I love the music in Final Fantasy XIV. Over Thanksgiving I went down the rabbit hole looking for FFXIV music on Spotify to create a playlist or two. I found more FFXIV albums than I knew existed and none of them contain Dawntrail music. I also discovered that 43 songs had more than 1 million streams, with 20 of them listened to over 2 million times.
With 600 orchestrion rolls available in-game and another 118 rolls in existence through seasonal events, the online store and in bonus content, a lot of music is available to fill the 8 slots available for players to put in the orchestration lists to play in inns and housing. So I got the idea to list the most popular music in FFXIV and how to obtain the orchestrion rolls. Due to including YouTube videos, I'll divide the list into 4 posts, with 5 songs per post. I'll also list the number of times streamed as recorded on 1 December 2024.
Spots 20 down to 16:
20. Crumbling Lies (Front) - 2,038,993
Album: Death Unto Dawn
Expansion: Shadowbringers patch 5.2
Obtained from: Completing the quest One Way To Do It.
Crumbling Lies (Front) is a cutscene theme from the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse raid series in Shadowbringers. The raid series was a cross-over collaboration with the team from PlatinumGames, makers of Nier: Automata. The YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse questline offers several orchestration rolls, with Crumbling Lies available before reaching The Puppet's Bunker.
I should also add that the song was the only one in which I could not find a player-made video featuring the music.
19. Exponential Entropy - 2,059,108
Album: The Far Edge of Fate
Expansion: Heavensward patch 3.4
Obtained from: Completing the quest Thus Spake Quickthinx.
For those who don't recognize the title, this is the "Forward and Back" song from the Alexander raid series at the end of Heavensward. The music also plays from the Cruise Chaser mount available in the FFXIV cash shop.
The quest unlocks the 11th of the 12 bosses of the series in addition to the orchestrion roll. The video is was created by hungrychad, a prolific creator of karaoke-style videos.
18. Sultana Dreaming - 2,093,047
Album: A Realm Reborn
Expansion: Heavensward patch 3.3
Obtained from: Purchased from Roarich in Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (10.6, 9.5) for 5000 gil.
Sultana Dreaming is the night theme for the starting city of Ul'dah. While the OST was introduced in A Realm Reborn, the orchestion roll was not introduced into the game until the Heavensward expansion with the rest of the starting city zone music.
Each of the starting cities from A Realm Reborn have day and night themes, with Sultana Dreaming the most popular of the 6 tunes on Spotify. The song takes on a whole different meaning by the end of A Realm Reborn, which might account for the tunes popularity on Spotify. Also, I believe the orchestrion roll is the only one on the list available for purchase for gil from a vendor.
17. Triumph - 2,130,808
Album: Stormblood
Expansion: Stormblood patch 4.2
Obtained from: Purchased from the Gold Saucer Attendant in the Gold Saucer for 50,000 MGP.
The stirring boss theme from Stormblood's levelling dungeons, Triumph is one of those songs that wakes a player up before going into a fight. At least, that's the way I felt when I recently went into The Sirensong Sea and faced the final boss, Lorelei. For those wondering, Lorelei is the first boss pictured in Mekkah Dee's video above.
16. The Worm's Tail - 2,201,437
Album: Stormblood
Expansion: Stormblood patch 4.1
Obtained from: Crafted by Level 70 Alchemist (Master Alchemist V) with Faded Copy of The Worm's Tail, dropped in The Minstrel's Ballad: Shinryu's Domain
The song is often cited as Shinru's Theme, but is played during the second phase of The Royal Menagerie. The final trial of Stormblood 6.0, the material needed to craft the orchestrion roll comes from the advanced version of the 8-character trial. Shinryu is not permanently defeated in this trial and makes another appearance in Endwalker.
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