All vikisTop Gun Soundtrack
Official: The album on Apple Music
The Top Gun soundtrack (1986) in full, all 10 tracks from Danger Zone to Top Gun Anthem, 38 minutes, each playing from its first second. Certified 9 times Platinum, it is the one song-led album here rated B.
We rate the Top Gun soundtrack B tier, and we think it is the album on this shelf whose rating undersells it most: Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away are as well known as anything here. Our rule leaves it at B because it misses both marks for an A. Its sales stopped one step short of Diamond, at the 9 times Platinum the RIAA awarded on Jul 20, 2000 (RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026), and we found no stage show or concert built on the 1986 album: the Top Gun concerts we found are all of the 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. What it did get is the film back in cinemas, in IMAX and other premium formats, for one week from May 13, 2026, its 40th anniversary, as a double bill with Maverick (Skydance, May 13, 2026).
This is Danger Zone, Kenny Loggins's opening track, on a Columbia album of 1986 whose ten songs fill 38 minutes 25 seconds.
Seven weeks to No. 1
It joined the Billboard 200 down at No. 108 on Jun 7, 1986 and needed seven weeks to get to the top, on Jul 26; the Aug 2, 1986 page is its second week there. Take My Breath Away, sung by Berlin, won the Academy Award for Original Song (oscars.org).
Nine songs and an anthem
Kenny Loggins sings two of the ten tracks, Danger Zone and Playing with the Boys; Cheap Trick, Teena Marie, Berlin, Miami Sound Machine, Loverboy, Larry Greene and Marietta have one each. The last track, Top Gun Anthem by Harold Faltermeyer with Steve Stevens, is the only instrumental. The tracks are unusually even: the shortest, Danger Zone, runs 3:32 and the longest, Take My Breath Away, 4:12.
Highlights
There are none to show. Vi.ki measured all ten uploads on Nov 11, 2026 (see the method) and this is the flattest album of the ten: the biggest gap between a song's loudest eight seconds and its middle is 2.3 decibels, in Heaven in Your Eyes, against the 6 a climax needs, and the classifier heard no entry it could vouch for.
All tracks
The rows follow the album. Columbia provided all ten uploads, but YouTube lists them in 118 countries and the United States is not one, so readers there will find them blocked; what YouTube Music offers in the US instead is music-video edits for six of the songs, which differ from the album tracks, and nothing for the other four. Each row is its own video, started at 0:00.
Sources
- Gold and Platinum: Top Gun, RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026
- Top Gun at 40: The Need for Speed Never Fades, Skydance, May 13, 2026
- Billboard 200, Billboard, chart dated Aug 2, 1986
- The 59th Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- TOP GUN/SOUNDTRACK, YouTube Music, read Nov 11, 2026
Moments
Danger Zone (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Kenny Loggins
Mighty Wings (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Cheap Trick
Playing with the Boys (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Kenny Loggins
Lead Me On (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Teena Marie
Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from "Top Gun")
Berlin
Hot Summer Nights (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Miami Sound Machine - Topic
Heaven in Your Eyes
Loverboy
Through the Fire (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Larry Greene - Topic
Destination Unknown (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Release - Topic
Top Gun Anthem (From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack)
Harold Faltermeyer
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