John Legend Get Ready arrived November 3 as the lead single from the Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy soundtrack. Produced by Raphael Saadiq, the festive jazz-pop track pairs Legend’s piano and vocals with big-band brass and soundtracks the special’s new trailer.
John Legend Get Ready Swings Into the Holiday Season
“Get Ready” is a festive jazz-pop original built on John Legend’s piano and voice, with vibrant big-band brass carrying the swing. The track runs three minutes and six seconds and is credited to John Legend and Peanuts. Apple Music lists the single as published on November 3, 2026, and that platform date is the release date. Milan Records and Sony Music Canada announced the song in a press release dated November 4, 2026, one day after the platform listing went live, and the single is available everywhere now through Milan Records.
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The festive jazz-pop original “showcases Legend’s unmistakable vocals and piano alongside vibrant big-band brass, bringing a warm, joyful and sophisticated swing to the holiday season.”
That description comes straight from the Milan Records announcement, and the record backs it up. Producer Raphael Saadiq, himself a multi-award winner, gives Legend a classic holiday frame instead of a seasonal novelty: live-sounding brass, a rhythm section that swings, and room for Legend to work the piano the way he does on his own records. It is the sound of two artists who understand the assignment. A Peanuts holiday song has to feel timeless on the first listen, and “Get Ready” is built exactly that way.
The Trailer Gives the Song Its First Stage
“Get Ready” is featured in the newly released trailer for Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy, the latest special under the acclaimed Snoopy Presents banner. In the special, the Peanuts kids are on their best behavior, but Snoopy has landed on Santa’s naughty list. With just 12 days until Christmas, he sets out to prove he is not such a bad beagle after all, discovering along the way that the season is about more than gifts. The special is inspired by the beloved Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz and is produced by Peanuts and WildBrain.
Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy debuts exclusively on Apple TV on Friday, November 13, and the full soundtrack album arrives the same day. Leading a soundtrack rollout with the trailer song is a deliberate choice. The trailer is the first thing families will see and share, and putting an EGOT winner’s voice at the front of it tells viewers exactly what kind of special this is: a new story scored with the same care as the classics people grew up on.
Kamasi Washington and Laufey Round Out the Soundtrack
The Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy (Original Apple TV Soundtrack) runs 14 tracks. Alongside “Get Ready,” the album carries an original score by composer Jeff Morrow, whose cues fill out the tracklist with titles like “Countdown to Christmas,” “Twelve Day Bootcamp,” “Snoopy Claus” and “Christmas Time is Here.” The other two vocal features are serious bookings. Kamasi Washington enlists Leon Bridges on the original “Trying To Get There,” and Laufey performs the holiday classic “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” produced by her longtime collaborator Spencer Stewart.
The lineup is the point. Music has long been an essential part of the Peanuts universe, with jazz in particular inseparable from its sound and charm, and this soundtrack carries that tradition into a new generation. Morrow’s score sits alongside contemporary artists drawing on jazz, soul and timeless holiday traditions, so the album plays as one statement rather than a celebrity compilation. A saxophonist of Washington’s stature, a soul singer like Bridges, a jazz-pop star like Laufey and Legend at the top of the bill is a lineup most full-length artist albums would be proud of, assembled here for an animated holiday special.
A Busy Season for John Legend
“Get Ready” follows Muse, Legend’s new studio album, released October 23, 2026. Muse was produced in full and co-written by Pharrell Williams, their first full-length album together after more than two decades of friendship, and it blends lush strings and horns with 808s across gospel, standards, doo-wop, classic soul, Afrobeats and hip-hop influences. Legend is an EGOT winner who has collected 13 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award and four Emmy Awards, and his holiday credentials were already established with A Legendary Christmas in 2018.
The season does not slow down after the single. Legend next debuts his first original score for the stage with Imitation of Life, a co-production between The Shed and National Black Theatre starring Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren, with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. Previews begin November 21 at The Shed in New York ahead of a December 3 opening. Between a Pharrell-produced album, a Peanuts lead single and a stage debut, the end of 2026 is one of the fullest stretches of Legend’s career.
“Get Ready” is out now on Milan Records. Listen on Apple Music, watch for Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy on Apple TV on November 13, and find the full soundtrack the same day.
