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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker hosted a lavish Disney-themed baby shower over the weekend, complete with custom Baby Barker latte art, a Dapper Dans appearance, and Mikey Mouse ears galore. âSpecial day, happiest place on Earth,â Kardashian captioned an Instagram Story of The Dapper Dans â Disneylandâs resident barbershop quartet â performing a pitch-perfect rendition […]
Walt Disney Recordsâ new Disney 100 album launches at No. 1 on both Billboardâs Compilation Albums and Kid Albums charts (dated May 13). The 29-track multi-artist set, boasting familiar Disney favorites from decades of film, TV and theme park attractions, is part of the ongoing celebration of 100 years of the Walt Disney Company.
Disney 100 was released on April 28 and exclusively available as a vinyl release (a two-LP set priced at $34.98). In the tracking week ending May 4, it sold a little over 2,000 copies in the United States, according to Luminate.
Disney 100 includes previously released songs from Disneyâs films, TV programs and theme parks. Among the selections: âWhistle While You Workâ (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), âWhen You Wish Upon a Starâ (from Pinocchio), âTiki, Tiki, Tiki Roomâ (from the Disney Parks attraction Walt Disneyâs Enchanted Tiki Room), âItâs a Small Worldâ (from the attraction of the same name), âMickey Mouse Marchâ (from The Mickey Mouse Club), âWeâre All In This Togetherâ (from High School Musical), âUnder the Seaâ (from The Little Mermaid), âLet It Goâ (from Frozen) and the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit âWe Donât Talk About Brunoâ (from Encanto).
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The Disney 100 celebration continues at No. 2 on both Kid Albums and Compilations, as a 23-song Walmart-exclusive alternative edition of the Disney 100 debuts (2,000 sold). The Walmart variant, also only on vinyl LP, has the same title but a different tracklist than the general market edition at No. 1, and thus it charts separately.
The wide-release Disney 100 and the Walmart-exclusive iteration also debut at Nos. 60 and 62 on the Top Album Sales chart, respectively, and at Nos. 31 and 33 on the Top Current Album Sales chart.
The Disney 100 albums are one part of Disneyâs company-wide celebrations, which includes festivities in Disney Parks and Disney100: The Exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, among other activations.
Billboardâs Kid Albums and Compilation Albums charts ranks the weekâs top-selling childrenâs albums and all-genre compilations, respectively. Top Album Sales rank the weekâs overall top-selling albums, and Top Current Album Sales lists the weekâs top-selling current albums (excluding any older, catalog titles â generally those that are at least 18 months old).
As moonlight illuminates Disneyland Parkâs Main Street, U.S.A., toddlers are gleefully hoisted onto shoulders, young couples nestle under Mickey Mouse blankets and groups of teenagers buzz with excitement. The mix of generations represented here have at least one thing in common: A real love for Disneyâs creations.
The crowd is awaiting âWondrous Journeys,â the parkâs new nighttime event celebrating 100 years of Disney magic. In the span of a 15-minute, firework-filled spectacular, every milestone of the storytelling giantâs century-long history is projected onto the exterior of Main Street U.S.A. and the Sleeping Beauty Castle â from the first sketch of Mickey Mouse in 1927 to Disneyâs upcoming 2023 film, Wish.
The display features nods to every Walt Disney Animation Studios film, coupled with lighting effects, fireworks and even Baymax from Big Hero 6, who at one point soars above the castle. Itâs all set to a star-studded soundtrack arranged by Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Lennertz, which features re-imaginings of Disney classics like âWhen You Wish Upon a Starâ fused seamlessly with songs from modern-day films including âAlmost Thereâ from Princess and the Frog and âDos Oruguitasâ from Encanto.
âWhen the team sat down, we realized that the core theme that binds everyone together when it comes to emotion, is music,â says Walt Disney Imagineeringâs global head of music Tricia Holloway.
