History Main / AnimatedMusical

* ''[[Literature/{{Babar}} Babar the movie]]''

* Both ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' sequels, ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'' and ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIIWingsOfChange'', though you might not notice it. [[https://www.animationsource.org/balto/en/articles/Phil-Weinstein-interview/85108.html&id_film=12 According to an interview]], ''Universal Pictures'' animated studios had a quota of three songs per movie in order to compete with Disney (which explains why most ''The Land Before Time'' sequels are also musicals). The ''Balto'' sequel writers did '''everything''' to stick it to the executives: in ''Wolf Quest'', two of the songs are on the same scene and are similar enough to effectively be just one song (the first even being short to boot), so they're effectively a ''single song'', ergo reducing the amount of songs to two. In ''Wings of Change'' the first song is just an atmospheric piece singing over the intro, filling the quota but the last two numbers are very distinct and the animators clearly had more fun with them.

* ''WesternAnimation/JingleBells (Hyperion Pictures)''

* ''WesternAnimation/OChristmasTree (Hyperion Pictures)''
* ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' with Creator/MichaelCrawford singing one of the songs no less!

* ''Anime/TheKindlyLion'' (''Yasashii Lion'')

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheScarecrow''

* "WebAnimation/CyberpunkLab"

* The 2000 AnimatedAdaptation of ''Tom Sawyer''.

** ''[=FernGully=] 2: The Magical Rescue''

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', the pilot
** ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel2024'', the full series

Due to musicals in general falling out of fashion in the late 1960s, the whole concept pretty much went DeadHorseTrope until it was revitalized in the 1990s by Howard Ashman and Music/AlanMenken (previously best known for ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''), with the juggernauts of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Notable that they were more like stage musicals than previous entries in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, with more songs more integrated into the plots. All three were also later adapted ''into'' Broadway stage musicals.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndCleopatra''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' and its sequels both avert this and play it straight. Most of the time, the songs there are just play in the background like a normal film. However, once or twice the characters play it straight and break into song themselves, usually when they're [[AffectionateParody parodying]] Disney.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' (while it has some original songs, it is for the most part, a JukeboxMusical)