Chai Kingdom BGM

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"Chai Kingdom BGM"
"Chai Kingdom BGM" in Super Mario Land
Thumbnail for "Chai Kingdom BGM" from Super Mario Land used for Nintendo Music
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Hirokazu Tanaka
First appearance Super Mario Land (1989)
Latest appearance WarioWare: Get It Together! (2021)

"Chai Kingdom BGM"[1] is a musical theme composed by Hirokazu Tanaka for Super Mario Land, where it plays in levels World 4-1 and World 4-2, which take place in the Chai Kingdom. The intro of the theme is the Oriental riff.

History[edit]

Super Mario Land[edit]

Super Mario Land marks the first appearance of "Chai Kingdom BGM". The theme is also included in the official albums Super Mario Land and Game Boy Graffiti as part of a medley of multiple themes from the original game, and The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music as an individual track.

WarioWare: Get It Together![edit]

In WarioWare: Get It Together!, an excerpt of "Chai Kingdom BGM" plays in level 3 of the Super Mario Land microgame.

Other appearances[edit]

Super Mario Land (album)[edit]

The Super Mario Land album features an arrangement of "Chai Kingdom BGM". It is titled 「CHINESE (中国風面BGM)」(CHINESE (Chūgoku Kazaomote BGM), "CHINESE (Chinese Style Stage BGM)"), and it was arranged by Ikuro Fugiwara.

Icon of an audio speaker. CHINESE (中国風面BGM) - The arrangement heard in the Super Mario Land album
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Super Mario Compact Disco[edit]

The Super Mario Compact Disco features a hip hop remix medley of "Chai Kingdom BGM" and "Easton Kingdom BGM" from the same game titled "Go, Mario, Go!" and arranged by Simon Harris and Colin Case. This remix features rap lyrics sung by Colin Case as M.C. Mario, with several references to Mario's games throughout the 1980s.

Super Mario Compact Disco – 35th Anniversary Edition features a remastered version of "Go, Mario, Go!" titled "Go, Mario, Go! (feat. MC Mario) [Remastered]", a club remix titled "Go, Mario, Go (X - Tended Club Mix (feat. MC Mario)) [Bonus Track]", and an instrumental version titled "Go, Mario, Go (Instrumental (feat. MC Mario)) [Bonus Track]".

Icon of an audio speaker. Go, Mario, Go! - The remix heard in the Super Mario Compact Disco
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Gallery[edit]

  • Image for the "Hurry Up!" variant on Nintendo Music

    Image for the "Hurry Up!" variant on Nintendo Music

  • Image for the "HURRY UP!" variant on Nintendo Music

    Image for the "HURRY UP!" variant on Nintendo Music

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Land Game Boy 1989 Original "Chai Kingdom BGM"[1] Hirokazu Tanaka
WarioWare: Get It Together! Nintendo Switch 2021 Original Hirokazu Tanaka

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Land 1989 Original "SUPER MARIOLAND ORIGINAL BGM MEDLEY" Hirokazu Tanaka
Arrangement 「CHINESE (中国風面BGM)」(CHINESE (Chūgoku kazaomote BGM)) Ikuro Fugiwara
Game Boy Graffiti 1990 Original 「オリジナルBGMメドレー スーパーマリオランド」(Orijinaru BGM Medorē Sūpā Mario Rando) Hirokazu Tanaka
Super Mario Compact Disco 1993 Remix "Go, Mario, Go!" Simon Harris, Colin Case
Super Mario Compact Disco (cassette) 1993 Past remix (Super Mario Compact Disco) 「ゴー・マリオ・ゴー !!」(Gō Mario Gō!!) Simon Harris, Colin Case
The 30th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Music 2015 Original 「チャイ王国BGM」(Chai Ōkoku BGM) Hirokazu Tanaka
Super Mario Compact Disco – 35th Anniversary Edition 2020 Remix "Go, Mario, Go! (feat. MC Mario) [Remastered]" Simon Harris, Colin Case
"Go, Mario, Go (X - Tended Club Mix (feat. MC Mario)) [Bonus Track]"
"Go, Mario, Go (Instrumental (feat. MC Mario)) [Bonus Track]"

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Nintendo Music 2025[g 1] Original "Chai Kingdom BGM" Hirokazu Tanaka
  1. ^ Added on December 15, 2025

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese チャイ王国BGM[1]
Chai Ōkoku BGM 		Chai Kingdom BGM

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Nintendo Music
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Snakey Chantey (Rattle Battle)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start"
Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Final Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" ("Course Clear") • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fireworks" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)" • "World Clear"
Super Mario Land "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" • "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Easton Kingdom BGM"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Special World (Map Screen)" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Course Clear" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Star Catch Fanfare" • "Toad's Message"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Castle Theme" • "Course Clear" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Paah" • "Switch On!" • "Tower Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "Space Junk Road" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Melty Monster Galaxy" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Beach Theme" • "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Victory Parade"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme")
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Donut Plains" • "Ghost Valley" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "Peach Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "Baby Park" • "Mario Bros. Circuits" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "Cheep Cheep Beach" • "Luigi's Mansion" • "Peach Gardens" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Goal!" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "Title Theme" ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Galop infernal" • "Mute City" • "Title BGM (Excitebike)" • "Totakeke's theme"
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Super Mario Land
Protagonists Mario • Princess Daisy
Bosses King Totomesu • Dragonzamasu (Tamao) • Hiyoihoi • Biokinton (Chicken) • Tatanga (Pagosu)
Locations Sarasaland (Birabuto Kingdom • Muda Kingdom • Easton Kingdom • Chai Kingdom)
Levels World 1-1 • World 1-2 • World 1-3 • World 2-1 • World 2-2 • World 2-3 • World 3-1 • World 3-2 • World 3-3 • World 4-1 • World 4-2 • World 4-3 • Expert Level
Items & vehicles Super Mushroom • Superball Flower • Star • 1UP heart • Coin • Marine Pop • Sky Pop • Switch • Lift Block
Enemies & obstacles Batadon • Bombshell Koopa • Bullet Biff • Bunbun • Chikako • Dropping lift • Falling block • Falling spike • Fly • Ganchan • Gao • Gunion • Goombo • Honen • Kumo • Mekabon • Nyololin • Pionpi • Pipe Cannon • Pipe Fist • Piranha Plant • Poison needle • Pompon Flower • Roketon • Roto Disc • Suu • Tokotoko • Torion • Yurarin • Yurarin Boo
Music "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" • "Chai Kingdom BGM" • "Easton Kingdom BGM" • "Muda Kingdom BGM"
Other Brick • Bonus game • Das Super Mario Spiel • Gallery • Glitches • Goal • Island • Multimedia • Mystery Block • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Sub-area • Super Mario Land (album) • Super Mario Land (pachinko machine)
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