BioShock Licensed Soundtrack

Helping contribute to the immersive atmosphere of BioShock is a rich and varied soundtrack featuring an original score composed by Garry Schyman, and real world licensed music reminiscent of Rapture's time period. On August 24th, 2007, 2K Games released the orchestral score for free on their official homepage. Available for download in MP3 format, it contains twelve tracks from the game. Various members on the official BioShock forum have assembled a list of known licensed tracks in the game. The BioShock Limited Edition came with a three tracks by Moby.

Original score tracks by Garry Schyman

 * 1) BioShock Main Theme (The Ocean on His Shoulders)
 * 2) Welcome to Rapture
 * 3) Dr. Steinman
 * 4) The Docks
 * 5) The Dash
 * 6) Step Into My Gardens
 * 7) Dancers on a String
 * 8) Cohen's Masterpiece (Cohen's Scherzo #7)
 * 9) The Engine City
 * 10) Empty Houses
 * 11) This Is Where They Sleep
 * 12) All Spliced Up

Appearing in-game


In addition to these songs, the 1955 song "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me" performed by Buddy Rich and Harry "Sweets" Edison is featured during the installation sequence for the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

Note to iTunes users: several BioShock iMixes have been made, but one titled "The Music of Rapture (BioShock)" has low-fi versions of the songs used in the game to simulate the sound of being played on a record. These songs are also the versions used in the game, not from other artists or remixes. If songs from the game are not available on iTunes, they are not included on this mix nor are versions of the same song but by another artist included.

Other songs
The following songs, while not appearing in their entirety during gameplay, can be found in the game's PC files.
 * Johnnie Ray - Just Walking in the Rain
 * The Beautician and The Beast - Ballroom Waltz (This plays when Sander Cohen descends the staircase after completing the Quadtych)
 * Noël Coward - World Weary
 * Faux Frenchman - Wild Ride (a snippet of this plays on the jukebox)

There are even more songs that appear to have been licensed for the game but don't appear in the final version or in any of the game files.
 * Django Reinhardt - Avalon
 * Lee Morgan - Just One of Those Things
 * Lee Wiley - Let's Fly Away
 * Noel Coward - This is a Changing World
 * Bing Crosby/Harry Edison - You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me (Different than the PS3 instrumental version)

Limited Edition tracks by Moby

 * 1) Beyond the Sea
 * 2) God Bless the Child
 * 3) Wild Little Sisters

New songs appearing in PS3 version

 * Buddy Rich- You're Getting to be a Habit with me (During loading screen)
 * Pied Pipers- Dreams (During Bioshock 2 teaser)