Pressing 001
Pressing 001Pressed 2026-08-058 recordssigned Rob

The Records That Make Spidey

Spider-Man: Brand New Day just took the biggest opening weekend in the history of the box office.

Spider-Man mid-swing above the city, screened into a two-ink halftone: ink for the figure, accent through the edges, on paper.
Fig 1 · Spider-Man mid-swing above the city, screened into a two-ink halftone: ink for the figure, accent through the edges, on paper.

So this is a pressing about the other kind of record: the songs four Spider-Man films reached for, walking backwards from the one breaking records this week to the one that started it in 2017. Some of these the ledger is watching move right now.

Some of them have not charted anywhere in decades, and are no less alive for it.

LoserTame Impalaoh yeah?Steve LacyThe Magic NumberDe La SoulI ZimbraTalking HeadsBongo Cha Cha ChaCaterina ValenteI Wanna Be Your BoyfriendRamonesSave It for LaterThe BeatThe UnderdogSpoon197019801990200020102020
Every dated place these 8 records have lived. Red marks the film. Hover a mark to name it, click to go there.

Brand New Day

2026

Biggest domestic opening weekend ever recorded: $360M across July 31 to August 3, past Avengers: Endgame's $357M, on a global launch of about $932M. Variety ↗Deadline ↗

  1. LoserTame Impala

    A song about being left behind, dropped on the scene where Ned looks straight at Peter and does not know him.

    The bodega, carrying through to the apartment party.

    peaked #1 in IL · 93 markets · latest chart date 2026-08-08
  2. oh yeah?Steve Lacy

    The credits song, and the reason half the internet spent a week arguing about whether it was called C'mon: it opens on the ad-lib, not the title.

    End credits, over New York.

    peaked #1 in CN · 58 markets · latest chart date 2026-08-08

No Way Home

2021

First film of the pandemic era to pass $1B worldwide, taking twelve days to do it, on a $260M domestic opening. Variety ↗

  1. The Magic NumberDe La Soul

    Three Spider-Men, three is the magic number, and a punchline that sent people to look up a record they could not legally play: the song was stuck off streaming in sample-clearance limbo and did not arrive until January 2023.

    End credits.

    peaked #91 in GB · 1 market · latest chart date 2026-07-26
  2. I ZimbraTalking Heads

    The lyric is a 1916 Dada sound poem, nonsense syllables Hugo Ball read in a Zurich cabaret, set on a groove by Byrne and Eno: language collapsing into noise, under the scene where the whole world starts shouting one name.

    Peter and MJ escape the Times Square crowds after the reveal.

Far From Home

2019

The first Spider-Man film of any era to gross $1B worldwide, seventeen years into the character's run at the movies. TheWrap ↗

  1. Bongo Cha Cha ChaCaterina Valente

    A 1959 Italian novelty record used as postcard shorthand for arriving in Venice, two years before TikTok found it and handed it 250 million views.

    Peter and his class arrive in Venice.

  2. I Wanna Be Your BoyfriendRamones

    The sweet one on a 1976 debut built from buzzsaw, by four kids from Forest Hills, Queens, which in the comics is exactly where Peter Parker lives.

    Peter and MJ make it official, hand in hand through the airport.

Homecoming

2017

Opened to $117M domestic, the film that restarted Spider-Man inside the Marvel run. ScreenCrush ↗

  1. Save It for LaterThe Beat

    A 1982 2 Tone record about being fifteen and out of your depth, under a scene about being fifteen and out of your depth, and it has been quietly outliving its own placements ever since.

    Aunt May getting Peter ready for the dance.

  2. The UnderdogSpoon

    Three minutes of horns warning you about the guy nobody bets on, handed to the smallest hero Marvel had.

    Peter arriving at school.

About this pressing

No. 001
Chosen byRob. Every song here is a personal pick, not a chart result.
What is on it8 songs from 4 Spider-Man films, newest first
Where the facts came from5 source links, one for every claim made about a film
The numbers under each songReal chart positions, re-read every hour. They keep moving after the drop; the songs never change.
If we get something wrongNothing to fix so far. A correction gets printed below, dated, never quietly swapped in.

A pressing is one drop, numbered like a record and fixed once it is out: these songs are somebody's choice, and they will be the same songs in a year. What keeps changing is underneath them. The chart numbers are read fresh every hour, so a record that starts moving again shows it here, on a page nobody had to reopen.

Data: Spotify, Shazam, Apple Music, YouTube · Chart: Rotation · rotation.today

The city

The origin

Made here

1947-1975
  1. MantecaDizzy Gillespie

    Gillespie and Chano Pozo cut it for RCA Victor in New York that December, the first jazz standard built on the clave, and Pozo was dead within a year at thirty-three.

  2. Bang! Bang!Joe Cuba Sextet

    Gilberto Calderón was born in Spanish Harlem in 1931, and the record shouts his neighborhood's food back at it: cornbread, chitlins, lechón.

  3. Movin'Brass Construction

    Randy Muller started the band in Brooklyn in 1967 as Dynamic Soul, and the record has been sampled in more than two hundred songs since.

The adoption

Claimed here

1973-1990
  1. ApacheIncredible Bongo Band

    A Los Angeles producer's session band cut it at a studio in Vancouver, and Kool Herc turned it into the record the Bronx danced to.

  2. NautilusBob James

    Recorded at Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and sampled in more than four hundred songs by the New York beatmakers who found it in the eighties.

  3. Spread LoveTake 6

    A gospel sextet from Huntsville, Alabama, run through a Bronx-born producer who took his name from building beats out of 45s.

The circle

Made again

2008-2023
  1. The TraitorMenahan Street Band

    Cut in the bedroom of Thomas Brenneck's apartment on Menahan Street in Bushwick, and sampled more than forty times since, Kid Cudi and Black Star among them.

  2. Black VenomThe Budos Band

    A Staten Island band who recorded the whole album in a 48-hour session at Daptone's House of Soul, and named this one after Black Sabbath and Venom.

  3. The World (Is Going Up in Flames)Charles Bradley

    Bradley made his first album at sixty-two, after years working as a James Brown impersonator, with Brenneck producing and the Menahan Street Band behind him.

  4. Faithful ManLee Fields & The Expressions

    Forty-three years into his career, Fields cut this for Truth & Soul in Brooklyn, produced by Leon Michels and Jeff Silverman.

  5. Glorious GameEl Michels Affair

    Michels and Black Thought started it in 2020 with everything shut, a Brooklyn label's house band under a Philadelphia MC, KIRBY singing the title.