--- description: Music from the upcoming film has already proven popular with fans title: "Fifty Shades of Grey" Soundtrack Teases Fans For The Film image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Fifty Shades of Grey_ Soundtrack Proves a Tease for Fans by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 13, 2015 11:54 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 13, 2015 11:54 AM CUT We’re still weeks away from _Fifty Shades of Grey_ hitting theaters, but the soundtrack has already started stoking the fire of fans’ expectations. The soundtrack includes new or remixed tracks by Annie Lennox, Jessie Ware, Sia and Beyonce (that’s a remix of “Crazy in Love” in the trailer). The film will also feature the classic songs “Beast of Burden” by The Rolling Stones and “Witchcraft” by Frank Sinatra. Two tracks from the film — from Ellie Goulding and The Weeknd — have already been released and [_USA Today_ reports](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/13/fifty-shades-soundtrack-unveiled/21636843/ "undefined") that they’ve both already been a hit with fans. Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” was released earlier this month and has recorded sales of nearly 80,000 on iTunes: The Weeknd’s “Earned It” was released in December has been purchased more than 100,000 times on iTunes: Though the music for the upcoming film — which is an adaptation of E.L. James’ sexy best-seller that was panned by many critics — has been embraced by fans, Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing for Universal Pictures, [told](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/13/fifty-shades-soundtrack-unveiled/21636843/ "undefined") _USA Today_ that not all the acts approached for the film were eager to jump on board at first. He said, “but as we brought them into the cutting room and they saw sequences and talked to \[director\] Sam Taylor-Johnson, they learned more about the aesthetic and the story — that it wasn’t just a kinky, sexy thing, that it was really this romance between a young girl and a broken guy.” The entire _Fifty Shades of Grey_ soundtrack goes on sale on Feb. 10 and the film hits theaters on Feb. 13. \[[_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/13/fifty-shades-soundtrack-unveiled/21636843/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3665184/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3665184/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack/"},"headline":"Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack Proves a Tease for Fans","datePublished":"2015-01-13T11:54:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:31:16.277Z","description":"Steamy music from the upcoming film has already been selling like crazy","url":"https://time.com/3665184/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack/","keywords":["movies","Music","Books","Beyonce","Fifty Shades of Grey","the weeknd"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3665184/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack/","name":"Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack Proves a Tease for Fans"}}]}] ```