This document summarizes the success of the song "Let It Go" from the Disney film Frozen. It was written for the film and sung by Idina Menzel. After the film's release in 2013, Disney released the music video and the song became a worldwide commercial and critical success, topping charts and winning awards like the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song resonated strongly with audiences, especially children and the LGBT community, and became a pop culture phenomenon. Demi Lovato later recorded a pop version of the song that also achieved commercial success.

1. Case Study of Distribution of Music
Videos and Impact on the Success
of Record
Let It Go – Idina Menzel

2.  Film Release : 25th November 2013
 Music Video Release : 1st November 2013
 Writer : Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
 Length : 3mins 45seconds
 Record Label : Walt Disney
 Published : Wonderland Music Company
 Originally sung by Idina Menzel
 From the film Frozen
 Kids Animation, Disney ‘Sing-along’, Musical – part of the
storyline
 Worldwide success
 DVD, CD, ITunes, YouTube, DisneyVEVO
 6th December 2013 - Walt Disney Animation Studios released a
video of the entire "Let It Go" sequence as seen in the movie

3.  Comparing to Menzel’s other big role in Wicked and song
‘Defying Gravity’
 The song has “every element needed to be a lasting favorite”
 Entertainment Weekly's Marc Snetiker described the song as "an
incredible anthem of liberation“
 Joe Dziemianowicz of New York Daily News called it "a stirring
tribute to girl power and the need to 'let go' of fear and shame“.
 Also, the LGBT community interpreted the song as a way for
people to ‘come out’, due to it being released in the year of 2013,
a year of equality rights
 In 2014, many journalists said that the soundtrack swept the
nation, almost like a ‘musical epidemic’ sending kids into
hysterics, this had never happened before
Reception / Representation

4.  On top of the original soundtrack release of ‘Let It Go’, a single
was released as well, sung by the singer and actress for Disney
Channel Demi Lovato – this version has shorter lyrics and is more
of the Pop genre
Music Video Directed by : Declan Whitebloom
 This then lead on to artists from other countries producing their
own version but in other languages, the most famous being
Mandarin Chinese
 Live performances of the song include; at the Disney Parks
Christmas Day Parade, on 13th November 2014 she performed at
the Royal Variety Performance, additionally being part of Lovato’s
tour
Demi Lovato’s version

5.  Top 5 - Billboard Hot 100 chart
 Won - Academy Award for Best Original Song (2014) and the Grammy Award for Best
Song Written for Visual Media (2015)
- Critics Choice Award; Best Song
- Phoenix Film Critics Society; Best Original Song
- Denver Film Critics Society; Best Original Song
- Radio Disney Music Awards; Favourite Song from a Movie or TV Show
 Nominated – Golden Globe Awards; Best Original Song
- Satellite Awards; Best Original Song
-Billboard Music Awards; Top Streaming Song (Video)
 Sold - 10.9 million copies (2014) according to IFPI
 2014’s 5th best selling song
 Disney’s first animated musical to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 since 1995
(Pocahontas)
 9th best-selling song of 2014 in the US – 3.37 million copies sold that year
 December 2014, 3.5 million copies sold in the US
 It is the biggest-selling foreign song from any original soundtrack in South Korea (12th
March 2014)
Awards