Milan Records has announced the January 14th release of BELLE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK – ENGLISH EDITION), an English language version of the Original Soundtrack to Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Mamoru Hosoda’s latest feature. Featuring both score and vocal tracks written by a team of composers led by Taisei Iwasaki and including Ludvig Forssell and Yuta Bandoh, the album includes English versions of vocal tracks originally performed in Japanese, newly recorded in English by Kylie McNeill, who voices ‘Belle’ in the English dubbed version of the film. The album follows the massive success of the original Japanese Edition of the soundtrack, which has garnered over 20 million streams globally since its July 2021 debut.

Belle follows shy, everyday high school student Suzu as she escapes into a virtual world, becoming a globally-beloved popstar named Belle and setting out on an emotional and epic quest to find herself.

Ranging from anthemic pop ballads to emotionally-laden instrumentals, the soundtrack includes original vocal songs written and arranged by Taisei Iwasaki, Ludvig Forssell and Yuta Bandoh as performed in the film by both Suzu and her virtual persona Belle, as well as original score music also written by the trio and Grammy-nominated composer Miho Hazama. The film’s main theme and album opener “U” was written and performed by groundbreaking Japanese act millennium parade led by Daiki Tsuneta, and two of the vocal tracks and recurring themes throughout the film, “Lend Me Your Voice” and “A Million Miles Away” also feature lyrics co-written by Mamoru Hosoda. The English album was produced by Taisei Iwasaki and supervised by Taka Chiyo alongside the team of composers and in collaboration with GKIDS and NYAV Post.

BELLE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK – ENGLISH EDITION)

TRACKLISTING –

1. U – millennium parade, Belle* 
2. Whispers – Kylie McNeill* 
3. Slingshot – Miho Hazama, Taisei Iwasaki
4. Memories of a Sound – Taisei Iwasaki
5. Blunt Words – ermhoi
6. Gales of Song – Belle* 
7. Fleeting Days – Ludvig Forssell
8. Swarms of Song – Belle*
9. Alle Psallite Cum Luya – Ryoko Moriyama, Sachiyo Nakao, Fuyumi Sakamoto, Yoshimi Iwasaki, Michiko Shimizu, Kaho Nakamura
10. Fama Destinata – Belle*
11. Dragon – Yuta Bandoh
12. Justin – Yuta Bandoh
13. Unveil – Yuta Bandoh
14. Digital Ripples – Ludvig Forssell
15. Dragon’s Lair – Yuta Bandoh
16. Lend Me Your Voice (draft) – Kylie McNeill* 
17. Social Warfare – Ludvig Forssell
18. Assault – Yuta Bandoh
19. Lend Me Your Voice – Belle*
20. #UnveilTheBeast – Ludvig Forssell
21. Authority and Arrogance – Ludvig Forssell
22. Scorching the Façade – Yuta Bandoh
23. The Truth Obscured – Ludvig Forssell
24. Lend Me Your Voice (humming) – Bentley Griffin
25. Distrust – Ludvig Forssell
26. A Million Miles Away – Belle*
27. Pieces of the Puzzle – Ludvig Forssell
28. Faces in the Rain – Kylie McNeill* 
29. Skies of Song – Ludvig Forssell, Kylie McNeill*
30. A Million Miles Away (reprise) – Belle*

*Denotes vocal track

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