A Whole New World end credits and is referred on the soundtrack as ""Aladdin"'s Theme". The version peaked at number one on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart on March 6, 1993, replacing Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", which had spent a then-record 14 weeks at the top of the chart. It went gold and sold 600,000 copies domestically. The track peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1992. The song is the first and so far only song from a Disney animated film to top the US "Billboard" Hot 100. The single version was later included on Belle's
The Whole Wide World to pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard. A relationship soon develops between the two but it is doomed by personality conflicts and life events, such as the terminal illness of Howard's mother. When auditioning for the film "Jerry Maguire", Zellweger met director Cameron Crowe several times but had trouble convincing him that she could play "a 20-something woman" rather than a girl. This was solved by Zellweger's agent sending Crowe a tape of "The Whole Wide World". The Whole Wide World The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American film depicting the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard