Nintendo Music
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| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platforms | iOS, Android |
| Release date |  October 30, 2024[1][2] |
| Languages | English (United States) English (United Kingdom) Japanese Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Dutch French (Canada) French (France) German Italian Korean Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Russian Spanish (Latin America) Spanish (Spain) |
| Format | Mobile devices:
 Digital download |
| Input | Touch controls |
Nintendo Music is a mobile music streaming app published by Nintendo on the App Store and Google Play. It allows users to play music from a variety of Nintendo games, including many from the Super Mario franchise, with additional soundtracks added regularly over time. It features curated playlists based on specific characters and themes, with users also able to create and share their own playlists. The app also features options to filter music from certain games in order to avoid spoilers, and the "Extend to..." feature, which allows the length of certain tracks to be extended to 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. The service is available exclusively to subscribers of Nintendo Switch Online.
Super Mario soundtracks[edit]
The app's search screen shows a list of all of the included games, which can be sorted by the platform they were released for, the year they were released, or how recently they were added to the service. The app uses the first release of a game in any territory for its year of release. There is also a section listing games on the app that the user has played on Nintendo Switch (including via the Nintendo Switch Online service), Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS.[3]
Most soundtracks on the app only have track names in American English and Japanese, with all other languages using the American English names (even if an official translation exists in other sources). The only Super Mario soundtrack to currently display tracks in additional languages is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In contrast, game titles and playlists do consistently use their official localized names for each language. Likewise, cover images for games and playlists as well as images for tracks tend to feature box art and game screenshots from the American English releases of games when applicable. While the covers for most games and playlists, along with a small selection of track images, are distinct when using Japanese, other languages tend to only feature different covers when there is a notable difference in naming (such as StreetPass Mii Plaza having a different title in most languages, and the Wii's Check Mii Out Channel being titled the Mii Contest Channel in European regions). Regardless of what language the app is set to, typing either the European or American English names of games, tracks, or playlists in the search function will bring up matching results (for example, the track "3DS Rock Rock Mountain" from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe appears even if the user searches for "3DS Alpine Pass").
Soundtracks marked with an asterisk (*) are non-Super Mario games that contain themes originating from the Super Mario franchise, while soundtracks in bold are redirects to another existing soundtrack. Release dates are according to North American time.[4]
| Image | Game | Platform | Year of release | Date added |
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Donkey Kong | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1983 | July 21, 2025 |
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Donkey Kong Jr. | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1983 | July 21, 2025 |
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Mario Bros. | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1983 | July 21, 2025 |
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Donkey Kong Jr. Math | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1983 | July 21, 2025 |
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Pinball | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1984 | July 21, 2025 |
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Golf | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1984 | July 21, 2025 |
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Donkey Kong 3 | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1984 | July 21, 2025 |
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Wrecking Crew | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1985 | July 21, 2025 |
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Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1985 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario Bros. 2 | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1988 | February 24, 2025 |
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Super Mario Bros. 3 | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1988 | March 9, 2025 |
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Dr. Mario (NES) | Nintendo Entertainment System | 1990 | March 17, 2025 |
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Dr. Mario (Game Boy) | Game Boy | 1990 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario World | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1990 | February 3, 2025 |
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Mario Paint | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1992 | July 28, 2025 |
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Super Mario Kart | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1992 | January 20, 2025 |
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Donkey Kong Country | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1994 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1995 | Available at launch |
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1995 | November 4, 2024 |
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Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1996 | January 6, 2025 |
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Super Mario 64 | Nintendo 64 | 1996 | December 23, 2024 |
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Mario Kart 64 | Nintendo 64 | 1996 | July 14, 2025 |
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Yoshi's Story | Nintendo 64 | 1997 | June 23, 2025 |
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F-Zero X* | Nintendo 64 | 1998 | November 19, 2024 |
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Luigi's Mansion | Nintendo GameCube | 2001 | April 7, 2025 |
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nintendogs* | Nintendo DS | 2005 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario Galaxy | Wii | 2007 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 | Wii | 2010 | September 15, 2025 |
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Mario Kart 7 | Nintendo 3DS | 2011 | April 30, 2025 |
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | Nintendo 3DS | 2018 | August 11, 2025 |
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Luigi's Mansion | Nintendo 3DS | 2018 | April 7, 2025 |
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New Super Mario Bros. U | Wii U | 2012 | June 30, 2025 |
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Mario Kart 8 | Wii U | 2014 | December 17, 2024[5] |
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | Wii U | 2014 | August 11, 2025 |
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | Nintendo Switch | 2017 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario Odyssey | Nintendo Switch | 2017 | Available at launch |
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | Nintendo Switch | 2018 | August 11, 2025 |
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New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe | Nintendo Switch | 2019 | June 30, 2025 |
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Pikmin 4* | Nintendo Switch | 2023 | Available at launch |
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder | Nintendo Switch | 2023 | October 31, 2024 |
Tracks[edit]
Most tracks on the app have an accompanying image, usually a screenshot of an instant where that specific music would play. Certain tracks, such as those which are exclusive to media outside of the game (such as promotional material or soundtrack releases), tracks related to scenes containing notable spoilers from certain games, or tracks which otherwise do not play during normal gameplay, instead display the game's cover artwork. Game screenshots are displayed with a white border around them, giving them a resemblance to photographs.