The first step in developing the showâs music component was putting together an acoustic blueprint for what would become the âWondrous Journeysâ soundtrack. âI really approached this project like a combination of a stage musical and animated feature,â says Lennertz. âI wanted the music to be precisely clear about telling our story, with motivated singing and lyrics, but also be joyous, vivid, and colorful, like the great animated art that we were paying tribute to.â
Once the 18-song piano and vocal demo was thoroughly reviewed by Disneyâs team, including show director and creative music producer Jordan Peterson, it came time to decide who would perform each track. âWe started brainstorming [and] put together a list of vocalists that we thought would help inspire the show and take it to another level,â says Holloway. âAs we were looking to cast the vocalists, we were looking to people who perform in front of a live audience so that they could bring that energy and storytelling to the delivery of their vocals.â
In addition to more musical theater-centric acts suggested by her colleagues, Holloway threw a number of recording artists into the mix â reflective of her 20 years as a music supervisor in film and television at companies like Lionsgate and Nickelodeon. Through a combination of outreach to managers, agents and contractors, the soundtrack became a perfect blend of vocalists across musical disciplines, including Tarriona âTankâ Ball from Tank and the Bangas, Tony Award winner Lena Hall, jazz and soul singer Shoshana Bean, Ty Taylor from Los Angeles soul-rock band Vintage Trouble and pop duo Clyde and Gracie Lawrence.
âBeing a part of Disneyâs Wondrous Journeys was a dream come true,â says Ball, who, along with Taylor, jokingly referred to herself as âDisney royaltyâ after watching the show for the first time.
Hall, who performed âImmortalâ from Big Hero 6, says she was âthrilledâ when asked to be a part of the project. âIâm no Disney princess, so I thought it was cool they wanted to bring some real rock vocals to the show,â she says.
The âWondrous Journeysâ score was recorded over the course of a year across California, Nashville, New York City, London and Orlando, with an 80-piece orchestra, 16 lead vocalists and a 33-member choir. One of the elements Holloway is most excited about is the spectacularâs original opening song, âItâs Wondrous.â
When the Disney team received the track â originally a demo from songwriters Alex Ganga and Danny Brown â they loved the rendition so much that they opted to keep the demo vocalists for the final song. âItâs a folk-pop approach, bringing a different style than you typically would hear in the parks, something that youâd want to hear outside of the parks on its own,â says Holloway of the song.
Now, fans can hear âItâs Wondrousâ whenever they want, as the track arrived on streaming platforms Friday (March 3).
âI think âItâs Wondrousâ is going to become part of the DNA of the Disney catalog,â Holloway says. âIt isnât from an actual film or character, but it captures the feeling and beauty that you find within all the animation films.â
Rebel Wilson is engaged.
The actress and fashion and jewelry designer Ramona Agruma became engaged after a proposal that took place at Disneyland. Wilson posted the news on Instagram on Sunday.
âWe said YES! đđ Thank you @tiffanyandco for the stunning ring đ and to Bob Iger and the incredible team at Disneyland @disneyweddings for pulling off this magical surprise!â she wrote.
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Wilson shared two photos in her post. The couple are wearing matching pink-and-white striped sweaters with a black heart on the front. One photo shows Agrumaâs engagement ring, while the other shows them with Disneylandâs Sleeping Beauty castle in the background.
Wilson and Agruma first revealed they were a couple in June 2022. At the time, Wilson posted a photo on Instagram with the caption: âI thought I was searching for a Disney Prince⌠but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess đđđ#loveisloveâ
Wilson welcomed her first child, daughter Royce, via surrogate in November.
The Pitch Perfect actress also recently launched a dating app, Fluid.
âThis is the first dating app where you donât have to actually define yourself or tick a box to say âIâm straight, Iâm gay, Iâm bisexual,â and you donât have to describe what you are looking for,â she told People of her new venture. âItâs kind of love with no labels.â
This article originally appeared in THR.com.
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