Music is an integral part of the If I Stay storyline, be it Mia’s (Chloë Grace Moretz) practicing cello to get into the prestigious Juilliard music school, her father’s (Joshua Leonard) punk rock past, or Adam (Jamie Blackley) performing as singer/ guitarist of buzz band Willamette Stone. The film’s director, R.J. Cutler, stated, “It was immediately clear to me that If I Stay needed to feature a soundtrack assembled from a wide variety of styles and genres and would meld together to form an emotional, symphonic whole. The songs would reflect Adam’s roots in punk music and his contemporary sensibility, as well as the classical canon that Mia would master to apply to Juilliard. As I would often tell the cast and crew, in the world of If I Stay, music is the air that people breathe."

  The soundtrack for If I Stay combines pop songs by famous bands and performers as well as classical (cello) pieces.While on one hand we can find established pop musicians like Ane Brun covering Beyoncé’s Halo and Tom Odell’s special Version of his song Heal, the soundtrack also introduces some promising newcomers like Brooklyn-based Indie Pop BandLucius and unsigned Solo-Artist Odessa.