All vikisDirty Dancing Soundtrack
Official: The album on Apple Music
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack (1987) in full, all 12 songs from (I've Had) The Time of My Life to In the Still of the Night, 39 minutes, each playing from its first second, under one measured highlight. It reached No. 1 in the US and is certified 14 times Platinum.
We rate the Dirty Dancing soundtrack S tier, and we think it is the best of the song-led albums here at doing what a soundtrack album is for: it plays the film back by feeling, the old records for the resort and the new songs for the dancing. Both halves of our song-led rule hold. Its newest RIAA award, dated Jul 7, 2022, is 14 times Platinum, well past Diamond, and even the follow-up album, More Dirty Dancing, has 4 times Platinum of its own (RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026). And its songs are on a stage right now: Dirty Dancing, the stage version written by Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the film, began a UK and Ireland tour in Milton Keynes on Aug 27, 2026, with a London season that was put back to this year (WhatsOnStage, Sep 30, 2025).
This is (I've Had) The Time of My Life, sung by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, the duet that opens the album. It won the Academy Award for Original Song (oscars.org). RCA put out the 12 tracks in 1987, and on our clock they last 39 minutes 31 seconds, shorter than any song-led album here except Footloose and Top Gun.
Seven new songs, five old records
The label notes on the uploads split the album cleanly. Seven tracks carry a 1987 copyright: The Time of My Life, She's Like the Wind (sung by Patrick Swayze, who played Johnny), Hungry Eyes, Yes, You Don't Own Me, Overload and Where Are You Tonight. The other five are older records the film borrowed: Be My Baby by the Ronettes (1963), Stay by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (first released in 1960), Hey Baby by Bruce Channel (1961), Love Is Strange by Mickey and Sylvia and In the Still of the Night by the Five Satins.
The old records are short. Stay is the shortest track at 1:35, and the five together run 12 minutes 37 seconds, while the seven new songs fill the other 26 minutes 54 seconds. We think that balance is why it still sells: it is a 1987 pop record with an older one folded inside it, and each half makes the other sound better.
Eight weeks to No. 1
Billboard first listed it at No. 77, in the week of Sep 19, 1987. Eight weeks later, on Nov 14, it was the best-selling album in America, and the Dec 5, 1987 chart counts four weeks on top. It kept selling long after: its last RIAA step, to 14 times Platinum, came 35 years after release.
Highlights
Vi.ki measured one moment here, from the uploads on Nov 11, 2026, rather than choosing it by ear (the home page explains the method). Only She's Like the Wind has a loudest stretch that stands 6 decibels above the rest of the song, 6.9 to be exact, and no instrument or voice entered clearly enough anywhere on the album to be kept.
All tracks
Track order is the album's own. RCA Records Label provided all 12 uploads to YouTube; one video per song means each Play link begins at 0:00. The Time of My Life is the longest at 4:50.
Sources
- Gold and Platinum: Dirty Dancing, RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026
- Dirty Dancing to tour in 2026, WhatsOnStage, Sep 30, 2025
- The 60th Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Billboard 200, Billboard, chart dated Dec 5, 1987
- Dirty Dancing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), YouTube Music, read Nov 11, 2026
Moments
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Bill Medley - Topic
She's Like the Wind (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Patrick Swayze - Topic
Be My Baby
The Ronettes
Hungry Eyes (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Eric Carmen
Stay
MAURICE WILLIAMS & THE ZODIACS - Topic
Yes (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Merry Clayton
You Don't Own Me
Blow Monkeys Official
Hey Baby
Bruce Channel - Topic
Overload (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Alfie Zappacosta - Topic
Love Is Strange
MICKEY & SYLVIA - Topic
Where Are You Tonight (From "Dirty Dancing" Soundtrack)
Tom Johnston - Topic
(I'll Remember) In The Still Of The Night
The Five Satins - Topic
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