Nintendo Music has added another 112 tracks to Splatoon 3, taking the soundtrack from 118 songs to 230 and giving subscribers more than 8 hours and 30 minutes of squid-flavoured noise to loop on command. The update pulls in music from the Side Order DLC, the Grand Festival, and other additions, including ”Leaving with Pearl” and ”Short Order” by Off the Hook.
That makes Splatoon 3 one of the bigger entries in Nintendo Music, which has been steadily filling out its library rather than dribbling out single nostalgia bait tracks. It also shows Nintendo is treating soundtrack catalogues as a feature, not a novelty – the kind of low-friction subscription perk that helps keep Switch Online feeling less like a paywall and more like a bundled service.
Nintendo Music update adds 112 Splatoon 3 tracks
- 112 new tracks added to Splatoon 3
- Music from Side Order, the Grand Festival, and more
- Splatoon 3 soundtrack now totals 230 tracks
- Total runtime is over 8 hours and 30 minutes
The DLC angle matters here. Side Order arrived in 2024, and its music now lives alongside the main game’s soundtrack instead of being stranded in a separate release people have to go hunting for. Nintendo has also added the original Splatoon and Splatoon 2 albums to the service, which means the series is turning into one of the better-stocked corners of the app.
Switch Online is required to use Nintendo Music
There is a small catch, because of course there is: you need an active Switch Online subscription to listen. Nintendo has been leaning on these extras – music, game trials, and library perks – to make the subscription look less like background plumbing and more like a living service. The timing is also neatly stacked, following soundtrack updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
And the cadence suggests Nintendo is still in expansion mode. With Springfest set to return in Splatoon 3 later this week on 11 April 2026, the company is keeping the franchise visible across both in-game events and the music app. The question now is simple: does Nintendo keep widening the catalogue with more full soundtracks, or does it start mining smaller batches from other series next?