"Try Everything" is a song recorded by Colombian singer

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for the 2016

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'', and written by Sia, Tor Hermansen, and Mikkel Eriksen. In the film, it is featured as a song recorded by a singer named Gazelle (voiced by Shakira). It is first heard when Judy Hopps plays it on her MP3 player on the train to Zootopia. It is heard again during the end credits (performed by Gazelle for the citizens of Zootopia). The song appears on the soundtrack album to ''Zootopia'', and was released as a single in January 2016.

Background

The song was first recorded in 2013 by American girl group

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for their debut extended play Better Together, before being scrapped.

Commercial performance

The song debuted and peaked at number 63 on the ''

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, as well as number 26 on the Digital Songs chart with the help of 33,000 digital downloads and three million US streams after the release of its official music video. The song was certified 3 times platinum in the

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for sales exceeding 3,000,000 units, it also received a platinum certification in the

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by BPI for sales of over 600,000 units.

Critical reception

The song was nominated for Best Song Written For Visual Media at the

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. In 2020 ''

'' named "Try Everything" as one of the 12 best Disney songs of the 21st century. In 2022, the song ranked 19th on the Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Disney Songs Chart. In the UK, the song ranked 25th on the list of Disney's Official most-streamed songs as of 2022.

Music video

The music video consists mostly of scenes from ''Zootopia'', intercut with footage of

singing in a recording studio.

Accolades

International version

As the track is a background song, not key for the understanding of the plot, "Try Everything" was left untranslated in most foreign dubbings. However, it numbers a few adaptations around the world.

Other versions

In April 2016, the five man

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group Home Free released a music video of their cover of the song. As of November 2021, the video had over 8.5 million views on

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. In November 2020, the South Korean girl group

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Charts

Year-end charts

Sales and certifications

Release history

References

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