

Yet the film's sole Top 10 hit was contemporary: Doja Cat 's "Hound Dog"-sampling "Vegas." For Luhrmann's vision, Elvis was nominated alongside Encanto, "Stranger Things," Top Gun: Maverick and West Side Story for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media GRAMMY Award. Luhrmann was never going to give his Elvis Presley biopic a traditional soundtrack instead he favored a mix of nostalgia and anachronism.Įlvis is peppered with songs performed by The King himself, as well as covers sung by former teen idol/lead actor Austin Butler and a host of newcomers and established artists. The synergy between moviegoers and OneRepublic fans caught the band's record label off guard Interscope pulled promotion of then-current single "West Coast" to capitalize on all the buzz.Ģ022 also witnessed a return-to-form from pop music-savvy director Baz Luhrmann, whose expert curation helped Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby spawn radio hits. The uptempo Peter, Bjorn and John -sampling track played over key scene where Tom Cruise, Glen Powell and Miles Teller play football shirtless on the beach, and became Ryan Tedder and co.’s biggest hit since 2013’s "Counting Stars" (No. But while Gaga's lead single received a Best Song Written For Visual Media nomination at the 65th GRAMMY Awards, its chart peak was overwhelmingly eclipsed by OneRepublic ’s "I Ain’t Worried." Lady Gaga’ s power ballad " Hold My Hand " was primed to replicate the chart-topping, Academy Award-winning success of Berlin’s "Take My Breath Away" from the 1986 original. The biggest soundtrack from a live-action film, Top Gun: Maverick, told a similar story. Its chart and streaming dominance wasn't steered by record executives, but by the public who deemed it more stream-worthy than any other track from the film. Unlike the inescapable "Let It Go" from 2013's Disney juggernaut Frozen, the success of "Bruno" happened more organically.

The Encanto OST picked up three GRAMMY nominations - Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media, Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media and Best Song Written For Visual Media for "Bruno" - and spawned seven Hot 100 singles, including another Top 10 smash, "Surface Pressure." Not bad for an album which in its first week entered the charts at No. And for a while, single-handedly by Encanto. Over the past 12 months, however, this drought has been well and truly broken. And although Oscar-winning “Shallow” reached pole position in 2019, it began its chart trajectory the year previously.
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Not one TV or movie tie-in graced the Top 10 in 2021 or 2020. 1s.)Ģ022 spawned five Top 10 hits from film soundtracks - a feat last achieved in 2018 via Kendrick Lamar ’s Black Panther collabs with the Weeknd ("Pray for Me") and SZA ("All the Stars"), Swae Lee and Post Malone ’s "Sunflower" ( Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse ), Khalid & Normani ’s "Love Lies" ( Love, Simon ), and the A Star Is Born cut "Shallow." Yet the once-golden bridge between Hollywood and Billboard was quiet in the intervening years, perhaps due in part to the pandemic.

( Aladdin favorite "A Whole New World" is also in the exclusive club of Disney animation No. 1 for five weeks - the highest tally for a soundtrack release in seven years.

The nominees for Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 2023 GRAMMYs are proof: Four of the six nominated songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "We Don't Talk About Bruno" sitting at No. With the domestic box office now showing signs of returning to pre-COVID days, the soundtrack single has, once again, become a key marketing tool and chart staple. It also led to the renaissance of a particular crossover: the soundtrack hit. 50, quickly becoming a record-breaking, multi-million-selling phenomenon. The film's "We Don't Talk About Bruno" entered the first Hot 100 chart of 2022 at No. Lin-Manuel Miranda ’s 2021 animated film Encanto was all-conquering, and its success also touched the Billboard charts. It’s the kind of development even an animated fortune teller voiced by John Leguizamo couldn’t have predicted.
