Academy Introduces Spotify Channel for the Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has introduced its first Spotify channel, debuting several unique playlists.

The channel will feature Oscar-winning songs with over two-hours of music of tunes that won Best Original Song.

Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris picked his favorite Oscar-winning songs. All five of this year’s Best Original Songs are included.

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The largest playlist on the channel is one where Academy asked the 2015 Oscar nominees what song best described how it felt when they were nominated.

Here’s that playlist:

• Joris Oprins: The Pixies “Where Is My Mind”
• Alan Robert Murray: “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
• Andrew Lazar: New Radicals “You Get What You Give”
• Gregg Rudloff: Tegan and Sara “Everything is Awesome”
• Joel Cox: The Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited”
• Peter Morgan: James Brown “I Feel Good”
• Diane Warren: Rita Ora “Grateful”
• Chris Williams: Cameo “Word Up”
• Don Hall: U2 “Beautiful Day”
• Roy Conli: The Grateful Dead “Sugar Magnolia”
• Jon Taylor: Guns N Roses “Welcome To The Jungle”
• Graham Annable: Prince “Kiss”
• Daniel Barrett: Pharrell “Happy”
• Kristina Reed: The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men”
• Patrick Osborne: Tegan and Sara “Everything Is Awesome”
• Hugo Guinness: Jimmy Cliff “The Harder They Come”
• David White: “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Paul Corbould: Avicii “Wake Me Up”
• Brent Burge: Timmy Trumpet & Savage “Freaks”
• Jason Canovas: Groove Armada “Superstylin'”
• Bonnie Arnold: “A Dream is a Wish” from Pinocchio
• Dean DeBlois: James Brown “I Feel Good”
• Julian Raymond: Etta James “At Last”
• William Goldenberg: The Beatles “Birthday”
• Keira Knightley: The Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited”
• Mark Bridges: Katrina and the Waves “Walking On Sunshine”
• Gary Rizzo: Van Halen “Eruption”
• Gregg Landaker: Crowbar “Oh What A Feeling”
• Paul Franklin: U2 “Beautiful Day”
• Ian Hunter: The Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams”
• Charlotte Watts: Nick Cave “Deanna”
• Gary Yershon: “It Might As Well Be Spring” from “State Fair”
• Suzie Davies: The The “Uncertain Smile”
• Tomasz Sliwinski: Madonna “Hollywood”
• Talkhon Hamzavi: M83 “Midnight City”
• John Legend: Common & John Legend “Glory”
• Tomm Moore: Live In Ireland “Singing In The Rain”
• Daisy Jacobs: Nina Simone “Feeling Good”
• Robert Duvall: “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” from “Hello Dolly”
• James Lucas: “Gonna Fly Now” theme from Rocky
• Gabriel Gilberto Serra Argiello: JUSTICE “DANCE”
• Roger Deakins: “Hooray For Hollywood”
• Damien Chazelle: Gene Krupa “Sing Sing Sing”
• David Lancaster: “Caravan” from Whiplash
• Jason Blum: “Gonna Fly Now” theme from Rocky
• Damián Szifron: “Singing In The Rain”
• Cameron Waldbauer: American Authors “Best Day of my Life”
• Lou Pecora: Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy!”

The 87th Oscars will be held today, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Photo courtesy: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences