Nintendo Music: Full Game List Grows With Mario Kart World, Rhythm Heaven Additions

Nintendo’s dedicated streaming app, Nintendo Music, has quietly become one of the most reliable weekly content drops in the company’s ecosystem, and the latest update keeps that streak alive. According to Nintendo Everything, the service added soundtrack selections from Mario Kart World’s Super Mario World and Super Mario Land tracks on July 6, 2026, alongside a batch of seven tracks from Rhythm Heaven Groove: Special Selection on Switch just days earlier.

How Nintendo Music’s Catalogue Has Expanded Since Launch

When Nintendo Music launched, the app shipped with only a modest selection of songs, a stark contrast to the sprawling archive fans had hoped for given the company’s decades of composed scores. Nintendo Everything’s ongoing tracker shows just how far that has come, with dozens of games now represented, spanning NES-era classics like the original Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 3 through to freshly released Switch 2 titles such as Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

The pattern that’s emerged is a steady, almost ritualistic weekly cadence. Nintendo has continued adding at least one new title or soundtrack expansion to the app roughly every seven days since launch, according to the outlet’s dated changelog, which stretches back through 2025 and into early 2026 without an extended gap.

Mario Kart World Gets Rolled Out in Pieces, Not All at Once

Rather than dumping the entire Mario Kart World soundtrack into the app in one go, Nintendo has been drip-feeding it by era. The tracker lists separate additions for Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and Yoshi’s Story tracks in June, followed by Mario Kart Wii and DS tunes, and now the Super Mario World and Super Mario Land material added on July 6, 2026.

That piecemeal approach mirrors how Nintendo has handled other major back-catalogue soundtracks in the app, including the staggered rollout of extra Kirby and the Forgotten Land tracks and the multi-part release of Kirby Air Riders music tied to its own Switch 2 launch. For collectors trying to keep tabs on everything, it means checking back regularly rather than expecting a single bulk update.

Rhythm Heaven Groove Joins a Growing List of Recent Switch Releases

The addition of seven tracks from Rhythm Heaven Groove: Special Selection on July 1, 2026, is notable because it places a newly released Switch title into the app almost immediately after launch. Nintendo has increasingly used Nintendo Music as a near-day-one companion for fresh releases, following the same playbook used for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Star Fox on Switch 2, and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, all of which landed in the app close to their respective launch windows.

That strategy gives players a way to relive a game’s score away from the console itself, whether they’re commuting, at the gym, or simply want background music while browsing other Switch 2 titles. It also doubles as a soft marketing push, keeping recently launched games audibly present in players’ lives well after the initial review cycle has passed.

What This Means for Players Building a Personal Nintendo Playlist

For long-time fans, the sheer breadth now on offer is the real headline buried under the weekly drip-feed. The list Nintendo Everything maintains spans everything from obscure NES-era sports titles bundled together in July 2025 to Fire Emblem, Golden Sun, Pilotwings, and Animal Crossing entries, meaning the app has quietly become one of the more comprehensive official Nintendo soundtrack archives ever assembled in one place.

Nintendo has indicated more music is on the way, without detailing exactly which games are next, so the safest bet for players hoping to see a favourite soundtrack appear is to keep checking in weekly rather than expecting an announcement. Given the consistency of the rollout so far, stretching unbroken from early 2025 through mid-2026, there’s little reason to think that cadence will slow down anytime soon.

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