Would you believe movie soundtracks were not as important as it is now? The first films didn?t think using sounds in movies could maximize sales of both movie and album.

It took so long for non-believers to realize that music help sell the movie and the movie helps sell the music.

First films, referred to before as ?talkies?, were purely visual. Speech, music and sound effects took their place within the film industry thirty years later. Its late entry is reflected in the fact that the first two Oscars had no categories for sound.

The first Oscar for sound was presented at the third Academy awards, but the categories for best original score and best original song didn?t make an appearance until the seventh award ceremony.

The category for sound editing wasn?t recognized until 1963 at the 36th Academy Awards.

The Bee Gees broke the ice in the field of soundtracks with ?Saturday Night Fever? which in 1978 sold 25 million albums. Followed a year later by ?Grease?, which sold 22 million copies. Films such as 'Fame', 'Flashdance' and 'Dirty Dancing' soon replicated their success.

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The movie soundtrack is now a huge part of the film and music industry. Movie Music.com (www.moviemusic.com) has a comprehensive list of 5,783 soundtrack CDs in it's catalog.

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Now that the potential of the soundtrack album has been realized, it is largely viewed by the industry as an opportunity to get even more sales from material that would appear to have reached its potential.

Wet Wet Wet's version of the Troggs classic 'Love Is All Around', by itself it achieved the status of minor hit in Great Britain, re-released on the 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' soundtrack it became a mega hit worldwide.

The same approach is being employed with Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up', which was originally released in 1997. The song got a new lease of life as part of the Charlie?s Angels Full Throttle' soundtrack because the demographic that will see the movie is much wider than the demographic that would have considered buying The Prodigy CD 'The Fat Of The Land' on which it was originally released.

Moreover, even with just one clip from an album is used as a movie soundtrack, the original album would likely enjoy the same attention as the soundtrack album. Clips in a soundtrack album will be heard by millions of people who would not have given the track a glimpse had it not been in the movie.