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The hit soundtrack album interspersed golden oldies with Mr Williams's DJ chatter five years before "Reservoir Dogs" used the same gimmick.
A film like The Last Lear, on the other hand, exists almost in isolation, and lacks the incredible marketing power that a hit soundtrack provides.
The most high-profile example of this new world-music trend comes not from Africa, however, but via India: the Grammy-winning hit soundtrack to the film "Slumdog Millionaire".
At Sidewalk he met Kimya Dawson and Adam Green of the Moldy Peaches, who followed Mr. Lewis's example but leapfrogged him on the way to wider renown, opening for the Strokes and appearing on the hit soundtrack to the 2007 film "Juno".
Behind Schoolboy Q, the hit soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" came in at No. 2, down one notch from its position last week atop the chart.
After raising her profile with hit soundtrack singles during the late 1990s, Aaliyah started to work on the album in 1998, but rescheduled its recording around her developing film career.
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But music budgets have been dwindling for at least a decade, as piracy, cheap downloads and collapsing CD sales made it virtually impossible for film producers to recoup from hit soundtracks the money they spend on music.
The Disney Channel's hit television movie "High School Musical," which begat "High School Musical 2," begetting a couple of hit soundtracks, a stage spinoff and plans for a film, has now begat "High School Musical -- The Ice Tour".
But it plays like a pale imitation of wrenching family drama, a kind of "Kvetch of a Salesman" with a greatest-hits soundtrack.
Swift complains to her boyfriend that they haven't picked out a romantic radio hit to soundtrack their relationship, to which the boyfriend artfully replies: "Our song is the slamming screen door/ Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window/ When we're on the phone and you talk real slow/ 'cause it's late and your mama don't know".
David Korins's sets, for example, are unusually intricate for a small-scaled musical, with pieces sliding in from the side or popping up from the floor as the story moves from a motel room in Montana to Floyd's home in Austin, bought with royalties from a song he wrote for Clea that she included on a hit movie soundtrack.
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