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Nintendo and Spotify Bring Nostalgia with New ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ Playlists

April 24, 2026

OOH Super Mario Playlist

Nintendo and Spotify are welcoming fans to the Super Mario Bros. 40th anniversary and the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie with new playlists and a special in-app experience. 

Music of the Galactic Adventure

To coincide with the movie’s release this month, Spotify is introducing two new playlists.

Nintendo Game Music Official Playlist: Through official soundtracks from these beloved games, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, listeners can relive memories of adventures, characters, and stages on this playlist, experiencing the world of the games on Spotify.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Official Playlist: A cinematic-worthy audio experience, this playlist features the complete soundtrack from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It brings the film’s vibrant energy and emotional depth straight to listeners’ ears, with the heroic anthems and dramatic scores that bring the latest big-screen chapter of Mario’s story to life.

The magic isn’t limited to the music, however. As the songs play, the beloved character Luma will appear directly on the playback bar within the Spotify app for Premium subscribers. It’s a delightful detail designed to deepen the connection between fans and the Super Mario universe.

Billboards bring more Mario moments

To spread the intergalactic excitement farther and wider, Spotify is taking over billboards in New York City, Los Angeles, and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing to encourage fans to explore the official playlists and join the celebration. These prominent displays will serve as a beacon for fans, inviting them to partake in the musical journey inspired by the beloved video game series.

Whether fans are OG gamers or younger newcomers to Mario’s adventures, there’s never been a better time to power up headphones and explore the musical galaxy of Super Mario on Spotify.

Meet Jay-Ann Lopez, the Black Woman Expanding the Definition of a ‘Gamer’

November 16, 2020

Jay-Ann Lopez is passionate about her video games. She’s currently very into Spellbreak—a multiplayer action-spellcasting game where players can wield fire, ice, toxic objects, poison, and stone. Her “wind-down” game is a calmer one, Spiritfarer, and she’s looking forward to gathering some friends to play Apex Legends season seven with her as well. Yet, as a Black woman, Jay-Ann is not who most people think of when they think of a gamer—which is precisely what she’s trying to change. There are countless women of color playing video games and looking for community. So she took it upon herself to make it happen and founded Black Girl Gamers. 

For the Record spoke to Jay-Ann about creating space for Black women gamers, the representation that is yet to come, and the music on her Start Select gaming playlist takeover. 

In 2015 you founded an online community called Black Girl Gamers. Can you tell us about the need that you saw for such a space?

It wasn’t a need that I saw. It was a need that I experienced. I’ve been gaming from a young age, but during that time, there were a couple of things that I experienced that led me to start Black Girl Gamers when I was in university. The first experience was not feeling represented in games. Another was just that lack of visibility for Black women who game. A lot of my friends that I was gaming with were white men. Eventually, I’d hear a sexist joke or a joke that is based in African-American vernacular English—and I’m not even American.

I tried starting my own channel. I then abandoned that, because I was like, I’d rather ‘do for everyone’ than just ‘do for myself.’ Now it’s taken off. We have 7,000 women in the group globally; in America, the UK, Asia, Caribbean, Europe. Wherever you think there’s a Black woman—she most likely games.