In this musical time-machine is the top representative song, and the first and second runner up, for each year of the past nine decades, in a chronological retrospective of how music and the Walt Disney Company has evolved through time.
PART FIVE - AND THE DREAM CONTINUES 2010-2022
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- 2010 - FINALIST Make Way for Tomorrow Today
from Iron Man 2 - premiered on May 7, 2010
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- 2010 - FIRST RUNNER UP Mother Knows Best
from Tangled - premiered on November 24, 2010
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- 2010 - SECOND RUNNER UP I've Got a Dream
from Tangled - premiered on November 24, 2010
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- 2010 - * WINNER * I See the Light
from Tangled - premiered on November 24, 2010
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- 2010 - HONORABLE MENTION The Grid
from Tron Legacy- premiered on December 17, 2010
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- 2011 - FINALIST Talk Like a Pirate
from the animated series: Jake and the Neverland Pirates - premiered on February 14, 2011
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- 2011 - * WINNER * Everything is Honey
from Winnie the Pooh: The Movie - premiered on April 15, 2011
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- 2011 - HONORABLE MENTION The Backson Song
from Winnie the Pooh: The Movie - premiered on April 15, 2011
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- 2011 - SECOND RUNNER UP So Long
from Winnie the Pooh: The Movie - premiered on April 15, 2011
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- 2011 - FIRST RUNNER UP Life is a Happy Song
from The Muppets - premiered on November 23, 2011
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- 2012 - * WINNER * Touch the Sky
from Brave - premiered on June 22, 2012
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- 2012 - SECOND RUNNER UP Learn Me Right
from Brave - premiered on June 22, 2012
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- 2012 - FINALIST Song of Mor'du
from Brave - premiered on June 22, 2012
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- 2012 - HONORABLE MENTION Love is Strange
from the album Frankenweenie Unleashed - premiered on October 5, 2012
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- 2012 - FIRST RUNNER UP When Can I See You Again
from Wreck-It-Ralph - premiered on November 21, 2012
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- 2013 - HONORABLE MENTION Monsters University
from Monsters University - premiered on June 21, 2013
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- 2013 - HONORABLE MENTION William Tell Overture
from The Lone Ranger - premiered on July 3, 2013
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- 2013 - HONORABLE MENTION Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
from Frozen - premiered on November 27, 2013
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- 2013 - SECOND RUNNER UP For the First Time in Forever
from Frozen - premiered on November 27, 2013
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- 2013 - FIRST RUNNER UP Love is an Open Door
from Frozen - premiered on November 27, 2013
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- 2013 - * WINNER * Let It Go
from Frozen - premiered on November 27, 2013
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- 2013 - FINALIST In Summer
from Frozen - premiered on November 27, 2013
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- 2014 - FIRST RUNNER UP Adorable Couple Medley
from the Mickey Mouse cartoon: The Adorable Couple - premiered on March 7, 2014
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- 2014 - SECOND RUNNER UP We're Doing a Sequel
from Muppets Most Wanted - premiered on May 21, 2014
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- 2014 - FINALIST Once Upon a Dream
from Iron Maleficent - premiered on May 30, 2014
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- 2014 - * WINNER * Immortals
from Big Hero 6 - premiered on October 23, 2014
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- 2014 - HONORABLE MENTION She'll Be Back
from Into the Woods - premiered on December 25, 2014
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- 2015 - HONORABLE MENTION Making Today a Perfect Day
from the animated short: Frozen Fever - premiered on March 13, 2015
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- 2015 - FINALIST Strong
from Cinderella - premiered on March 13, 2015
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- 2015 - FIRST RUNNER UP A Kiss Goodnight
from the fireworks spectacular: Disneyland Forever - premiered on May 21, 2015
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- 2015 - * WINNER * I Lava You
from Lava - premiered on June 19, 2015
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- 2015 - HONORABLE MENTION Chasing the Pink Elephant / Imagination Land
from Inside Out - premiered on June 19, 2015
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- 2015 - SECOND RUNNER UP Evil Like Me
from Descendants - premiered on July 31, 2015
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- 2016 - HONORABLE MENTION Try Everything
from Zootopia - premiered on March 4, 2016
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- 2016 - SECOND RUNNER UP Trust in Me
from The Jungle Book - premiered on April 4, 2016
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- 2016 - * WINNER * How Far I'll Go
from Moana - premiered on November 23, 2016
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- 2016 - FIRST RUNNER UP You're Welcome
