The Smashing Pumpkins Release Latest ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping’ Album Track, ‘Black Stars’
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•Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:29:57 +0000
📰 What Happened
Gigi Perez released 'Favor' on Thursday night, the latest single from The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album), a 29-artist companion record executive produced by Dave Cobb. The Smashing Pumpkins' contribution, 'Black Stars', came out on 15 October, after Billy Corgan tapped producer Butch Vig to help choose the song.
🔍 The Backstory
The album arrives on 13 November, a week before the film opens on 20 November, and follows a franchise tradition of landing major artists: Taylor Swift's 'Safe and Sound' for the 2012 original, Lorde's 'Yellow Flicker Beat' for Mockingjay Part 1 and Olivia Rodrigo's 'Can't Catch Me Now' for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Noah Kahan's 'Draw You Out' was the first single announced.
🎯 Why It Matters
The soundtrack is a marketing engine as much as a record, aimed at the young-adult audience that made Suzanne Collins' books and the Jennifer Lawrence films a global franchise. Perez said she drew on her own experience of grief for the song, which ties into a story set during Haymitch Abernathy's 50th Hunger Games.
Gigi Perez released 'Favor' on Thursday night, the latest single from The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album), a 29-artist companion record executive produced by Dave Cobb. The Smashing Pumpkins' contribution, 'Black Stars', came out on 15 October, after Billy Corgan tapped producer Butch Vig to help choose the song.
The album arrives on 13 November, a week before the film opens on 20 November, and follows a franchise tradition of landing major artists: Taylor Swift's 'Safe and Sound' for the 2012 original, Lorde's 'Yellow Flicker Beat' for Mockingjay Part 1 and Olivia Rodrigo's 'Can't Catch Me Now' for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Noah Kahan's 'Draw You Out' was the first single announced.
The soundtrack is a marketing engine as much as a record, aimed at the young-adult audience that made Suzanne Collins' books and the Jennifer Lawrence films a global franchise. Perez said she drew on her own experience of grief for the song, which ties into a story set during Haymitch Abernathy's 50th Hunger Games.