The EP features three new versions of “I’m Just Ken”
Ryan Gosling has officially shared Ken The EP, featuring three new versions of his Grammy-nominated standout track, “I’m Just Ken,” from the 11x Grammy-nominated Barbie The Album. Released just in time for the holidays, the EP features “I’m Just Ken (Merry Kristmas Barbie),” “I’m Just Ken (In My Feelings Acoustic),” and “I’m Just Ken (Electric Purple Disco Machine Remix),” alongside the original track.
Racking up over 100 million worldwide streams, reaching the top five on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and becoming Gosling’s official Billboard Hot 100 chart debut, “I’m Just Ken” has quickly proven a cultural phenomenon as one of the indisputable highlights from the groundbreaking and star-studded Barbie The Album.
Barbie The Album is the groundbreaking and star-studded musical companion to the record-breaking film Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Quickly becoming a worldwide pop phenomenon with over three billion global streams and counting, Barbie The Album features massive tracks from an unprecedented lineup of global superstars including Barbie star, Ryan Gosling, Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Sam Smith, Tame Impala, Charli XCX, Karol G featuring Aldo Ranks, PinkPantheress, Fifty Fifty featuring Kaliii, The Kid Laroi, Haim, Khalid, Dominic Fike, Ava Max, and Gayle.
The dazzling soundtrack was executive produced by internationally renowned DJ and Oscar, Golden Globe, and 7x Grammy Award-winning artist and producer Mark Ronson and Barbie writer/director/executive producer Greta Gerwig. The soundtrack album was produced and overseen by Atlantic Records’ West Coast President, Kevin Weaver, and Atlantic Records’ EVP and Co-Head of Pop/Rock A&R, Brandon Davis. Additional key players involved on the project include Soundtrack Album Co-Producers Brandon Creed and Joseph Khoury, as well as the Grammy Award-winning Barbie Music Supervisor and Album Executive Producer, George Drakoulias.
Barbie The Album officially dominated this year’s Grammy nominations with the highest number of tracks nominated across all categories, including Record of the Year and two for Song of the Year, also boasting the most songs nominated from a soundtrack in Grammy history. Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt have also been nominated for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media bringing the total tally of Barbie nominations to 12 in addition to breaking the record for the most songs to ever be nominated in the Best Song Written for Visual Media Category.
Barbie The Album has continued to pick up impressive nominations across major awards categories for both the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards where “I’m Just Ken,” “Dance The Night,” and “What Was I Made For?” were all included in the respective Best Song categories.
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a Heyday Films Production, a LuckyChap Entertainment Production, an NB/GG Pictures Production, a Mattel Production, Barbie. The film is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and is currently available to stream on Max and available to own on Digital, 4K UHD and Blu-ray.