Random Best Songs Ever Written For Movies (31 items)

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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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  (#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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  (#3) Alive

  • Bee Gees

  "Stayin' Alive" was the theme song from Saturday Night Fever. The Bee Gees classic of 1977 landed as #189 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs 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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  (#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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  (#7) Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)

  • Disney Orchestra

  1989's Best Original Song Oscar went to this Little Mermaid song. "Under the Sea" also won a Grammy in 1991 and was reprised in the 2008 Broadway musical version.
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  (#8) Live and Let Die

  • Paul & Linda McCartney

  "Live and Let Die" is the theme song from the James Bond movie of the same name. In 1973, Paul McCartney & Wings reunited with former Beatles producer George Martin to record the song.
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  (#9) I Believe I Can Fly

  • R. Kelly

  What would the '90s have been without R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly?" One of his biggest hits of all time, you can listen to this single on the soundtrack of Space Jam (1996). 
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  (#10) Let It Go

  "Let It Go" did not just make Idina Menzel and John Travolta go viral at the Oscars, but it made the Frozen soundtrack an absolute hit. This 2014 Academy Award-winning Disney song has led to a pop version by singer and actress Demi Lovato.
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  (#11) Men in Black

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Will Smith

  Will Smith's song "Men in Black" played in Will Smith's movie Men in Black during the end credits. Smith garnered a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best Rap Solo Performance.
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  (#12) Happy

  "Happy" was such a hit from the movie Despicable Me 2 (2013) that even Weird Al's parody of it, "Tacky," went viral. Pharrell's song was nominated for a 2014 Academy Award and became the world's first 24-hour music video.
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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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  (#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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  (#15) Pocahontas: Colors of the Wind

  • London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams

  "Colors of the Wind" was written by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken for Pocahontas. This 1995 movie theme song won Best Original Song at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys. 
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  (#16) Everything Is Awesome

  "Everything Is Awesome," or as it often written, "Everything Is AWESOME!!!" comes from The Lego Movie (2014). You can thank Tegan and Sara, as well as The Lonely Island, for performing this Mark Mothersbaugh-produced gem that the International Business Times called a parody of "creeping fascism."
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  (#17) Love Me Like You Do

  • Ellie Goulding

  Ellie Goulding recorded and released this steamy song for Fifty Shades of Grey in 2015.
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  (#18) Fight the Power

  • Public Enemy

  Public Enemy wrote this hit for Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. As the 1989 movie's theme song, "Fight the Power" was included in Time magazine's list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.
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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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  (#20) Hard Out Here for a Pimp

  • Three 6 Mafia, Paula Campbell

  Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar (you read that correctly) for "Hard Out Here for a Pimp." After it won Best Original Song for the movie Hustle and Flow in 2005, host Jon Stewart reminded audiences at home to keep score: "Three 6 Mafia: one. Martin Scorsese: zero."
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  (#21) I'll Never Love Again

  • I'll Never Love Again

  Alongside the film version of the track, Lady Gaga's "I'll Never Love Again" (featuring Bradley Cooper) was featured in A Star Is Born (2018). 
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  (#22) Independent Women, Part 1

  • Ten Masked Men

  2000's Charlie's Angels not only starred three of the world's sexiest women, but its theme song was performed by the world's other three sexiest. Destiny's Child released "Independent Women, Part 1," and it became the 18th most successful song of the entire 2000s.
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  (#23) Safe and Sound

  Taylor Swift and T-Bone Burnett wrote a song with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games (2012). The result? "Safe and Sound," a single so popular that it garnered a Golden Globe nomination in 2013 for Best Original Song.
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  (#24) Earned It

  The Canadian dark R&B producer The Weeknd wrote and released this song as a single for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. 
  
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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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  (#26) Exit Music (for a Film)

  • Radiohead

  "Exit Music (For a Film)" was indeed for a film. Radiohead wrote this song to be played for the end credits (hence exit music) for Romeo + Juliet, the 1996 DiCaprio-Winslet version of Shakespeare.
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  (#27) Eyes Open

  In 2012, "Eyes Open" made a splash on the soundtrack "The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond." It was Taylor Swift's highest Billboard Pop Songs chart debut until "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
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  (#28) Save Me

  • Aimee Mann

  This Aimee Mann tune scored an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1999. You can see it sung by the ensemble in a musical segment of Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.
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  (#29) Miss Misery

  • Elliott Smith

  Elliot Smith wrote "Miss Misery" for Good Will Hunting. When it got an Academy Award nomination in 1998, producers had to convince Smith to play the song at the ceremony.

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