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635566902168940659-FiftyShadesOfGrey-SoundtrackCover-RGBThe film version of steamy Fifty Shades of Grey won’t be in theaters until Feb. 13, but fans are getting a tease with hot music from the soundtrack.Two songs have been selling well already, and the rest of the album’s track list is now finalized.

The two songs that have generated good buzz are Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do, unveiled last week and approaching sales of 80,000 on iTunes, and The Weeknd’s Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey), which has sold more than 100,000 since its premiere in late December, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Other tracks on the soundtrack (on sale Feb. 10) include original contributions from Jessie Ware, Skylar Grey and Sia, as well as two Beyoncé remixes, including Crazy in Love, and a new version of Annie Lennox’s cover of I Put a Spell on You.

The film, based on the popular erotic romance novel by E.L. James, opens with the Lennox track. “You hear it even before you hear dialogue, and it gives you goosebumps,” says Tom Mackay, executive vice president of Republic Records. “It sets the musical tone for the movie.”

Musicians watched scenes from the film to develop their songs (with the exception of two older recordings — Frank Sinatra’s Witchcraft, which figured into the novel, readers may recall, and the Rolling Stones’ Beast of Burden).

“People were inspired by what they saw,” Mackay says. “Sam Taylor-Johnson (the film’s director) is a true artist, and she has impeccable taste in music, so the artists walked out really motivated.”

Ben Vella, a musician in the London-based band Vaults, was shown a scene involving an airplane — he won’t get more specific — and then sent in a few tracks by the group. A song called One Last Night made the cut.

Asked if the idea of associating with the Fifty Shades brand caused band members any skepticism — the popular novel was not exactly a critical favorite and has been famously lampooned — Vella says, “We obviously spoke about it, but were very pleased after meeting with the director.” Vella says he had already been an admirer of her visual art and 2009 film Nowhere Boy.

“At this stage in our career, it’s very exciting to have our music put in a Hollywood film,” h says.

Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing for Universal Pictures, allows that some artists were unfamiliar with or wary of Fifty Shades when approached, “but as we brought them into the cutting room and they saw sequences and talked to Sam Taylor-Johnson, they learned more about the aesthetic and the story — that it wasn’t just a kinky, sexy thing, that it was really this romance between a young girl and a broken guy.”

But, Knobloch points out that “the majority of commercial artists” featured on the soundtrack “were on board” from the start. “It’s known that this a big event.”

Take a peek at ‘Fifty Shades’ soundtrack listing

The goal in putting together a film soundtrack for Fifty Shades of Grey, says Mackay, was to “have as much new and exclusive music created as we possibly could.”

To that end, pop stars and up-and-comers were tapped to craft original tunes and remixes; and veteran film and TV composer Danny Elfman was recruited to write the score (on a separate album due Feb. 17). Two Elfman tracks are included on the soundtrack. Here is the full (standard) listing:

I Put aSpell on You (Fifty Shades of Grey) — Annie Lennox

Undiscovered — Laura Welsh

Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey) — The Weeknd

Meet Me in the Middle — Jessie Ware

Love Me Like You Do — Ellie Goulding

Haunted (Michael Diamond Remix) — Beyoncé

Salted Wound — Sia

Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones

I’m on Fire — AWOLNATION

Crazy in Love (2014 Remix) — Beyoncé

Witchcraft — Frank Sinatra

One Last Thing — Vaults

Where You Belong — The Weeknd

I Know You — Skylar Grey

Ana and Christian — Danny Elfman

Did That Hurt? — Danny Elfman

[USA Today]