The following non-Super Mario games feature images with elements from the Super Mario franchise:
- Tennis: Mario can be seen as the referee in the images for the tracks "Game Win A", "Game Win B", "Set Win", "Set Loss", and "Victory Cup BGM", along with the game's banner image.
- Tetris (NES): Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Bowser can be seen on the image for the track "Ending". This image is also shown on this game's "Extended-Playback Collection" playlist cover.
- Tetris (Game Boy): Both Mario and Luigi appear in images for tracks related to the game's 2 Player Mode.
- F-Zero X: Rainbow Road, a recreation of N64 Rainbow Road in F-Zero X, appears in the image for the track "Rainbow Road".
- Pilotwings 64: Mario and Wario's faces appear replacing George Washington's face on Mount Rushmore in the images for the tracks "Cannonball" and "Cannonball: Missed", respectively.
- Wii Channels: A set of images for tracks from the Check Mii Out Channel showcases a contest with a "Mario" theme that features Miis with varying resemblance to Mario. One of these images appears on the cover for the "Check Mii Out Channel" playlist.
- StreetPass Mii Plaza: Miis wearing Super Mario-themed hats appear in track images, as well as on this game's banner image. Some of these images also appear on certain playlist covers. A piece of the Puzzle Swap puzzle for New Super Mario Bros. Wii appears in the image for the track "Collected Pieces (Puzzle Swap)".
- Pikmin 4: The Cookie of Nibbled Circles, Cookie of Prosperity, Vanishing Cookie, Love's Fortune Cookie and Hearty Container, treasures based on Yoshi Cookies, all appear in the image for the track "Field Guides". Some also appear in images for tracks related to Dandori Challenges, one of which is shown on the cover for the "Dandori" playlist.
For names of these tracks in other languages, see List of Super Mario track names in other languages on Nintendo Music.
Playlists[edit]
Nintendo Music features various pre-made playlists curated by Nintendo that contain tracks from multiple games. These include general themed ones such as "Walking", "Party," and "Winter", whose track order changes daily, as well as ones based on Nintendo characters, such as those from the Super Mario franchise.
Each soundtrack contains an "All tracks" playlist representing each game's overall tracklist and a "Top tracks" playlist containing a curated selection of tracks (both playlists' titles' initials are capitalized in Europe and Oceania). Additionally, each game has a playlist titled "Extended-Playback Collection" ("Extended Playback Collection" in Europe and Oceania) that contains every track supporting the "Extend to..." feature, in the same order as the "All tracks" playlist. Every Extended-Playback Collection playlist has a description that reads:
A curated playlist of tracks that support the Extend to... feature. Tap the extended-playback icon to extend the length of these tracks. Studying? Working hard? Really love that one track? Give it a try! *Some device behaviors affect this feature. You may notice an occasional distortion in your audio.
In Europe and Oceania, it instead reads the following:
A curated playlist of tracks that support the Extend to... feature. Tap the extended playback icon to extend the length of these tracks. Studying? Working hard? Really love that one track? Give it a try! Note that using this feature may occasionally cause the sound to become slightly distorted.
