The biggest soundtrack hit of the moment may be Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" from the Disney flick Frozen, but execs at Disney are hoping a hit from their earlier hit Aladdin from nearly a generation ago will give a bump to sales of Aladdin's original Broadway cast album too, available digitally today and on CD June 17.
The song, of course, is "A Whole New World," the Alan Menken/Howard Ashman hit that became so ubiquitous 21 years ago the darn thing is still in my head, and I don't even like it. "A Whole New World" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 6, 1993, replacing a little novelty number known as Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and becoming the first and, so far, only song from an animated Disney movie to climb to that peak. ("Let It Go" reached the Top 10 in March of this year.)
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