How 'Toss A Coin To Your Witcher' from 'The Witcher' became an unexpected hit for Netflix

Netflix's Witcher has become one of most popular shows from streaming platform, outperforming or acclaimed series such as Black Mirror and Stranger Things. While Witcher was always expected to be a success, thanks to beloved vels and games that came before show, one expected Toss A Coin To Your Witcher to become a viral hit. song that is sung by Jaskier in show, is currently one of most trending songs in world, with official soundtrack having several millions of views. 

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Netflix never expected Toss A Coin To Your Witcher to become a hit

Witcher, which me its premiere on Netflix back in December of 2019, follows story of Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), who is a monster hunter on a quest to find a girl who would become his optive daughter Princess Ciri (Freya Allan). In one of early episodes of first season, Geralt and his bard companion, Jaskier, are captured by a group of outcast elves. Eventually, Geralt mans to persue elven leer to let him and his companion leave unharmed. 

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venture gives Jaskier inspiration to create song, Toss A Coin To Your Witcher. However, lyrics of his song completely skewed truth of events, basically turning song into propaganda for witcher, Geralt. song was one of major reasons for Witcher Season 1's massive success.

Similar to how Baby Yoda promoted Mandalorian,  fanfare behind song became a means of free marketing for Witcher, which led to show's boom in popularity. 

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Toss A Coin To Your Witcher alrey has hundreds of fan covers, with many of m having millions of views mselves. Quite evidently, Netflix was unaware of hidden gem that y h, as y only officially released song a month after Witcher's premiere.

Back in December of 2019, Sonya Belousova, composer for song, h anunced that soundtrack for  Witcher h been completely produced. However, Netflix did t expect Toss A Coin To Your Witcher to become one of biggest selling points of Witcher, which is why y took so long to finally release soundtrack. 

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