Most soundtracks also have other pre-made playlists containing tracks in their game that are related to each other. For example, both Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe contain "Courses" playlists, which include music that can be heard in courses within their respective games. These playlists (along with the "Top tracks" playlist) may have their tracks in a different order to the "All tracks" playlist. On the home page, the "Find your favorites" ("Rediscover Classics" in Europe and Oceania) section contains "Top tracks" playlists from various games, while the "Extend your enjoyment" section contains Extended-Playback Collection playlists from various games.
Up to three tracks per game (barring special cases such as including both the English and Japanese versions of a vocal song) are tagged as "selects" by the app, most of which are included in the Nintendo Music Selects playlist. Additionally, the Mario Series Selects playlist includes all "selects" tracks from the Super Mario, Mario Kart, and Dr. Mario games as well as Mario Bros. and Mario Paint, while tracks from NES and Nintendo Switch games are included in the NES Selects and Nintendo Switch Selects playlists respectively. The app also has a Nintendo Music Top Tracks playlist, which contains every track featured in every "Top tracks" playlist from all Super Mario games aside from Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Pinball, Golf, Donkey Kong 3, and Wrecking Crew. All of these playlists have an order that changes daily.
Gallery[edit]
- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Nintendo Music.
App icon
Key artwork (without logo)
Updated key artwork (without logo)
Key artwork
Updated key artwork
Listening to "Ground BGM" from Super Mario Bros.
Staff[edit]
- Mastering
Notes[edit]
- Though the app's pages for games use the names "NES" and "Super NES" to refer to those systems, the full "Nintendo Entertainment System" and "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" names are used in the "Details" section of game pages and on the app's search screen.
- "Jump Up, Super Star!" from Super Mario Odyssey is the only Super Mario track on the app that is labeled as selects but is not labeled as a top track for its game, as a different version of the song, "Jump Up, Super Star! - New Donk City Festival", appears as a top track for Super Mario Odyssey instead.
- Dr. Mario (Game Boy) is the only Super Mario game on the app to not have three tracks labeled as selects, with only "Fever" and "Chill" being present in the Nintendo Music Selects and Mario Series Selects playlists.
- While the only Dr. Mario (NES) track featured in those playlists is "Title Screen", the NES Selects playlist additionally labels the NES versions of "Fever" and "Chill" as selects as well.
- Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Mario Kart 7 are the only Super Mario games on the app whose pages do not have a link to information on Nintendo's website regarding how to play them on Nintendo Switch and/or Nintendo Switch 2. Although Super Mario Galaxy is featured in Super Mario 3D All-Stars, this collection was delisted before the release of the app. Additionally, Luigi's Mansion is set to become playable on Nintendo Switch 2 through the Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics application, while Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are set to become playable on both systems through Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2.
References[edit]
- ^ Eugenie Shin (October 31, 2024). Soundtrack Your Day With the New Nintendo Music App. Tokyo Weekender (English). Retrieved November 23, 2024. (Archived November 24, 2024, 03:44:35 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ Nintendo (October 31, 2024). Nintendo Music, a new smart-device app for Nintendo soundtracks, is available today!. Nintendo (official US site) (English). Retrieved November 23, 2024. (Archived November 24, 2024, 03:46:11 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ @Scollectathon (February 3, 2025). "How does Nintendo Music know I've played Brain Training? While there is a Nintendo Switch version, I have not played it, and this is the DS version anyway. Does it pull data from Wii U play activity?". X. Retrieved March 18, 2025.
- ^ @NE_Brian (October 30, 2024). Nintendo Music – list of all games included. Nintendo Everything. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
- ^ @OatmealDome (December 17, 2024). "[Nintendo Music] Nintendo has added entries for alternate versions of some games. (These are just redirects to existing games. No new music was added.) • Mario Kart 8 (Wii U) • Breath of the Wild (Wii U) • Skyward Sword HD (Switch) • Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch)". X. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
- ^ noisycroak (November 19, 2024). Nintendo Music | ゲームサウンド制作 株式会社ノイジークローク. noisycroak (Japanese). Retrieved February 25, 2025. (Archived February 25, 2025, 12:33:21 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
External links[edit]
- App pages
- Websites
