Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original motion picture soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It was released on November 27, 1985 by Scotti Bros. Records.

Rocky IV: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	November 27, 1985
Studio	Unique Recording Studios, New York City[1]
Genre	AOR, hard rock
Length	43:39
Label	Scotti Bros.
Rocky soundtrack chronology
Rocky III (1982) Rocky IV (1985) Rocky V (1990)
Singles from Rocky IV
"Burning Heart" Released: October 1985 [2] "Living in America" Released: December 1985 "Heart's on Fire" Released: March 1986 "No Easy Way Out" Released: 1986 "War/Fanfare" Released: 1986 (GER)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

The soundtrack was hugely successful on the strength of two top-five singles, Survivor's "Burning Heart" (personally commissioned for the film by Sylvester Stallone) reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100)^[4] and James Brown's "Living in America", as well as Robert Tepper's lone top-40 hit, "No Easy Way Out" which reached #22. It reached the top ten on the US Billboard 200 album chart^[5] and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.^[6]

It is the only score to a Rocky film not composed by Bill Conti, but does incorporate some music he composed for the first film.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Burning Heart"	Jim Peterik Frankie Sullivan	Survivor	3:51
2.	"Heart's on Fire"	Vince DiCola Ed Fruge Joe Esposito	John Cafferty	4:14
3.	"Double or Nothing"	Paul Williams Steve Dorff	Kenny Loggins & Gladys Knight	3:25
4.	"Eye of the Tiger"	Peterik Sullivan	Survivor	3:46
5.	"War"	DiCola Bill Conti	Vince DiCola	5:53

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Living in America"	Charlie Midnight Dan Hartman	James Brown	4:40
2.	"No Easy Way Out"	Tepper	Robert Tepper	4:32
3.	"One Way Street"	Peter Cox Richard Drummie	Go West	4:37
4.	"The Sweetest Victory"	Jake Hooker Duane Hitchings	Touch	4:26
5.	"Training Montage"	DiCola	Vince DiCola	3:37

Re-releases and covers

The 2006 reissue, remastered by BMG, featured the bonus track "Man Against the World" by Survivor, a song written for but ultimately cut from the final movie tracklist.^[7]

"Eye of the Tiger" was covered and partially sampled over 80 times^[8]

"No Easy Way Out" was covered multiple times by:

• Bullet for My Valentine — on their 2008 "Scream Aim Fire" album (as Bonus track for Japanese release)
• Eve To Adam — on their 2018 album "Ithaca"^[9]
  • in 2019 they released a music video for this cover.^[10]
• Beast in Black — on their 2019 "From Hell with Love" album^[11]
• and other artists^[12]

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1985-1986) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report)[13] 32 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14] 2 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[15] 24 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[16] 1 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17] 2 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[18] 13 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19] 5 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[20] 1 UK Albums (OCC)[21] 3 US Billboard 200[22] 10

Year-end charts Chart (1986) Position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[23] 11 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[24] 94 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[25] 15 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[26] 25 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[27] 15 US Billboard 200[28] 65

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Belgium (BRMA)[29]	Gold	25,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[30]	Platinum	100,000^
France (SNEP)[31]	Gold	100,000*
Italy (FIMI)[32]	Gold	25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[33]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[34]	Platinum	1,000,000^
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.