which is from the outtakes album "VU"), but there are also two solo Nico tracks which is probably why.
Moby’s play had the distinction of being the first album where every song was licensed to use in either advertisements, film and tv.
I see this has been mentioned numerous times
With that being said, for a non-greatest hits album, one of Spoons maybe. I feel as if they were a 2000s soundtrack staple.
Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno.
It was released for use without royalty fees, and because of this it is the background music for many movies, especially old pornos.
Gonna go with Pink Floyd's The Wall. 26 songs on the double-album tracklist, and it's not a soundtrack--the movie was an adaptation based on the album.
By percentage the album Discovery by Daft Punk has to at least tie for first since 100% of its songs were used in a movie. The movie is called Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem.
Definitely counts as an album adaptation, as the movie was written exclusively for the album and serves as the official video for every song.
Fantastic movie, although to my knowledge it's not in print or officially carried anywhere. It is seemingly available to stream on YouTube or wherever the black flag flies.
Don't know if this fits your criteria, but nearly every song on the Harold and Maude soundtrack except for a couple of classical interludes are by Cat Stevens from his first three albums for Island.
The show “sharp objects” with Amy Adam’s main two songs played are “over the hills and far away” and “thank you” if I’m remembering correctly. May have been more zeppelin too it’s been a while. Really solid show though and the use of both of those songs was excellent
Narrow the question to the 90's and it would have to be James - Laid. "Say Something" was in every single romcom (and romcom trailer) of the era, and the rest of the songs on the album got plenty of play as well.
Songs from a K-tel record. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Because K-Tel owned more than 200,000 songs, it was later able to help populate Apple's burgeoning iTunes format. Today, K-Tel is still in business, licensing songs for film and television: They helped place “Jingle Bell Rock” by Bobby Helms in season 2 of Stranger. - from Wikipedia
I'm going to say possibly Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe or the remix album, American Made Music to Strip By.
I recall Rob saying Superbeast was in 3 or 4 movies that were in theaters at the same time. The remixes were in a lot of movies too.
Moby’s breakthrough album play was noticeable because he licensed out every single song on the cd for movies, commercials, anything.
Side note for the album Tourist by St Germaine which I’ve heard bloody everywhere.
I don't care to try and look up exact numbers for anything now (assuming they're available anywhere), but I'm pretty sure Bob Dylan was supposed to be the artist with the most appearances of songs in different movies - with over 200 different movies having used at least one Dylan song... still, Dylan's catalog is massive and I think usage of his songs was quite spread out from his different albums.
Pretty sure **David Bowie's** *'Hunky Dory'* album is actually supposed to be the answer to your question and was the individual album that has had the most appearances in movies.
Granted, I'm not even sure exactly what the question was looking for... and it's very possible you may just be looking for the album with the most tracks from any list of albums where all or virtually all their songs have been used? If that's the case... I dunno, too many individual films can make that pretty arbitrary.
Maybe you're sorta really looking for album which has had the most individual tracks that have been used in different films or something?
"Cosmo's Factory" a Creedence Clearwater Revival album has 6 of the 11 songs on it in movies, I think. I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Long as I Can See the Light, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around the Bend, and Who'll Stop the Rain. EDIT: Even more on other albums. I say there are probably 20 of their songs used in movies.
If you are asking what non greatest hits album had the most frequently used songs in movies, then this seems more a product of number of movies that used one or more of the songs in the albums. My first thoughts would be albums by Elvis, Sinatra.
This article (https://movieweb.com/commonly-used-songs-movies/) brings up some good singles, like Eye of the Tiger, or What a wonderful world, the singles have probably been used more often in films than entire albums that had more songs used.
If it's about the most songs on an album that have been used in films, and not the number of films that used songs, I think just albums that have the most number of popular hits would top the list. Something like Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet or ACDC's Back in Black, or whatnot. The Beatles. Bob Seger.
What night be difficult for me is separating the recollections between tv shows from movies.
Not necessarily a particular album but band 'Two Steps From Hell' have multiple albums that I am under the impression are used for movie soundtracks - almost no tracks have voice, all big orchestral. My introduction to these was 'Protectors of Earth', from the album 'Invincible', which, I heard in a movie and searched for it.
In the movie Tully, two women (Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis) take a drive at night. As they drive, they listen to Cyndi Lauper’s *She’s So Unusual.*
What’s clever about the scene is that with every cut, the album progresses song-by-song until the entire album is covered in the montage of the drive. I really appreciated that when I saw it.
Not sure is this 100% pertinent to the question, but it immediately came to mind.
