List of composers

Masahiro Sakurai at a gathering of many musicians whose arrangements were featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The following is a list of composers who have composed, arranged, and remixed music for the Super Smash Bros. series. This list does not include composers of tracks taken directly from other sources.

Artist	Arrangements contributed
ACE (Tomori Kudo, Hiroyo CHiCO Yamanaka)	Fortress Boss (Super Mario World) Xenoblade Chronicles Medley Spark Man Stage Gang-Plank Galleon Title Theme - Animal Crossing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Medley Guts Man Stage Lament of Innocence Beneath the Mask Halland / Dalarna Landscape Under the Ghost-Kaminano
Akari Kaida	Escape Coliseum Series Medley
Akihiro Honda	MGS4 ~Theme of Love~ Smash Bros. Brawl Version Fortress Boss - Super Mario Bros. 3 Death Mountain Battle! (Elite Four) / Battle! (Solgaleo/Lunala) Destiny (Ablaze) Fire Emblem: Three Houses Main Theme (JP) Fire Emblem: Three Houses Main Theme
Arata Iiyoshi	The Dark World White Land Skyworld
Asuka Hayazaki (nee Asuka Ohta)	Flower Field Onett Theme / Winters Theme
Asuka Ito	Turbo Jet Pedal Glider
Atsuko Asahi	Cloudtop Cruise Battle! (Reshiram/Zekrom) Bubblegum K.K. ARMS Grand Prix Official Theme Song Ramen Bowl
Daisuke Matsuoka	Dark Lord Save the World, Heroes!
Grant Kirkhope	Spiral Mountain
Hajime Wakai	Area 6 Area 6 Ver. 2 Tour (Animal Crossing: New Leaf)
Hideaki Kobayashi	Midna's Lament
HIDE+HIDE (Hideki Ishigaki, Hideki Onoue)	King Dedede's Theme Ver. 2 Glory of Heracles
Hideki Sakamoto	Main Theme / Underworld Theme (The Legend of Zelda) The Great Cave Offensive Lifelight Main Theme - Pikmin Fire Emblem Theme (Heroic Origins) Snake Man Stage Starker / Wicked Child Galeem / Dharkon Main Theme Piano Solo Vs. Klungo
Hirokazu Ando	All music in SSB Final Destination ^[1] Menu 1 ^[2] How to Play ^[1] Trophy ^[1] Ending ^[1] Saria's Theme Yoshi's Story Yoshi's Island Kongo Jungle Green Greens Corneria Poké Floats Battle Theme Big Blue Mother 2 EarthBound Flat Zone Mach Rider
Hirokazu Koshio	Wii Shop Channel
Hirokazu Tanaka	Donkey Kong Squeak Squad Theme Chill (Dr. Mario) Ver. 2 PAC-MAN (Club Mix) Balloon Trip Sand Ocean Seaskape
Hiroki Hashimoto	Smash Tour: Map Target Blast Mumbo's Mountain Glide
Hiroki Morishita	Gear Up For… Training Menu - Wii Fit U Dark Man Stage
Hiroshi Okubo	Super Mario World Medley Skateboard Arena (Free Mode)
Hiroshi Yamaguchi	The Map Page / Bonus Level
Hiroyuki Kawada	Main Theme (Super Mario 64) Luigi's Mansion Series Medley Jungle Level Jazz Style Jungle Level Tribal Style Results Display Screen Trophy Shop Battle! (Wild Pokémon) - Pokémon Sun / Pokémon Moon
Jesahm	Super Mario 3D Land Theme / Beach Theme Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem Medley
Jun Fukuda	Butter Building
Jun Senoue	Angel Island Zone Mega Man 4 Medley
Junichi Nakatsuru	Menu Circuit (Mario Kart 7) Lost in Thoughts All Alone Wii Sports Series Medley Theme Of Bayonetta - Mysterious Destiny (Instrumental) Tomorrow Is Mine (Bayonetta 2 Theme) (Instrumental) Final Destination Ver. 2 Classic: Map Classic: Map Menu Battlefield 11th Street - FATAL FURY WILD AMBITION
Katsuro Tajima	Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Medley Master Orders: Reward Events Trophy Rush Tourney: Tourney List (Spectator) Tourney: Winner Announcement
Kazumi Totaka	Title (Animal Crossing) The Roost Wii Sports Resort Wii Sports Resort Ver. 2 Title Theme - Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
