--- title: Ariana Grande and John Legend Remake 'Beauty and the Beast' description: Listen to the newly updated theme song for Disney's live-action fairy tale, sung by Ariana Grande and John Legend. canonical: https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T18:26:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:46.498Z og:title: Ariana Grande and John Legend Remake 'Beauty and the Beast' og:description: Listen to the updated version of the classic Disney tune. og:url: https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande and John Legend Remake 'Beauty and the Beast' twitter:description: Listen to the updated version of the classic Disney tune. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Listen to Ariana Grande and John Legend's Powerful Remake of the Classic _Beauty and the Beast_ Theme Song > Sponsored content. 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John Legend and Ariana Grande lend their powerhouse voices to the updated version of the _Beauty and the Beast_ title track, which will be part of the soundtrack to the [live-action remake](http://time.com/4624245/new-beauty-and-the-beast-spot/?iid=sr-link3) starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, in theaters this March. Disney released the new pop version of the tune on Thursday, and it’s already generating quite a bit of conversation for its contemporary orchestration. (You can also hear Legend and Grande’s vocals in a more classic version of the song [in the final movie trailer here](http://time.com/4654739/beauty-and-the-beast-trailer-emma-watson/?iid=sr-link1).) The beloved animated original[ won a slew of awards](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/awards) for its music, including a Grammy for Dion and Bryson’s take. Legend and Grande have big shoes to fill. Listen to the remade favorite, below, and prepare for the drop of the accompanying music video and the full movie soundtrack [featuring a new song by Celine Dion](http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/hear-ariana-grande-john-legend-duet-in-beauty-and-the-beast-clip-w464075) and contributions by Josh Groban, also in March. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/"},"headline":"Listen to Ariana Grande and John Legend's Powerful Remake of the Classic Beauty and the Beast Theme Song","datePublished":"2017-02-03T18:26:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:46.498Z","description":"Listen to the updated version of the classic Disney tune.","url":"https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4659730/beauty-and-the-beast-song-2017/","name":"Listen to Ariana Grande and John Legend's Powerful Remake of the Classic Beauty and the Beast Theme Song"}}]}] ```