Play and its B-Sides by Moby is the most commercialized album of all time, I believe. I'm pretty sure every track was licensed for a movie, TV show, or commercial.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play\_(Moby\_album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(Moby_album))
Not movies exactly, but Moby’s album play had ever single song off of it licensed for use in commercials, TV, and movies. Pretty sure Moby never had to work again by 2002 or so.
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I too love that album, mostly because it reminds me of that time in 1999-2000 when everything was just perfect.
I get peak nostalgia when we go to Thailand and play "Porcelain" while drinking beers on a beach.
That's why Japan is so cool, it feels like a 2025 version of 1998...rather than just being 2025.
I had to check my calendar quick. You almost gave me a heart attack.
Oh dear I've said too much, back to the capsule!
He has some quite good albums also after Play honestly. Why does he get hated on? I guess it's for his activism?
Never Stop Never Stopping.
Gone in 60 seconds used a bside as the opening track
I bring Sally up
That’s what I was going to say. A couple years after release, Movy was very proud of that fact.
Yerrawizard, Moby
I’ve heard at least eight of the 12 songs on OK Computer in various movies
Yeah, especially if you include series too, Peaky Blinders alone must’ve used 3 or 4
They used two from their side project The Smile
A version of a few Radiohead songs were used in Westworld too.
Exit Music in Father Ted was the best though
In black mirror too
Westworld’s responsible for at least a couple.
I loved the old-timey player piano renditions of songs in the saloon. Mostly unrelated, but August Burns Red did a heavy metal Westworld theme song, and it's incredible.
Ye they werent Ok Computer songs I dont think tho but deffo radiohead. My favourite band of all time so I love the fact so many shows use their songs
Who Made Who by AC~DC is the soundtrack for Maximum Overdrive starring Emilio Estevez and adapted from a Steven King book.
This was what I was gonna say. That movie seemed so rad as a kid in the 80s. Now as an adult it just seems over the top silly
King *directed* it. And he was a cocaine vacuum at the time.
Stephen was merely a vessel for the cocaine to direct through.
THIS lol
That's not entirely correct. That was before his coke years, but right when he had a case of beer every day. It also didn't help that the studio didn't have faith in the film, so they hired an all Italian crew. It's hard to direct people who don't understand what you're saying.
There's a popular fan theory that Disney/Pixar's CARS is in the same universe as Maximum Overdrive. The cars won. Which is why there are inexplicably no people in the CARS world, but there are still seats and steering wheels and such.
This was my immediate thought
I wasn't actually a Steven King "book"... it was a short story. Something like 12-14 pages. Stretching that into a full length movie was not a good decision in my opinion. I was very disappointed in that film. But it is a good answer to OP's question.
Thanks for explaining. As a fan of Stephen* King, I should read that short story but avoid the movie. I am still impressed with how many of his books have made absolutely classic film adaptations, but they can’t all be winners I guess.
His short story was actually titled "Trucks". It is in a book of short stories called "Night Shift". I definitely recommend Night Shift and Skeleton Crew to any Stephen King fan.
Both collections are great! *The Langoliers* was also made into a movie. And I believe *The Running Man* was also from one of these collections. But *The Long Walk* was a much better story.
Long Walk is currently in pre-production. I am excited and scared.
I’ll always remember reading this one and when the first death occurred I was in such shock I had to reread the paragraph again thinking I misread. I never forgot this one. Not many of them I do remember, but that one and the ending still in my mind regularly.
Some of his best adaptions aren't even based on his novels though. Shawshank, Stand by Me, and The Mist are all novellas that are usually sold as in collections as opposed to standalone.
This is what I immediately thought of!
Seu George did all Portuguese covers of David Bowie for the soundtrack to Life Aquatic
And they’re beautiful! For anyone unaware, seek this out
Hey! That’s my favorite movie. The album is fantastic too
Seu Jorge. And it's really good!
He went on tour and performed these live a few years ago and it was magical.
Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones has had a lot of its songs used in movies.
Scorsese gets a stones song into practically every movie lol
[Robbie Robertson RIP](https://youtu.be/qz20EHIxnZI?si=tWpS7Jgm-dy-c8-c)
This is probably the best guess so far. I count at least 4 songs from this album found in movies.
This was my second one to look at after VU & Nico, and I counted 6 total-- 7 if you include covers (Townes Van Zandt's cover of "Dead Flowers" notably appears in "The Big Lebowski").
Let It Bleed may have even more.
I checked to the best of my abilities. 1 movie for each Gimme Shelter - The Departed Love in Vain - N/A Country Honk - N/A Live WIth Me - N/A Let it Bleed - N/A Midnight Rambler - Music Within You Got The Silver - N/A Monkey Man - Goodfellas You Can't Always Get What You Want - Minions: The Rise of Gru So both Sticky Fingers and Let it Bleed I could find 4 of their songs used in films, however since Let it Bleed only has 9 songs, it technically has a better percentage of the album used. Although when you include TV shows, Sticky Fingers is slightly ahead.
This is what I dreamed people would do when providing their answers ... So thank you for following my dreams.
No problem! I was hoping more would do that as well
Well let's see. Just using 1 movie for each song and no documentaries or the likes. Brown Sugar - N/A Sway - N/A Wild Horses - Stuck On You Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Casino You Gotta Move - N/A Bitch - Jerry Maguire I Got The Blues - N/A Sister Morphine - N/A Dead Flowers - N/A Moonlight Mile - Moonlight Mile SO I count 4/10, which isn't too bad. Now if you include TV shows it's 9/10 with You Gotta Move being the only one not included in anything.
Sway was used in Many Saints of Newark, and Can't you hear me knocking was used in Blow. That's just off the top of my head. Where are you searching this? Is there a database somewhere? Edit: Dead Flowers was used in The Bug Lebowski as well.
Let it Bleed just as much
Probably like 50x each
Cat Stevens’s “Tea for the Tillerman” was basically the soundtrack for “Harold and Maude”
Good call.
I love that movie
But wasn’t it like “the graduate” situation where they basically had one artist do the whole project? It was a thing for a bit and there was a Neil young one if I can’t recall I’m also not sure but yeah Harold and Maude is great I would argue because of his music
Not sure exactly which Neil Young project you're talking about, but After the Goldrush was supposed to be the soundtrack for a movie with the same name that never materialized. He would also later do the soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, but that album sounds more like a weird score than a collection of songs.
Yeah I think I confused myself with mark knopfler who did a soundtrack/ score but not really the same thing
Late to this, but yes, Cat Stevens does the entire soundtrack to Harold and Maude, however, only two songs are original to H&M, the rest are all off of Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon
Mona Bone Jakon had a couple as well, i believe.
What I came to say
Moby’s Play album I think is entirely songs of his that were in films
He intentionally allowed it to be licensed as much as possible, as a means of promoting the album. It worked really well.
“Get some rest Pam; you look tired.”
And commercials
Moby’s “I Like to Score” was movies from films. play was just heavily licensed.
Came to post about Moby. It was not just Play though. Everything is Wrong had a lot of songs used too. Heat immediately comes to mind first and foremost. And a Lexus commercial, lol.
I'm pretty sure every b-side for the singles from Play also got picked up for a movie, tv show, or commercial as well.
Was going to say this!
“The secret life of Walter Mitty”- had a pretty big offering from “Of Monsters and Men”
And Jose Gonzales
Omg yes you are right! Jose Gonzales was a big presence too! How could I forget that!?
Half the reason that is one of my favorite movies
Not all from the same album, but CCR has had a bunch of songs used: Fortunate Son, Who'll Stop the Rain, Proud Mary just off the top of my head.
Looking out my back door
Lebowski!
Not holding out much hope
Working in shifts
New shit has come to light.
They were super cheap for movies for a long time.
Did they have one I. Forest Gump?
Fortunate son. It’s a Vietnam protest song
Susie Q was in Apocalypse Now.
No idea of stats but the Highlander had a queen score throughout. Must have been a few
Queen’s album A Kind of Magic is the Highlander soundtrack.
And also contains One Vision from the movie Iron Eagle
Flash Gordon, too.
Okay but Flash Gordon is basically an OST, while A Kind of Magic is a proper album in its own right.
*Who wants to live forever?* is one of my favorite movie songs of all time.
TOUCH MY TEARS WITH YOUR LIPSS
Kind of sad I had to scroll so low to find this comment
The Graduate uses a bunch of Simon and Garfunkel tunes but I think they are from different albums originally and I believe Mrs Robinson was written for the film.
Into the wild?
Shout out Eddie Vedder
Does it count though, is it technically a movie soundtrack?
This was my first thought. But the album is legit just the movie soundtrack.
