The Wolf of Wall Street: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese-directed 2013 epic biographical black comedy crime film of the same name released on December 17, 2013, for digital download and through physical CDs and vinyl editions on January 7, 2014, distributed by Virgin Records.

The film featured 60 tracks handpicked by Scorsese's regular collaborator and music supervisor Randall Poster;[2] however, only 16 of them made it onto the official soundtrack release.

"[4] Robertson sent Scorsese a few recordings of mid-century blues singles, that included Elmore James' cover of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" (1951) and Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" (1956),[5] as "nobody but Marty and me would have chosen Smokestack Lightning for a movie that takes place in the ’80s and ’90s because it’s got nothing to do with anything except raw amazement [...] This is music that gets under your skin immediately," which attributes that blues-powered numbers attribute to the character development in tune to the epic debauchery that progresses in the film, despite time correctness.

The bandleader Phil Leavitt said that he received an email from the music clearance for the film, in last July, and added "It came out of the blue, and I still to this day don’t know how Martin Scorsese or his people heard it, or who found it.

However, he praised the brilliant use of "Smokestack Lightning" in the film which he said, that "The whole effect is ghostly, haunting, and gets at what I would imagine was the primary reason for using blues music so prominently in the movie.

He mentioned the soundtrack to the film as "diverse as you might expect from Scorsese, but unfortunately, it feels more like a grab bag here than ingenuity" adding that "It’s as sprawling and freewheeling as the movie, sure, but it’s also mostly predictable.