Descendants 3 (soundtrack)

Descendants 3 was released on August 2, 2019, along with the parent film, and featured 13 tracks, with much of the songs are written originally for the film. Also included in the album are: "Dig a Little Deeper" from the 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, two songs from the first film's soundtrack, "Did I Mention" and a remixed version of "Rotten to the Core".

Steven Vincent, Disney Channel's VP of music and soundtracks, said in an interview to Variety, that he went "through the script looking for musical opportunities where could we use big numbers and where could we do character numbers". He added that Sofia Carson's character Evie did not have a song herself in the first two films, hence he "looked for a spot where she could have a number to herself and it would be fresh for this film".{{Cite web |last=Tangcay |first=Jazz |date=2020-07-07 |title=Behind the Musical Magic of 'Descendants 3' With Songwriter Antonina Armato and Disney Channel's Steven Vincent |url=https://variety.com/2020/artisans/news/descendants-3-music-songs-disney-channel-1234699566/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

About the opening number, "Good to be Bad", songwriter Antonina Armato, who worked on the first two films, had said that " We wanted to make sure that those lyrics made you feel like, it was a celebration. These are the misfit kids and they have a sense of pride all of a sudden. Maybe we’re the bad kids. Maybe we’re the bad apples, but guess what? We made applesauce and it tastes good and everyone is stoked." On the song "Queen of Mean" sung by Sarah Jeffrey as Audrey, Armato added " At first, her character was always doing the right thing and, all of a sudden, everything you thought was gonna happen didn’t and she said, “Well, I could either take this or I can empower myself.” … I thought a lot of young girls would enjoy that sort of just the way it sounds. It was fun and Sarah embodied that song in such a great way."

The soundtrack debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 with 36,000 album-equivalent units, slightly less than the soundtracks of the first two films, earning 42,000 and 46,000 respectively. It subsequently fell to number 14, the following week.{{Cite magazine |title=Top 200 Albums {{!}} Billboard 200 chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130052316/https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/2019-02-02 |archive-date=2019-01-30 |access-date=2019-08-29 |magazine=Billboard}} It topped the Billboard Kid Albums chart and also debuted at number 10 on the UK Soundtrack Albums Chart, while being further charted at Australia, Canada, and France in numbers 36 and 166, respectively. The accompanying music videos released for the soundtrack, earned around 285 million views on the Disney Music's Vevo channel.

"Good to Be Bad", performed by Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart, Anna Cathcart and Jadah Marie, was released as a single on May 31, 2019, along with the pre-order of the soundtrack.{{Cite web |title=First Song from Disney Channel's 'Descendants 3' Released |url=https://filmmusicreporter.com/2019/05/31/first-song-from-disney-channels-descendants-3-released/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Film Music Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Gibson |first=Kelsie |date=2019-06-02 |title=The First Song From Descendants 3 Is So Good, You'll Want to Get Up and Dance Along |url=https://www.popsugar.com/node/46220692 |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=POPSUGAR Entertainment |language=en-US}} "VK Mashup" was released as the second single on July 19, which contains samples of "Rotten to the Core", "Ways to Be Wicked", and "Good to be Bad" from the first three films.

The track "Queen of Mean" was released on August 2,{{Citation |title=Sarah Jeffery - Queen of Mean (From "Descendants 3") | date=August 2, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9o1QS-itsU |language=en |access-date=2019-08-24}} along with the soundtrack and debuted at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Jeffery's first entry on the chart, one of the highest-charting songs from the Descendants franchise as well as the highest charting solo song from any of the films;{{cite magazine |title=Sarah Jeffrey Chart History Hot 100 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/Sarah-Jeffrey/chart-history/hot-100 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820060100/https://www.billboard.com/music/Sarah-Jeffrey/chart-history/hot-100 |archive-date=2019-08-20 |access-date=6 September 2019 |magazine=Billboard}}{{Cite magazine |last=Malach |first=Hannah |date=2019-08-19 |title='Descendants 3' Star Sarah Jeffery Feels 'So Grateful' For 'Queen of Mean' Hot 100 Debut |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/queen-of-mean-sarah-jeffery-interview-hot-100-debut-8527611/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}} it further spent eight consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the longest charting Descendants song.{{Cite magazine |date=2 January 2013 |title=The Hot 100 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/2019-08-24 |magazine=Billboard}} It also featured at number 57 on the Canadian Hot 100,{{cite magazine |title=Sarah Jeffrey Chart History Canadian Hot 100 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/Sarah-Jeffrey/chart-history/canadian-hot-100 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820044228/https://www.billboard.com/music/sarah-jeffrey/chart-history/canadian-hot-100 |archive-date=2019-08-20 |access-date=6 September 2019 |magazine=Billboard}} and number 89 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web |title=Official Singles Chart Top 100, 16 August 2019 - 22 August 2019 |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20190816/7501/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123122434/https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20190816/7501/ |archive-date=2020-11-23 |access-date=6 September 2019 |website=Official Charts}} The CLOUDxCITY remix of "Queen of Mean" was released on October 13, 2019,{{cite magazine |last1=Rowley |first1=Glenn |date=14 October 2019 |title=Sarah Jeffery Reinvents 'Queen Of Mean' as Club-Inspired Banger With CloudxCity Remix: Watch |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/sarah-jeffery-queen-of-mean-cloudxcity-remix-8532904/ |access-date=25 September 2022}} while also featuring a mashup of "What's My Name" from the second film.

