Fans of Nintendo have long yearned for the company to put official game soundtracks on mainstream platforms like Spotify, and they're getting their wish partially fulfilled in a monkey's paw situation--Nintendo only released music from both Super Mario Galaxy games, and it's only for a limited time.
There's now an official Spotify playlist containing the soundtracks of both Galaxy titles, totalling to 130 tracks. A Spotify press release reveals that the sudden drop of Mario music is to observe the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as to mark the release of the box office-smashing Super Mario Galaxy animated film. There's also a playlist compiling composer Brian Tyler's work on both Mario movies.
The catch here is that the Super Mario Galaxy playlist will only be "available for a limited time." Spotify's press release made no mention of this, nor did it clarify how long the promotion will last. The only official language is from an image of a billboard included in Spotify's release, which states that these billboards are popping up in New York City, Los Angeles, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.
Nintendo has long appeared averse to releasing music from its games on any third-party platforms--so much so that it created its own Nintendo Music app in 2024 that still regularly drops new soundtracks. Though the app adds new soundtracks almost every week, there was strangely no update this week--the last releases were the original Animal Crossing soundtrack on April 13 and a "special release" of 10 tracks from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on April 15.
Of course, the soundtracks of both Super Mario Galaxy games are readily available on the Nintendo Music app. It's possible that other corporate stakeholders for the Mario movies, like distributor Universal Pictures, are responsible for this cross-promotion, and perhaps Nintendo wanted a limited release so as not to compete with its own music app.
Whatever scenario led to this release, we can finally say that Nintendo music is officially on Spotify, but in the weirdest Nintendo-like way with a planet-sized asterisk.
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There's now an official Spotify playlist containing the soundtracks of both Galaxy titles, totalling to 130 tracks. A Spotify press release reveals that the sudden drop of Mario music is to observe the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as to mark the release of the box office-smashing Super Mario Galaxy animated film. There's also a playlist compiling composer Brian Tyler's work on both Mario movies.
The catch here is that the Super Mario Galaxy playlist will only be "available for a limited time." Spotify's press release made no mention of this, nor did it clarify how long the promotion will last. The only official language is from an image of a billboard included in Spotify's release, which states that these billboards are popping up in New York City, Los Angeles, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing.
Nintendo has long appeared averse to releasing music from its games on any third-party platforms--so much so that it created its own Nintendo Music app in 2024 that still regularly drops new soundtracks. Though the app adds new soundtracks almost every week, there was strangely no update this week--the last releases were the original Animal Crossing soundtrack on April 13 and a "special release" of 10 tracks from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on April 15.
Of course, the soundtracks of both Super Mario Galaxy games are readily available on the Nintendo Music app. It's possible that other corporate stakeholders for the Mario movies, like distributor Universal Pictures, are responsible for this cross-promotion, and perhaps Nintendo wanted a limited release so as not to compete with its own music app.
Whatever scenario led to this release, we can finally say that Nintendo music is officially on Spotify, but in the weirdest Nintendo-like way with a planet-sized asterisk.
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