Black Mirror (Seasons 1–7) encompasses the music from the British science‑fiction anthology series Black Mirror, created by Charlie Brooker and broadcast from 2011 through 2025. Unlike many television shows with a single composer, Black Mirror features a wide variety of original scores and licensed songs tailored to each episode’s unique narrative world. Across seven seasons and standalone stories (including Bandersnatch), music plays a critical role in shaping mood, thematic resonance, and emotional impact throughout the series.
Unlike film soundtracks with single composers, Black Mirror has multiple official soundtrack releases and episode‑specific score albums issued over the years. Notable standalone album releases include Black Mirror: San Junipero (score by Clint Mansell, released by Lakeshore Records in 2016), Black Mirror: Smithereens (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto), and the Black Mirror: Season 7 Soundtrack (2025, released by Netflix Music), which compiles original music from that season’s episodes by composers such as Daniel Pemberton, Ames Bessada, Ariel Marx, Brian Reitzell, Matthew Herbert, and Lucinda Chua.
Music in Black Mirror varies widely from episode to episode. Early seasons often relied heavily on carefully chosen licensed songs that became integral to the narrative and cultural identity of episodes like “Fifteen Million Merits” (featuring Irma Thomas’s “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)”) and “Hang the DJ” (using “Panic” by The Smiths), while select stories received dedicated score albums that foreground original compositions crafted for the episode’s distinct atmosphere.
The Black Mirror: Season 7 Soundtrack — released in April 2025 by Netflix Music — is one of the most recent comprehensive soundtrack albums for the series. It includes original cues from the six episodes’ scores, such as “Common People Do” (Ames Bessada), “Hucklebuck” (Daniel Pemberton) and several pieces by Ariel Marx, documenting the tonal range from introspective to narrative tension across the season.
In addition to original music releases, Black Mirror features an extensive collection of licensed songs used throughout the series — from classical pieces like Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” in “Hotel Reverie” (Season 7) to punk and alternative tracks such as The Stone Roses and Dead Kennedys deployed in key scenes — which are not fully collected in any single official album but remain part of the show’s broader musical footprint.
Composer: Various (Clint Mansell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Daniel Pemberton, Ames Bessada, Ariel Marx, Brian Reitzell, Matthew Herbert, Lucinda Chua, others)
Release Period: 2013–2025 (multiple albums)
Labels: Lakeshore Records, Netflix Music, Invada Records, others
Genre: Television soundtrack / score / licensed music
Music from Trailers, Teasers, and Promos
- Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World “Season 4 Trailer (2017)”
- Love Supreme – Lonely Feelings Season 5 Trailer (2019)
Black Mirror Tracklist by Episode
Season 1 • Episode 1: The National Anthem
- No featured songs
Season 1 • Episode 2: Fifteen Million Merits
- Cast, Irma Thomas — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
- N.E.R.D. feat. Vita & Lee Harvey — Lapdance
- Cast — I Have a Dream
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Entire History of You
- Sy Gorieb & Mari Falcone — Pretty Baby A
Season 2 • Episode 1: Be Right Back
- Yvonne Elliman — If I Can’t Have You
- Heatwave — Boogie Nights
- Bee Gees — How Deep Is Your Love
Season 2 • Episode 2: White Bear
- No featured songs
Season 2 • Episode 3: The Waldo Moment
- No featured songs
Season 2 • Episode 4: White Christmas
- Wizzard — I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
- Band Aid — Do They Know It’s Christmas?
- Hit Singers — Merry Christmas Everybody
- Wham! — Last Christmas
- Cast — Black Is Black
- Cast — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
- Christopher Mercer — O Come All Ye Faithful
- Christmas Classics — Silent Night
Season 3 • Episode 1: Nosedive
- No featured songs
Season 3 • Episode 2: Playtest
- Elvis Presley — Mama Liked the Roses
Season 3 • Episode 3: Shut Up and Dance
- Jess Glynne — Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself
- Emeli Sandé — Heaven
- Seven Moon — Back2Back
- Stereophonics — Have a Nice Day
- Radiohead — Exit Music (For a Film)
Season 3 • Episode 4: San Junipero
- Belinda Carlisle — Heaven Is a Place on Earth
- Robbie Nevil — C’est La Vie
- The Bangles — Walk Like an Egyptian
- Alexander O’Neal — Fake
- The Smiths — Girlfriend In a Coma
- Simple Minds — Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- T’Pau — Heart and Soul
- Robert Palmer — Addicted to Love
- Sananda Maitreya — Wishing Well
- Living in a Box — Living in a Box
- INXS — Need You Tonight
- Club Nouveau — Lean On Me
- Pixies — Something Against You
- Lipps, Inc. — Funkytown
- Alanis Morissette — Ironic
- Kylie Minogue — Can’t Get You Out of My Head
- Clint Mansell — Waves Crashing on Distant Shores of Time
Season 3 • Episode 5: Men Against Fire
- Cast — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Season 3 • Episode 6: Hated in the Nation
- Enya — Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
- JC Flow — Make That Money
- Alev Lenz — Follow into Me
Season 4 • Episode 1: USS Callister
- No featured songs
Season 4 • Episode 2: Arkangel
- Sahara Hotnights — Alright Alright (Here’s My Fist Where’s the Fight?)
