Suicide Squad (soundtrack)

Suicide Squad: The Album is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. The album was released on August 5, 2016, by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records. A separate film score album, titled Suicide Squad (Original Motion Picture Score) and composed by Steven Price, was released on August 8, 2016, by WaterTower Music. The digital edition of the film score album contains eight bonus tracks. It received mixed to positive reviews by critics, and the Collector's Edition received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 2017 ceremony. It won 2017 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Soundtrack.

Commercial performance
In the United States, the soundtrack debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with 182,000 equivalent album units. It was also the best-selling album of the week, selling 128,000 copies in its first week on the chart.

Suicide Squad was certified gold in the United States on September 23, 2016, for 500,000 units composed by sales, streaming and track-equivalent units. It was certified platinum for shipping over 1 million equivalent-units on November 16, 2016. As of April 2017, it has sold 548,000 copies in the country.

Additional music
Though these songs appear in the movie, they are not included on the soundtrack album.


 * The Animals – "The House of the Rising Sun"
 * Lesley Gore – "You Don't Own Me"
 * The Rolling Stones – "Sympathy for the Devil"
 * Rick James - "Super Freak"
 * AC/DC – "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
 * Kanye West – "Black Skinhead"
 * Rae Sremmurd featuring Bobo Swae – "Over Here"
 * Black Sabbath – "Paranoid"
 * The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
 * K7 – "Come Baby Come"
 * Henryk Górecki – "Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)"
 * Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
 * Sweet – "The Ballroom Blitz" (trailers only)