Red Dead Redemption 2: 6 Interesting Facts About The Game's Soundtrack

#3 110 musicians were needed to create and record the entire score

From The Game Awards

While how long a game takes to play is pretty much determined by how long you spend playing it, Red Dead Redemption 2 has, at the very least, 60 hours of gameplay tucked away in it. That's a lot. And those 60 hours are going to need a lot of music. Not 60 hours of music. That's a bit excessive. But, still... a lot.

So, according to this brilliant piece by Rolling Stone (who we have to give the ole' H/T for their help on this feature), a grand total of 110 musicians were brought on board to create all the tunes for the game. Many of them were session musicians - talented, of course, but not necessarily household names - but a number of them, such as Arca (who has worked with old-time country legends like Bjork and Kanye West) brought a certain amount of pedigree you wouldn't expect from a videogame soundtrack.

Now that we've talked about nearly every other contributor to the game's soundtrack, let's take a look for a bit at the guy that actually wrote and put the whole thing together....