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How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack: Every song featured

Including Girls Aloud, Black Eyed Peas, Mis-Teeq and Blue, there are plenty of notable hits in Lisa McGee's new comedy-drama.

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast (L-R) Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse Shaw, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara Friel, Sinead Keenan as Robyn Winters. The three characters are standing at the entrance of a room, with the lid of a wooden coffin in the foreground ahead of them.

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Published: Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 4:32 pm

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A trio of friends embark on a dangerous adventure to uncover the truth behind the death of their former school friend in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, a new comedy thriller from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee.

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And an epic soundtrack has been assembled to accompany the tale.

The Netflix drama features plenty of 1990s and early 2000s pop gems, with tracks from the likes of B*Witched, Atomic Kitten and S Club 7 transporting us back to our younger years.

The series also features plenty of songs by Girls Aloud – a group with Derry connections (Nadine Coyle) that McGee couldn't have used in seminal comedy series Derry Girls due to the timeline.

Alongside the memorable hits featured in the series, there are also three original songs penned by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and award-winning singer/songwriter Iain Archer.

But what are they called and in which episodes do they feature? Read on for a full breakdown of the soundtrack of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

Who composed the soundtrack in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast?

The drama's score comes from composer Sion Trefor.

Trefor has previously provided the scores for TV series including Netflix drama Toxic Town (2025) and detective drama Death Valley (2025) starring Timothy Spall.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast soundtrack: Every song in the Netflix series

Sinead Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara, Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse, peering around a corner in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

Sinead Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara, Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. Netflix/Christopher Barr

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Chatting exclusively to Radio Times about the inclusion of Girls Aloud tracks, McGee said: "I think because Girls Aloud has a Derry girl in it, that felt fun to sort of work that in. Some of the tracks in Derry Girls that we had to use, we cut off at '98. So Girls Aloud, I could never use. I was like 'Well, I’m using them now – all the time!'."

Speaking about whether the music of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast was actually written into the show, McGee added: "So, some of them are in the script because they're like, you so need that! Like Hot In Herre, you definitely need that for that bit to work.

"There's three types of music. There's the composed kind of atmospheric, creepy music, which is like Sion Trefor, our composer. Then there’s tracks that were written by Gary Lightbody and Iain Archer that are emotional, that pop up when something very emotional is happening for the gang. Then there's the commercial retro, just bangers that are literally me, the execs and [director] Mike [Lennox] sitting on our phone going, 'Remember this, try this'.

"And I love, love, love doing it because… this music, it's amazing music but it might not be considered cool a lot of the time. So I love being not cool because my friends weren't cool, I'm not cool. So I just think, like people hear it and go, 'I dance to that in the kitchen too!'."

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Morgan CormackDrama Writer

Morgan Cormack is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering everything drama-related on TV and streaming. She previously worked at Stylist as an Entertainment Writer. Alongside her past work in content marketing and as a freelancer, she possesses a BA in English Literature.

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