WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON SONGS FEATURED ON FILM?

According to the legendary Italian filmmaker, Sergio Leone, a full-length feature film is approximately 60% visual and 40% harmonic, but only because what we can’t see on the screen is usually implied by what we can hear in the background. In fact, a piece of music can affect a movie so much, that sometimes it can become far more memorable than the story being told.

Now, a good way of illustrating this point can be seen in the following two infographics. The first one highlights the top twenty most common songs featured on film (sorted by rank, from 1st to 5th place, depending on each song's recurrence), while the second one highlights the top ten musicians and composers that make music for the movies (organized by how many times their songs have been showcased in a cinematic story). So go ahead, check them out, and let me know what you think in the comment section below.

In closing, I would just like to thank casumo.com for allowing me to share their research in this article (click here for the full findings), as well as tunefind.com for kindly compiling the relevant information on everyone's behalf.