Nicholas Britell — Succession (Main Title Theme)

The theme from HBO's Succession is broadly charting today across 63 country and platform charts, re-entering after a brief gap. Composed by Nicholas Britell and first released in 2018, the piece scored all four seasons of Jesse Armstrong's Roy family drama and earned Britell the Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2019. Its staying power on streaming charts long after the series concluded in 2023 reflects how thoroughly it embedded itself in cultural shorthand — the hip-hop-inflected piano motif has become a near-universal signifier for wealth, menace, and inherited dysfunction, and TikTok has sustained that association through a steady flow of edit culture and, more recently, mashups pairing it with the Severance theme.

Britell, who came up through film scoring via Moonlight and The Big Short, remains one of the few composers whose television work crosses over into general streaming consumption. The theme's current presence suggests the show's cultural half-life remains longer than most prestige drama of its era.