After the film's soundtrack release, "Night Falls", performed by Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart, China Anne McClain, Thomas Doherty and Dylan Playfair, debuted at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100.{{Cite magazine |title=Top 100 Songs {{!}} Billboard Hot 100 Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321134655/https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100 |archive-date=March 21, 2020 |access-date=2019-08-26}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Descendants 3 (Original TV Movie Soundtrack) {{nobold|– Standard edition}}

| extra_column = Performer(s)

| total_length =

| title1 = Good to Be Bad

| writer1 = {{flatlist|

• Tim James
• Antonina Armato
• Tom Sturges
• Adam Schmalholz

}}

| extra1 = {{flatlist|

• Dove Cameron
• Sofia Carson
• Cameron Boyce
• Booboo Stewart
• Anna Cathcart
• Jadah Marie

}}

| length1 = 3:09

| title2 = Queen of Mean

| writer2 = {{flatlist|

• James
• Armato
• Sturges
• Schmalholz

}}

| extra2 = Sarah Jeffery

| length2 = 3:09

| title3 = Do What You Gotta Do

| writer3 = {{flatlist|

• Matt Wong
• Jamie Jones
• Jack Kugell

}}

| extra3 = {{flatlist|

• Cameron
• Cheyenne Jackson

}}

| length3 = 2:57

| title4 = Night Falls

| writer4 = {{flatlist|

• James
• Armato
• Sturges
• Schmalholz

}}

| extra4 = {{flatlist|

• Cameron
• Boyce
• Carson
• Stewart
• Marie
• China Anne McClain
• Thomas Doherty
• Dylan Playfair

}}

| length4 = 3:08

| title5 = One Kiss

| writer5 = {{flatlist|

• Matt Tishler
• Paula Wingler

}}

| extra5 = {{flatlist|

• Carson
• Cameron
• McClain

}}

| length5 = 2:29

| title6 = My Once Upon a Time

| note6 =

| writer6 = {{flatlist|

• John Kavanaugh
• David Goldsmith

}}

| extra6 = Cameron

| length6 = 3:48

| title7 = Break This Down

| writer7 = {{flatlist|

• Jodie Shihadeh
• James K. Petrie
• Doug Davis
• Ben Hostetler
• Nikki Sorrentino
• Susan Paroff
• Anthony Mirabella
• Pipo Fernandez
• Ali Dee Theodore

}}

| extra7 = {{flatlist|

• Cameron
• Boyce
• Carson
• Stewart
• McClain
• Jeffery
• Doherty
• Playfair
• Cathcart
• Marie
• Mitchell Hope
• Brenna D'Amico
• Zachary Gibson

}}

| length7 = 3:29

| title8 = Dig a Little Deeper

| writer8 = Randy Newman

| extra8 = McClain

| length8 = 2:57

| title9 = Did I Mention

| writer9 = Adam Schlesinger

| extra9 = Hope

| length9 = 0:29

| title10 = Rotten to the Core

| note10 = D3 Remix

| writer10 = {{flatlist|

• Shelly Peiken
• Johan Alknas
• Joacim Persson

}}

| extra10 = {{flatlist|

• Cameron
• Boyce
• Carson
• Stewart
• McClain
• Jeffery
• Doherty
• Marie

}}

| length10 = 2:47

| title11 = Happy Birthday

| writer11 = Traditional

| extra11 = Jeffery

| length11 = 0:36

| title12 = VK Mashup

| writer12 = {{flatlist|

• James
• Armato
• Sturges
• Schmalholz
• Pieken
• Alkenas
• Persson
• Grant P Michaels
• Charity Daw

}}

| extra12 = {{flatlist|

• Cameron
• Boyce
• Carson
• Stewart

}}

| length12 = 1:59

| title13 = Descendants 3 Score Suite

| writer13 = David Lawrence

| extra13 = David Lawrence

| length13 = 5:01

| all_writing =

}}

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