Keigo Ozaki	Shadow Dragon Medley WarioWare, Inc. Go K.K. Rider! Clu Clu Land
Keiichi Okabe	Dark World / Dark World Dungeon Ashley's Song (JP) Ver. 2 Ground Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2 Flash Man Stage Aerith's Theme
Keisuke Ito	Galeem Dharkon
Keiki Kobayashi	Battlefield Title Theme - Wii Sports
Kenichi Ōkuma	Pokémon Gym / Evolution Flat Zone 2 Gyromite
Kenji Ito	Space Armada Attack Title (Kid Icarus) Mute City Ver. 3 Super Hoop Culdcept Beginning
Kenji Yamamoto	Main Theme (Metroid) Opening/Menu (Metroid Prime) Donkey Kong Country Returns (Vocals)
Kentaro Ishizaka	Opening (Super Smash Bros. Melee) Underground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) Waluigi Pinball Title (3D Hot Rally) Jungle Level Boss Theme Medley Corneria Star Wolf Pokémon Center Unfounded Revenge / Smashing Song of Praise You Call This a Utopia?! Winning Road - Roy's Hope Stage Clear / Title (Pikmin) Town Hall and Tom Nook's Store
Kohta Takahashi	Title (Metroid)
Koji Hayama	Underground Theme (Super Mario Land) 0² Battle Balloon Trip Battle! (Wild Pokémon) (Pokémon Diamond / Pokémon Pearl) Minor Circuit
Koji Kondo	Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) Super Mario Bros. Medley King Bowser - Super Mario Bros. 3
Kumi Tanioka	Plaza / Title (Animal Crossing: City Folk / Animal Crossing: Wild World) Jogging/Countdown Snakey Chantey Molgera Main Menu - Wii Fit
LindaAI-CUE (Akihiko Ishikawa)	Master Hand Master Core Master Fortress: First Wave Master Fortress: Second Wave Master Hand Crazy Hand Master Hand / Crazy Hand Assault Theme - METAL SLUG 1-3
Maasa Miyoshi	Main Theme - Luigi's Mansion
Mahito Yokota	Star Wolf's Theme / Sector Z
Maki Kirioka	Wii Fit Plus Medley Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! Medley Title Theme - Animal Crossing: Wild World Area 1 - Dragon Spirit Duck Hunt Medley Bathtime Theme Noisy Notebook
Manabu Namiki	Duck Hunt Medley Wrecking Crew Medley
Manaka Kataoka	Battle! (Champion) / Champion Cynthia Outdoors at 7 p.m. (Sunny) / Main Street
Manami Kiyota	Rosalina in the Observatory / Luma's Theme Destroyed Skyworld Main Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes Battle! (Gladion) Iron-Blue Intention
Masaaki Iwasaki	Ground Theme 2 (Super Mario Bros.) Chill (Dr. Mario)
Masafumi Takada	Ending (Yoshi's Story) Mike's Song Mike's Song (JP) Shin Onigashima Tetris: Type B Lip's Theme (Panel de Pon) Marionation Gear Lightning Chariot Base Tortimer Island Medley Tomodachi Life Ground Theme - Super Mario Bros. 3 Afternoon on the Island Mappy Medley Main Theme - Banjo-Kazooie Haremar Faith Capoeira School - Song of the Fight (Believers Will Be Saved) - FATAL FURY
MASAKI	Staff Credits - Kirby's Dream Land
Masami Ueda	Theme of Solid Snake Dance of Gold Banquet of Nature - SAMURAI SHODOWN
Masashi Hamauzu	Green Greens Ver. 2 Stage Select (Pikmin 2)
Masato Coda	Theme of Samus Aran, Space Warrior Team Galactic Battle! Humoresque of a Little Dog Bathtime Theme [with RiRiKa] Bathtime Theme (Vocal Mix) [with RiRiKa] Light Plane [with RiRiKa] Light Plane (Vocal Mix) [with RiRiKa] Lost in Thoughts All Alone
Michiko Naruke	Bramble Blast Ocarina of Time Medley Full Steam Ahead (Spirit Tracks) Cut Man Stage Bloody Tears / Monster Dance Mad Monster Mansion Let's Go to Seoul! - FATAL FURY 2
Michiru Yamane	Saria's Song / Middle Boss Battle Fight 1 (Fire Emblem Gaiden)
Minako Hamano	Sector 1
