Apple Quietly Wipes Out the Most Overlooked Spider-Man Cartoon—Now It’s Gone for Good

Well, this is a bummer. The Spectacular Spider-Man theme song just vanished from the big music streamers, and fans are not taking it well. If you grew up with that riff living rent-free in your head, you probably noticed it too.

What actually disappeared

• The Spectacular Spider-Man theme, performed by The Tender Box, is gone from Apple Music, Spotify, and other major platforms.
• Fans clocked the takedown fast and started worrying the whole show could be on the chopping block again.
• The Tender Box says they didn’t pull it and don’t control the rights; this looks like a rights-holder issue.
• This isn’t the first time Spectacular has been yanked from platforms; the series was removed from Disney+ back in 2022.
• No official statements from Marvel, Sony, or the streamers so far.
• Speculation is swirling that this could tie into Spider-Man: Brand New Day hype or housekeeping.
• Brand New Day hits theaters on July 31, 2026.

Fans are feeling whiplash

The mood online: tired and angry. People are trading war stories about how this series keeps getting tossed around. One fan summed it up as a cycle of whack-a-mole — show pops up on a service, then disappears a month later; the theme finally lands on Spotify, then it’s gone two weeks after. Whether every timeline detail is perfect or not, the vibe is the same: why can’t this show catch a break?

What the band says

The Tender Box responded to a fan account asking what happened. Short version: they didn’t take it down, and they don’t have the switch to turn it back on.

It looks like an ongoing ordeal with the publisher and owner of the series, and the band doesn’t know if or when the theme will return.

Translation: the people who actually own the rights are sorting something out behind the scenes, and even the folks who made the song are in the dark.

This mess has history

Spectacular’s distribution has been a headache for years. In 2022, the series got pulled from Disney+, which is a reminder that Marvel and Sony’s shared Spider-Man ecosystem can get complicated fast. When contracts overlap across studios and streamers, stuff slips through the cracks — sometimes the show, sometimes the soundtrack, sometimes both.

Is this about Brand New Day?

Some fans think the timing isn’t random. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day on the way in 2026, there’s a theory that older material is getting quietly tidied up or parked to avoid branding collisions, or even to recycle pieces (like a theme) for new projects. There’s zero confirmation of that, but the calendar lining up keeps the rumor mill running.

What you can still hear

The official track is gone, but covers and reuploads are still floating around if you need the hit. Not the same, but it keeps the spirit alive until someone flips the rights switch back on — if they do.

Bottom line

The theme’s removal looks like a licensing tangle, not a band decision. With no official word yet, all we’ve got is speculation and a fandom that’s understandably fed up. If this is cleanup ahead of Brand New Day, we’ll know soon enough. If it’s just more rights purgatory, brace for a wait.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens July 31, 2026.