‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album)’ to Feature Ella Langley, Tyler Childers, Stevie Nicks & More: ‘Great Artists & Great Music’
Categoria: Musica
The album's executive producer Dave Cobb speaks with Billboard about curating the 29-song project.
Por Billboard | 02/11/2026
When The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album) arrives Nov. 13 on MCA, with a slate of songs inspired by the upcoming latest film in The Hunger Games franchise, the 29-song album will feature an eclectic lineup of artists spanning rock, country, Americana, pop and more. Ella Langley joins on “Here Then We’re Gone,” with the star-studded album also featuring Stephen Wilson Jr. (“First in Line”), Stevie Nicks (“Doing The Best That I Can (Arena Mix)”), Tyler Childers (“Old Money”), The Smashing Pumpkins (“Black Stars”) and Noah Kahan (“Draw You Out”), among others. “We got to live the fantasy league of dream artists we wanted to work with,” Dave Cobb, the project’s Grammy-winning executive producer, tells Billboard . “And the through line of all of it is honesty. I think people listen to music in such a varied way. So this is really all the things we love about great artists and great music.” The Lionsgate film Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will release in theaters on Nov. 20. Spearheaded by director Francis Lawrence, the film centers on 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy from District 12, and begins the morning of the reaping for the 50th annual Hunger Games. Set 24 years prior to the events in the original Hunger Games trilogy, the movie follows Abernathy as he attempts to put a stop to the Hunger Games from inside the arena. Accordingly, the soundtrack weaves in a myriad of emotional profiles. “The record has so many layers. It has triumph, sadness, and it has loss and it has love,” Cobb says. “I think that’s the way we looked at everything, songs that would fit every emotion that the movie has. Definitely, we talked to some of the artists about what we were looking for. Most of the artists, they loved the franchise already. They’d read the book. It was incredible to see how excited people were.” Some artists, like Noah Cyrus (“Ash and Snow”), were inspired by specific characters from the franchise. Cobb recalled that Gigi Perez (“Favor”) was the first to send in music for the project. “Gigi Perez was the first person we got a song back from, and she had been such a massive fan [of The Hunger Games ], knew every detail,” Cobb recalls. One of the many highlights for Cobb on the album was The Smashing Pumpkins’ contribution “Black Stars.” “We talked about the feeling, and it was really cool — because he called Butch Vig, who produced [the Pumpkins’ 1993 sophomore album] Siamese Dream and the stuff that got me into Smash Pumpkins,” Cobb says. “It was nice to have them all back together. It was the band back together with the original producer on the records that defined The Smashing Pumpkins, for me at least.” The soundtrack is packed with hitmakers such as Kahan, Langley, Kacey Musgraves, Nicks and The Cure, but also highlights the talents of emerging artists including Madeline Edwards and Carter Faith. “When Madeline’s hitting those big notes in that s