Netflix’s My Brilliant Career landed on the streamer on August 13, 2026, reimagining Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel as a six-episode period drama. Philippa Northeast stars as Sybylla Melvyn, the headstrong aspiring writer at the center of the story, alongside Christopher Chung as Harry Beecham, Anna Chancellor, Genevieve O’Reilly, Kate Mulvany, and Jake Dunn. The series is developed by Liz Doran and directed by Alyssa McClelland and Anne Renton.
From here on, this guide is entirely about the music: the original score, the companion covers album, who made them, and every song confirmed to appear across the show’s six episodes.
My Brilliant Career Soundtrack At a Glance
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Series | My Brilliant Career |
| Based on | My Brilliant Career (1901 novel) by Miles Franklin |
| Developed by | Liz Doran |
| Directors | Alyssa McClelland, Anne Renton |
| Production companies | Jungle Entertainment, South Australian Film Corporation |
| Platform | Netflix |
| Series release date | August 13, 2026 |
| Score composer | François Tétaz |
| Music supervisor | Jemma Burns |
| Soundtrack label | Netflix Music |
| Score album | My Brilliant Career (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) — 31 tracks, 49:14 |
| Companion songs album | My Brilliant Career (Songs from the Netflix Series) — 10 tracks, 30:03 |
| Album release date | August 13, 2026 |
My Brilliant Career Soundtrack Overview
Netflix released two separate digital albums for My Brilliant Career on August 13, 2026, the same day the series premiered, both through Netflix Music.
The first is the official score album, credited to composer François Tétaz, running 31 tracks and 49 minutes and 14 seconds. Many of its cues are billed as “feat. Molly Lewis,” reflecting the whistled melodic lines that run through the score — Lewis also appears on-screen in the series in the credited role of “Whistler.”
The second is a companion release, My Brilliant Career (Songs from the Netflix Series), a 10-track, 30-minute collection of period-appropriate covers reimagined by contemporary Australian artists, credited to “Various Artists.” It includes covers of well-known songs — among them Blondie’s “Atomic” (performed by Beckah Amani) and Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks” (performed by Isabella Manfredi) — alongside folk standards like “Scarborough Fair” (Julia Jacklin) and “Don’t Fence Me In” (Amy Hill and Xanthe Waithe). Both albums carry the UPC-identified releases catalogued on FMDB, and both are available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Beyond these two official albums, the series’ episodes also feature a wider run of licensed contemporary tracks — from Wet Leg to Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Kylie Minogue — curated by music supervisor Jemma Burns; these are covered in the needle drops section below.
Who Composed the My Brilliant Career Soundtrack?
François Tétaz is an Australian film composer, producer, and mixer, born December 22, 1970, in Melbourne. He built his career scoring dance, theater, and art installation work in the 1990s before moving into film, and he’s based in Los Angeles today.
Tétaz first drew wide attention for his score to the horror-thriller Wolf Creek (2005), which won the APRA/Australian Guild of Screen Composers “Feature Film Score of the Year” award in 2006. As a producer and mixer, he’s closely associated with Gotye, and he shared in the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2013 for “Somebody That I Used to Know” (Gotye featuring Kimbra), along with the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album for Gotye’s Making Mirrors. He also won the 2020 AACTA Award for Feature Film Score of the Year for Judy & Punch (2019), and his score for The Surfer (2025) was nominated for Best Soundtrack Album at the 2025 ARIA Awards.
For My Brilliant Career, Tétaz is credited as sole composer on the official score album, with musician Molly Lewis featured throughout as a performer — her whistling is a recurring texture across the majority of the score’s 31 cues. Lewis, an Australian, Los Angeles-based whistling specialist, also has an on-screen acting credit in the series itself, playing the role of “Whistler.”
