Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DISPATCH ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - ANDREW ARCADI & SKYLER BARTO"

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠Join The Normandy For Additional Bonus Audio And Visual Content For All Things Nme+! Join Here: ⁠https://ow.ly/msoH50WCu0K⁠Analytic Dreamz dives deep into the breakout success of the Dispatch Original Soundtrack in this new segment of Notorious Mass Effect. Composed primarily by Andrew Arcadi with additional music from Skyler Barto, the cinematic synth-driven score fuses modern electronic layers with nostalgic 90s vibes, perfectly amplifying the game’s sharp writing and comedic superhero energy. Released alongside Dispatch in October 2025 and hitting Spotify, Apple Music, and other platforms November–December, the OST exploded: over 400,000 Spotify streams in its first week, 100,000+ YouTube views per track in under a month, and a Top 10 spot among Steam’s most downloaded game albums. More than 50% of digital sales came via Steam and Apple Music, while limited CD and vinyl pressings soldkj sold out in just two days. Tracks like “Mecha Man” and “First Day” dominate TikTok remixes and Twitch streams, boosting visibility by 20%+ and driving consistent sales spikes. With the game itself surpassing 1 million copies sold in 10 days and holding 80%+ positive Steam reviews, Andrew Arcadi’s score has cemented itself as a standout gaming soundtrack of 2025. Analytic Dreamz breaks down the numbers, cultural impact, and why this OST is still climbing charts and playlists worldwide. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I know what you're thinking. Are you reviewing and finally giving us your thoughts on this botch the video game? Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? And I would just have to answer and say that's unequivocal. No.

You guys. As you already know, when it comes to the soundtrack, safe to say we've been diving more in the gaming soundtracks, and this is one of the ones I definitely wanted to dive into because funny enough, I found one of the artists who is the background of one of the episodes. I'm not going to spoil it. But the character, Prism, as far as, I will pull up the character so you can see who I'm talking about. But Prism, she has a specific song just for her, right?

I'm not going to tell you when it happens in the show. But let's just say it looks a little bit like this. All right. This does a great job or not letting you know when it happens start the show. So anyways, as far as this fantastic image, right? But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at it. E. Oniqa said it best herself.

So anyways, the actual track that they had for this character, Prism, is by the Thought Squad and is literally tired. It's titled, if I can find it. Let me see. Okay, so this is a PG podcast. Let's just call it depressed. If you type in Thought Squad, depressed, they should pop up. Anyways, I've been listening to that track. And I was like, hold up now.

This may go on the playlist because I was thinking to myself, this track kind of fire. You know, in the grand scheme of things, it's a solid track. And then in the video game, it just fits the mood entirely because, you know, the artist, I mean, as a character, as you can see, is a super villain, but also this is an artist on the side that has a lot of fans. So anyways, the main purpose for this dispatch coverage as far as the soundtrack is to let you know, one, that is out.

They do have CD and vinyl edition. Well, no, actually, we're going to get to that. They did have CD and vinyl editions. So the purpose of the segment is to let you know how popular the soundtrack was. As if you don't know, over 50% of the initial soundtrack purchases came from Steam and Apple Music. And the Spotify streams exceeded 400,000 in this first week. And this is also a video game. So for the soundtrack to be putting up those type of numbers,

well, it's not blowing anybody out of the water, but it's still respectful as far as the people who want to listen to the dispatch. soundtrack and you get to know what specific tracks is labeled what as far as throughout the game because in the game they just play the track they don't ever tell you the actual name of it so it's good to know what act what the actual tracks are called such as that's how i found uh depressed about thought squad so anyways back to the cd and vinyl's the cd and vinyl edition sold out within two days of announcements and safe to say now only did they sell out which is a monumental accomplishment but they also TikTok fans creating content to the music to the point where it boosted their overall streams by 20%. So now when you look at the dispatch soundtrack, which if you type in dispatch OST on whatever DSP you use, it should pop up, or you can just type in dispatch soundtrack and the official soundtrack should pop up.

But some of the most popular themes is Mecca Man and of course the first day remixing a lot of the gaming shorts as far as TikTok specifically. So TikTok was a huge, authentic boost for the soundtrack. And I was actually pulling up the soundtrack. So when you look at the soundtrack, it has all type of tracks from Christopher Cross,

Caroline Kingsbury, Thought Squad, of course, and that's what they call themselves. You know what I'm saying? Before I get the police on them, and start snitching. You know what I'm saying? I'm not disrespecting them. They call themselves that. Anyways, primer, deep dream, big black delta then you have ben con and then you have meredith brooks and then of course the track from flambay

that do not want to spoil so i'm not going to tell you the title of that but um let's just say it's a hilarious track it's one of the more hilarious tracks throughout the game so with that being saying as far as the overall revenue safe to say as a hall of fame pocket watcher i have to let you know that this soundtrack boosted 15% of the overall dispatch brand so safe to say the soundtrack that they put together was fantastic as far as it notoriously affected the masses and also helping out with the video game. So as far as the video game review, just know my full breakdown, or not breakdown, my full walkthrough, gameplay walkthrough, I played this game entirely. So if you miss that, it's fully on analytic dreams video on Spotify. Just type in dispatch analytic dreams with

Z on Spotify and it should pop up my whole entire playthrough is up I thoroughly enjoyed the game one of my favorite games of the year and I played a lot of games if you paid attention to my live streams or the gameplay walkthroughs I play a lot of games so dispatch being one of my favorites really in my top three honestly I'm deciding you know as far as split fiction as far as ready or not dispatches it's probably my my top three right now as far as a 2025 but anyways with that being said the the actual conclusion of the game happened November 12th because it released in two episodes per week and I think it started around let me see there was eight okay eight six four two I think it started around October 29th I think I'm I'm think I'm pretty sure about that yeah

one two yeah I think it started around that time and then went into November 12th so It was a little runway as far as the game entirely being out. So now, now that the game is entirely out, I can watch other playthrus, get more of an opinion as far as my review, because my review is already sitting stone. I think this one of the greatest game. I mean, I just told you that. But as far as deep diving, that's what the sales and review roundup is for. This is specifically for the soundtrack, which is show you how much respect I'm putting on Dispatch's name.

So with that means, said, click my link to tree in my bio. Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about the dispatch original soundtrack? And of course, what do you think about the overall game dispatch if you played it? And who was your favorite song from the soundtrack or character from the game?