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What’s New On Lakeshore: Stranger Things Volume 2, Halt And Catch Fire, Greater + More

Stranger Thing Vol 1- Halt And Catch Fire - Greater

This past week, Lakeshore Records released Stranger Things, Volume 2 soundtrack: score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of Austin-based band S U R V I V E.  The companion album to the hit Volume 1 release also topped the Apple and iTunes charts!  Albums by two veteran composers were also released: The Halt And Catch Fire soundtrack, score by electronic music pioneer Paul Haslinger (of Tangerine Dream) is another highly-anticipated score release to the award-winning AMC series; and Greater soundtrack, score by Stephen Endelman, Grammy® nominated composer who you may know from his score to The Englisman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain and Some Kind Of Beautiful.  Read further for more information.

Which soundtracks are you planning to download, order or stream?  Let us know in the comments below!

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What’s New On Lakeshore: ‘Stranger Things’, A Titan Synth Playlist, ‘Anthropoid’, ‘The Infiltrator’ On CD + More!

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What’s out now on Lakeshore Records in the past week, you may ask?  We released the highly anticipated Stranger Things Soundtrack Volume 1: score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of Austin-based band S U R V I V E; the Anthropoid soundtrack: score by Robin Foster; Scooby-Doo! And WWE: Curse Of The Speed Demon: score by Ryan Shore, a titan Soundcloud playlist of our synth and electronic scores; three new CD releases, plus more!  See details below.  Which soundtracks are you planning to download, order or stream?

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Stranger Things Synth Score Soundtrack Tops Charts Without Pop Songs! [UPDATED 8.19.16]

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The Stranger Things Soundtrack by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein has become both a critical and cultural phenomena topping iTunes charts in its first day of release.

The electronic instrumental Synth-Score features not a single pop song to give the album a lift on the charts.  When is the last time that happened?

Within its first day of release the album has hit the Top 10 on four of the leading charts in two countries!  Congrats to Kyle, Michael, the entire Stranger Things team and everyone at Netflix!

#1 Itunes Album (Apple Website)
#2 Soundtrack iTunes USA
#2 Album iTunes USA [UPDATED]
#2 Soundtrack iTunes UK
#5 Album iTunes UK

Screen shots below!
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[EDIT UPDATE] All screen shots are of peak chart positions.