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\n\tBy today (July 19), when Universal Pictures\u2019\u00a0Twisters<\/em>\u00a0blows into theaters, more than a dozen songs from the all-country soundtrack will have whirled their way onto radio and streaming services.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tPropelled by first single, Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019\u00a0muscular \u201cAin\u2019t No Love in Oklahoma\u201d\u2014 which is already No. 10 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Country Airplay chart after only nine weeks \u2014 the soundtrack includes such new songs from such heavyweights at Miranda Lambert<\/a>, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, Shania Twain<\/a> and Jelly Roll<\/a>, as well as burgeoning artists like Bailey Zimmerman, BRELAND, Dylan Gossett, Tucker Wetmore and Tanner Adell. Twenty of the soundtrack\u2019s 29 tracks are featured in the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tA soundtrack totally devoted to country songs is still a rarity and when they have occurred, they have usually been for country-themed movies, including 1980\u2019s\u00a0Urban Cowboy<\/em>, 1992\u2019s\u00a0Pure Country<\/em>, 2010\u2019s\u00a0Crazy Heart<\/em>\u00a0or 2011\u2019s\u00a0Country Strong<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tTwisters,\u00a0<\/em>which stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones as storm chasers, is a standalone sequel to 1996\u2019s $495 million domestic-grossing\u00a0Twister<\/em>, which featured a rock soundtrack. The one artist from that soundtrack who makes a return as a fun Easter egg for fans is Twain, who duets with BRELAND on \u201cBoots Don\u2019t.\u201d \u201cShe had a big song [\u201cNo One Needs to Know\u201d] from the first soundtrack, and we thought, \u2018Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if she did one for this one,\u2019\u201d says Mike Knobloch<\/strong>, president of NBCUniversal Music and Publishing.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe weren\u2019t trying to recreate [the original soundtrack]. In the same way that the movie is different, we treated this initially like its own project,\u201d he continues. \u201cWe worked closely with [director] Isaac Chung to conceive a music soundscape for the film that would be organic and authentic to where the story takes place, which is in Oklahoma,\u201d Knobloch says. \u201cWe got to do something we don\u2019t typically do, which is not just dabble in country music, but really lean in in an authentic way to work with Nashville writers and country artists. And not just for a song or two, but for the entire film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n