City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture

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Professional reviews
City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture

Soundtrack by Various Artists
Released	March 31, 1998 (U.S.)
Length	71:48
Label	Warner Bros.
David M. Childers, All Music Guide link Robin Taylor, National Catholic Reporter (positive) Jul. 3, 1998

City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the film City of Angels, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 31, 1998 (see 1998 in music).

1 Release history
2 Track listing
3 See also
4 Notes
5 References

[edit] Release history

The album reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in early June and remained there for three non-consecutive weeks. It was the seventh-best-selling album of 1998 in the U.S. and the second-best-selling soundtrack album, with 3.5 million copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[1] The RIAA certified it five times platinum in February 1999,^[2] and it peaked at number three on the Canadian Albums Chart.^[3]

Its two singles, the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" and Alanis Morissette's "Uninvited", were released to U.S. radio in March and were still receiving substantial radio airplay by the following August.^[4] An internet and radio leak of "Uninvited" in early March forced Warner Bros. to release the entire soundtrack to radio before it became available in stores. According to a publicity manager for Warner Music Canada, the measure was "an inconvenience" taken to stop radio stations from playing low-quality versions of the song downloaded from the internet.^[5] "Iris" reached number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, Top 40 Mainstream and Adult Top 40 charts in the U.S., and it spent a record amount of time atop the Hot 100 Airplay chart.^[6] "Uninvited" reached number one on the Top 40 Mainstream and peaked inside the top five on the Adult Top 40, but it did not match the popularity of "Iris".

Yahoo! Music's Craig Rosen, who called the album "a stroke of marketing genius", speculated that executive producer Bob Cavallo, who was head of Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls' management firm, "was instrumental in making sure the soundtrack provided a nice set-up for the forthcoming Morissette and Goo Goo Dolls albums [Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and Dizzy Up the Girl, respectively] ... Record executives and managers love big hits from soundtracks, especially when they dovetail into a new release by one of their artists. That's the case with both Morissette and the Goo Goo Dolls and it's not a mere coincidence."^[4] Bob Bell, a new release buyer for the Wherehouse Entertainment chain of stores in Torrance, California, said the marketing of the album was "amazing" and attributed its early strong sales to "Uninvited". He said of the Goo Goo Dolls that the soundtrack "helped to re-establish them ... [it] brought them back into our minds".^[4] Robert Scally wrote of "Uninvited", "Placing exclusives on soundtracks ... has been a successful tactic for creating a buzz around the album while highlighting the musical artist".^[7]