{"id":1940218,"date":"2026-05-17T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1940218"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:22:12","slug":"no-mixtape-will-not-be-delisted-due-to-music-licenses-expiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1940218","title":{"rendered":"No, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due to music licenses expiring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/mixtape\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Mixtape<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">No, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due to music licenses expiring&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">&#8220;That was a lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/mixtape-review-header.png?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Mixtape screenshot, cropped, showing Stacey looking wryly toward the camera, orange headphones over her ears\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"mixtape-review-header.png\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer \/ Annapurna Interactive<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1533038852.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Vikki Blake avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1533038852.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/vikki-blake\">Vikki Blake<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-17T18:22:12+00:00\">May 17, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"bd3b65c6-82e2-47e5-b720-1a53a021fe2b\" data-name=\"Mixtape\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Mixtape\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Mixtape\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Mixtape\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Mixtape\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Mixtape\" title=\"Follow Mixtape\"><br \/>\n  Follow Mixtape<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Mixtape publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/annapurnainteractive\">Annapurna Interactive<\/a> has laid out in no uncertain terms that no, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due to music licenses expiring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/mixtape-soundtrack-interview-johnny-galvatron-woody-woodward-2000696153\">Kotaku<\/a>, creative director Johnny Galvatron confirmed that, unlike other games like Guitar Hero that use licensed music and later had to remove them or be delisted entirely, Beethoven and Dinosaur paid &#8220;extra&#8221; to keep &#8220;Mixtape\u2019s licenses up in perpetuity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Mixtape &#8211; Official Launch Trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qpKxAcahYRw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, just to make sure there was no misunderstanding, the publisher stressed on X\/Twitter: &#8220;We heard some people say Mixtape would be delisted due to music licenses expiring. That was a lie. Have a great weekend, everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed_wrapper\" data-domain=\"twitter.com\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We heard some people say MIXTAPE would be delisted due to music licenses expiring. <\/p>\n<p>That was a lie. <\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, everyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C3VesfWPpz\">https:\/\/t.co\/C3VesfWPpz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annapurna Interactive (@A_i) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_i\/status\/2055448245485314497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Galvatron talked about the risk of &#8220;hat[ing all the songs] by the end&#8221; of the game&#8217;s production cycle, but that turned out to be a unnecessary fear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My biggest hesitation was like, \u2018if I make a game with all of my favourite songs, is it gonna be like starting a business with my friends? Am I gonna hate everything by the end?\u2019 And no, I don\u2019t,&#8221; Galvatron added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still get a buzz listening to it and starting the game and seeing Devo play and these characters come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We thought Mixtape was &#8220;a delight&#8221;, writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/mixtape-review\">Eurogamer&#8217;s four out of five stars Mixtape review<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a celebration of teenage life that makes its point, aptly, just as a teenager would&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Mixtape publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/annapurnainteractive\">Annapurna Interactive<\/a> has laid out in no uncertain terms that no, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due to music licenses expiring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/mixtape-soundtrack-interview-johnny-galvatron-woody-woodward-2000696153\">Kotaku<\/a>, creative director Johnny Galvatron confirmed that, unlike other games like Guitar Hero that use licensed music and later had to remove them or be delisted entirely, Beethoven and Dinosaur paid &#8220;extra&#8221; to keep &#8220;Mixtape\u2019s licenses up in perpetuity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"primis_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"primis_video\">\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Mixtape &#8211; Official Launch Trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qpKxAcahYRw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, just to make sure there was no misunderstanding, the publisher stressed on X\/Twitter: &#8220;We heard some people say Mixtape would be delisted due to music licenses expiring. That was a lie. Have a great weekend, everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed_wrapper\" data-domain=\"twitter.com\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We heard some people say MIXTAPE would be delisted due to music licenses expiring. <\/p>\n<p>That was a lie. <\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, everyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C3VesfWPpz\">https:\/\/t.co\/C3VesfWPpz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annapurna Interactive (@A_i) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_i\/status\/2055448245485314497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed_placeholder\" data-type=\"targeting\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"message\">To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"optanon-show-settings link\"><br \/>\nManage cookie settings<\/button><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Galvatron talked about the risk of &#8220;hat[ing all the songs] by the end&#8221; of the game&#8217;s production cycle, but that turned out to be a unnecessary fear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My biggest hesitation was like, \u2018if I make a game with all of my favourite songs, is it gonna be like starting a business with my friends? Am I gonna hate everything by the end?\u2019 And no, I don\u2019t,&#8221; Galvatron added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still get a buzz listening to it and starting the game and seeing Devo play and these characters come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We thought Mixtape was &#8220;a delight&#8221;, writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/mixtape-review\">Eurogamer&#8217;s four out of five stars Mixtape review<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a celebration of teenage life that makes its point, aptly, just as a teenager would&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Mixtape No, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due to music licenses expiring&#8221; &#8220;That was a lie.&#8221; Image credit: Eurogamer \/ Annapurna Interactive News by Vikki Blake Contributor Published on May 17, 2026 Follow Mixtape Mixtape publisher Annapurna Interactive has laid out in no uncertain terms that no, Mixtape will not be delisted &#8220;due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-1940218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}