Toy Story 5 Soundtrack: Every Song Featured in Tom Hanks’s Sequel

Pixar’s Toy Story 5 isn’t just great for its animation and story, but the sequel movie also nailed its soundtrack. The complete soundtrack album is digitally released on Friday, June 19, the same day as the movie hits the theaters. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return to voice Woody and Buzz, with Joan Cusack and Greta Lee voicing crucial lead roles.

The original score of the movie was composed by Randy Newman, who is popularly known for his works in Disney and Pixar movies. He has been nominated for 22 Academy Awards, winning twice for If I Didn’t Have You from Monsters, Inc. and We Belong Together from Toy Story 3.

He has won the Grammys seven times, including Best Soundtrack Album for Toy Story 3. He has also received three Emmys, including one for the main title theme of Monk. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002.

Andrew Stanton helms this sequel, which he co-wrote with Kenna Harris. Toy Story 5‘s plot pits our old gang against Lilypad, a frog-shaped tablet who threatens to make analog toys obsolete. In our review of Toy Story 5, FandomWire’s Cole Groth praised Stanton’s direction, which turned “a critique of modern screen time into a profound, magical masterpiece about loneliness.”

Toy Story 5 Complete Soundtrack Album

The soundtrack of Toy Story 5 was released by Walt Disney Records. Randy Newman’s You’ve Got A Friend In Me, which served as the first movie’s main theme, remains a major musical element in the fifth movie as well, just like in the prequels. The soundtrack also features an original track from pop icon Taylor Swift, titled I Knew It, I Knew You.

Here’s the complete soundtrack album of the movie.

1. I Knew It, I Knew You – Taylor Swift
2. You’ve Got A Friend In Me – Randy Newman
3. Buzzs
4. Tire Swing Hill
5. Tech Boom
6. Bonnie’s New E-Friends
7. Calling Woody
8. Making Land
9. Back Home
10. Welcome Woody
11. Shed Toys
12. Smarty Pants
13. Man Down
14. The Drawer
15. Blaze
16. Bonnie Returns
17. Truce
18. Operation Jessie
19. Queen Jimmy
20. Hey Lily
21. Bad News
22. Interrogation
23. Breakdown
24. Buried Treasure
25. Highway Robbery
26. Reunion
27. Bonnie and Blaze
28. Happy Landing

The soundtracks complement the film’s Toy vs. Tech theme with high intensity. Listen to all of these original songs and scores on Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube. You can listen to Newman’s classic song here.

What We Know About Taylor Swift’s Song in the Movie

Taylor Swift in The End of an Era documentary | Credits: Disney+

Taylor Swift wrote the original track, I Knew It, I Knew You, with Jack Antonoff and performed it for Toy Story 5. She announced the track on her Instagram, sharing, “Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time.” Swift wrote the track for the character Jessie, voiced by Joan Cusack. She further wrote:

In another Instagram post, she shared how the inspiration for the song came from watching the movie for the first time. She shared in a video, “At 11am, I went to go see Toy Story 5, got so inspired, got the songwriter zoomies, went home, wrote the end credit song for Toy Story 5.”

In the BTS clip, she further shared that she was still doing the vocals for the song to present it to “Bob Iger and Tom from Pixar.” She shared, “We have not recorded it yet, and I think this is one of the most fun days of my life.” Swift’s song now plays in the end credits of Toy Story 5.

The song is a return to country music for Swift. The track is composed with a lot of love for the characters of the movie, which is not surprising given how Swift established herself as a fangirl of the franchise. Some fans hope that Swift gets her first Oscar win for the composition.

What do you think of the movie’s soundtrack? Let us know in the comments below!

Toy Story 5 is now out in theaters.