| Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | Various artists |
| Cover: | Urban Cowboy (soundtrack).jpg |
| Released: | June 6, 1980 |
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| Length: | 66:12 |
| Label: | Full Moon, Asylum |
| Producer: | Irving Azoff (exec.) |
Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1980 film Urban Cowboy. It spawned numerous Top 10 Billboard Country Singles, such as #1 "Lookin' for Love" by Johnny Lee, #1 "Stand by Me" by Mickey Gilley, #3 (AC chart) "Look What You've Done to Me" by Boz Scaggs, #1 "Could I Have This Dance" by Anne Murray, and #4 "Love the World Away" by Kenny Rogers. It also included songs that were hits from earlier years such as #1 "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band and "Lyin' Eyes" by the Eagles. The film is said to have started the 1980s boom in pop-country music known as the "Urban Cowboy Movement" also known as Neo-Country or Hill Boogie. In December 2018 the soundtrack was certified triple platinum by the RIAA for sales of three million copies.[1]
Initially released as a double LP in 1980,[2] the album was re-released on CD in 1995.[3]
| Chart (1980) | Peak | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] | 26 | |
| US Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 | |
| US Billboard 200 | 3 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Albums | 2 | |
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | 21 |
| Year | US BB[5] | US CB[6] | USAC[7] | USCountry | CAN[8] | CANAC | CANCountry | NZ[9] | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1980 | 19 | 18 | -- | -- | 27 | -- | -- | -- | "All Night Long" | Joe Walsh |
| May 1980 | 22 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 51 | -- | 3 | -- | "Stand By Me" | Mickey Gilley |
| June 1980 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 25 | -- | 1 | -- | "Love the World Away" | Kenny Rogers |
| July 1980 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 54 | 20 | 18 | -- | "Lookin' for Love" | Johnny Lee |
| August 1980 | 14 | 13 | 3 | -- | 30 | 41 | -- | 39 | "Look What You've Done to Me" | Boz Scaggs |
| August 1980 | 33 | 53 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | "Could I Have This Dance" | Anne Murray |