DreamWorks hopes to score a hat trick by releasing three soundtracks for "The Prince of Egypt"

In a year when movie soundtracks are dominating the music charts, DreamWorks is hoping to dwarf the competition by releasing (on Nov. 17) a trio of different albums based on a single movie: the animated feature "The Prince of Egypt" (which opens Dec. 18). No, "Prince" isn't a four-hour musical. Only one album has songs from the film, including the heralded Mariah Carey-Whitney Houston duet. The other two discs feature music inspired by the movie, as written by country and Christian artists. "This isn't one of those marketing deals where we just pick songs we think would be good to market with the film," says DreamWorks exec Bruce Tenenbaum. "We actually sat down and showed the film to all the artists, and they were literally inspired by it to write these songs."