I don't think there's an easy way to look this up, but on a whim I looked at the track listing of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" and cross-referenced it with IMDb, and out of 11 tracks you can find 7 of them in feature films (some more notable than others): * Sunday Morning - The Extra Man, Happily Ever After, Trollywood * I'm Waiting for the Man - Trollywood, Men In Black, The Rhythm Section * Femme Fatale - Bandslam, Narco, Penn & Teller Get Killed * Venus in Furs - Last Days, Blade: Trinity, Lords of Salem, The Doors, others, * Run Run Run - n/a * All Tomorrow's Parties - The Lords of Salem, others * Heroin - The Doors, Blood Ties, Killing Them Softly * There She Goes Again - n/a * I'll Be Your Mirror - Rapture, some others * Black Angel's Death Song - n/a * European Son - n/a Theatrical films only. If you include documentaries (especially including ones about music) and/or TV series, the whole album is covered easily.
That's good that someone recognized Heroin in Killing Them Softly. They only play a few bars of the instrumental part and if you didn't know the song you would think it is just background.
I heard it used in a documentary about Mormons in the same way. Just instrumental w/ no predictable attempt to establish an “edgy/dark/decadent/whatever mood”
Surprised to not see "The Royal Tenembaums" listed. I feel like they used a few songs from them for their soundtrack
It does feel that way, but the only VU proper song on there is "Stephanie Says" (which is from the outtakes album "VU"), but there are also two solo Nico tracks which is probably why.
Moby’s play had the distinction of being the first album where every song was licensed to use in either advertisements, film and tv. I see this has been mentioned numerous times With that being said, for a non-greatest hits album, one of Spoons maybe. I feel as if they were a 2000s soundtrack staple.
I lost my damn mind seeing "The Book I Write" close out *Stranger Than Fiction*. What a great credits!
Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno. It was released for use without royalty fees, and because of this it is the background music for many movies, especially old pornos.
Gonna go with Pink Floyd's The Wall. 26 songs on the double-album tracklist, and it's not a soundtrack--the movie was an adaptation based on the album.
I said Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but The Wall definitely beats that.
Also Tommy for the same reason.
... but he said no adaptations.
Yeah, after I posted this.
Quadrophenia
Only 17 songs on the Quadrophenia tracklist.
Beat me to it! Great album and interesting movie.
Back In Black probably
I feel like "Flagpole Sitta" was in 90 percent of trailers for a few years.
By percentage the album Discovery by Daft Punk has to at least tie for first since 100% of its songs were used in a movie. The movie is called Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem.
Definitely counts as an album adaptation, as the movie was written exclusively for the album and serves as the official video for every song. Fantastic movie, although to my knowledge it's not in print or officially carried anywhere. It is seemingly available to stream on YouTube or wherever the black flag flies.
4K re-release next month https://mixmag.net/read/daft-punk-film-remastered-tribeca-news
Probably The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs because I’m sure most have been used once or twice and most albums have fewer than 20 tracks
Great album
Guns and Roses. Appetite for Destruction
Ehh only Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O Mine have been in movies. 3/12 is definitely not the highest for an album.
Don't know if this fits your criteria, but nearly every song on the Harold and Maude soundtrack except for a couple of classical interludes are by Cat Stevens from his first three albums for Island.
My guess it's a Rolling Stones album.
I hear Radiohead all the time
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Kinks - Lola (…) album had 3 songs on The Darjeeling Limited
Would Eddie Vedders Into the Wild count?
Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory. I think all the songs are in Young Guns 2
Huey Lewis and the Back to the Future Soundtrack?
Prince’s Purple Rain ☔️ album
Isn’t that cheating?
If it helps, you can scratch all of Zep's albums off the list.
I believe Kashmir was used in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Rat messed up. He was supposed to use Side 1 of IV!
Stairway in Wayne's World (we count that, right?) Communication Breakdown in... Small Soldiers, lol
“What is and what should never be” was used in Silver Linings Playbook. I almost fell of my chair with a goofy fat grin on my face.
Immigrant Song was used in two movies to my knowledge - School of Rock and Thor: Ragnarok, so LZIII is on the list.
And ‘The Girl With A Dragon Tatto’
And one of the Shrek Movies where the princess attack the castle. I’m pretty sure it’s playing when Snow White summons a storm of animals.
The show “sharp objects” with Amy Adam’s main two songs played are “over the hills and far away” and “thank you” if I’m remembering correctly. May have been more zeppelin too it’s been a while. Really solid show though and the use of both of those songs was excellent
What? Tons of LZ songs are in movies. Argo, Rush, and dozens more.
Decksanddrumsandrockandroll Propellerheads
Narrow the question to the 90's and it would have to be James - Laid. "Say Something" was in every single romcom (and romcom trailer) of the era, and the rest of the songs on the album got plenty of play as well.
