History Main / StockTrailerMusic

* Music/{{Woodkid}}'s "Run Boy Run". For all the scenes where protagonist needs to run a lot (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed3'', ''VideoGame/DyingLight'', ''Film/TheMazeRunner'', ''Film/{{Divergent}}'') and advertisements of extreme sports-adjacent gear like the [=GoPro=] cameras. Hell, ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' uses it as a TitleDrop for the second episode.

* From 1999 until a few years into the TurnOfTheMillennium, "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth was in ''every'' ad for ''everything'' ever. Those ads included the trailers for the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' movie, ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

* Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" is becoming popular for Horror/Action trailers during [[SoundtrackDissonance fast-paced montages of violence and/or desolation]], as evidenced by its use in commercials for ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' and ''Film/TheCrazies.''

* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - ''Romeo and Juliet''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMCiewc7mE Maybe you've heard it before?]]
* Also from Tchaikovsky, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ISRMSIyX8 'The Nutcracker's' Russian Dance]] pops up in a lot of Christmas comedy trailers.

* From 1999 until a few years into the TurnOfTheMillennium, "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth was in ''every'' ad for ''everything'' ever. Those ads included the trailers for the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' movie, the ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

* "Bishop's Countdown" from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' (also an example of RecycledTrailerMusic) has been seen in many action-oriented films that were released over the last three decades. This includes its sequel (''Film/{{Alien 3}}''), ''Film/TheAbyss'', ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'', ''Film/{{XXX}}'', ''Film/DantesPeak'' and many more. According to [[http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/frequent Soundtrack.net]], it is the fifth most-commonly used cue for a trailer.

* It seems now of days if you want some Epic, thematic music to go along with your Action / Sci-Fi trailer, just use a track from Music/NineInchNails' ''Music/TheFragile''. Most notably, the track ''Just Like You Imagined'' was used for the trailer to ''Film/ThreeHundred''.

* The trailer for ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' featured Music/ThinLizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town". Nowhere to be found in the film, though. It's sung in the [[RecycledInSpace on-ice version]]. "The Boys Are Back in Town" would become the trilogy's signature trailer song, being reused to promote ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 3]]''.

* Up until the mid-2000s, a handful of tracks ("Name of the Game", for example) by Music/TheCrystalMethod and Music/TheProdigy were very popular in ads for everything from energy drinks to action movies. The use of big beat has become a DeadHorseTrope in advertising now, and has contributed the [[GenreKiller death]] of classic, Music/FatboySlim-style big beat.

* At one point during the early 2000s, almost every single kids movie involving dogs was required by law to have "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men play in the trailer. The rest used "Atomic Dog" by Music/GeorgeClinton -- specifically, the "bow-wow-wow-yippee-yo-yippee-yay" refrain.

* It seems now of days if you want some Epic, thematic music to go along with your Action / Sci-Fi trailer, just use a track from Music/NineInchNails' ''Music/TheFragile''. Most notably, the track ''Just Like You Imagined'' was used for the Trailer to ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
* Recently, Danny Cocke's "Sinister Intent" is getting some mileage. Being used in the ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' and ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' trailers, the song is now appearing in promos for Season 3 of ''The Walking Dead''.

* Since ''Film/{{Inception}}'' popularized it, a lot of Movie trailers now use [[PreviewsPulse the BWONG noise]]. It's even popped up in a few soundtracks here and there.

* Nero's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QqY-8mohxo Doomsday]]" is used for a high action trailer that needs some dubstep to add hipstar gravitas.

* Guaranteed, if there is a zany comedy or a light hearted fantasy movie, you will hear Music/TheCancanSong from ''Orpheus in the Underworld''.

* Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is common in movie trailers such as those for the Die Hard and Hot Tub Time Machine films, and is sometimes used when a film is financially and/or critically successful.
* Music/RagNBoneMan's "Human" is slowly becoming this, already having been used in trailers for ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'', ''Series/{{SSGB}}'', ''Film/ThankYouForYourService'', ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', ''WesternAnimation/Cars3'' and ''Series/JackRyan''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMrlHHVx8A Kings and Queens by Thirty Seconds to Mars]] has been used in trailers for ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragonTwo'', ''Film/LegendsOfTheGuardians'', and many more.

* At one point during the early 2000s, every single kids movie involving dogs was required by law to have "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men play in the trailer.

* From 1999 until a few years into the TurnOfTheMillennium, "All Star" by Smashmouth was in ''every'' ad for ''everything'' ever. Those ads included the trailers for the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' movie, the ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''.

* The trailer for ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' uses... well, the title is [[Music/GunsNRoses pretty self-explanatory]]. That song was also used in the trailers for ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' (which teased an appearance by Music/{{Slash}} that [[MissingTrailerScene never appeared in the final film]]).

* "Solsbury Hill" by Music/PeterGabriel seems to be the go-to song for "feel good movie" trailers. Odd, since it's a rather bitter song about Gabriel leaving Music/{{Genesis}}.

* The main theme of 1981's ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' was used in the trailers of a couple of other adventure-themed films from TheEighties, including ''Film/RedSonja''.

* Films with a comedic existential theme to them seem to favor "Once in a Lifetime" by Music/TalkingHeads.