Beyoncé’s tracklist for her upcoming album dropped and there was a collaboration with Nigerian and Ghanaian artiste but none of the song on the Beyonce album except Spirit will be featured in the movie
There is no African artiste on the main soundtrack for The Lion King and you won’t hear any of the featured African musician's song with Beyoncé in the movie.

Beyoncé’s album, The Lion King: The Gift is not the same as the main soundtrack for the movie. She wrote the album with inspiration from the movie.

All music for the 2019 Lion King movie was composed by the Hans Zimmer, the same composer for the original film.

15 of the songs on the 19-track list for the new movie were written by Elton John and Tim Rice.

Beyoncé, however, wrote and performed one of the songs with Ilya Salmanzadeh and Labrinth titled ‘Spirit’. Queen B also performed ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’ with Donald Glover, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen.


Aside from the movie’s soundtrack, Beyoncé revealed she had produced and curated an album titled The Lion King: The Gift on July 9, 2019.

The only song on the album that is on the soundtrack is ‘Spirit’. The songs were produced by African producers including Ghanaian producer Guiltybeatz. Beyoncé explained authenticity and heart were importance to her since The Lion King film is set in Africa.

Here’s the tracklist for 2019 The Lion King soundtrack (The songs you will hear in the movie):

Lindiwe Mkhize / Lebo M: “Circle of Life / Nants’ Ingonyama”

Hans Zimmer: “Life’s Not Fair”

Hans Zimmer: “Rafiki’s Fireflies”

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