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A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)

A Star Is Born is the soundtrack album to the 2018 musical film of the same call, performed through its stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It was released on October five, 2018, by Interscope Records.[2] Gaga and Cooper collaborated on the soundtrack album (first album in wellknown for Cooper and 6th for Lady Gaga) with an collection of united states of america musicians, along with Lukas Nelson, who also stars in the movie as a member of Cooper's band. For the more pop-oriented songs on the soundtrack, Gaga teamed up with recurring collaborator DJ White Shadow. The soundtrack additionally consists of contributions from Jason Isbell, Mark Ronson, Diane Warren, and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow. Commercially, it has crowned the charts in extra than 15 countries, accomplishing gold and platinum certifications from a lot of them, at the same time as promoting over six million copies global.[3] The song "Shallow" became launched because the soundtrack's lead single on September 27, 2018, whilst "Always Remember Us This Way" and "I'll Never Love Again" also obtained a confined release in selected countries.[4][5]

A Star Is Born became nominated for a total of seven Grammy Awards, prevailing Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media for the song "Shallow", and a year later Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and any other Best Song Written for Visual Media, this time for "I'll Never Love Again (Film Version)". It additionally won Best Film Music at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards.

Contents

1 Background and development

2 Writing and recording

3 Music and lyrics

4 Release and merchandising

four.1 Singles

five Critical reception

6 Commercial overall performance

7 Accolades

eight Track list

9 Personnel

9.1 Production

9.2 Management

nine.3 Music

nine.Four Artwork

10 Charts

10.1 Weekly charts

10.2 Year-quit charts

10.3 Decade-end charts

11 Certifications and income

12 Release records

thirteen See also

14 References

15 External links

Background and improvement

In March 2015, Warner Bros. Introduced that Bradley Cooper turned into in talks to make his directorial debut with A Star Is Born, the fourth generation of the 1937 movie of the same name.[6] Lady Gaga became formally connected to the movie in August 2016, with the studio inexperienced-lighting fixtures the mission to start manufacturing in early 2017.[7] Cooper performs Jackson Maine, "a veteran u . S . A . Singer who discovers and finally falls in love with a suffering singer-songwriter named Ally, played with the aid of Gaga."[8] Gaga "helped inform Cooper's performance as a musician".[9][10]

Cooper spent two-and-a-half years prepping for the movie and determining what sort of musician his character would be. He labored with a number of musicians and vocal train Roger Love.[11] Cooper stated, "by using the stop he just type of began developing into his own form of creation. If I had any other yr of prep, it would were whole rock, however now it is some kind of hybrid."[11]

Writing and recording

The songs had been recorded at Electric Lady Studios, among different places.

Cooper described the soundtrack "an evolution, like the story."[12] Gaga and Cooper have been writing songs for the soundtrack at some stage in filming, leading to "so many one of a kind incarnations of every song."[12] Cooper introduced that "the track genuinely have become a individual inside the film. There is not any lyric that is ever in any point of the movie that doesn't have precisely to do with in which one of them is or hopes to be or regrets being. That become our launching pad and then it became just about discovering what songs healthy within the proper places."[12] Jason Isbell wrote a song for Cooper's man or woman, which have become "the sword with which a variety of the tune spawned from [Cooper]". Isbell sent the music thru Dave Cobb, a Nashville-primarily based manufacturer with whom Cooper have been collaborating.[13]

Cooper approached Lukas Nelson (son of usa tune singer Willie Nelson) after seeing him perform at Desert Trip in October 2016 and asked him to work on the movie as a music representative.[14] Nelson stated he began "writing songs for the movie, only for the heck of it, and sending them over to the producer, and that they started out liking them. Then Lady Gaga came by using and I met her and we clicked. We have become suitable buddies, and we started out writing collectively."[15] Gaga, in turn, furnished backing vocals on  tracks on Nelson's self-titled album released in 2017.[16] Nelson and his band, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, seem within the film as Cooper's backing band.[11] Gaga reunited with producer Mark Ronson and songwriter Hillary Lindsey, who had each contributed to her previous studio album Joanne (2016).[11] She labored with ordinary collaborator DJ White Shadow at the soundtrack's more pop-orientated numbers done by way of her individual Ally. Much of the album was recorded live on set, at Gaga's insistence.[2][11]