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Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel song)

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"Down to Earth"

SinglebyPeter Gabriel featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir

from the album WALL·E: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

Released

June 10, 2008

Recorded

2008

Genre

Length

5:58

Label

Songwriter(s)

Peter Gabriel (music and lyrics)
Thomas Newman (music)

Peter Gabriel singles chronology

"Burn You Up, Burn You Down (Big Blue Ball Version)"
(2008)

"Down to Earth"
(2008)

"The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us"
(2010)

"Down to Earth" is a song co-written and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel for the 2008 animated Disney-Pixar film WALL·E. It was released on June 10, 2008, by Walt Disney Records and Real World Records. Composed by Gabriel and Thomas Newman, with lyrics by Gabriel, and featuring the Soweto Gospel Choir, the song is the 37th song on the soundtrack album to WALL·E, in which it is featured over the end credits.

Background[edit]

The song saw release as a promotional single for the Pixar animated feature film WALL·E on June 10, 2008.^[1] It was released as a digital download single on July 6, 2008.^[2]

"As a kid I loved animation, so I'm a huge Pixar fan," Gabriel explained to Mark Blake. "I have seen WALL·E many times as I have young children. It was also great to work with the scorer Thomas Newman... He wrote the best TV theme tune ever: for Six Feet Under."^[3]

Reception[edit]

"Down to Earth" was nominated for the Best Original Song Award at the Golden Globes as well as the Best Original Song award at the 81st Academy Awards. It won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in 2009.

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (2008)	Peak
Canadian Singles Chart^[4]	73
UK Singles Chart^[5]	118

References[edit]

^ "WALL-E Soundtrack". Amazon.com. Retrieved December 31, 2008.

^ "Down to Earth by Peter Gabriel". 7digital.com. Archived from the original on June 10, 2009.

^ Blake, Mark (December 2011). "Cash for questions: Peter Gabriel". Q. p. 44.

^ "Peter Gabriel and The Soweto Gospel Choir – Down To Earth – Music Charts". acharts.us. Retrieved February 8, 2010.

^ "Chart Log UK: G". Zobbel.de. Retrieved September 25, 2009.

External links[edit]

On Pixar Blog

WALL-E

Overview

Music

Video games

WALL-E (2008)

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Pixar music

Albums

Songs

Other albums

v t e Peter Gabriel
Studio albums	Peter Gabriel (Car) Peter Gabriel (Scratch) Peter Gabriel (Melt) Peter Gabriel (Security) So Us Up Scratch My Back New Blood I/O
Live albums	Plays Live Plays Live Highlights Secret World Live Live Blood Back to Front: Live in London Growing Up Live
Singles	"Solsbury Hill" "Modern Love" "D.I.Y." "Games Without Frontiers" "No Self Control" "Biko" "I Don't Remember" "I Have the Touch" "Shock the Monkey" "Sledgehammer" "In Your Eyes" "Don't Give Up" "Big Time" "Red Rain" "Shaking the Tree" "Digging in the Dirt" "Steam" "Blood of Eden" "Kiss That Frog" "While the Earth Sleeps" "When You're Falling" "The Barry Williams Show" "More Than This" "Growing Up "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" "Darkness" "Down to Earth" "Panopticom" "The Court" "Playing for Time" "I/O" "Four Kinds of Horses" "Road to Joy" "So Much" "Olive Tree" "Love Can Heal" "This Is Home" "And Still" "Live and Let Live"
Songs	"Here Comes the Flood" "Intruder" "Family Snapshot" "The Rhythm of the Heat" "San Jacinto" "That Voice Again" "Mercy Street" "Come Talk to Me"
Soundtracks	Birdy Passion OVO Long Walk Home
Compilations	Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats Revisited Hit Rated PG Flotsam and Jetsam
Concert tours	Secret World Tour Back to Front Tour
Films	Secret World Live Growing Up: Live Still Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped
Video games	Xplora1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World Eve Myst IV: Revelation
Other	Discography Genesis WOMAD Passion – Sources The Story of OVO Millennium Dome Show Play: The Videos Big Blue Ball And I'll Scratch Yours Real World Records Real World Studios Solid State Logic (SSL)
Peter Gabriel discography

v t e Thomas Newman
Accolades
Soundtracks	Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Scent of a Woman (1992) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) American Beauty (1999) Road to Perdition (2002) Finding Nemo (2003) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) The Good German (2006) WALL-E (2008) The Help (2011) The Iron Lady (2011) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) Skyfall (2012) Saving Mr. Banks (2013) He Named Me Malala (2015) Bridge of Spies (2015) Spectre (2015) 1917 (2019) Let Them All Talk (2020) Elemental (2023)
Singles	"Down to Earth" (2008) "The Living Proof" (2011) "Steal the Show" (2023)
See also	Music of James Bond
Related	Alfred Newman David Newman Emil Newman Joey Newman Lionel Newman Maria Newman Randy Newman

