Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (soundtrack) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2011 . Hans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's score for "" and composed the music for "" and "", returned to score the fourth installment of the "Pirates" franchise. Collaborators included Rodrigo y Gabriela, which are listed as featured artists, and composers Eric Whitacre, and Geoff Zanelli. Zimmer said that his music for the series is "making orchestras play rock 'n' roll" as he felt that "pirates were the rock 'n' rollers of many many years
Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) with "Dead Man's Chest" and "On Stranger Tides", since followed by other film franchises. "The Curse of the Black Pearl" was the third-highest-grossing 2003 film in North America (behind "" and "Finding Nemo") and fourth worldwide (behind "The Return of the King", "Finding Nemo" and "The Matrix Reloaded"). "Dead Man's Chest" was the most successful film of 2006 worldwide, and "At World's End" led the worldwide grosses in 2007, though being only fourth in North America (behind "Spider-Man 3", "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and "Shrek the Third"). "On Stranger Tides" was the third-highest-grossing film of 2011