“Let It Go” by Idina Menzel

In Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen, Idina Menzel sings "Let It Go" as Queen Elsa, and it's a show-stopper of a scene: having let her power over ice slip out in public, Elsa flees to the mountains, stops hiding, throws off the royal trappings, conjures a living snowman and raises a castle of ice. The husband-and-wife team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote it as a full-blooded show tune and produced it with Earl Ghaffari, with David Boucher at the desk.

Then it escaped the cinema. Walt Disney Records sent it to adult contemporary radio in January 2014, and it became the first Disney animated-musical number in the Hot 100's top ten since 1995, giving Menzel, a Tony winner, her first top-10 single. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy, and went out in 25 languages for the film's overseas releases.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.