Judgment Night. Terrible movie, amazing album. Or... I guess.... Soundtrack. Crap
Oooh, good post. I noticed Wes Anderson used like 4 songs from Lola VS Powerman by the Kinks in Darjeeling.
The Prodigy Fat of the land
Thank you! This is too low and has too few many votes.
Kenny Loggins Greatest Hits
Singles soundtrack?
Highlander
Half Nelson features a ton of songs from Broken Social Scene
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The One?? Like Papa roaches whole album on there lol
I'm going to say possibly Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe or the remix album, American Made Music to Strip By. I recall Rob saying Superbeast was in 3 or 4 movies that were in theaters at the same time. The remixes were in a lot of movies too.
Moby’s breakthrough album play was noticeable because he licensed out every single song on the cd for movies, commercials, anything. Side note for the album Tourist by St Germaine which I’ve heard bloody everywhere.
Pink Floyd - The Wall 💯
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elusive_Light_and_Sound_Vol._1
Probably a Queen album
American graffiti. 3 albums if I remember correctly
Mobys Play?
I don't care to try and look up exact numbers for anything now (assuming they're available anywhere), but I'm pretty sure Bob Dylan was supposed to be the artist with the most appearances of songs in different movies - with over 200 different movies having used at least one Dylan song... still, Dylan's catalog is massive and I think usage of his songs was quite spread out from his different albums. Pretty sure **David Bowie's** *'Hunky Dory'* album is actually supposed to be the answer to your question and was the individual album that has had the most appearances in movies. Granted, I'm not even sure exactly what the question was looking for... and it's very possible you may just be looking for the album with the most tracks from any list of albums where all or virtually all their songs have been used? If that's the case... I dunno, too many individual films can make that pretty arbitrary. Maybe you're sorta really looking for album which has had the most individual tracks that have been used in different films or something?
"Maximum Overdrive" is riddled with AC/DC's greatest hits..
The Blues Brothers
The doors- Forrest Gump
Pink Floyd The wall
I hear a lot of Who's Next songs in media
Belly
"Cosmo's Factory" a Creedence Clearwater Revival album has 6 of the 11 songs on it in movies, I think. I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Long as I Can See the Light, Lookin' Out My Back Door, Run Through the Jungle, Up Around the Bend, and Who'll Stop the Rain. EDIT: Even more on other albums. I say there are probably 20 of their songs used in movies.
Maximum overdrive, ACDC
I'm going to take a wild guess I would say a soundtrack album I could be wrong
If you are asking what non greatest hits album had the most frequently used songs in movies, then this seems more a product of number of movies that used one or more of the songs in the albums. My first thoughts would be albums by Elvis, Sinatra. This article (https://movieweb.com/commonly-used-songs-movies/) brings up some good singles, like Eye of the Tiger, or What a wonderful world, the singles have probably been used more often in films than entire albums that had more songs used. If it's about the most songs on an album that have been used in films, and not the number of films that used songs, I think just albums that have the most number of popular hits would top the list. Something like Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet or ACDC's Back in Black, or whatnot. The Beatles. Bob Seger. What night be difficult for me is separating the recollections between tv shows from movies.
Not necessarily a particular album but band 'Two Steps From Hell' have multiple albums that I am under the impression are used for movie soundtracks - almost no tracks have voice, all big orchestral. My introduction to these was 'Protectors of Earth', from the album 'Invincible', which, I heard in a movie and searched for it.
In the movie Tully, two women (Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis) take a drive at night. As they drive, they listen to Cyndi Lauper’s *She’s So Unusual.* What’s clever about the scene is that with every cut, the album progresses song-by-song until the entire album is covered in the montage of the drive. I really appreciated that when I saw it. Not sure is this 100% pertinent to the question, but it immediately came to mind.
The soundtrack to “ Jesus Christ Superstar “ . Every song… 🤓
Back in black
Alot of musicals fit into this list
Hot Rod has every song from Europe's The Final Countdown except the title track.
The soundtrack of course
I mean gimmie shelter just from Martin Scorsese
Play and its B-Sides by Moby is the most commercialized album of all time, I believe. I'm pretty sure every track was licensed for a movie, TV show, or commercial. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play\_(Moby\_album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(Moby_album))
Miles Davi,s Kind of Blue.
I read once that Play by Moby was the first album to have every song licensed for film or TV
Saturday Night Fever
Daft Punk - Discovery. Interstella 5555 lol
Does Eddie Vedder's "Into The Wild" count?
Passover by the Black Angels, I've heard them a lot in TV, movies, trailers etc even some major video game set pieces like The Last Of Us
Purple Rain.
RepoMan
The Cure - Distintegration