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

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.

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

Episode 1

• Hot In Herre - Nelly
• Superstar - Jamelia
• C’est la vie - B*Witched
• Heaven - DJ Sammy
• Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
• I Don’t Want To Go To You - Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer (composed for How to Get to Heaven from Belfast)
• Move Your Feet - Junior Senior

Episode 2

• Love Machine - Girls Aloud
• Just A Little - Liberty X
• Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
• C’est la vie - B*Witched
• Sound of the Underground - Girls Aloud
• Why’d Ya Come In Here - Lisa McHugh
• Whole Again - Atomic Kitten
• Love is Like A Butterfly - Bronagh Gallagher

Episode 3

• Everybody Get Up - 5ive
• Friends In Low Places - Mike Easterday
• Spice up your life - Sunfly karaoke performers
• Rock and Roll Kids - Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington
• Emily Magner Hurley - Amhran Na Bhfiann

Episode 4

• Black Horse and The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
• Ketchup Song - Las Ketchup
• Where Do You Go - No Mercy
• Reach - S Club 7

Episode 5

• Love of your life - Raye
• Scandalous - Mis-Teeq
• Da Ba Dee - Blue
• Bould O’Donoghue - The Mary Wallopers
• Dublin’s Fair City (whistled) - Bronagh Gallagher
• To Whom It May Concern - Chris Andrews
• It’s All Coming Back To Me - Celine Dion
• The Fields of Athenry (performed in a vision)

Episode 6

• Sound of The Underground - Girls Aloud
• Whole Again - Atomic Kitten
• Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
• Something Kinda Oooh - Girls Aloud
• I Don't Want To Go To You - Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer (composed for How to Get to Heaven from Belfast)
• All The Things She Said - Tatu

Episode 7

• Reach - S Club 7
• It’s My Life - Dr Alban
• My Perfect Cousin - The Undertones
• Saltwater - Chicane Feat Moya Brennan
• Calvary’s Mountain - Clem Clark

Episode 8

• Black Coffee - All Saints
• Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
• Livin’ on Easy Street - Dave Steward with Ron Risney
• I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen - Brian Coll and The Plattermen
• Calvary’s Mountain - Clem Clark
• Rock and Roll Kids - Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington
• We Like To Party! - Vengaboys
• Striptease Con Bajos - Jim Sutherland
• My Lovely Horse - The Divine Comedy
• A Village in County Tyrone - Philomena Begley
• Life Ain’t Worth Livin’ - Joyce Street
• How This All Ends - Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer (composed for How to Get to Heaven from Belfast)
• Church Of Your Fathers - Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer (composed for How to Get to Heaven from Belfast)
• Aimee - Luke JacksonCalifornia Poppy - Theo Lawrence

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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