Music from ‘Black Panther’, ‘Greatest Showman’ spur film soundtrack renaissance

'The Greatest Showman' has spawned a cultural phenomenon in its anthemic theme song, 'This Is Me'. Photo: Filepic

If you were to plot the successes and declines of film soundtracks on a stock chart, one might think that there was a movie-music drought or depression for much of the aughts.

Indeed, there kind of was. Since the late 1990s when Space Jam and Titanic moved millions of albums, 2006’s High School Musical, a hit for Disney which launched the career of Zac Efron, was the only soundtrack to make Nielsen’s top 15 soundtrack sellers of all-time. How fitting that the dry spell should end with the glacier that was 2013’s Frozen.