Nintendo is releasing “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” soundtrack on vinyl in the US in a first for the Japanese video game company, which has traditionally focused its physical music media efforts in Japan.
In partnership with Laced Records, Nintendo will release the vinyl collaboration on June 19, 2026: a double LP and an 8-LP box set, both available as limited edition colored vinyl or standard black vinyl and featuring archival artwork created by the game development team.
The double LP will cost $49.99, for both limited and standard editions, while the 8 LP retails for $194.99. Pre-orders for the limited edition colored vinyl collections are available on Wednesday at the My Nintendo Store and at Laced Records.
According to Nintendo, “The 8-LP Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Soundtrack Box Set contains 130 tracks, all newly mastered for the vinyl format. Each of the eight discs is sequenced around a theme that reflects the progression of the game experience. The themes revolve around exploring the Kingdom of Hyrule, and freeing Divine Beasts the Shrines of My Calendar.”
The double-LP set features 34 select tracks, including “Overworld (Day),” “Great Fairy Fountain,” and “Hyrule Castle,” “all chosen to create a soundscape that transports listeners back to the final days of the Great Calamity.”
Created by composers Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai and Soshi Abe, the “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” soundtrack’s vinyl release is a test case for future releases in the US market.
“In the Japanese market, CD is still a pretty prominent format there, and they do a lot of video game soundtracks on CD in Japan, and they’ve been doing it for years and years,” said Nintendo’s vice president of game and product experience Bill Trinen Amount. “Here in the US, we haven’t released a lot of physical soundtracks at all. And so in part this is a little bit about us trying to gauge and understand what the demand is for physical soundtracks in the US. Part of this is also simply an interest in trying to get video game music to a wider audience, and that’s part of some steps that we’ve taken.”
The announcement of the vinyl release of “Zelda” comes as Nintendo celebrates another musical milestone: the one-year anniversary of its music streaming service for Switch Online subscribers.
“This week actually marks one year since the release of Nintendo Music, which is an exclusive music streaming service for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers,” Trinen said. “There’s an app that you can download for your phone that has retro soundtracks going back to the NES era, all the way up to more modern Switch soundtracks, and also some music from the Switch 2 era on it. So we’re really trying to broaden the exposure of our overall very, very large music library, but also then trying to find it to different fans of music.”
