City of Angels (soundtrack)

City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	March 31, 1998 (U.S.)
Length	71:48
Label	Warner Bros.
Singles from City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture
"Uninvited" Released: 24 February 1998[1] "If God Will Send His Angels (Remix)" Released: 2 March 1998[1] "Iris" Released: 7 April 1998[1]

City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the film City of Angels, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 31, 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
National Catholic Reporter	(positive)[3]

Yahoo! Music's Craig Rosen, who called the album "a stroke of marketing genius", speculated that executive producer Rob Cavallo, who was head of Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls' management firm, "was instrumental in making sure the soundtrack provided a nice set-up for the forthcoming Morissette and Goo Goo Dolls albums [Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and Dizzy Up the Girl, respectively] ... Record executives and managers love big hits from soundtracks, especially when they dovetail into a new release by one of their artists. That's the case with both Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls and it's not a mere coincidence."^[4] Bob Bell, a new release buyer for the Wherehouse Entertainment chain of stores in Torrance, California, said the marketing of the album was "amazing" and attributed its early strong sales to "Uninvited". He said of the Goo Goo Dolls that the soundtrack "helped to re-establish them ... [it] brought them back into our minds".^[4] Robert Scally wrote of "Uninvited", "Placing exclusives on soundtracks ... has been a successful tactic for creating a buzz around the album while highlighting the musical artist".^[5]

Commercial performance

The City of Angels soundtrack debuted at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200 chart on the issue dated 18 April 1998.^[6] The following week it entered the top ten at number seven and eventually reached the runner-up position for three weeks until it topped the charts in early June, selling 165,000 copies.^[7] City of Angels finished the year as the seventh highest-selling album of 1998.^[8] To date the soundtrack has sold 5.5 million units in the United States and has been certified five times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[9][10] Additionally, it peaked at number three on the Canadian charts and has sold over 700,000 copies in the country.^[11]

Elsewhere, the soundtrack also performed well, reaching number one in Australia, Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland. It has been certified Platinum in Japan and multi-Platinum in Australia.^[12]

Singles

Its two singles, the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" and Alanis Morissette's "Uninvited", were released to U.S. radio in March and were still receiving substantial radio airplay by the following August.^[4] An internet and radio leak of "Uninvited" in early March forced Warner Bros. to release the entire soundtrack to radio before it became available in stores. According to a publicity manager for Warner Music Canada, the measure was "an inconvenience" taken to stop radio stations from playing low-quality versions of the song downloaded from the internet.^[13] "Iris" reached number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, Top 40 Mainstream and Adult Top 40 charts in the U.S., and it spent a record amount of time atop the Hot 100 Airplay chart.^[14] "Uninvited" reached number one on the Top 40 Mainstream and peaked inside the top five on the Adult Top 40.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performer	Length
1.	"If God Will Send His Angels"	Bono Adam Clayton The Edge Larry Mullen, Jr.	U2	4:31
2.	"Uninvited"	Alanis Morissette	Alanis Morissette	4:34
3.	"Red House"	Jimi Hendrix	Jimi Hendrix	3:49
4.	"Feelin' Love"	Paula Cole	Paula Cole	5:37
5.	"Mama, You Got A Daughter"	John Lee Hooker	John Lee Hooker	3:41
6.	"Angel"	Sarah McLachlan	Sarah McLachlan	4:29
7.	"Iris"	John Rzeznik	Goo Goo Dolls	4:50
8.	"I Grieve"	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel	8:09
9.	"I Know"	Jude Cristobal	Jude	4:34
10.	"Further On Up the Road"	Joe Medwick Don Robey	Eric Clapton	7:26
11.	"An Angel Falls"	Gabriel Yared	Gabriel Yared	4:54
12.	"The Unfeeling Kiss"	Gabriel Yared	Gabriel Yared	3:42
13.	"Spreading Wings"	Gabriel Yared	Gabriel Yared	4:25
14.	"City of Angels"	Gabriel Yared	Gabriel Yared	7:07
Total length:				71:48

