The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (score)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Original Motion Picture Score) is the score album to the 2023 film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. James Newton Howard composed the film's score, whose album consisted of 40 tracks and featured pianist Yuja Wang in three of them. The soundtrack was released by Sony Masterworks on November 17, 2023.

Background
In July 2022, franchise regular James Newton Howard returned to collaborate for the fifth film, after scoring the previous installments. Although he intended to reuse thematic materials from the predecessors, he instead wrote "fresh" and "original" music as the prequel is a "brand new entry" in the franchise. The score album consists of 40 tracks.

The score was recorded at the AIR Studios in London, during May and June 2023. Chinese pianist Yuja Wang is the featuring artist in the album. The soundtrack was preceded with "Mercy" as the lead single, released on November 7, 2023.

At the same month, it was also announced that the soundtrack would be released on double LPs with the 40-track score being pressed on 180-gram red and gold-colored vinyl discs that covered in a gatefold sleeve and included a four-page booklet that contained stills from the film. It is set to be released in February 2024.