Celebrating a Decade of Discovery

Welcome to Amazon Music's 10th Anniversary. We can hardly believe that 10 years have passed since we opened the proverbial flood gates. These past 10 years have moved, well, at Internet speed. We've witnessed some amazing changes in the music industry: I mean, 10 years ago we were schlepping around downtown Seattle listening to CDs on our Discmen, the major music distributors wouldn't return our phone calls, and signed artists had little control over their own destiny.

How times have changed. Since 1998 we've seen some extraordinary music enter our catalog, we've sold an incredible number of CDs, and we've collectively seen a ton of memorable performances...

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Day 1: 10 Years of Music

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Milestones: 10 Years of Life-Changing Soundtracks

2007: Comprising Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the Swell Season starred in Once--both the movie and the soundtrack--and became one of music's true-life fairy tales when the two unknown, unsung talents took home a "Best Song" Oscar for "Falling Slowly."
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2006: Try as you might, you can't not love Jennifer Hudson's rendition of "You're Gonna Love Me" or nearly period-perfect Berry Gordie-inspired originals like "Love You I Do." Also, lest we forget, this movie and soundtrack redeem Eddie Murphy's former pop-music crimes (see: “Party All the Time (My Girl Wants To)").
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2005: The first of three soundtracks to the show about some seriously randy Seattle doctors made more new fans of below-the-radar artists like the Postal Service, Tegan & Sara, and Inara George than all the college radio stations, hipster boosters, and indie music blogs put together.
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2004: By this point, filmgoers knew what to expect with a Wes Anderson film: imaginative plots, hilarious dialogue, Bill Murray, and a soundtrack that featured the Kinks. Musically, The Life Aquatic strayed from that formula, adding Brazilian singer Seu Jorge’s bossa nova covers of the best of Bowie's Life on Mars to the mix.
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2003: Did people even buy TV soundtracks before The O.C.? This quintessentially sun-dappled soundtrack no doubt set the scene of many a backyard BBQ well outside the county line of that particularly fascinating Southern California drama hotbed.
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2002: Weaving together the lives of three different women living in different eras, Phillip Glass’s driving, haunting compositions for The Hours perfectly matched the tenuous urgency of Michael Cunningham’s narrative. It is as plaintive as it is exquisitely sumptuous, memorable even beyond the construct of the film.
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2001: Any movie that includes a subplot about a rabid record collector requires an excellent soundtrack. Ghost World introduced many would-be music addicts to undiscovered 1950s Bollywood gems, New Orleans swing, true Delta blues, and of course the unforgettable send-up in Blueshammer.
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2000: The soundtrack to the inimitable Lars Von Trier musical--a definite must-see about a Czech immigrant mother going blind amid a workaday existence--finds Björk at her finest. Exuberant, heartbreaking, and at times even uncharacteristically restrained, her post-industrial Broadway reveries outperform all expectations of her acting abilities.

1999: The setting of Rushmore, the movie about the kid with all the right ambition directed in all the wrong places, wouldn't be as complete without Wes Anderson's hand-curated soundtrack that created a new audience for vintage Cat Stevens, the Kinks, and the instrumental works of Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh.