‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Soundtrack Sets The Tone For Show
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 5 across digital, CD, vinyl, and red-colored cassette formats, with the digital edition of Season 5, Volume 1 premiering today. Season 5, Volume 2 will debut online Friday, December 26, and Volume 3 will premiere on January 1 (featuring all of Volume 1 and Volume 2 plus additional music).
The complete Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 5 will be available on CD, vinyl and red cassette configurations on Friday, January 30. Colored vinyl formats include standard black, Amazon’s exclusive red smoke, Target’s exclusive blue smoke, Walmart’s exclusive orange marble, and the Sony Music Store’s marble yellow exclusive colored vinyl.
Fans got their first taste of “Stranger Things 5” when Netflix released a gripping official trailer in October; watch HERE. The trailer notably features a Stranger Things’ remix of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever,” which was released earlier this month and is available now on all streaming platforms.
Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 5 will include key music covering various classic eras and styles as featured in “Stranger Things 5.” The soundtrack album is conceptualized and produced by The Duffer Brothers and Nora Felder. Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Emmy winner Nora Felder has served as music supervisor for Stranger Things since the show’s inception; she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Supervision for Stranger Things in 2022. The compilation album is produced by The Duffer Brothers and Rob Santos.
Legacy Recordings has released soundtrack albums for Stranger Things across each of its seasons. The first collection Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series (2017), featuring many 1980s hits from the first two seasons, debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s US Top Soundtracks chart and earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series, Season 3 (2019), followed with fifteen songs paired with an original cast recording. In 2022, Legacy released Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4, which included Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), KISS’ “Detroit Rock City,” a Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks remix of Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” and more. The soundtrack held the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart for three months straight and also received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media category.
The highly anticipated fifth and final season will be released in three volumes at 5PM PT: with the first four episodes having premiered on November 26, the next three episodes on Christmas and The Finale on New Year’s Eve (both on Netflix and in select theaters). Created by The Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things” is produced by Upside Down Pictures & 21 Laps Entertainment with The Duffer Brothers serving as executive producers, alongside Shawn Levy of 21 Laps Entertainment and Dan Cohen.
The show’s main cast consists of Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty. For Season 5, Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux, and Linda Hamilton will also join the cast.
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
Stranger Things debuted in 2016 and quickly became one of Netflix’s most popular television series ever, with its fourth season alone amassing over 140.7M views globally. Rooted in ‘80s nostalgia, it boosted Kate Bush’s track “Running Up That Hill” into the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in its 38-year history. The series has also garnered over 70 awards worldwide including Emmys® and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and has been nominated for over 230 awards.