Nintendo Music adds A Link Between Worlds soundtrack with 105 tracks

The Nintendo Music app has been quietly building one of the best video game music libraries around, and this week it added another entry to the Legend of Zelda catalog. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is now available on the platform, bringing 105 tracks and a total runtime of 2 hours and 31 minutes to subscribers.

From 3DS to your playlist

A Link Between Worlds originally launched on 3DS in 2013, and its soundtrack was composed by Ryō Nagamatsu, who also brought his musical sensibility to the Mario Kart and Splatoon series during his time at Nintendo. He later contributed to the 2019 Switch release of Link's Awakening, so this is a composer with deep roots in the franchise.

The update is a substantial one. 105 tracks covering everything from the gentle "Hyrule at Peace" to the tension-soaked "Final Showdown with Ganon" makes this one of the fuller soundtrack drops the app has seen. What most players miss is how much variety sits inside a single Zelda game's score, and A Link Between Worlds is a good example: the Milk Bar Musicians alternate versions alone account for 16 tracks, reimagining familiar themes through a jazzy, laid-back lens.

Every song in the update

Here's the complete track list for the A Link Between Worlds soundtrack now live on Nintendo Music:

1. The Adventure Begins
2. A Kingdom's Legend
3. Title Screen
4. Selection Screen
5. Nightmare
6. Hyrule at Peace
7. Item Acquired
8. Seres's Screams
9. Important Item Acquired
10. Solving a Puzzle
11. Cavern Theme (Going Underground)
12. The Ruined Room
13. At the Sanctuary
14. Drama in the Sanctuary
15. Ravio's Theme
16. Hyrule Castle at Peace
17. Meeting Princess Zelda
18. Hyrule Theme
19. Kakariko Village
20. At the Milk Bar
21. Venturing Indoors
22. An Anxious Sahasrahla
23. The Three Dungeons of Hyrule
24. Yuga's Theme
25. Facing Yuga in the Eastern Palace
26. A Painting of Link
27. Hyrule Castle Sealed
28. Zelda's Charm Acquired
29. Irene, the Apprentice Witch
30. Fortune Teller
31. Sorcery
32. StreetPass Battle Theme
33. Hyrule Hotfoot
34. Zora Trouble
35. Restoring Queen Oren
36. Ravio's Shop
37. Rupee Rush
38. Mother Maimai's Theme
39. Mother Maimai's Fanfare
40. The Ruined Room (Battle Theme)
41. Game Over
42. The Bosses of Hyrule
43. Beating a Boss
44. The Lost Woods
45. Deeper into the Lost Woods
46. Master Sword Acquired
47. Hyrule Theme 2
48. Hyrule Castle Battle Theme
49. A Painting of Princess Zelda
50. Between Worlds
51. Facing Yuga in Hyrule Castle
52. Yuga Gloats
53. Enter Ganon
54. Princess Hilda Appears
55. Lorule Theme
56. Octoball Derby
57. Octoball Derby Results
58. Thieves' Hideout
59. Don't Leave Me Here!
60. The Bosses of Lorule
61. Song of the Sages
62. Skull Woods
63. Swamp Palace
64. Scaling Death Mountain
65. Ice Ruins
66. Treacherous Tower
67. Treacherous Tower (Regular Results)
68. Treacherous Tower (Complete Results)
69. A Trip to Turtle Rock
70. Sneaking into the Dark Palace
71. The Dark Palace
72. In the Desert Palace
73. Completing the Triforce
74. Triforce Acquired
75. Lorule Theme 2
76. Lorule Castle
77. The Story of Lorule
78. Ganon Returns
79. Facing Ganon
80. Hilda and Ganon
81. Final Showdown with Ganon
82. Item Acquired (Final Showdown)
83. Ravio's Return, Hilda's Sorrow
84. Hilda's Change of Heart (Return to Hyrule)
85. Light in Lorule
86. Credits
87. Rupee-Total Fanfare
88. Hero Mode Fanfare
89. Grand Finale
90. Hyrule Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
91. Selection Screen (Milk Bar Musicians)
92. Zelda's Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
93. Ravio's Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
94. Kakariko Village (Milk Bar Musicians)
95. Hyrule Castle (Milk Bar Musicians)
96. Facing Yuga in Hyrule Castle (Milk Bar Musicians)
97. Hilda's Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
98. Item Acquired (Milk Bar Musicians)
99. Important Item Acquired (Milk Bar Musicians)
100. Lorule Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
101. Death Mountain (Milk Bar Musicians)
102. Lorule Dungeon Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
103. Lorule Castle (Milk Bar Musicians)
104. Ganon's Theme (Milk Bar Musicians)
105. The Ballad of the Goddess (Milk Bar Musicians)

Where this fits in the growing Zelda library

A Link Between Worlds joins a Zelda section on Nintendo Music that is starting to look genuinely impressive. Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Ocarina of Time, Skyward Sword, The Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, A Link to the Past, the original NES Zelda, and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link are all already available.

Here's the thing: the app requires an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription to access, so there's no standalone purchase option. If you're already paying for NSO, this is just more value stacking on top of what you already have.

Notably absent from the library are titles like Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and Four Swords Adventures, so there's still plenty of catalog left for Nintendo to pull from in future updates. The pace of additions suggests the app is being treated as a long-term project rather than a one-time launch feature.

For players who want to revisit the world of Hyrule and Lorule while Nintendo keeps expanding the app's offerings, the gaming guides section is a solid place to dig into the broader Zelda universe and the action games genre it helped define.