- Gem and the Deadheads — Bang Bang There Goes My Pistol
- Kidsmoke — Take Me to the River
- Pretenders — I’m a Mother
Season 4 • Episode 3: Crocodile
- Goldfrapp — Strict Machine
- Noel McKoy — Brighter Day
- Irma Thomas — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Season 4 • Episode 4: Hang the DJ
- Jennifer Left — Dalia
- Magno Vito — Barra Grande
- The Smiths — Panic
Season 4 • Episode 5: Metalhead
- The Stranglers — Golden Brown
Season 4 • Episode 6: Black Museum
- Dionne Warwick — (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Spread Your Love
Season 5 • Episode 1: Striking Vipers
- RiskSoundSystem — This Sound Is Yours (Kerri Chandler Remix)
- Quincy Jones — Manteca
- Mac Miller — What’s the Use?
- Wayne Murray, Timothy Fleet & Lana McDonagh — Take Me Out Tonight
- Louis Armstrong and His All Stars — Dream a Little Dream of Me
- The Cadillacs — Let Me Explain
- Earl Grant — Not One Minute More
Season 5 • Episode 2: Smithereens
- Andy Williams — Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
- Lighthouse Family — Lifted
Season 5 • Episode 3: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
- Ashley O — On a Roll
- Ashley O — Right Where It Belongs
- Billy Ray Cyrus — It’s All the Same to Me
- Savages — Husbands
- Ashley O — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
- Miley Cyrus — Lose Myself in a Dream
- Ashley O — Head Like a Hole
Season 6 • Episode 1: Joan Is Awful
- Saweetie — Tap In
- Irma Thomas — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Season 6 • Episode 2: Loch Henry
- KC and the Sunshine Band — Give It Up
- Cast — Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Melanie — People In the Front Row
- Peter Guth & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra — Feuerfest Polka, Op. 269
- George Fenton — Bergerac
- K7 — Come Baby Come
- George Fitzgerald — Ultraviolet
Season 6 • Episode 3: Beyond the Sea
- Charles Trenet — La Mer
- Jacques Brel — Quand On N’a Que L’amour
Season 6 • Episode 4: Mazey Day
Amerie — 1 Thing
Muse — Supermassive Black Hole
Jo Dee Messina — My Give a Damn’s Busted
Season 6 • Episode 5: Demon 79
- Art Garfunkel — Bright Eyes
- Boney M. — Rasputin
- The Boomtown Rats — I Don’t Like Mondays
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads — Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
- Leo Sayer — When I Need You
- Boney M. — Ma Baker
- Madness — One Step Beyond
- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Marek Janowski — Tannhauser, WWV 70: Overture
- The Specials — Gangsters
Season 7 • Episode 1: Common People
- Hotel Duo (originally Irma Thomas) — Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Season 7 • Episode 2: Bête Noire
- Amyl and the Sniffers — Starfire 500
- Big Special — Sh*thouse
Season 7 • Episode 3: Hotel Reverie
- Debussy — Clair de Lune
- François-Joël Thiollier — Rêverie
Season 7 • Episode 4: Plaything
- The Future Sounds of London — We Have Explosive
Season 7 • Episode 5: Eulogy
- The Stone Roses — Fool’s Gold
- Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk to F*ck
- The Head (fictional rock band) — [brief music snippet]
Fan-Made Spotify Playlist
Note: The Spotify playlist is an unofficial compilation created by fans. It is not an official soundtrack release and includes music from Seasons 1 through 7 of Black Mirror. Use this playlist for reference only.
Score Soundtrack
Note on Original Score Tracks:
The official Black Mirror original score tracks are published selectively and do not cover every season or episode. Only certain episodes and seasons have had dedicated score albums released, such as San Junipero (Season 3), Arkangel (Season 4), Smithereens (Season 5), White Christmas, and the most recent Season 7 soundtrack. For other episodes and seasons, while original compositions exist within the show, no official score albums have been issued. Licensed music featured throughout the series is also separate from these score releases.
Original score by Clint Mansell for the “San Junipero” episode (Season 3) of Black Mirror. Features instrumental tracks used in the episode’s pivotal scenes.
- Clint Mansell – San Junipero (80s-90s-00s-??S)
- Clint Mansell – Faith, Hope, Fear & Falling in Love
- Clint Mansell – Tick Tock (Clock of My Heart)
- Clint Mansell – Night Drive
- Clint Mansell – Property of Tucker Systems
- Clint Mansell – In Sickness, In Health
- Clint Mansell – Life Eternal
- Clint Mansell – Waves Crashing on Distant Shores of Time
- Clint Mansell – Endless Summer
- Clint Mansell – San Junipero (Saturday Night in the City of the Dead)
Original score by Mark Isham for the “Arkangel” episode (Season 4) of Black Mirror. Features moody and suspenseful instrumental tracks that enhance the narrative tension.
