It Never Went Away

"It Never Went Away"
"It Never Went Away"
Song by Jon Batiste
Released	November 24, 2023
Genre	Pop
Length	3:48
Label	Universal Music Group
Songwriters	Jon Batiste; Dan Wilson;
Music video
	"It Never Went Away" on YouTube

ReleasedNovember 24, 2023

GenrePop

Length3:48

LabelUniversal Music Group

It Never Went Away is a song written by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for the documentary American Symphony. The film song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 96th Academy Awards.

Award	Year	Category	Result	Ref.
Academy Awards	2024	Best Original Song	Nominated	^[5]
Black Reel Awards	2024	Outstanding Original Song	Nominated	^[6]
Grammy Awards	2025	Best Song Written for Visual Media	Won	^[7]
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	2024	Best Song Written and/or Recording Created for a Film	Nominated	^[8]
North Dakota Film Society Awards	2024	Best Original Song	Nominated	^[9]
Satellite Awards	2024	Best Original Song	Nominated	^[10]
Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards	2024	Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production	Nominated	^[11]
World Soundtrack Awards	2024	Best Original Song	Nominated	^[12]

v t e Jon Batiste
Awards and nominations
Studio albums	We Are World Music Radio Big Money
Collaborative albums	The Process
Soundtracks	Soul Saturday Night
Songs	"Candy Necklace" "It Never Went Away"
Related articles	The Late Show Band American Symphony

v t e Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
1980s	"Somewhere Out There" – James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (songwriters) (1988) "Two Hearts" – Phil Collins & Lamont Dozier (songwriters) (1989)
1990s	"Let the River Run" – Carly Simon (songwriter) (1990) "Under the Sea" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1991) "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams (songwriters) (1992) "Beauty and the Beast" – Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) (1993) "A Whole New World" – Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) (1994) "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (1995) "Colors of the Wind" – Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz (songwriters) (1996) "Because You Loved Me" – Diane Warren (songwriter) (1997) "I Believe I Can Fly" – R. Kelly (songwriter) (1998) "My Heart Will Go On" – James Horner & Will Jennings (songwriters) (1999)
2000s	"Beautiful Stranger" – Madonna & William Orbit (songwriters) (2000) "When She Loved Me" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2001) "Boss of Me" – John Flansburgh & John Linnell (songwriters) (2002) "If I Didn't Have You" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2003) "A Mighty Wind" – Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean (songwriters) (2004) "Into the West" – Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh (songwriters) (2005) "Believe" – Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri (songwriters) (2006) "Our Town" – Randy Newman (songwriter) (2007) "Love You I Do" – Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger (songwriters) (2008) "Down to Earth" – Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (songwriters) (2009)
2010s	"Jai Ho" – Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah (songwriters) (2010) "The Weary Kind" – Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett (songwriters) (2011) "I See the Light" – Alan Menken & Glenn Slater (songwriters) (2012) "Safe & Sound" – T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White (songwriters) (2013) "Skyfall" – Adele Atkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2014) "Let It Go" – Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (songwriters) (2015) "Glory" – Common, Che Smith & John Legend (songwriters) (2016) "Can't Stop the Feeling!" – Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake (songwriters) (2017) "How Far I'll Go" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2018) "Shallow" – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (songwriters) (2019)
2020s	"I'll Never Love Again" – Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere (songwriters) (2020) "No Time to Die" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2021) "All Eyes on Me" – Bo Burnham (songwriter) (2022) "We Don't Talk About Bruno" – Lin-Manuel Miranda (songwriter) (2023) "What Was I Made For?" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2024) "It Never Went Away" – Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson (songwriters) (2025)

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"It Never Went Away"
Song by Jon Batiste
Released	November 24, 2023 (2023-11-24)
Genre	Pop
Length	3:48
Label	Universal Music Group
Songwriters	Jon Batiste Dan Wilson

Music video
"It Never Went Away" on YouTube