Mitsuhiro Kitadani	Aria of the Soul Earth
Motoi Sakuraba	Menu (Super Smash Bros. Melee) Airship Theme (Super Mario Bros. 3) Mario Tennis / Mario Golf Jungle Level Ver.2 Gourmet Race Victory Road Battle Scene / Final Boss (Golden Sun) Theme from Area 6 / Missile Slipstream Battle! (Team Flare) The Valedictory Elegy How to Play - Super Smash Bros. Melee Vs. Parasite Queen Magicant Fourside Wood Man Stage Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY VII The Arch-Illager
Naoto Kubo	Napalm Man Stage
Nobuko Toda	Egg Planet [with Yoshitaka Suzuki] Menu (Melee): Ver. 2 Counterattack Snake Eater Bomb Man Stage Crash Man Stage Fire Man Stage Title Theme - Wii Sports Club Dist Thins Out Karma Desperate Struggle
Nobuo Uematsu	Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme [with Shogo Sakai]
Noriyuki Iwadare	Yoshi's Island Meta Knight's Revenge With Mila's Divine Protection (Celica Map 1) Gear Getaway In the Space-Pirate Ship Air Man Stage Delfino Plaza City Trial Top Man Stage Light Plane Electroplankton Kurikinton - FATAL FURY 2 Stormy Saxophone 2 - KOF '96
Rio Hamamoto	Gerudo Valley Mega Man 2 Medley Ken Stage Classic: Results Screen Classic: Fail Crazy Orders: Final Battle Defeat Classic Mode: Final Results The Dark Realm The Final Battle The Final Battle: After the Transformation Spectate ART of FIGHT - Art of Fighting Dojo (Japanese-Style Mix)
RiRiKA	Bathtime Theme [with Masato Coda] Bathtime Theme (Vocal Mix) [with Masato Coda] Light Plane [with Masato Coda] Light Plane (Vocal Mix) [with Masato Coda]
Ryo Nagamatsu	Ballad of the Goddess / Ghirahim's Theme Credits (Smash Bros.): Ver. 2 Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Trailer BGM Find Mii / Find Mii II Medley
Ryo Watanabe	Rainbow Road Medley Style Savvy: Trendsetters
Ryoji Yoshitomi	WarioWare, Inc. Medley
Saki Kasuga	Paper Mario Medley Title (Super Mario Maker)
Seiji Momoi	Main Theme (Star Fox) Pokémon Main Theme
Shinji Ushiroda	Vampire Killer
Shogo Sakai	Opening ^[3] Menu 2 ^[4] Princess Peach's Castle Rainbow Cruise Super Mario Bros. 3 Dr. Mario Temple Brinstar Jungle Japes Brinstar Depths Pokémon Stadium Mother Fire Emblem Icicle Mountain Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme [with Nobuo Uematsu] Boss Battle Main Theme (New Super Mario Bros.) Underwater Theme (Super Mario Bros.) Luigi's Mansion Theme Mario Bros. Wildlands King K. Rool / Ship Deck 2 Title (The Legend of Zelda) Great Temple/Temple The Legendary Air Ride Machine Road to Viridian City (From Pallet Town / Pewter City) Wild Pokémon Battle! (Ruby / Sapphire) Route 209 Porky's Theme Mother 3 Love Theme Snowman Fire Emblem Theme Underworld PictoChat Mii Channel
Shohei Tsuchiya	Kapp'n's Song The Mysterious Murasame Castle Medley Splattack!
Shota Kageyama	Title / Ending (Super Mario World) Obstacle Course Opening (Donkey Kong) Hidden Mountain & Forest Super Mario Bros. 3 Medley N's Castle Medley Quick Man Stage Termina Field Main Theme - Yoshi's New Island Battle! (Lorekeeper Zinnia) The Battle at the Summit! Hard Man Stage
Soshi Abe	Crocodile Cacophony Battle! (Steven)
Tadashi Ikegami	Fountain of Dreams Venom
Takafumi Sato	Classic Mode: Bonus Stage Training Forest World - Athena
Takahiro Nishi	Menu 1 ^[5] Final Destination ^[5] Dialga / Palkia Battle at Spear Pillar! Mona Pizza's Song Mona Pizza's Song (JP) Environmental Noises Theme of Tara
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi	F-ZERO Medley
