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 10 down to 6:
10. Invincible ("Who Brings Shadow") - 2,878,415
Album: Shadowbringers
Expansion: Shadowbringers patch 5.1
Obtained from: Crafted by Level 80 Alchemist with Faded Copy of Invincible, dropped in The Minstrel's Ballad: Hades's Elegy.
Known by some as the song with "Riding Home", the scroll was a bit more complicated to find than most. The theme for phase 2 of the boss fight in The Dying Grasp, the song is known as "Who Brings Shadow" on both Spotify and YouTube. The song is also known as Hades Theme to even complicate things further. But when the subject is Emet-Selch, is anything simple? And when engaged in the final fight, the song fits the epicness of the fight as well.
9. Locus - 2,972,193
Album: Heavensward
Expansion: Heavensward patch 3.4
Obtained from: Completing the quest Of Endings and Beginnings.
The highest ranked of the Alexander raid scrolls on the list, Locus is listed in the minor boss theme category. One of four orchestrion scrolls awarded for completing Of Endings and Beginnings, players may recognize the song for the "falling back" lyrics. I do wonder if the Alexander raid music received a resurgence in popularity due to the presence of Alexandria in Dawntrail. A different Alexandria I'm told, but who ultimately knows?
8. Oblivion - 3,147,859
Album: Before the Fall
Expansion: Heavensward patch 3.4
Obtained from: Crafted by Level 50 Alchemist with Faded Copy of Oblivion, dropped in The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme).
Oblivion is the most popular song off the Before the Fall album on Spotify. Also known as Shiva's Theme, Oblivion plays during the second phase of The Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard) introduced during A Realm Reborn's 2.4 post-patch. The list I have, however, states the scroll wasn't available until patch 3.4, which was in the Heavensward expansion. The materials to make the orchestrion roll drop in the extreme version of the trial. A fun fact is the MSQ version of The Akh Afah Amphitheatre is labeled as "Hard", but no normal version exists. At least as far as I know.
7. Fiend - 3,170,409
Album: The Far Edge of Fate
Expansion: Heavensward patch 3.2
Obtained from: Crafted by Level 60 Alchemist with Faded Copy of Fiend, dropped in Containment Bay S1T7 (Extreme).
A song compared to Powerman 5000's When World's Collide, the song is the most popular off The Far Edge of Fate. The battle music for the second phase of Containment Bay S1T7, the song is also known as Sephirot's Theme. The first trial in the Warring Triad raid series, those who miss the music at level 60 will get a second chance to go back and run the trail if they want to do The Hero's Journey at the end of Shadowbringers.
6. Wayward Daughter - 3,473,914
Album: Stormblood
Expansion: Stormblood patch 4.3
Obtained from: Crafted by Level 70 Alchemist with Faded Copy of Under the Moonlight, dropped in The Minstrel's Ballad: Tsukuyomi's Pain.
The music for the final phase of Castrum Fluminis boss fight, Wayward Daughter (aka Tsukuyomi's Theme) is a good way to end the Stormblood MSQ before the story takes the player to Shadowbringers. The most popular Stormblood song on Spotify as of 1 December 2024, I believe the contrast between the female vocalist singing in Japanese and the male vocalist in English helps sell the song, along with the conclusion of the story of a villain some found sympathetic. Although I still like Fordola more.
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