Candy Crush Saga’s Music Season: All the Details, Including a New Thundercat Music Video Collab

Every year, Candy Crush Saga celebrates Music Season, a unique event bringing the joy of music to the Candy Kingdom. This year’s Music Season hits all the right notes with an in-game event that lets players create their own soundtrack while helping the Kingdom get concert-ready.

The adventure unfolds through a five-week, music-fuelled expedition, a reimagined version of Candy Crush’s fan-favourite Saga adventure feature, filled with fresh challenges, collectible rewards, and a new harmony between gameplay and rhythm.

Find out all the details below:

The Story: The Show Must Go On

The big concert is about to begin, but there’s one small problem: Jelly Queen, Yeti, and Mr Toffee have overslept, and the stage is in chaos. By playing the game, players must help the sleepy bandmates wake up, grab their instruments, and make it to the stage before the crowd loses patience.

Music-Themed Challenges: Play, Choose, Create

At the heart of Music Season is an interactive music-making feature that turns each Expedition into a creative jam session. Players unlock three musical layers – beat, harmony, and melody – across milestone levels. After each special level, they choose one of three musical layers to add to their track. Completing all three creates a custom cassette tape soundtrack unique to their choices. With 27 possible combinations, you’ll be playing along to a track of your own design.

New Blocker: Music Medley

A special edition of the Color Cluster blocker appears throughout the event, featuring a music-inspired reskin that ties into the season’s theme. Players will learn to clear it through a short in-level tutorial, adding a rhythmic twist to their puzzle-solving.

Rewards Worth Playing For

Every sweet win rewards players with the familiar Bronze, Silver, and Gold chests, but Music Season adds a new cassette collection system. There are 27 unique cassette tapes to collect, each representing a completed soundtrack. Completing sets unlocks exclusive vanity rewards including a headphone-themed profile frame, a music-inspired avatar, and a limited-edition profile frame. These items are available only during Music Season 2025.

Replay, Remix, and Collect

Players can replay event up to 27 times to create every possible combination of soundtracks and complete their collection. Each new loop offers a chance to unlock new rewards and explore different melodies, giving players plenty of reasons to keep playing all season long.

The Interactive Music Video

Alongside the in-game event, Candy Crush Saga introduces its first-ever playable music video, in collaboration with the Grammy-winning Thundercat, blending rhythm, animation, and gameplay into one interactive experience – a perfect encore to the music season in-game experience.

The team has worked with Grammy-winning artist Thundercat to flip Diana Ross’s iconic “Upside Down” into a music video fans can control. Inspired by Match-3 mechanics, as the beat builds, you’ll match visuals in sets of three to gamify the story, triggering bursts of color, unlocking surprises, and racking up points in a topsy-turvy, joy-filled ride.

If you really want to feel the beat, Candy Crush is also releasing a limited-edition lollipop that lets fans taste the music using innovative bone-conduction. As the track hits your tongue, subtle vibrations travel through the jaw, carrying the beat to you. Our limited-edition bone-conduction lollipops will also be available for free on a first come, first served basis while supplies last (available in the US only) – apply here.

Music Season is live now in Candy Crush Saga. Five weeks. Dozens of rewards.