Random Best Songs Ever Written For Movies (31 items)

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  (#19) Try Again

  • Aaliyah

  Aaliyah's "Try Again" was written for 2000's Romeo Must Die. The Jet Li movie spawned this song, which was the first in history to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 solely based on radio airplay.
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  (#5) Gangsta's Paradise

  • Coolio, L.V.

  Coolio won the MTV VMA for Best Video from a film and the entire 1990s with "Gangsta's Paradise." Co-written by Stevie Wonder, the song was the best-selling single of 1995 thanks to the movie Dangerous Minds.
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  (#4) You've Got a Friend in Me

  • Donny Osmond, Rosie O'Donnell

  Randy Newman recorded the theme song to the entire Toy Story franchise in 1995. Pixar should be grateful to him, and co-writer Lyle Lovett, for their Oscar and Golden Globe nominations in the Best Original Song category.
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  (#14) Shallow (Song)

  • Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper

  Written for the main characters of the 2018 movie, A Star is Born, Lady Gaga teams with co-star Bradley Coooper (yes, he sings on the track). 
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  (#6) Take My Breath Away

  • Berlin

  Berlin wrote this love song for 1986's Top Gun. Giorgi Moroder and Tom Whitlock wrote the tune for the Tom Cruise movie and got both the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
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  (#13) Le Lauréat: Mrs. Robinson

  • Simon and Garfunkel

  Written for The Graduate, this song is named after Anne Bancroft's character, who seduces Dustin Hoffman. In 1969, "Mrs. Robinson" won a Record of the Year Grammy Award.

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