| re: Prior Top 10s from Disney animated films | |
| Last Edit: mikem 10:39 am EST 02/06/22 | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:38 am EST 02/06/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Prior Top 10s from Disney animated films - EvFoDr 05:05 pm EST 02/05/22 | |
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| I don't think that any of the Encanto songs have a pop version. I believe all of the charting songs are the original versions from the movies. There is one song on the soundtrack album that is by a Latin music star (Carlos Vives), but that song hasn't charted. I read somewhere that particular song is non-diegetic and is background music for a scene, which may explain why it's not getting much traction. You mention the interesting phenomenon that the Disney songs used to chart as pop versions, while that's no longer the case. I think "Let It Go" was the first time that the original version outdid the pop version. The same thing happened with Moana a few years after that; although it topped out at No. 41, "How Far I'll Go" did better in its original version than its pop version. And now Disney isn't even making pop versions. Although if they had, they wouldn't have made one for "Bruno," whose success has come out of left field. I was reading an article about how streaming has democratized the music chart process. Up until 1998, a song couldn't even chart unless it had a physical release as a single, so it was really under record company control which songs were charting. And radio play is by and large centered around the songs the record company is promoting. But now with YouTube/TikTok/Spotify/etc, the public is deciding what it wants to hear. And apparently, what they want to hear is "Bruno"! The Little Mermaid didn't have any pop versions and didn't have any charting hits. It was the beginning of the Disney animated renaissance, and I don't think Disney had the formula down yet. "Under the Sea" was the first song from an animated film to win the Oscar for Best Song since "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" over 50 years earlier. Disney would win Best Song five more times in the next decade, and, not coincidentally, all six films except for Pocahontas were made into Broadway musicals. (Tarzan is the Oscar-winning film missing from the earlier list of Top 10 hits.) According to Wikipedia, "Part of Your World" was almost cut because a focus group of children thought the song was too slow. It was re-tested with a different group who thought it was fine, and it was kept in the movie. |
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