Spider-Man 2: Music from and Inspired by is the soundtrack album for the 2004 film Spider-Man 2, released on June 22, 2004. As a whole, the album reached the top 10 of the U.S. album charts and the top 40 of the Australian album charts. "Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional reached the top of a world composite soundtrack chart in June 2004 and the top 20 of a composite world and U.S. modern rock chart. "We Are" by Ana Johnsson was a major success in Europe, charting in almost every European country. "Ordinary" by Train was on the U.S. adult top 40 singles charts. "I Am" by Killing Heidi was added to the Australian version of the soundtrack and released as a single in the country. It debuted and peaked at number 16 on the country's ARIA Charts on July 19, 2004.
Many versions of the soundtrack outside the United States contained additional tracks by artists exclusive to their native countries.
In the UK version of the soundtrack, Switchfoot's hit single "Meant to Live" is featured as track 12 between "The Night That the Lights Went Out in NYC" and "We Are".
On the Japanese version of the soundtrack, "Web of Night" by T.M. Revolution appears and was a popular single in Japan. A track by indie band Mew called "She Spider" was also featured on the Japanese release.
On the Pakistani version of the soundtrack, a song by Strings titled "Najane Kyun" which translates to "Don't Know Why" was used.
On the Polish version of the soundtrack, the single "Chron to co masz" by PtakY appears as track 17.
On the Indonesian version of the soundtrack, "Cry Out" by Edane was included as the last track of the pressings, with an official video music released.[2]
3 Doors Down's single "Let Me Go" was originally intended for the soundtrack but was withheld and instead featured on their third album, Seventeen Days.
The song "Where I Belong" by Sia was earmarked to appear on the soundtrack, but owing to a record label conflict, its inclusion was withdrawn. The single's cover art features Sia dressed in a Spider-Man costume.
The closing credits of the film featured a version of the theme from the original television cartoon series performed by Canadian crooner Michael Bublé. While not featured on the album, it was released as a single to promote the film, and contained remixes by Junkie XL and Ralphi Rosario.
Although the soundtrack contains a portion of Danny Elfman's score, a more complete album of the film music was released as Spider-Man 2: Original Motion Picture Score. Tracks 10 and 11 are listed as "Bonus Tracks" as they were not used in the film (John Debney and Christopher Young reworked several cues of the score,[14] in addition to music from the first film being tracked in). The score is performed by a 110-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by Pete Anthony.
^Goldwasser, Dan (August 8, 2004). "Review: Spider-Man 2 - Original Score". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved September 18, 2019. Towards the end of post-production, things were running tight and a few cues were replaced with music written by John Debney and Christopher Young. While neither of those two composers' contributions appear on the album, Elfman has opted to release the original cues he wrote for two sequences: 'Train / Appreciation'... [and] 'Aunt May Packs'.
