Numerous people wrote and composed music for the Sailor Moon metaseries, with frequent lyrical contributions by creator Naoko Takeuchi. Takanori Arisawa, who earned the "Golden Disk Grand Prize" from Columbia Records for his work on the first series soundtrack in 1993, composed and arranged the background musical scores, including the spinoffs, games, and movies. In 1998, 2000, and 2001 he won the JASRAC International Award for most international royalties, owing largely to the popularity of Sailor Moon music in other nations. Over 40 Japanese music albums were released for the anime, many of which were remixes of the previous albums in jazz style, music box, French, etc. In addition, 33 different CD singles were released, many of them centered around specific characters.
Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon R Ongaku Shuu Released April 1, 1993 and was later re-released in 2010 as a HQCD. This is the soundtrack for the second season. It contains the background music from the two parts of Sailor Moon R: the Alien arc and the Black Moon/ChibiUsa arc which makes up the majority of Sailor Moon R. The two songs included on this CD are the opening and closing theme song for Sailor Moon R and "Suki to Itte", a song used as background in Sailor Moon R. Both are sung by ISHIDA Yoko, who also sang the popular Sailor Moon R/Sailor Moon S battle song "Ai no Senshi".
Soundtrack for entitled Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon R Gekijou Ban Music Collection -Ongaku Shu- was released in 2010 as a HQCD.
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon S Ongaku Shuu
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon S Ongaku Shuu was first released on June 1, 1994 and re-released on March 17, 2010 as a HQCD. The soundtrack for third season includes all the Sailor Moon S make-up and attack music and the Outer Senshi make-up, appearance and attack music. Not included are the opening theme and the ending theme Tuxedo Mirage.
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS Ongaku Shuu was first released on September 21, 1995, and re-released on March 17, 2010 as a HQCD. This is the soundtrack for the fourth season of Sailor Moon. The musical cues from SuperS also appear on Music Box Disc 5, rearranged somewhat differently from this CD. Nehellenia's theme music is located on the Sailor Moon S Movie Music Collection: it is the same as Princess Snow Kaguya's theme music.
Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Music Collection was first released on July 20, 1996 and re-released on March 17, 2010 as a HQCD. This soundtrack features the background music from the Nehellenia portion of Sailor Stars and the opening & closing theme songs. The slower version of the ending theme Kaze mo Sora mo Kitto... which aired during the first few episodes of Sailor Stars was never released on CD.
Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Music Collection Vol.2 was released on March 17, 2010 as an HQCD. This soundtrack features BGM from the Three Lights portion of Sailor Stars. Most of the tracks on this album are duplicated on Memorial Music Box Disc 7. Track 15 Kyuukyoku no Ai is borrowed from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude in C Major". The track is also included on Memorial Music Box Disc 7 - Track 22. Bonus Tracks
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The 20th Anniversary Memorial Tribute was released on March 17, 2010 as an HQCD. Bonus Tracks
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The 25th Anniversary Memorial Tribute
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The 25th Anniversary Memorial Tribute was released on April 4, 2018 as an HQCD. Bonus Tracks
English-language soundtracks
This is a list of English-language soundtracks from the anime series. Three albums were released from 1996 - 2002.
Sailor Moon - Songs from the Hit TV Series
highlighted "Oh Starry Night" and "Rainy Day Man" as being the best on the soundtrack, but felt that "She's Got the Power" was not specific enough to Sailor Moon.
"Moonlight Densetsu" was released as a CD single in March 1992, and was an "explosive hit". "Moonlight Densetsu" won first place in the Song category in Animage's 15th and 16th Anime Grand Prix. It came seventh in the 17th Grand Prix, and "Moon Revenge", from , came eighth. "Rashiku Ikimasho", the second closing song for SuperS, placed eighteenth in 1996. In 1997, "Sailor Star Song", the new opening theme for Sailor Stars, came eleventh, and "Moonlight Densetsu" came sixteenth.
