The film was more popular in Europe, especially in the UK, where it outgrossed the US release. As Donnie Darko was not a hit at first, there was little interest in the soundtrack in the US.
The first soundtrack record was released by Andy Factor, a friend of Andrews, through his Everloving Records label in 2002. He chose " Mad World" by Tears for Fears (originally released in 1982), which his childhood friend Gary Jules sang as Andrews played piano. Like his role models John Barry and Ennio Morricone, Andrews wanted a song on his otherwise instrumental score. Director Richard Kelly knew Andrews worked with The Greyboy Allstars, and made music under the name Elgin Park. In early 2000, Jim Juvonen gave Andrews a copy of the script for the as-yet-unmade feature film Donnie Darko.
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He has since gone on to compose scores for the movies Out Cold, Nothing, Cypher, Orange County, My Suicidal Sweetheart, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The TV Set, a segment of Paris, je t'aime, Unaccompanied Minors, Bridesmaids, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Daddy's Home among others. Its original score album went on to sell over 100,000 copies (in part because of Andrews's remake of Tears for Fears' "Mad World", featuring Gary Jules), and Andrews became a composer to watch. In 2000, Richard Kelly commissioned him to do the soundtrack for the film Donnie Darko. After joining The Greyboy Allstars following the dissolution of his band The Origin, Andrews fell into film score composition by chance in 1998 when The Greyboy Allstars were asked to score Jake Kasdan's first feature Zero Effect and worked on the music for the highly regarded (though short-lived) TV series, Freaks and Geeks.