My Brilliant Career Official Tracklist
Per FMDB, the official score album — My Brilliant Career (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series), released August 13, 2026 on Netflix Music — runs 31 tracks and 49 minutes, 14 seconds. This total was independently verified by summing each listed track duration.
| # | Track | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forbidden Fruit (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:52 |
| 2 | An Acquired Taste (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:43 |
| 3 | Caddagat (feat. Molly Lewis) | 2:39 |
| 4 | Mr Beecham (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:04 |
| 5 | Gussied Up (feat. Molly Lewis) | 2:11 |
| 6 | Romantic Prospects (feat. Molly Lewis) | 0:50 |
| 7 | Sybylla and Harry (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:04 |
| 8 | Oysters! | 0:33 |
| 9 | The Watering Hole | 1:40 |
| 10 | Learning to Live with Rejection (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:12 |
| 11 | Charlie and Nell | 1:32 |
| 12 | Stockmans Challenge (feat. Molly Lewis) | 0:30 |
| 13 | A Secret Lost (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:11 |
| 14 | Love in the Shadows | 3:48 |
| 15 | Blanche Derrick (feat. Molly Lewis) | 2:30 |
| 16 | Get a Divorce (feat. Molly Lewis) | 0:46 |
| 17 | Almost Midnight | 1:00 |
| 18 | I Love Him | 3:03 |
| 19 | Dewy Petal (feat. Molly Lewis) | 0:44 |
| 20 | Sounds Dismal | 1:24 |
| 21 | Syb and Gert | 0:45 |
| 22 | Marry Me | 3:48 |
| 23 | Complexities (feat. Molly Lewis) | 1:12 |
| 24 | Waiting (feat. Molly Lewis) | 0:51 |
| 25 | Then It’s Years (feat. Molly Lewis) | 2:34 |
| 26 | We Bend, but We Don’t Break | 1:22 |
| 27 | Dearest Harry | 2:03 |
| 28 | Anarchy | 0:54 |
| 29 | The Photograph | 0:45 |
| 30 | Possum Gully | 0:59 |
| 31 | Write Your Truth (feat. Molly Lewis) | 2:45 |
Total runtime: 49:14
Companion Album: Songs from the Netflix Series
| # | Track | Artist | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siren (Never Let You Go) | Kate Miller-Heidke | 2:42 |
| 2 | Atomic | Beckah Amani | 4:39 |
| 3 | Horses | Kate Miller-Heidke | 3:03 |
| 4 | Young Turks | Isabella Manfredi | 1:39 |
| 5 | Don’t Fence Me In | Amy Hill, Xanthe Waithe | 2:41 |
| 6 | Scarborough Fair | Julia Jacklin | 3:30 |
| 7 | The Gypsy and the Bird | Isabella Manfredi | 2:32 |
| 8 | I Love You Always Forever | Thelma Plum | 4:17 |
| 9 | Jasmine Lament | Rainbow Chan | 1:43 |
| 10 | Dancing in the Moonlight | Thelma Plum | 3:17 |
Total runtime: 30:03
Score Highlights
No official cue sheet has been published for My Brilliant Career, so the notes below are analytical observations based on track titles, placement, and duration rather than confirmed scene-by-scene descriptions.
- “Love in the Shadows” and “Marry Me” are the score’s two longest cues at 3:48 each, and their titles suggest they anchor the series’ central romantic tension between Sybylla and Harry.
- “I Love Him” (3:03) is another extended cue, likely scoring a pivotal emotional beat given its length relative to the largely sub-two-minute tracklist.
- The majority of tracks featuring Molly Lewis’s whistling are short character or scene cues (several under 1:30), suggesting the whistled motif functions as a recurring identity theme woven through shorter transitional moments rather than full set-pieces.
- “Anarchy” and “We Bend, but We Don’t Break” stand out by title as likely underscoring Sybylla’s more rebellious, defiant beats, consistent with critics’ description of the character as “restless, razor-sharp, and refusing to conform.”
My Brilliant Career Licensed Songs / Needle Drops
Per SeekerTune’s episode-by-episode guide, My Brilliant Career Season 1 features 49 songs in total across its six episodes, combining the Songs from the Netflix Series covers with additional licensed contemporary tracks. Confirmed placements by episode:
Episode 1 — “Revolt”
- “Siren (Never Let You Go)” — Kate Miller-Heidke
- “The Gypsy and the Bird” — Isabella Manfredi
- “Young Turks” — Isabella Manfredi
- “Big Shot” — PEARLS
- “Future Heroine” — Ecca Vandal (confirmed as the episode’s end-credits track)
Episode 2 — “He”
- “Don’t Fence Me In” — Amy Hill, Xanthe Waithe
- “Jasmine Lament” — Rainbow Chan
- “Angelica” — Wet Leg
- “The British Grenadiers (arr. for Brass Band)” — Black Dyke Mills Band, Geoffrey Brand & Roy Newsome
- “Scarborough Fair” — Julia Jacklin
- “Bubbles” — J4eva
- “Horses” — Kate Miller-Heidke
- “Sacrilege” — Yeah Yeah Yeahs (confirmed as the episode’s end-credits track)
Episode 3 — “Yah!”
