Okay, So The Mario Galaxy Soundtracks Are Officially On Spotify Right Now

I'll stick with Nintendo Music. I don't want to sub to another service.

I wonder if Nintendo is testing the waters to see how the performance of a Spotify release compares to Nintendo Music. Or maybe this is just a one time deal strictly for the 40th anniversary. Who knows?

Crazy.

That is pretty good for Spotify users who don't have Nintendo Music. But doesn't really change much for Nintendo Music users.

They probably won't do this in the future. Probably only for anniversaries.

This is quite bizarre on the surface but I can only imagine it will end up being an advert for the Nintendo Music app once all is said and done.

It gives the wider population a chance to go "damn, these Nintendo games have pretty good music!" and then ultimately downloading the app. Even that's a bit of a hard sell though, I would be surprised if anyone has subscribed to NSO purely for Nintendo Music.

For a limited time??? I was a happy NSO subscriber for a while (let my sub expire recently as I only play single player on my switch 2 these days) but i want to mix nintendo music with other game soundtracks. obviously, not an option with a separate app. I wish they would suck it up and put their music on a mainstream service. I genuinely think they would make more money than paying for their own streaming service as I doubt many people are subbed to NSO specifically for this...

Oh, of course it's for a limited time. That figures. Not that I have Spotify anyway.

Also, I know I'm in the minority here, but the Super Mario Galaxy OST is probably my least favorite music of any Mario game. Galaxy 2 is a step up at least.

The amount of money a random guy is making from reuploading Nintendo's music is completely inconsequential for a billion dollar corporation like Nintendo.
Absolutely wild that they're still trying to control the (maybe) few thousand dollars that spotify/youtube will pay them.
Corporate greed at its finest.

I don't understand, what is so surprising about this?

Thanks but I think I'm good with my MP3 albums of both soundtracks that don't require an Internet connection or subscription that I've had on my phones since about 2014.

@AX-7 That's a weird take. Nintendo puts something they own on a platform, get compensation for it (meager as it might be), and that's corporate greed? Think that's just business.

I very much doubt their goal is to squeeze the random guy you refer to, it's temporary exposure for a game that has a blockbuster movie loosely based on it out in theatres.

I absolutely love Nintendo Music and can’t imagine listening to Nintendo’s music on any other app except for YouTube. Between work and in the car (even without Apple CarPlay) it’s seriously become a huge part of my life. And there’s no ads!

Sadly not on Apple Music

As nice as this and the Nintendo Music app may be, I still highly advise people get their video game music fix here:

https://downloads.khinsider.com/

I've been using this site for well over a decade now. 😉

Good marketing move to promote the movie. It's limited time. Probably should have been done sooner.

Someone insert the gif of plankton saying: "FINALLY!!".

Lowkey, Qumu and Game and Sound are great Nintendo cover artists on spotify, check em out

Cool! I don’t have NSO, so that’s fun. Even though the album is by the official Spotify account, it’s really weird how Starship Mario is listed as “Starship Voyage” by Jp_Beats with a different image from all the other tracks. 😆

This is probably a test to see how many people will listen to them on Spotify vs how many listen on Nintendo Music.

It's a little weird. But maybe they're adding the game soundtracks because they have the movie score on the platform. And it's still out in theaters and all that. It would be weirder if we didn't have access to those OSTs on Nintendo Music yet Spotify did. Plus, we get Wii and Switch versions. We do have more tracks though. Perhaps they didn't include the little chimes and menu sounds and whatnot for Spotify. I'm still hoping we can get the movie soundtracks at some point. Though if Nintendo is only releasing music on the app that they wholly own, then maybe that will not happen.

Things that were nowhere on my bingo card:

@IronMan30 Quite obvious this is for those already enrolled.

I just download any of my favorite nintendo music from yt and listen to it on spotify anyway lmao. But its mostly xenoblade tracks. No way I'm downloading their dumb app when it doesn't even have them either, but if they'd put it on spotify, they'd be getting their cents from me

Could be to hype the current film, or test if it works better for fans since the app itself is absurd since only Nintendo would make you download and use a separate application just for their music.

I think they're doing this because the film is now out in Japan?