Random Best Songs Ever Written For Movies (31 items)

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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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  (#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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  (#25) Falling Slowly

  • The Frames

  "Falling Slowly" comes from Once, the 2007 Irish musical movie about friends writing songs together. Songwriters / actors Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008.
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  (#2) Lose Yourself

  The anthem of 8 Mile and pretty much all of 2002, "Lose Yourself" was Eminem's first single from the movie's soundtrack. Its 23 weeks on top of the world made its mark in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Longest Running Single at Number One for a Rap Song."
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  (#1) Eye of the Tiger

  • Survivor

  The ultimate pump up song and staple of everyone's "Gym Playlist," this 1982 hit belongs to Rocky III. One of the best-selling singles in the history of the universe, "Eye of the Tiger" was voted VH1's 63rd greatest hard rock song of all time.
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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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