- “See Me There” (feat. Lisa Mitchell) — Emily Wurramara
- “Born To Be Alive” — Amyl and The Sniffers
- “Sinner” — The Last Dinner Party
- “Head and My Heart” — Ruelle, AG
Episode 4 — “To Life!”
- “Atomic” — Beckah Amani
- “Dancing in the Moonlight” — Thelma Plum
- “All the Lovers” — Kylie Minogue
- “Black Cherry” — Goldfrapp
- “I Love You Always Forever” — Thelma Plum
- “Date with the Night” — Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Girl Like Me” — Ladyhawke
Episode 5 — “One Grand Passion”
- “Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958: IV. Allegro” — Gulsin Onay
- “Burn It Down” — Jess Hitchcock
- “Lark” — Angel Olsen
Episode 6 — “Ta Ta”
- “Going up the Country” — Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
- “Daydreamer” — AURORA
Trailer only (not confirmed in-episode beyond its Episode 3 placement above):
- “Sinner” — The Last Dinner Party, used in the official Season 1 trailer
Scene-specific context (beyond episode placement and, where noted, end-credits position) has not been published for most of these tracks and is marked pending — SeekerTune’s listing does not include timestamped scene descriptions for the majority of entries.
François Tétaz Filmography
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wolf Creek | 2005 | Won APRA/AGSC Feature Film Score of the Year (2006) |
| Rogue | 2007 | — |
| Miracle Fish (short film) | 2009 | Academy Award-nominated short |
| Underground: The Julian Assange Story | 2012 | Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival |
| Judy & Punch | 2019 | Won AACTA Award for Feature Film Score of the Year (2020) |
| The Portal | — | Feature documentary |
| The Surfer | 2025 | Nominated, Best Soundtrack Album, 2025 ARIA Awards |
| My Brilliant Career | 2026 | Netflix series |
Hesher, The Square, and The Hard Word are also credited to Tétaz per composer filmography sources, but confirmed release years for his specific scoring work on these titles were not independently cross-verified and are left blank rather than estimated.
Where to Listen to the My Brilliant Career Soundtrack?
Both official My Brilliant Career soundtrack albums — the François Tétaz score and the Songs from the Netflix Series companion collection — are available to stream now on Spotify and Apple Music, with digital purchase also available through Amazon Music and iTunes. All six episodes of the series featuring this music are streaming exclusively on Netflix.
Related reading: For more Netflix original series scores and companion soundtracks, visit the Netflix soundtrack hub, or browse the TV soundtrack archive for other 2026 series music guides.
FAQs
Who composed the My Brilliant Career soundtrack?
The original score is composed by François Tétaz, an Australian composer known for Wolf Creek, Judy & Punch, and The Surfer. Musician Molly Lewis is featured performing whistled melodies throughout the score.
How many songs are on the My Brilliant Career soundtrack?
The official score album has 31 tracks, and the companion Songs from the Netflix Series album has 10 tracks — 41 tracks combined across both official releases. Including additional licensed needle drops used across the six episodes, SeekerTune counts 49 songs total in Season 1.
When was the My Brilliant Career soundtrack released?
Both official albums were released digitally on August 13, 2026, the same day the series premiered on Netflix.
Where can I stream the My Brilliant Career soundtrack?
Both albums are available on Spotify and Apple Music, with digital downloads also available via Amazon and iTunes.
What are the cover songs on the My Brilliant Career soundtrack?
The companion songs album includes covers such as Blondie’s “Atomic” (performed by Beckah Amani), Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks” (Isabella Manfredi), and the folk standard “Scarborough Fair” (Julia Jacklin), among others.
Is Molly Lewis a composer on the show or a performer?
FMDB’s official release credits list François Tétaz as the sole composer, with Molly Lewis featured as a performer on the majority of score tracks. Lewis also appears on-screen in the series as a credited cast member playing “Whistler.”
How many episodes does My Brilliant Career Season 1 have? Six episodes, all released simultaneously on Netflix on August 13, 2026.