Every Song Featured In ‘Practical Magic 2’ And The Artists Behind Them

‘Practical Magic 2′ leans just as heavily on music as its 1998 predecessor did, and the film’s soundtrack has already become a talking point among fans since the movie opened in theaters. Warner Bros.’ long-awaited follow-up reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, with Joey King, Maisie Williams, Lee Pace, Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing rounding out the cast under director Susanne Bier.

The soundtrack blends original songs written specifically for the film with a run of catalog needle drops, all stitched together by composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. Like the first film, ‘Practical Magic 2’ features many needle drops, ranging from Fleetwood Mac to a new original track by Bleachers. Below is a closer look at some of the standout songs woven through the sequel.

Bleachers Original Song For The Soundtrack

‘Caught Myself Believing’ opens the official soundtrack album and stands as one of three brand new songs written for the film. Everything after those three original tracks on the album is Gregson-Williams’ score, which runs seventeen cues and carries the sisterhood theme tying both films together.

Jack Antonoff of Bleachers spoke about contributing to the project. He called it an absolute joy to get together as a band and make a song for this soundtrack, adding that ‘Practical Magic’ is such a beloved story and that he is glad the world gets a part two with Bleachers getting to play a small part in it.

The band’s involvement fits the album’s overall approach of pairing newer artists with the franchise’s established sound. The track sits alongside covers and originals from Brandi Carlile and Aldae as the three songs written specifically for the sequel.

Brandi Carlile Cover Of A Billy Joel Song

Brandi Carlile’s contribution, ‘And So It Goes’, is a film version of the Billy Joel original and carries one of the more personal stories behind its inclusion. Carlile explained that she got a FaceTime call from an unknown number that turned out to be Sandra Bullock asking her to be part of the soundtrack, and that Bullock introduced her to a Billy Joel song she had never heard before, one that instantly became a part of her.

Bullock served as executive producer on the album, a role she also held on the first film’s soundtrack. She described the process as its own kind of storytelling, saying there is visual storytelling and then there is musical storytelling, and that it was fun sitting in a room with a music editor and artists who wanted to be part of the journey.

Producer Denise Di Novi echoed that sentiment about the pressure the team felt to match the original film’s music. Di Novi told People that they really felt the pressure to have this movie use songs in the way the first movie did, underscoring how central the soundtrack was to the sequel’s creative approach.

Aldae Contributes An Original Track Called Blur

‘Blur’ by Aldae rounds out the trio of original songs recorded specifically for ‘Practical Magic 2’. The track runs three minutes and thirty eight seconds and sits second on the official soundtrack album released through WaterTower Music.

WaterTower Music, the in-house label for Warner Bros. Discovery, released the soundtrack album on all major digital platforms, with Licorice Pizza Records also putting out a vinyl edition available for pre-order. Aldae’s placement alongside Bleachers and Carlile signals how the film uses newer voices to carry emotional beats traditionally handled by the score alone.

Producer Denise Di Novi credited Gregson-Williams with preserving the tone that made the soundtrack format work. She said he maintained the whimsy, magic, and emotional core in his music, and that listeners can hear the heart and feel the otherworldliness of these magical lives in what she called a big, lush cinematic score.

Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide And The Stevie Nicks Connection

‘Landslide’ returns the Fleetwood Mac catalog to the franchise, and its inclusion carries extra weight given Stevie Nicks’ history with ‘Practical Magic’. Landslide is credited to Fleetwood Mac and written by Nicks, whose song Crystal featured in the 1998 film.

Nicks had been vocal about wanting a presence in the sequel well before it arrived. She told Rolling Stone in 2024 that she had intended to contact the filmmakers to push for her inclusion in the sequel.

Nicks also appeared publicly alongside another artist featured on the soundtrack in the weeks before release. The two performed together at Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Festival, an event that raised ten million dollars for women’s nonprofits, a sum matched by Melinda French Gates to bring the total to twenty million. Nicks told the crowd that Rodrigo reminded her of herself at a younger age and that she was awestruck by everything the younger artist had accomplished.

Olivia Rodrigo’s The Cure Joins The Soundtrack Lineup

Olivia Rodrigo’s track ‘The Cure’ is among the more anticipated inclusions on the album, arriving amid her recent visibility alongside Nicks. Bullock had teased the pairing of these two artists after they dueted at Rodrigo’s festival at the end of August.

The song sits within a soundtrack that mixes generational touchstones with newer voices, a pattern that also applies to other cast connected tracks. Star Xolo Maridueña has his own song early in the film, ‘On My Way’. Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba appears alongside that track, along with additional songs including Rusalka Op. 114 Overture, Howl by Florence and the Machine, Fade Into You performed by Gregory Alan Isakov and Sylvan Esso, Coconut by Harry Nilsson, and two separate versions of Dancing In The Moonlight.

Reaction to the mix has been largely positive among fans following the soundtrack’s release. One fan reaction noted hoping for more Stevie Nicks, perhaps even a new song, but said that Florence and the Machine along with Brandi Carlile made up for it.

Which needle drop from ‘Practical Magic 2’ do you think best matches the moment it plays over, the Fleetwood Mac callback to Stevie Nicks or one of the three brand new originals from Bleachers, Carlile, and Aldae?