A Whole New World

Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle pop duet version

| B-side = "After the Kiss" (instrumental)

• (single version)
• (soundtrack version)

A single version of the song was released that same year and was performed by American recording artists Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. This version is played over the film's end credits and is referred on the soundtrack as "*Aladdin'''s Theme". The version peaked at number one on the US *Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for a week, ending on March 6, 1993, replacing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", which had spent a then-record 14 weeks at the top of the chart. It went gold and sold 600,000 copies domestically. The track peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1993.

The song is the first song from a Disney animated film to top the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the only Disney song to achieve this feat until "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto reached the summit in 2022. The single version was later included on Belle's studio album Passion (1993) and on Bryson's studio album *Through the Fire *(1994).

Critical reception

Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song a full score of five out of five, writing, "The theme from Aladdin is a huge appealing big ballad duet. A melodic tour de force with wide ranging appeal, it is wisely tipped as the Christmas number one."

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Kane and Salonga version

Bryson and Belle version

Massoud and Scott version

Zayn and Zhavia version

Cover versions

Jose Mari Chan version

| B-side = A Whole New World

• R&B
• soul
• Bell Films

In the Philippines, a version of the song performed by Jose Mari Chan, a Filipino recording artist, was released as a single through Bell Films (a subsidiary of Universal Records) in 1993, coinciding with the Philippine theatrical release of Aladdin on April 30, 1993.

Then-SM Rookies member Jaehyun, who later debuted as a member of boy group NCT and former member Seo Herin performed the song in Disney Channel Korea show Mickey Mouse Club in December 2015.

Other cover versions

• In 1993, French singers Karine Costa and Daniel Lévi released a French-language version of the song titled "Ce rêve bleu" (). This version peaked at number three on the French SNEP Singles Chart in January 1994, ending the year as the country's 21st-most-successful single.
• In 2018, Riff Raff and Jonathan Hay created a hip-hop cover of the song for the album The Hoodlum Ball.
• Zayn's vocals were also used for two English-Spanish versions of the song, "Un Mundo Ideal". The Spanish parts were sung for the Latin American market by American singer Becky G and for the Spanish market by Spanish singer Aitana.
• In 2020, Ben Platt and Idina Menzel performed it as part of the TV special The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II.
• In 2024, alt-rock band Yellowcard covered the song for a Disney compilation album titled A Whole New Sound, duetting with Chrissy Costanza from Against the Current.

References

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