Hey, want to stump your friends with a new version of "Name That Tune"? Ask them to hum a few bars of any of this year's Oscar nominees for Best Song. Chances are they won't even be able to fake it.
The most popular of the bunch, Counting Crows' "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 peaked at No. 39 on Billboard's Hot 100 last fall. The rest - "Al Otro Lado del Rio" from The Motorcycle Diaries, "Believe" from The Polar Express "Learn To Be Lonely" from The Phantom of the Opera and "Look to Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" from The Chorus - rarely got heard outside the darkened confines of the multiplex. And if the song played over the closing credits, you were probably too busy scrolling your cellphone messages to have noticed anyway.