The score for Kingsglaive released in September 2016 as a two-disc CD. The standard four-disc release was published internationally in 2017 by Sony Classical Records.
Final Fantasy XV Original Soundtrack released in December 2016 in multiple versions, including a four-disc CD release, a Blu-ray release with additional tracks, and a special edition. Multiple albums have been released containing music from Final Fantasy XV and its spin-off media. Later contributors to the soundtrack, via downloadable content packs, were Keiichi Okabe, Naoshi Mizuta, Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Tadayoshi Makino, and Taku Iwasaki. King's " Stand by Me", which acted as one of the two official theme songs. English indie rock band Florence and the Machine collaborated on three songs for the game, including a cover of Ben E. Yasuhisa Inoue and Susumi Akizuki of Righttrack wrote the music for the original net animation Brotherhood, while a team from the music studio Unique Note, who also worked on the base game, handled the mobile spin-off title Justice Monsters V. Graham composed the music for the film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, with additional tunes from Shimomura. Several tracks, including the main theme "Somnus", feature Latin lyrics written by the game's original director Tetsuya Nomura.įinal Fantasy XV was expanded into a multimedia project dubbed the " Final Fantasy XV Universe", for which other composers were hired John R. Her music, based around themes of "friendship" and "filial bonds", incorporates multiple musical genres, such as orchestral, bossa nova, and American blues.
Shimomura was brought on board the project in 2006, when it was a spin-off title called Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and stayed in her role during the game's ten-year development cycle. Having previously worked on the Kingdom Hearts series, among various other titles, Final Fantasy XV was her first project for the series. The music for the video game Final Fantasy XV, developed and published by Square Enix as the fifteenth mainline entry in the Final Fantasy series, was composed primarily by Yoko Shimomura.