Spider-Man (soundtrack) explained

Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man
Type:	soundtrack
Artist:	various artists
Cover:	Spider man (album cover).jpg
Recorded:	1967 (theme from Spider-Man), 1999–2002
Genre:	Alternative rock hard rock post-grunge
Length:	65:00
Producer:	Butch Walker Will Botwin Jonas Nachsin Lyor Cohen Julie Greenwald Spring Aspers Glen Brunman Denise Luiso Lia Vollack
Chronology:	Marvel Comics film series soundtrack
Prev Title:	Blade II: The Soundtrack
Prev Year:	2002
Next Year:	2002

Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man is a 2002 soundtrack album for the film Spider-Man. Although it contains a portion of the film score by Danny Elfman, a more complete album of Elfman's work was released as Spider-Man: Original Motion Picture Score.

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[1]

(*) Asian edition bonus track

(**) Indonesian edition bonus track

(***) Korean edition bonus track

Use in other works

As a tribute to the film, "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Poodle Hat contains the song "Ode to a Superhero", in which he takes the plot of this film but recites it to the tune of Billy Joel's "Piano Man".

Chart positions

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance from *Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man*!Chart (2002)!Position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[3]	34
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[4]	9
Canadian Metal Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[5]	6
US Billboard 200^[6]	80
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)^[7]	4

Notes and References

Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man . 2002 . booklet . Columbia, Roadrunner, Island Def Jam, Sony Music Soundtrax.
Web site: Billboard Canadian Albums: Week of May 25, 2002. Billboard. November 14, 2023.
Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812030723/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/200-1_2002.html. August 12, 2004. Top 200 Albums of 2002 (based on sales). Jam!. March 24, 2022.
Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20031204012816/http://jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_alt.html. December 4, 2003. Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002. Jam!. March 26, 2022.
Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812035533/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_metal.html. August 12, 2004. Top 100 Metal Albums of 2002. Jam!. March 23, 2022.
Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2002. Billboard. October 3, 2020.
2002 The Year in Music. Billboard. 114. 52. YE-96. December 28, 2002. June 1, 2021.