''Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the original motion picture

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to the movie of the same name. It was released on November 27, 1985 on the

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label. The soundtrack was hugely successful on the strength of two top-five singles, Survivor's "Burning Heart" (which

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personally commissioned for the film and reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100) and

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's " Living in America", as well as

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's lone top-40 hit, "No Easy Way Out". It reached the top ten on the US ''Billboard'' 200 album chart and was certified Platinum by the

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. It is the only score to a ''Rocky'' film not composed by

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, but does feature some music he composed for the first film.

Track listing

Re-releases and covers

The 2006

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ed by BMG, featured the bonus track "

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" by Survivor, a song written for but ultimately cut from the final movie tracklist. "Eye of the Tiger" was covered and partially sampled over 80 times "No Easy Way Out" was covered multiple times by: * Bullet for My Valentine — on their 2008 "

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" album (as Bonus track for Japanese release) * Eve To Adam — on their 2018 album "Ithaca" ** in 2019 they released a music video for this cover. * Beast in Black — on their 2019 "From Hell with Love" album * and other artists

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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