- Mark Isham – A Day At The Park
- Mark Isham – Say She’s Okay
- Mark Isham – Arkangel
- Mark Isham – Hide and Seek
- Mark Isham – Time Passing I
- Mark Isham – Alerts
- Mark Isham – A Day Without
- Mark Isham – Time Passing II
- Mark Isham – The Lamentable Return
- Mark Isham – Lies
- Mark Isham – Despair
- Mark Isham – Discovery
- Mark Isham – Consequences
The “Smithereens” episode (Season 5) features a curated selection of licensed tracks used throughout the story. While no official score album exists, the episode includes the following notable songs:
- Voidoid – Enjoy The Silence
- The Goblins – Happy Death Day
- Killa Bill – Twisted Nerve
- The Lovecats – Boys Don’t Cry
- Swarf Sisters – Psycho Killer
- Calli Malpas – Paint It Black
- The NoReasons – Road To Nowhere
- Tizane – Oblivion
- Loni Lovato – Bad Blood
- Tizane – Are You Bad
- The Dillingers – Police On My Back
- Loni Lovato – Wrecking Ball
- Alixandrea Corvyn – All the Small Things
- Calli Malpas – Titanium
Original score by Jon Opstad for the “White Christmas” special episode of Black Mirror. Includes instrumental compositions that underscore the episode’s suspenseful and emotional moments.
- Jon Opstad – The Outpost
- Jon Opstad – How About This?
- Jon Opstad – This Girl
- Jon Opstad – That Clock
- Jon Opstad – Voices
- Jon Opstad – Spiked Drink
- Jon Opstad – Wipe and Destroy Everything
- Jon Opstad – Blocked By My Wife
- Jon Opstad – Merry Christmas
- Jon Opstad – Greta
- Jon Opstad – Virtual Greta
- Jon Opstad – Virtual Greta Gets a Body
- Jon Opstad – What About Now?
- Jon Opstad – Broken Virtual Greta
- Jon Opstad – Virtual Greta At Work
- Jon Opstad – I’m Not a Good Man / Potter and Beth
- Jon Opstad – Found in the Bin
- Jon Opstad – I Don’t Want It
- Jon Opstad – Beth Drives Off
- Jon Opstad – In Town
- Jon Opstad – Begging Letter
- Jon Opstad – There Was One Thing I Could Do
- Jon Opstad – Something Happened Before Then
- Jon Opstad – Back to the Cottage
- Jon Opstad – Do You Confess?
- Jon Opstad – Blocked
- Jon Opstad – Leave Him On for Christmas
- Ames Bessada – Common People Do
- Ames Bessada – Dum Dummies
- Ames Bessada – We’re Subscribers
- Ames Bessada – Something About Amanda
- Ames Bessada – Serenity
- Ames Bessada – Last Bet
- Daniel Pemberton – Hucklebuck
- Daniel Pemberton – It Changed
- Daniel Pemberton – Allergies
- Daniel Pemberton – She Follows
- Daniel Pemberton – Empress
- Ariel Marx – Hotel Reverie
- Ariel Marx – Black Rose
- Ariel Marx – Dr. Alex Palmer
- Ariel Marx – The Kiss
- Ariel Marx – Forbidden Love
- Ariel Marx – Self Aware
- Ariel Marx – The Void
- Ariel Marx – I’ll Be Yours Forevermore
- Brian Reitzell – Plaything Acid Beat
- Brian Reitzell – Artificial Lifeforms Off The Hook
- Brian Reitzell – Yer Killing Them
- Brian Reitzell – An Update For All Of Us
- Brian Reitzell – Energy Trip
- Matthew Herbert – Other Pictures
- Matthew Herbert – One Photo
- Matthew Herbert – The Letter
- Lucinda Chua – I Left The Earth
- Lucinda Chua – Orchestra Pit
- Lucinda Chua – A Slice of Life
- Daniel Pemberton – USS Callister: Into Infinity
- Daniel Pemberton – Autahi Skirmish
- Daniel Pemberton – Set A Course
- Daniel Pemberton – The Heart of Infinity
- Daniel Pemberton – Mass Invite
- Daniel Pemberton – Cut And Paste
- Daniel Pemberton – Shutdown
- Daniel Pemberton – All Is Lost
- Daniel Pemberton – Alive Two
Seasons 1, 2, and 3 (except San Junipero), Season 4 (except Arkangel), Season 5 (except Smithereens), and Season 6 do not have official score albums. This is confirmed by the absence of official releases on Apple Music and in the Film Music Reporter / Soundtrack.net databases for these episodes and seasons.
