''The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the soundtrack album for the 1994 Disney animated film, ''

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''. It contains songs from the film written by Elton John and

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, and a score composed by

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. Elton John has a dual role of performer for several tracks. Additional performers include

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, Carmen Twillie,

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, Rowan Atkinson, Joseph Williams,

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, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings,

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, and Sally Dworsky. The album was released on May 31, 1994, on CD and audio cassette. The soundtrack was recorded in three different countries: the U.S., the U.K. and South Africa. It is the best-selling soundtrack album to an animated film in the United States with over 7 million copies sold, with 4,934,000 copies sold in 1994. An expanded version of ''The Lion King'' soundtrack, featuring 30 minutes of previously unreleased material, was released as part of the '' Walt Disney Records: The Legacy Collection'' series on June 24, 2014. In 2014, Hot Topic released a vinyl picture disc of the soundtrack. In 2010, Rhapsody called it one of the all-time great Disney and

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Soundtracks.

Track listing

All songs are composed by Elton John with lyrics by

. All scores are composed by

''The Legacy Collection'' release

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released an expanded edition of ''The Lion King'' soundtrack containing an additional thirty minutes of previously unreleased material from the film, as well as a collection of demo versions of cues. This revision contains a new remastered mix by Alan Meyerson.

Commercial performance

The soundtrack shipped over 18 million copies in the U.S. and eventually went 10× platinum in 1995, thus becoming the biggest-selling soundtrack ever from an animated film. Its certification was promoted to

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when the award was instituted in 1999. According to Nielsen Soundscan the soundtrack, as of April 2014, has sold a total of 7.873 million copies in the US. It is also the best-selling vinyl album in the Nielsen SoundScan era (starting 1991), with 1,043,000 copies sold as of June 2014.

Accolades

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications and sales

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References

External links

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