Toy Story 3 (soundtrack): History and Key Facts

Toy Story 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to Disney/Pixar's 2010 film of the same name composed by Randy Newman. The score was composed and conducted by Pixar's recurrent collaborator, Randy Newman, who also scored for the previous installments in the franchise. The score album, featuring an original song "We Belong Together" performed by Newman, and instrumental tracks were released on June 15, 2010 by Walt Disney Records. It was also the sixth Pixar film not to be scored by Michael Giacchino or Thomas Newman. The track "You've Got a Friend in Me" from the first installment is also featured in the album, performed by The Gipsy Kings.

The album was initially released through digital download in lossy formats such as MP3 and AAC, and was not released in CD; the second time, where a Pixar film soundtrack was not released through physical formats, the first being Up. In January 2012, Intrada released the album on CD. The score received positive critical reception, and had won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, while "We Belong Together" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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