{"id":1968603,"date":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1968603"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:07:08","slug":"nintendo-music-special-release-adding-tracks-from-kirby-air-riders-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nintendo-music-special-release-adding-tracks-from-kirby-air-riders-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Music &#8220;Special Release&#8221; Adding Tracks From Kirby Air Riders Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Kirby Air Riders\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe512d41e3bb2\/kirby-air-riders.large.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update [<time class=\"dated \" datetime=\"2025-08-19T14:05:00+00:00\" data-format=\"D jS M Y, g:ia\">Tue 19th Aug 2025, 3:05pm<\/time>]:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There you have it: Mr. Sakurai himself has revealed the Main Theme from Kirby Air Riders and confirmed that it&#8217;s coming to Nintendo Music later today.<\/p>\n<p>Starlit Journey \u2014 along with a handful of other tracks \u2014 will be available to listen to on the App later, making Air Riders the first Switch 2 game&#8217;s music to feature on the service. Plus, it&#8217;s the first game&#8217;s music we can listen to ahead of launch.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a fun little addition! Shame it slipped through the net overnight, though. If you don&#8217;t have Nintendo Switch Online or access to the app, you&#8217;ll be able to hear the music in-game on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/kirby-air-riders-zooms-onto-switch-2-this-november\">20th November 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Kirby Air Riders\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9cd190c2f483\/kirby-air-riders.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9cd190c2f483\/kirby-air-riders.450x.jpg 450w, https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9cd190c2f483\/kirby-air-riders.900x.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 450px, (min-width: 800px)\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9cd190c2f483\/kirby-air-riders.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kirby Air Riders\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Original Story:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/nintendo_music\">Nintendo Music<\/a> is mostly known for regular retro soundtrack updates, but this week it&#8217;s completely different, with the Japanese firm announcing we&#8217;re actually getting some music from a game that&#8217;s not even out yet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s songs from Masahiro Sakurai&#8217;s upcoming release, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/kirby-air-riders\">Kirby Air Riders<\/a>. Of course, this links up with the game&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/kirby-air-riders-direct-revealed-for-tomorrow-19th-august-2025\">Nintendo Direct, which is airing later today<\/a> and will run for a <em>whopping<\/em> 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;special release&#8221; also happens to be the first Nintendo Switch 2 song update for the Switch Online music app.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know what exactly to expect from Kirby Air Riders just yet, but last week, Sakurai mentioned how he was aware fans hadn&#8217;t <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/we-might-be-getting-an-update-about-sakurais-new-kirby-game-soon\">even seen gameplay footage yet<\/a>. The latest Direct announcement follows on from a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/kirby-air-riders-has-been-rated-for-switch-2\">recent classification for the title<\/a> as well, with the game currently scheduled to launch at some point <strong>2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/kirby\/related-articles:186670,173865 @ 1755611209 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>What do you think of this latest update for Nintendo Music? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/kirby\/related-info\/4ee5c9cefeddf091bb308f861a6bf56b @ 1755611209 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-content\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<section class=\"block author\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/photo\/0\/avatar.jpg?v=1753561432\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nintendolife.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Update [Tue 19th Aug 2025, 3:05pm]: There you have it: Mr. Sakurai himself has revealed the Main Theme from Kirby Air Riders and confirmed that it&#8217;s coming to Nintendo Music later today. Starlit Journey \u2014 along with a handful of other tracks \u2014 will be available to listen to on the App later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[348864,348865,348866,348863,349289,348867],"class_list":["post-1968603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-kirby","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-direct","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-nintendo-switch-online","tag-upcoming-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nintendo-Music-Special-Release-Adding-Tracks-From-Kirby-Air-Riders.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}