Takeshi Kuramochi	Big Blue Advance Beyond Distant Skies - Roy's Departure Id (Purpose) Under This Banner Cross Your Heart
Taku Inoue	Mario Paint Medley Yoshi's Woolly World The Legend of Zelda Medley Mission Mode (Pikmin 3) Online Practice Stage All-Star Rest Area StreetSmash
Takuto Kitsuta	Great Bay Mute City
Tetsuya Shibata	Ground Theme / Underground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) The Great Sea / Menu Select Prelude (Ablaze) Lost Painting Wrecking Crew Medley
Toby Fox	MEGALOVANIA
Tomoko Sasaki	Ashley's Song Ashley's Song (JP) 2:00 a.m.
Tomoya Ohtani	Bomb Rush Blush
Torine (Eriko Sakurai)	Final Destination Classic: Final Results Master Orders: Ticket Selection Crazy Orders: Ticket Selection Crazy Orders: Final Battle Victory Credits Classic Mode: Defeat The Light Realm: Prologue The Light Realm: March
Toru Minegishi	Title (Big Brain Academy) Smiles and Tears
Toshiyuki Sudo	Ice Climber Shaberu! DS Cooking Navi Boss 1 (Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword)
Tsukasa Masuko	Song of Storms Ending (Metroid) Butter Building Ver. 2 Nintendo Land Medley
Yasuaki Iwata	Battle! (Island Kahuna)
Yasufumi Fukuda	Luigi Circuit Mute City Encounter
Yasunori Mitsuda	Vs. Marx World Map (Pikmin 2) Forest/Nature Area Mii Plaza
Yasushi Asada	Brinstar Depths Battle! (Trainer) - Pokémon Sun / Pokémon Moon Ice Man Stage Divine Bloodlines Out of Time Gaia - SAMURAI SHODOWN Main Theme from Metal Slug - METAL SLUG
Yoko Shimomura	Gritzy Desert King Dedede's Theme Tetris: Type A Try, Try Again Route 10 Magicant / Eight Melodies (Mother) Ryu Stage Kass's Theme Vega Stage Cosmo Canyon Treasure Trove Cove Pasta - FATAL FURY 2 Dance of the Blocks Moonsiders 1st Sora's victory theme
Yoshihito Yano	Yoshi's Island Ice Cream Island Balloon Fight Medley Multi-Man Smash Mob Smash Theme of SYD - Alpha Mission
Yoshino Aoki	Main Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Garden of Hope
Yoshinori Hirai	Gallery/Hoard Replay/Album/Records Tourney Tourney: Final Results The Dark Realm: The Mysterious Space Spirits: Collection
Yoshinori Kawamoto	Vault Shop
Yoshitaka Suzuki	Egg Planet [with Nobuko Toda]
Yoshito Sekigawa	Aquarius Awake Trouble Brewing II
Yu Shimoda	We're Robots (Dr. Wily Stage 2)
Yu Sugimoto	Final Destination Practice Fights Aloneness
Yuji Masubuchi	PAC-MAN'S PARK / BLOCK TOWN Gobi's Valley
Yumi Takahashi	Gravity Man Stage
Yuka Tsujiyoko	Wild Pokémon Battle! (Diamond / Pearl) Preparing to Advance Route 23 Meeting Theme Series Medley Edge of Adversity Yūyūki Medley
Yusuke Kudo	Free the Spirit! Kazuya Mishima, Devil Kazuya
Yusuke Takahama	Credits (Super Smash Bros.) Castle / Boss Fortress (Super Mario World / SMB 3) Mario Circuit Tal Tal Heights Vs. Ridley Main Theme (Star Fox 64) Fire Field Tunnel Scene (X) Athletic Theme / Ground Theme (New Super Mario Bros. 2) Shadow Man Stage Donkey Kong / Donkey Kong Jr. Medley Vs. Ridley Metal Man Stage Opening Stage Galaga Medley Tarkun and Kitapy - FATAL FURY 2 The London March - FATAL FURY 2
Yusuke Yamauchi	Classic Mode: Mural The Light Realm: Base Spirits: Inventory/Items Tourney: Battle List I'll Face Myself
Yutaka Iraha	Hyrule Field Theme
Yuzo Koshiro	Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda) Norfair Battle! (Trainer Battle) (Pokémon X / Pokémon Y) Wrath of the Reset Bomb PAC-MAN Tiger! Tiger! Now or Never! Guile Stage Opening - Bombing Mission Psycho Soldier Theme Psycho Soldier Theme (Overseas Version) Toys on a Tear

