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1985 soundtrack album by World Wrestling Federation
The Wrestling Album
Soundtrack album by
World Wrestling Federation
Released
November 9, 1985 (1985-11-09)
Recorded
1985
Genre
Pop rock
funk
country
Length
37:53
Label
Epic
Producer
Rick Derringer
David Wolff
Jim Steinman
Mona Flambé
World Wrestling Federation chronology
The Wrestling Album (1985)
Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II (1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
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The Wrestling Album is the debut soundtrack album released by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) on November 9, 1985, at the height of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection era.[2][3] It featured mostly theme music of wrestlers on the roster at the time. The Wrestling Album peaked at No. 84 on the Billboard album sales chart.[4] None of the singles received any heavy radio airplay nor did they crack the Top 100.
^Torreano, Bradley. The Wrestling Album at AllMusic. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^Montgomery, James (November 18, 2015). "'The Wrestling Album' at 30: The Inside Story of an Album that Started a Revolution". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
^Thaxton, Tony (July 23, 2019). "The Wrestling Album" (podcast). Bizarre Albums. Spotify.
^"Top Pop Albums". Billboard. January 18, 1986. p. 60.
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