X-Men: Days of Future Past (soundtrack)

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
X-Men Days of Future Past.jpg
Film score by
ReleasedMay 26, 2014 (2014-05-26)
Genre Film score
Length1:16:28
Label Sony Classical
Fox Music
X-Men soundtrack chronology
The Wolverine
(2013)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
(2014)
Deadpool
(2016)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
No.TitleLength
1."The Future – Main Titles"2:44
2."Time's Up"4:18
3."Hope (Xavier's Theme)"4:48
4."I Found Them"2:52
5."Saigon/Logan Arrives"4:36
6."Pentagon Plan/Sneaky Mystique"3:25
7."He Lost Everything"1:51
8."Springing Erik"3:33
9."How Was She"1:47
10."All Those Voices"3:19
11."Paris Pandemonium"7:45
12."Contacting Raven"1:48
13."Rules of Time"3:07
14."Hat Rescue"1:30
15."Time's Up" (Film Version)3:34
16."The Attack Begins"5:04
17."Join Me"3:20
18."Do What You Were Made For"2:56
19."I Have Faith in You/Goodbyes"2:27
20."Welcome Back/End Titles"3:58
21."Time in a Bottle" (Performed by Jim Croce)2:27
22."The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Performed by Roberta Flack)5:20
Total length:76:28

Extended soundtrack

X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Extended Version)
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Film score by
ReleasedJuly 10, 2015 (2015-07-10)
Genre Film score
Length1:52:00
Label Sony Classical
Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."Main Theme"0:56
2."Hope (Xavier’s Theme)"4:50
3."The Future"1:59
4."Time’s Up"4:19
5."I Found Them"2:52
6."Xavier’s Plan"3:35
7."Rules of Time"3:08
8."Trask Hearing – A New Era"2:34
9."Saigon – Logan Arrives"4:35
10."He Lost Everything"1:50
11."Pentagon Plan – Sneaky Mystique"3:25
12."Springing Erik"3:33
13."Clothes Off – Goodbye Peter"2:12
14."You Abandoned us All! – Yes, she Does"2:23
15."How Was She?"1:47
16."Paris Pandemonium"7:44
17."Whitehouse Meeting"2:41
18."Are you Mystique?"2:01
19."We Need You"2:14
20."All Those Voices"3:18
21."Charles n Charles"2:59
22."Off the Tracks"1:23
23."There’s Someone Else"1:59
24."Contacting Raven"1:48
25."Letting Raven In"3:34
Total length:1:13:54
Disc 2
No.TitleLength
1."Finding Rogue"3:02
2."Costly Escape"2:21
3."Cutting Ties"2:47
4."Ripples in Time"1:19
5."Raising RFK – Here they Come"2:36
6."Raising RFK – Magneto Descends"1:23
7."The Attack Begins"2:26
8."Saving the Future"5:03
9."Join Me"2:55
10."They Found Us – Remember the Xmen"3:40
11."I Have Faith in You – Goodbyes"3:19
12."You’re Here!"2:26
13."Welcome Back – End Titles"3:56
14."En Sabah Nur"0:54
Total length:38:05

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
UK Soundtrack Albums (OCC) [14] 34
US Billboard 200 [15] 176
US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard) [16] 23

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes [17]

Instrumentation
Orchestra
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Management
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