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On the subject of the history of best-selling score soundtracks, a few very popular titles that nobody has mentioned yet include "A Man and a Woman" (Francis Lai), "Love Story" (Francis Lai), and "Out of Africa" (John Barry).
I'm afraid "A Man and a Woman" (regrettably) does not play in the same category as the other two since it has been OOP for most of the CD era - whereas "Love Story" and "Out of Africa" could be found in even the tiniest record shops. I'd add "Dr. Zhivago" to that list.
"Titanic" may without any doubt be the best-selling soundtrack album, but I think the majority of the people didn't buy it for the score - many of them will not even have bothered to listen to the whole thing. The same goes for "Ghost." Even back in the LP days many people bought the album just for the title song, but there was a strong competition by 45s whereas CD singles were not as popular.
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But when the song is tied to the film and also written by the composer (like Barry's BORN FREE, as opposed to GHOST, with the old Alex North song tacked on), it's still the work of our composer guy dude!
That's not correct about "Ghost" at all. Number one: It's Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. Two: the song as heard twice in "Unchained" is not tacked on, instead the Righteous Brothers arrangement is. And three it is tied to the film; the infamous love scene with pottery before he dies, famously plays the arrangement, and then later in the film Jarre's instrumental string-heavy arrangement (to harken back to said scene) is heard when she gets to see him one more time in the light of Heaven. And yes, not written by Jarre, but that orchestral arrangement was his doing.
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