Furious 7 (soundtrack)

Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	March 17, 2015
Genre	Hip hop EDM Latin pop
Length	60:05
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	DJ Spinz Lookas Lil' C DJ Frank E Mike Caren Lucas Rigo Andrew Cedar Charlie Puth Sangsik "A-Dee" Shin
The Fast and the Furious soundtrack chronology
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) Furious 7 (2015)
Singles from Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Ride Out" Released: February 17, 2015 "How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah)" Released: February 23, 2015 "See You Again" Released: March 10, 2015

Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Furious 7. It was released on March 17, 2015, by Atlantic Records. The film had three initial promotional singles released from the soundtrack. The first was "Ride Out", performed by Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, YG and Rich Homie Quan. "Ride Out" also had a music video alongside its release, and the second single was "Go Hard or Go Home", performed by Wiz Khalifa and Iggy Azalea. Both singles were released on February 17, 2015. "Off-Set", performed by T.I. and Young Thug was the final promotional single for the film, and had a music video accompanied its release.^[1]

Wiz Khalifa released a music video for "See You Again" as the final tribute to late Paul Walker, who had portrayed lead protagonist Brian O'Conner in the film series. It featured pop singer Charlie Puth, who wrote the single alongside Khalifa. The music video consisted of compiled archive footage from the duration of the film series in special memory of Walker. "See You Again" was a huge international success, reaching number one in fourteen countries, including the US, ending Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" fourteen-week reign at the top of the chart. The song received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Ride Out"	Brian Collins Dequantes Lamar Jess Jackson	Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, YG and Rich Homie Quan	3:32
2.	"Off-Set"	Edward Page II Clifford Harris, Jr. Jeffrey Williams Cordale Quinn	T.I. and Young Thug	3:13
3.	"How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah)"	J. Hart DJ Frank E Chloe Angelides	Sevyn Streeter	3:44
4.	"Get Low"	Dillon Francis William Grigahcine	Dillon Francis and DJ Snake	3:33
5.	"Go Hard or Go Home"	Cameron Thomaz Amethyst Kelly The Featherstones	Wiz Khalifa and Iggy Azalea	3:52
6.	"My Angel"	Geoffrey Rojas Edwin Serrano DJ Frank E Albert Cedarholm Sangsik "A-Dee" Shin	Prince Royce	3:10
7.	"See You Again"	DJ Frank E Charlie Puth Thomaz Andrew Cedar	Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth	3:49
8.	"Payback"	Jordan Houston Nayvadius Wilburn Kevin Gilyard Dominic Woods Gilbere Forte	Juicy J, Kevin Gates, Future and Sage the Gemini	3:58
9.	"Blast Off"	David Guetta	David Guetta and Kaz James	3:08
10.	"Six Days (Remix)"	Brian Farrell Dennis Olivieri Yasiin Bey	DJ Shadow featuring Mos Def	3:52
11.	"Ay Vamos"	José Osorio Rene Cano Carlos Patiño Alejandro Ramirez Karim Kharbouch Nick Rivera	J Balvin featuring French Montana and Nicky Jam	4:55
12.	"G.D.F.R. (Noodles Remix)" (DJ Frank E, DJ Spinz, Lookas, Mike Caren, Andrew Cedar and Lucas Rego)	Tramar Dillard Woods Lucas Rego Mike Caren Cedar Charles Miller Gerald Goldstein Harold Brown Howard Scott DJ Frank E	Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini and Lookas	4:24
13.	"Turn Down for What"	Grigahcine Jonathan Smith	DJ Snake and Lil Jon	3:34
14.	"Meneo"	Roberto Testa Keith Kanashiro Jorge Keys Armando C. Pérez José García	Fito Blanko	3:44
15.	"I Will Return"	Holly Hafermann Jonathan Rotem Luke Laird	Skylar Grey	3:56
16.	"Whip" (bonus track, which did not appear in the film)		Famous to Most	3:41

The track featured in the film, but not included on the soundtrack is the song, titled "Hamdulillah" performed and written by The Narcicyst and Shadia Mansour, with a duration of 3:25.

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 12 on the chart, dipped 5 spots to 17, before gaining traction and moving up 15 positions marks the largest jump into the top 2 of the chart, since Les Misérables, which moved 31 positions (33–2) in the week ending January 22, 2013. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for one week in its fourth week, in the week ending April 12, 2015 selling 111,000 copies (58,000 copies of traditional album sales). It was buoyed by the popularity and increase in sales of its single, "See You Again" (which also went number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, with 464,000 sales the same week), which allowed the album to edge over Future Hearts by All Time Low's 75,000 traditional album sales.^[3][4]

As of May 2015, the album has sold 145,000 copies, making it the second best-selling The Fast and Furious soundtrack, behind The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (235,000 copies) and ahead of Fast Five (94,000 copies), Fast and Furious 6 (80,000 copies) and Fast & Furious (69,000 copies).^[5][6] The album also reached number 2 on the UK Compilation Chart (held off by Now 90).

Critical reception

Writing for Rolling Stone, and rating the album three and a half-out-of-five stars, Nick Murray states: "Pop music and cars have a long history, but the Furious 7 soundtrack goes one step further, seeking out 16 tracks thrilling enough for the biggest chase movie of the decade. The resulting LP doesn't just move between hip-hop, EDM and Latin pop—it shows all three genres trading ideas. Environmentalists, rejoice: This one is plenty of fun even if no one's burning gas."^[7]

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2015) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] 3 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] 3 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[10] 7 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11] 19 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[12] 2 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[13] 10 Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[14] 39 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[15] 43 French Albums (SNEP)[16] 55 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17] 2 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[18] 10 Italian Compilation Albums (FIMI)[19] 2 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[20] 2 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[21] 7 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[22] 4 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[23] 29 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[24] 1 UK Compilation Albums (OCC)[25] 2 US Billboard 200[26] 1 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[27] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[28] 1 US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[29] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position Australian Albums (ARIA)[30] 26 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[31] 83 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[32] 150 Italian Compilation Albums (FIMI)[33] 28 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[34] 43 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[35] 19 US Billboard 200[36] 19 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[37] 8

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[38]	Gold	35,000^^
Hungary (MAHASZ)[39]	Gold	3,000^x
Japan (RIAJ)[40]	Gold	100,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[41]	Gold	100,000^^
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

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