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{{trope}}
Or, [[Firefly (TV series)|Big Damn]] [[Disney Renaissance|Bronze Age]] [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney Style]] [[Oscar Bait|Award Baiting]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|End Credits]] [[Power Ballad]].
You Tropers who grew up in the early 1990s know what we're talking about, right? It's the kind of song which plays over the end credits (usually) of an animated (usually) Disney ([[All Animation Is Disney|usually]]) movie (usually) from [[The Nineties|the 90s]] (usually). They each share a distinctive style and, as per the title, once you hear it you just ''know'' it's going to get nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haliLPTq5NE Tune the Rainbow] from the [[RahXephon]] movie simply begs for this.
* The ''[[Macross]]'' franchise has a few [[Japanese Pop Music|J-Pop]]-style showstoppers, but special mention must be given to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24 Do You Remember Love?]", specially written for the [[Summer Blockbuster]] of the same name by the late Kazuhiko Katoh.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] (2003)'' has the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqus2TlcsY&fmt=18 Bratya] which was featured at the end of the episode where we see Ed's and Al's past. Even though it's in Russian, a language most viewers probably don't understand, it definitely [[Tear Jerker|packs a punch]].
* [[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Forever]], which was meant to be the conclusion of the [[Tenchi Universe]] canon, has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhdNoFWaUBI Love Song ga Kikoeru], which is appropriate considering he [[Tenchi Solution|actually picks someone]] in this continuity.
** "Tenchi Muyo! in Love" has "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQ-3YsXPZc Alchemy of Love]" as sung by [[Megumi Hayashibara]].
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHXdQ6QE9M Girls Can Rock?] That's like one of the most rockin' songs in all of the series!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxVcP-Pb6dc No More Words] from the first [[Inuyasha]] movie.
* [
* ''Every Time You Kissed Me'' from [[Pandora Hearts]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t661DztOJQ After All] from [[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]].
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== Music ==
* If you don't think [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] has parodied this, you...must not know Weird Al very well. Peep your ears at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZtSVDrlOPA "I Need a Nap".] "Sparkle synth?" Check. Soulful duet? [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [[Truck Driver's Gear Change]]? Check. [[Suspiciously Similar Song|Passing melodic resemblance to]] [[The Little Mermaid|"Part of Your World?"]] Check!
** Also "Don't Download This Song", a style parody of the forementioned "We are the World".
* [[Cascada]] - "Everytime We Touch" (candlelight version) and "Another You"
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* [[Kelly Clarkson]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8p9nEepT8 "A Moment Like This"], winner of the first season of ''[[American Idol]]''.
** Arguably, all the American Idol coronation songs qualify as award bait.
== Professional Wrestling ==
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== Video Games ==
* Many [[Square Enix]] games, in a bid to prove that [[Video Games]] are the new movies, have a song like this.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleBengRYvI Simple and Clean]"/"''Hikari''" and "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-R0iqiCahA Sanctuary]"/"Passion" (the Japanese versions have different names as well as the entirely different lyrics) from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Both play in the openings of their respective games ("Simple and Clean"/"''Hikari''" also appears in ''Chain of Memories'' and ''Birth by Sleep''), then have a longer, slower version that plays over the end credits.
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* The closing song to the first [[.hack GU|.hack//G.U.]] games as well as the third game closer.
* From .hack//LINK ''Stairs of Time'', and ''Deepest Memories'' also qualify.
*
* Bizarrely enough, [[Mr. Driller]]: [[No Export for You|Drill Land]] has one in the form of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDR9U3SOF4 "Days"].
* "If you Still Believe" from [[The Legend of Dragoon]]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCTru2Uim0 "Remember You"] from ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]] 5th Mix'' (and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YINqotRPQng&feature=related acoustic version] from ''Extreme PSX JP''), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQl_6Zy3y1s "Be in My Paradise"] from ''DDR Club Mix'', and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHQRX_NQX8 "Graduation"] from ''DDR Extreme''.
=== Visual Novel ===▼
▲== Visual Novel ==
* All the ''[[Yarudora]]'' games have memorable Ending Songs, but the one that fits the trope out them all is "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ywNk6Z9GQ Kisetsu o Dakishimete]", from the [[Kisetsu o Dakishimete|game of the same name]]. A love ballad sung by Oto Fumi in 1998, it's the only song in the ''Yarudora'' games to have entered the Japanese weekly Oricon charts, reaching the #64 rank and being charted for four weeks.
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== Other Media ==
* Disney loves this trope ''soooooo'' much, that they finish [[Disney Theme Parks|EPCOTs]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Big Damn Pyrotechnics Show]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB36HWWsePY Illuminations: Reflections of Earth]'' with one of these.
** This trope extends into the other parks, at the Magic Kindgom its in the form of a duet reprise of the song Wishes played after the fireworks show of the same name, and at the Beauty and the Beast Show at Disneys Hollywood Studios guests exit the show while the Celine Dion version plays.
** If you visit a Disney Theme Park during a [[Milestone Celebration]], and decide to buy one of the soundtracks the gift shops are selling, expect it to include a brand-new Award Bait Song. One example includes "Remember the Magic", sung by Brian McKnight and written for Walt Disney World's 25th anniversary. A rewritten version now plays during the "Believe...in Holiday Magic" fireworks show. Disneyland's 50th brought "Remember When", sung by [[
** Naturally, World of Color has
** Hell, Disney is so in love with this trope that for a whole ''Space '''Mountain''''' had
* Award Bait Songs were so pervasive that in 2003, the Academy revised the rules. Nominees must be written specifically for the film and occur during the main action or as the first song in the credits. A later revision is that only two songs are eligible per movie (''Beauty and the Beast'', ''The Lion King'', ''Dreamgirls'', and ''Enchanted'' had hogged the categories with three nominations each prior to this; the last two actually ''lost'' the category presumably due to vote splitting).
* In the '90s, a pair of artists and a composer created an internet poll to gauge people's opinions of various musical elements. Then, based on the data gathered, they created [http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/ "The Most Unwanted Song"], filled with the most unpopular elements on the survey, and [http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced/ "The Most Wanted Song"], filled with the most popular. The latter is total award bait.
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