Trolls

Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2016 DreamWorks Animation film Trolls, released on September 23, 2016 by RCA Records. The soundtrack is produced primarily by singer Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Shellback. It features work from Timberlake himself, along with Anna Kendrick, Ron Funches, Zooey Deschanel and Gwen Stefani, who all voice characters in the film, as well as Earth, Wind & Fire and Ariana Grande. The album was certified Platinum in Australia and Double Platinum in the United States. The song "Can't Stop the Feeling!" was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Grammy Award. Background After being announced as the voice to the lead character in the musical comedy Trolls opposite Anna Kendrick, Billboard reported that Justin Timberlake also signed on to write and perform original music for the film. Timberlake said in an interview: By the time Timberlake joined the project, there was still some original music needed to be written for the film. Timberlake planned to cover the disco genre among the variety of pop songs present in the film. For the soundtrack album, Earth, Wind & Fire re-recorded "September" with Timberlake and Kendrick. Commercial performance The soundtrack peaked at number one on the ARIA Charts, three on the US Billboard 200 album chart, four on the New Zealand Albums Chart, and four on the UK Albums Chart. It received Platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Australian Recording Industry Association, and a Gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry. In the United States, it has sold 573,000 copies by April 2017, and was the year's tenth highest selling album in the country with 522,000 sold throughout 2017.