Awards for "Down to Earth"

v t e Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
1980s	"Somewhere Out There" – James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (songwriters) (1987) "Two Hearts" – Phil Collins & Lamont Dozier (songwriters) (1988) "Let the River Run" – Carly Simon (songwriter) (1989)
1990s	"Under the Sea" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1990) "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams (songwriters) (1991) "Beauty and the Beast" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1992) "A Whole New World" – Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) (1993) "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (1994) "Colors of the Wind" – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz (songwriters) (1995) "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren (songwriter) (1996) "I Believe I Can Fly" – R. Kelly (songwriter) (1997) "My Heart Will Go On" – James Horner & Will Jennings (songwriters) (1998) "Beautiful Stranger" – Madonna & William Orbit (songwriters) (1999)
2000s	"When She Loved Me" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2000) "Boss of Me" – John Flansburgh & John Linnell (songwriters) (2001) "If I Didn't Have You" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2002) "A Mighty Wind" – Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean (songwriters) (2003) "Into the West" – Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh (songwriters) (2004) "Believe" – Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (songwriters) (2005) "Our Town" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2006) "Love You I Do" – Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger (songwriters) (2007) "Down to Earth" – Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (songwriters) (2008) "Jai Ho" – Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah (songwriters) (2009)
2010s	"The Weary Kind" – Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (songwriters) (2010) "I See the Light" – Alan Menken & Glenn Slater (songwriters) (2011) "Safe & Sound" – T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White (songwriters) (2012) "Skyfall" – Adele Atkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2013) "Let It Go" – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (songwriters) (2014) "Glory" – Common, Che Smith & John Legend (songwriters) (2015) "Can't Stop the Feeling!" – Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake (songwriters) (2016) "How Far I'll Go" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2017) "Shallow" – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (songwriters) (2018) "I'll Never Love Again" – Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere (songwriters) (2019)
2020s	"No Time to Die" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2020) "All Eyes on Me" – Bo Burnham (songwriter) (2021) "We Don't Talk About Bruno" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2022) "What Was I Made For?" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2023)

World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film

2000s

"Come What May" – Written by David Baerwald and Kevin Gilbert (2001)
"If I Didn't Have You" – Written by Randy Newman (2002)
"The Hands That Built America" – Written by Adam Clayton, The Edge, Bono, and Larry Mullen, Jr. (2003)
"You Will Be My Ain True Love" – Written by Alison Krauss and Sting (2004)
"Old Habits Die Hard" – Written by Dave Stewart and Mick Jagger (2005)
"Our Town" – Written by Randy Newman (2006)
"You Know My Name" – Written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold (2007)
"Down to Earth" – Written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (2008)
"Jai Ho" – Written by A. R. Rahman, Gulzar, and Tanvi Shah (2009)

2010s

"The Weary Kind" – Written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (2010)
"We Belong Together" – Written by Randy Newman (2011)
"Lay Your Head Down" – Written by Brian Byrne and Glenn Close (2012)
"Skyfall" – Written by Adele and Paul Epworth (2013)
"Happy" – Written by Pharrell Williams (2014)
"The Apology Song" – Written by Gustavo Santaolalla and Paul Williams (2015)
"None of Them Are You" – Written by Carter Burwell and Charlie Kaufman (2016)
"City of Stars" – Written by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul (2017)
"Black Panther" – Written by Kendrick Duckworth, Mark Spears, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, and Matt Schaeffer (2018)
"Shallow" – Written by Lady Gaga, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, and Mark Ronson (2019)

2020s

"Stand Up" – Written by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo (2020)
"Call Me Cruella" – Written by Nicholas Britell, Florence Welch, Steph Jones, Jordan Powers, and Taura Stinson (2021)
"No Time to Die" – Written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (2022)
"Your Personal Trash Man Can" – Written by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore (2023)

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