Announced this week were new composer assignments for Jeff Cardoni (The Confirmation and The Better Half), Mason Bates (The Sea of Trees), Benjamin Wallfisch (The Enfield Haunting), among many others. For the full list of composer and music supervisor assignments from this week, click here.

There were 18 new soundtrack albums released this week. Click here for the full schedule.

Opening nationwide this week are (with music by): Jupiter Ascending (Michael Giacchino), Seventh Son (Marco Beltrami), and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (John Debney).

Among all new theatrical releases, we are tracking song credits for:
- Jupiter Ascending (2 songs)
- Seventh Son (no songs)

Finally, the following composer will be celebrating an upcoming birthday:
- Sunday: John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars) will turn 83.
- Monday: Nathan Barr (True Blood) will turn 42.
- Friday: Gerald Fried (Star Trek) will turn 87.