from Moana - premiered on November 23, 2016
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- 2016 - FINALIST Shiny
from Moana - premiered on November 23, 2016
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- 2017 - FIRST RUNNER UP Evermore
from Beauty and the Beast (live-action) - premiered on March 17, 2017
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- 2017 - SECOND RUNNER UP Happily Ever After
from Happily Ever After - premiered in Walt Disney World on May 12, 2017
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- 2017 - FINALIST Ride
Cars 3 - premiered on June 16, 2017
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- 2017 - HONORABLE MENTION Ring in the Season
from the cartoon short: Olaf's Frozen Adventure - premiered on November 22, 2017
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- 2017 - * WINNER * Remember Me
from Coco - premiered on November 22, 2017
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- 2018 - SECOND RUNNER UP Busy Doing Nothing
from Christopher Robin - premiered on August 3, 2018
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- 2018 - HONORABLE MENTION It's a Good Time
from Mickey's 90th birthday - premiered in the Disney parks in November of 2018
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- 2018 - FINALIST The Cover is Not the Book
from Mary Poppins Returns - premiered on December 19, 2018
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- 2018 - * WINNER * Trip a Little Light Fantastic
from Mary Poppins Returns - premiered on December 19, 2018
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- 2018 - FIRST RUNNER UP Nowhere to Go But Up
from Mary Poppins Returns - premiered on December 19, 2018
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- 2019 - SECOND RUNNER UP Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy
from Toy Story 4 - premiered on June 21, 2019
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- 2019 - * WINNER * Carried Away
from the Mickey Mouse cartoon: Carried Away - premiered on March 7, 2019
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- 2019 - HONORABLE MENTION Some Things Never Change
from Frozen 2 - premiered on November 22, 2019
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- 2019 - FIRST RUNNER UP Into the Unknown
from Frozen 2 - premiered on November 22, 2019
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- 2019 - FINALIST Show Yourself
from Frozen 2 - premiered on November 22, 2019
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- 2020 - * WINNER * Nothing Can Stop Us Now
from Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway - premiered on March 4, 2020
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- 2020 - SECOND RUNNER UP Carried Me with You
from Onward - premiered on March 6, 2020
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- 2020 - HONORABLE MENTION Sandcastles
from Clouds - premiered on October 16, 2020
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- 2020 - FINALIST Hero
from The Godmother - premiered on December 4, 2020
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- 2020 - FIRST RUNNER UP Born to Play
from Soul - premiered on December 25, 2020
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- 2021 - SECOND RUNNER UP Lead the Way
from Raya and the Last Dragon - premiered on May 5, 2021
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- 2021 - HONORABLE MENTION Legends Never Die
from Raya and the Last Dragon - premiered on May 5, 2021
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- 2021 - FIRST RUNNER UP The Family Madrigal
from Encanto - premiered on November 3, 2021
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- 2021 - FINALIST Surface Pressure
from Encanto - premiered on November 3, 2021
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- 2021 - HONORABLE MENTION Waiting on a Miracle
from Encanto - premiered on November 3, 2021
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- 2021 - * WINNER * We Don't Talk About Bruno
from Encanto - premiered on November 3, 2021
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- 2022 - FINALIST Nobody Like U
from Turning Red - premiered on March 11, 2022
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- 2022 - * WINNER * Cars on the Road
from Cars on the Road - premiered on Disney Plus on September 8, 2022
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- 2022 - HONORABLE MENTION Trucks
from Cars on the Road - premiered on Disney Plus on September 8, 2022
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- 2022 - FIRST RUNNER UP The Witches are Back
from Hocus Pocus 2 - premiered on Disney Plus on September 30, 2022
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- 2022 - HONORABLE MENTION They're the Clades!
from Strange World - premiered on November 15, 2022
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- 2022 - HONORABLE MENTION Fairytale Life
from Disenchanted - premiered on Disney Plus on November 18, 2022
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- 2022 - SECOND RUNNER UP Badder
from Disenchanted - premiered on Disney Plus on November 18, 2022
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- 2022 - HONORABLE MENTION Love Power
from Disenchanted - premiered on Disney Plus on November 18, 2022
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WHAT WILL BE THE 2023 SONG OF THE YEAR? THROUGHOUT 2023 I WILL BE ADDING NEW CANDIDATES - FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION |

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• And The Dream Continues |
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