Record charts and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (1998) Peak position scope="row" Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] 1 scope="row" Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[16] 2 scope="row" Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[17] 8 scope="row" Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[18] 21 Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[19] 3 scope="row" Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[20] 28 European Albums (Billboard)[21] 2 scope="row" French Albums (SNEP)[22] 31 scope="row" German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[23] 1 Irish Albums (IRMA)[24] 9 Malaysian Albums (RIM)[24] 4 scope="row" New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[25] 1 scope="row" Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[26] 3 scope="row" Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[27] 29 scope="row" Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28] 1 scope="row" US Billboard 200[29] 1

End of decade charts Chart (1990-1999) Position U.S. Billboard 200[30] 49 Sales and certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Australia (ARIA)[31] 2× Platinum 140,000^^ Austria (IFPI Austria)[32] Gold 25,000^x Canada (Music Canada)[33] 7× Platinum 700,000^^ Germany (BVMI)[34] Gold 250,000^^ Japan (RIAJ)[35] Platinum 200,000^^ Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[36] Gold 25,000^x United States (RIAA)[37] 5× Platinum 5,500,000[10] ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Personnel

Howie B – Producer, Engineer, Mixing James Barton – Mixing John Bell – Orchestration Dario Rossetti Bonell – Guitar (Acoustic) Carlos Bonnell – Guitar (Acoustic) Danny Bramson – Producer, Music Supervisor Francis Buckley – Engineer Greg Burns – Second Engineer David Campbell – String Arrangements Rob Cavallo – Guitar (Acoustic), Producer Chas Chandler – Producer Chris Chaney – Bass Dickie Chappell – Programming, Engineer Jude Christodal – Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals Jason Cienkus – Soundtrack Coordination Eric Clapton – Performer Paula Cole – Producer, Performer Alan Coleman – Assistant Engineer Katherine Delaney – Design Tom Dowd – Producer Flood – Producer Meabh Flynn – Assistant Engineer Peter Gabriel – Bass, Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Sampling, Performer Ben Georgiades – Engineer The Goo Goo Dolls – Producer, Performer Keith Grant – Engineer Steve Griffen – Engineer, Associate Producer

Isobel Griffiths – Orchestra Contractor Steve Hall – Mastering Chris Haynes – Second Engineer Jimi Hendrix – Performer Ben Hillier – Mixing Assistant John Lee Hooker – Performer Paul Hulme – Engineer Alan Jenkins – Programming Jude – Performer Manu Katche – Drums Paul Kimble – Chamberlin Rob Kirwan – Assistant Engineer Carys Lane – Vocals Nick Lashley – Guitar (Acoustic) Dave Lawson – Programming Tony Levin – Bass Jolie Levine-Aller – Project Coordinator Brian MacLeod – Drums Pat Magnarella – Executive Producer Clif Magness – Guitar (Electric), Producer Dominique Mahut – Percussion Mike Malinin – Percussion, Drums Pierre Marchand – Producer, Engineer, Mixing Conal Markey – Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant Sarah McLachlan – Performer Metro Voices – Choir, Chorus Alanis Morissette – Vocals, Producer, Performer

Roger Moutenot – Engineer, Mixing Jamie Muhoberac – Piano, Keyboards Gary Novak – Percussion, Drums Jennie O'Grady – Director Steve Osborne – Producer, Mixing Matt Palmer – Assistant Engineer Tim Pierce – Mandolin Damir Prcic – Chamberlin Jack Joseph Puig – Mixing Harry Rabinowitz – Conductor David Rhodes – Guitar Carmen Rizzo – Programming Georges Rodi – Programming Charles Roven – Executive Producer Johnny Rzeznik – Guitar, Vocals Rafa Sardina – Second Engineer Bill Sewell – Bass (Upright) Allen Sides – Engineer, Mixing Kenneth Sillito – Violin, Leader Mark "Spike" Stent – Engineer, Mixing Alex Swift – Programming Robby Takac – Bass U2 – Performer Scott Welch – Executive Producer Kirsty Whalley – Programming Will White – Percussion Rolf Wilson – Violin, Leader Nick Wollage – Assistant Engineer Gabriel Yared – Producer, Orchestration

See also

• Best-selling albums in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began
• Number-one albums of 1998 (U.S.)

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