| Blade Runner 2049 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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| Released | October 5, 2017 (2017-10-05) | |||
| Length | 93:44 | |||
| Label | Epic/ASG | |||
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Blade Runner 2049 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is thesoundtrack album for the 2017 filmBlade Runner 2049. Released in October 2017, the album contains music composed byHans Zimmer andBenjamin Wallfisch, along with additional tracks byElvis Presley,Frank Sinatra andLauren Daigle. The soundtrack was produced byMichael Hodges, Kayla Morrison and Ashley Culp. It also includes the piece "Tears in the Rain", which was originally composed and performed (as "Tears in Rain") byVangelis, the composer of the original 1982 soundtrackBlade Runner.
Blade Runner 2049 is the sequel toRidley Scott's 1982 filmBlade Runner. Directed byDenis Villeneuve, it starsRyan Gosling andHarrison Ford,Ana de Armas,Sylvia Hoeks andJared Leto. Set thirty years after the original film, the story depicts a bioengineered human, areplicant blade runner named K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a possible war between replicants and humans, K is secretly tasked with finding the child and destroying all evidence related to it.[1]
The soundtrack was nominated for theBAFTA Award for Best Film Music at the71st British Academy Film Awards.[2] In 2018, the soundtrack received aGrammy nomination forBest Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, losing toLudwig Göransson's score forBlack Panther.[3]
Warner Bros. reportedly considered engaging therapper andmusic producerEl-P to write the film score forBlade Runner 2049, and he was commissioned to write a short score for the film's first trailer. Conscious of the legacy of Vangelis's score for the original 1982 film, El-P's composition made use of aYamaha CS-80analog synthesizer, an instrument used by Vangelis. However, El-P's music was not used in the end, and he has stated that his score was "rejected (or ignored)".[4]
Jóhann Jóhannsson, who had worked with Villeneuve onPrisoners,Sicario, andArrival, was initially announced as composer for the film.[5] However, Villeneuve and Jóhann decided to end the collaboration because Villeneuve felt the film "needed something different, and I needed to go back to something closer toVangelis'ssoundtrack".[6] New composersHans Zimmer andBenjamin Wallfisch joined in July 2017. In September, Jóhann's agent confirmed that he was no longer involved and that he was contractually forbidden from commenting on the situation.[7]
According toEpic Records, Zimmer and Wallfisch sought to continue the legacy of the originalBlade Runner score by incorporating the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer. Zimmer has said of the soundtrack: "First of all, I realized that Denis [Villeneuve] is a director who has a vision; he has a voice. Remember, I've done a lot of movies withRidley Scott. So, it was important that this was an autonomous piece of work. Let's just be honest. Ridley is a hard act to follow—as is Vangelis. While Ben [Wallfisch] was four-years-old, I had actually experienced all of this. We watched and literally, as we stopped watching, we decided on the palette. We decided this wasn't going to be an orchestral thing. The story spoke to us."[8]
The soundtrack album was released online on October 5, 2017,[9][10] and a two-disc CD version was released on theEpic Records/ASG Records label in the United States on October 27.
On October 25, 2017, it was announced that a vinyl double-LP of the soundtrack album would be released on December 15, 2017,[11] in a numbered limited edition of 2500, pressed on 180-gram premium vinyl, intended foraudiophiles.[12] Although the information about the release mentioned that the album would have 24 tracks, the advertised tracks on sites selling it shows only 20 tracks, with the tracks byFrank Sinatra andElvis Presley being omitted from the LPs.
All tracks are written byHans Zimmer andBenjamin Wallfisch, unless otherwise noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "2049" | 3:37 |
| 2. | "Sapper's Tree" | 1:36 |
| 3. | "Flight to LAPD" | 1:47 |
| 4. | "Summer Wind" († performed byFrank Sinatra) | 2:54 |
| 5. | "Rain" | 2:26 |
| 6. | "Wallace" | 5:23 |
| 7. | "Memory" | 2:32 |
| 8. | "Mesa" | 3:10 |
| 9. | "Orphanage" | 1:13 |
| 10. | "Furnace" | 3:41 |
| 11. | "Someone Lived This" | 3:13 |
| 12. | "Joi" | 3:51 |
| 13. | "Pilot" | 2:17 |
| 14. | "Suspicious Minds" († performed byElvis Presley) | 4:22 |
| 15. | "Can't Help Falling in Love" († performed by Elvis Presley &the Jordanaires) | 3:02 |
| 16. | "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (†performed by Frank Sinatra) | 4:24 |
| 17. | "Hijack" | 5:32 |
| 18. | "That's Why We Believe" | 3:36 |
| 19. | "Her Eyes Were Green" | 6:17 |
| 20. | "Sea Wall" | 9:52 |
| 21. | "All the Best Memories Are Hers" | 3:22 |
| 22. | "Tears in the Rain" (originally byVangelis) | 2:10 |
| 23. | "Blade Runner" | 10:05 |
| 24. | "Almost Human" (performed byLauren Daigle) | 3:00 |
Note† indicates tracks that are not on the limited edition two-LP vinyl release
| Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13] | 56 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14] | 69 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard)[15] | 59 |
| French Albums (SNEP)[16] | 188 |
| Italian Compilation Albums (FIMI)[17] | 8 |
| Polish Albums (ZPAV)[18] | 43 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC)[19] | 47 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[20] | 48 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] | 64 |
| UK Albums (OCC)[22] | 43 |
| UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC)[23] | 4 |
| USBillboard 200[24] | 53 |
| US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[25] | 2 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[26] | Silver | 60,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
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