Nintendo Music Adds 112 Splatoon 3 Expansion Tracks, Doubling the Album

The Splatoon 3 album in Nintendo Music effectively doubled on April 7 with 112 new tracks drawn from two of the game's most musically ambitious chapters: the Side Order DLC expansion and the Grand Festival, the 72-hour farewell event that closed out the game's live-service era in September 2024.

Before the update, the app's Splatoon 3 library had been frozen at 118 tracks covering content only through Fresh Season 2023, meaning the paid DLC and the game's finale had no representation since Nintendo Music launched on October 31, 2024. The additions bring the total to 230 tracks and more than 8 hours and 30 minutes of music.

Among the newly accessible songs are "Leaving with Pearl" and "Short Order" by Off the Hook, the idol duo whose members Pearl and Marina anchor the Side Order storyline. Side Order, released February 22, 2024, follows Agent 8 trapped in the Memverse, a virtual reality constructed by Marina, and its soundtrack had already received a commercial release in Japan as "Ordertune" through Kadokawa on December 11, 2024, nearly four months before the tracks appeared on Nintendo Music.

The Grand Festival material carries particular weight. The in-game event ran for 72 hours from September 13-16, 2024, staging performances across the Grand Festival Grounds by all three of Splatoon 3's idol groups: Squid Sisters representing Team Past, Off the Hook for Team Present, and Deep Cut for Team Future. The event concluded with all three groups uniting as the supergroup Now or Never Seven to perform "Three Wishes," a collaborative single written for the occasion. Fan communities flagged that track, alongside "No Quarters" and "No Plan Survives," as highlights of the new additions.

The update continues a methodical expansion of the Splatoon franchise's catalog on Nintendo Music. Splatoon 2's music was added December 3, 2024, and the original Splatoon followed on May 28, 2025. The base Splatoon 3 game music was available at app launch, but the DLC and live-service content remained absent until now.

Nintendo Music launched simultaneously for iOS and Android across 45 regions as a free benefit for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers and crossed one million downloads within two weeks, a signal that appetite for Nintendo's historically scarce soundtracks was substantial. The app supports extended playback loops of up to 60 minutes, offline downloads, a sleep timer, and spoiler prevention. Nintendo data miner OatmealDome helped amplify the announcement on X after the additions surfaced first through the app's own in-app description.

Springfest is scheduled to return to Splatoon 3 on April 11, giving players a freshly complete soundtrack to revisit while the game's seasonal calendar moves forward.