What song is associated with the opening credits of House M.D.?

“Teardrop” is the song associated with the opening credits of House M.D.

The song was recorded by the British electronic group Massive Attack and released on the 1998 album Mezzanine. Its distinctive vocal and pulsing arrangement became strongly linked with the show’s opening title sequence, which uses medical imagery and stylized anatomical graphics.

The U.S. broadcast version of the opening credits generally used “Teardrop,” although some international broadcasts and later versions used different music or modified title sequences. Licensing and broadcast arrangements can therefore create variation between versions of the show.

The association is sometimes misremembered as an original theme composed specifically for House M.D. It was not written for the series. “Teardrop” was an existing Massive Attack recording that the program adopted as its signature opening music. The song’s title is also styled with quotation marks in many references.