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A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)

2018 soundtrack album by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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A Star Is Born is the soundtrack album to the 2018 musical film of the same name, performed by its stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Interscope Records. Developed alongside the film's production, the soundtrack was conceived as a narrative-driven work, with songs written to reflect the characters' emotional arcs and function within the story. Cooper teamed up with Gaga's recurring collaborator DJ White Shadow and a range of musicians and songwriters, including Lukas Nelson, Jason Isbell, Mark Ronson, Diane Warren, and Andrew Wyatt. Much of the material was written during filming and evolved in tandem with the screenplay, as the production team shaped distinct musical identities for Cooper's Jackson Maine and Gaga's Ally.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)” as 2018 soundtrack album by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Star, Born and soundtrack can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2018 soundtrack album by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.