Ramin Djawadi — Main Title

The cello-and-strings theme that opens Game of Thrones and its prequel is broadly charting today, tracked across 18 country and platform charts, days after House of the Dragon returned for its third season. The June 22 premiere opens differently — Djawadi adds several extra measures of pounding drums to the front of his familiar title sequence, a tweak prominent enough to anchor the episode's recap coverage. Composed in 2011 after the series creators came aboard mere weeks before the original premiere, the theme has since tied both shows together across HBO's Westeros franchise. Djawadi, the Iranian-German composer behind Iron Man and Westworld, won back-to-back Emmys for the final Thrones seasons. A season premiere reliably sends the theme back into rotation; the drum-heavy revision gives this one a sharper hook.