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Top Gunis thesoundtrackfrom thefilm of the same name, released in 1986 byColumbia Records.

The album reached number one in the USchartsfor five nonconsecutive weeks in the summer and autumn of 1986. It was the best selling soundtrack of 1986 and one of the best selling of all time.[5][6]The song “Take My Breath Away” byBerlinwent on to win both theAcademy Award for Best Original Song[7]and theGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[8]According toAllmusic, the album “remains a quintessential artifact of the mid-’80s”, and the album’s hits “still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the era.”[6]