SEGA is one company you can count on to create a great video game soundtrack and in a recent interview with Famitsu, SEGA president Shuji Utsumi, fully acknowledged this. Mr. Utsumi said that “SEGA’s music is truly amazing” and that there are only a “few companies that possess such wonderful music.” He then said “I want to create an environment where people can more easily listen to such music” promoting SEGA’s push on digital music platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify. Here’s what Mr. Utsumi said via machine translation:
I think Sega’s presence is indispensable in the history of game music.
Utsumi: From a business perspective, there are few companies that possess such wonderful music. I used to be the president of Warner Music Japan, and from my experience in the music industry, I think that “Sega’s music is truly amazing.” I want to create an environment where people can more easily listen to such music, for example, on Spotify or Amazon Music. Incidentally,
Atlus is registered as a single artist on music streaming services, but on Spotify, it ranks alongside globally best-selling artists. That just goes to show how popular game music is.
There are many fans of Sega’s music all over the world, so it would be great if we could, for example, create a list of Sega songs to make them easier to listen to. Of course, we are also considering collaborations with other artists and live performances.
I believe the music artists at sega are secretly Beethovens great great great grandchildren. Even why sega puts out a bad game, the music is always fantastic. Sonic 06 is a bad game with an amazing soundtrack.
Nothing beats the tropical freeze music from David wise
No one compares to David Wise, period.
Jun Senoue has been trash in my opinion, the only bad music in Sonic Superstars is from him, and the Music in Forces is hit or miss, I don’t like CrossWorld’s Soundtrack, Forces Super Sonic Music is good because they got famous vocalist and groups for those songs. I wish Crush 40 would return though I think Sega and Jun screwed over that. Modern Monkey Ball soundtrack sounds cheap, low budget, Samba De Amigo Party Central Barely has any great music, even in it’s like $100 worth of DLC. Samba De Amigo on Wii was amazing. Party Central is like “Okay team, we cant afford famous songs to be in the game.
Meant to say frontiers super Music
I only know Sega’s 90’s music, which is great and is still unsurpassed even by the Sega of today. I’ve got Shinobi in my head as I type this and what has Sega done with such VGM since the 90’s? Nothing much.