Nintendo is releasing “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” soundtrack on vinyl in the U.S. in a first for the Japanese video game company, which has traditionally focused its physical music media efforts in Japan.
In partnership with Laced Records, Nintendo will release the vinyl collaboration June 19, 2026: a double LP and an 8-LP box set, both available as limited-edition colored vinyl or standard black vinyl and featuring archival artwork created by the game development team.
The double LP will be priced at $49.99, for both the limited and standard editions, while the 8 LP retails for $194.99. Pre-purchase for the limited-edition colored vinyl collections is available Wednesday on My Nintendo Store and at Laced Records.
Per Nintendo, “The 8-LP Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Box Set includes 130 tracks, all newly remastered for the vinyl format. Each of the eight discs is sequenced around a theme, which mirrors the progression of the game experience. Themes revolve around exploring the Kingdom of Hyrule, freeing the Divine Beasts from Calamity Ganon’s hold and discovering the mysteries of the Shrines.”
The double-LP set features 34 select tracks, including “Overworld (Day),” “Great Fairy Fountain,” and “Hyrule Castle,” “all chosen to create an aural landscape that transports listeners back to the final days of the Great Calamity.”
Created by composers Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai and Soshi Abe, the “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” soundtrack’s vinyl release is a test case for future releases in the U.S. market.
“In the Japanese market, CD is still a pretty prominent format there, and they do a lot of video game soundtracks on CD in Japan, and they’ve been doing that for years and years,” Nintendo Vice President, Player & Product Experience Bill Trinen told Variety. “Here in the U.S., we haven’t been releasing much in the way of physical soundtracks at all. And so partly, this is a little bit about us trying to gage and understand what is the demand for physical soundtracks in the United States. Part of this is also simply an interest in trying to bring video game music to a broader audience, and it’s part of a few steps that we’ve taken.”
The announcement of the “Zelda” vinyl release comes as Nintendo is celebrating a different musical milestone: the one-year anniversary of its music streaming service for Switch Online subscribers.
“This week actually, is the one year anniversary of the release of Nintendo Music, which is an exclusive music streaming service for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers,” Trinen said. “There’s an app that you can download for your phone that has retro soundtracks dating back to the NES era, all the way up to more modern soundtracks from the Switch, and even some music from the Switch 2 era on it, as well. So we’re really trying to broaden exposure to our overall very, very large music library, but also then trying to find different ways to deliver it to different fans of music.”
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