Trivia

For unspecified reasons, Asuka Ito was never credited on the Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U official website's composers list.
Grant Kirkhope and Toby Fox are the only non-Japanese composers to arrange music for the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Incidentally, both composers remixed songs they originally composed.
- Also incidentally, both songs in question were added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in the same update.
A total of 108 composers have remixed and/or arranged original music for the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Brawl has the most amount of new composers with 38, while 64 has the least amount of them with one sole composer (Hirokazu Ando).
- Ando also has the most music credits in the series, having done 56 music pieces counting arrangements and Smash-specific compositions.
  - Ando is also the only composer to have his work appear in every game in the series.
- Ando and Shogo Sakai are tied for the highest number of new music tracks in Melee, at 14.
  - Sakai would also contribute more to Brawl than any other composer, with 21 compositions.
- Junichi Nakatsuru would contribute the most to Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, with 9 tracks between both games.
- Nobuko Toda would contribute the most compositions to Ultimate, arranging 9 songs for the game.
If including different versions, there is a grand total of 458 remixes in the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Of them, there are 141 original music pieces in the series.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Super Smash Bros. Melee Smashing…Live! Live Orchestra Music.
^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: That makes me think that the tunes that gave me lots of trouble are somehow worth less than the ones that were a breeze. For the “Green Greens,” “Pokémon Floats,” and some other stage music, I simply made my arrangement and was done. But, the menu theme… That was a tough one! (laughs)”
^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Orchestra and Chorus I. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-10). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: For the opening music, that was February 14th, I think. I was working and Mr. Sakurai came by to listen to what I had. His face grew stern, he said, “well, then,” and it was decided that Mr. Sakai would compose that song.”
^ Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Sakurai: The “Menu 2” theme, however, would be played only after players had met certain requirements. So I wanted it to feel refreshing, like something already familiar to them, like they were watching the game’s’ stages from afar. Sakai: And that “refreshing” feel is exactly where I began to go wrong. Did that mean a cheery spring-like tune? I had no idea what I should do.”
^ ^a ^b Takahiro Nishi's Myspace.

Navigation

[ando2-1] Super Smash Bros. Melee Smashing…Live! Live Orchestra Music.

[ando-2] Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: That makes me think that the tunes that gave me lots of trouble are somehow worth less than the ones that were a breeze. For the “Green Greens,” “Pokémon Floats,” and some other stage music, I simply made my arrangement and was done. But, the menu theme… That was a tough one! (laughs)”

[sakai1-3] Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Orchestra and Chorus I. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-10). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Ando: For the opening music, that was February 14th, I think. I was working and Mr. Sakurai came by to listen to what I had. His face grew stern, he said, “well, then,” and it was decided that Mr. Sakai would compose that song.”

[sakai2-4] Melee Music Developer Roundtable: Musical Arrangements. SourceGaming.info (original Japanese publication on Sumabura-Ken!!) (2016-05-16). Retrieved on 2018-12-20. “Sakurai: The “Menu 2” theme, however, would be played only after players had met certain requirements. So I wanted it to feel refreshing, like something already familiar to them, like they were watching the game’s’ stages from afar. Sakai: And that “refreshing” feel is exactly where I began to go wrong. Did that mean a cheery spring-like tune? I had no idea what I should do.”

[Nishi1-5] Takahiro Nishi's Myspace.

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