FIFA World Cup 2026 Album Builds a 36-Artist Global Soundtrack

The FIFA World Cup 2026 album is shaping up as one of the most geographically ambitious official tournament soundtracks in the competition’s history, with a rolling series of releases drawing on regional sounds from across the world, and a live performance moment at the Los Angeles opening ceremony set to underline its scale.

A Playlist Built Around the FIFA World Cup 2026 Album

With the 2026 tournament set to kick off on Thursday, 11 June, uDiscover has assembled a Spotify playlist titled ‘World Cup Songs: All World Cup Anthems’, described as ‘the ultimate FIFA World Cup songs playlist from 2010 to 2026, featuring the best football anthems, World Cup vibes, Qatar 2022 hits, United 2026 energy and more.’ The selection is deliberately wide-ranging: Black Eyed Peas’ ‘Pump It’, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ ‘Learning to Fly’, OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’, and Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters’ ‘Lucky, Lucky, Lucky’ all find their way onto the running order alongside more direct tournament connections.

The Beatles’ ‘Come Together’ is among the tracks with a fresh topical hook: the song recently served as the soundtrack to England’s squad reveal for the tournament, giving a 1969 recording a new life as football pageantry. It is an odd, rather pleasing collision, the kind of thing that would have baffled John Lennon.

But the playlist’s opening track is where the official FIFA World Cup 2026 album announces itself most forcefully. ‘Goals’, from BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema, and Brazilian pop star Anitta, leads the sequence. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Cirkut, the track arrived alongside an official music video and represents a conscious effort to pull together three distinct continental pop traditions into a single three-minute statement.

‘Goals’ and the Opening Ceremony: Three Continents, One Stage

Anitta has spoken directly about what the project means to her. ‘My connection to the World Cup is deeply emotional,’ she said. ‘I’m Brazilian, after all, of course I have wonderful memories tied to the tournament. It’s incredibly special to now contribute to its history, collaborating with LISA and Rema on “Goals”! I’m very grateful for this opportunity.’ Rema described the collaboration in starker terms: ‘Three continents, one track, bringing all our sounds together like this is a big moment for music on the world stage.’

According to Gulf News, the three artists will perform ‘Goals’ live for the first time at the Los Angeles opening ceremony on 12 June. The performance carries an additional layer of history: Lisa is set to become the first K-pop female solo artist ever to perform at a World Cup opening ceremony, a milestone that reflects the genre’s remarkable expansion into spaces previously dominated by Western and Latin pop.

‘Goals’ is the fourth single released from the official FIFA World Cup 2026 album, following ‘Por Ella’ by Los Ángeles Azules and Belinda, ‘Echo’ by Daddy Yankee and Shenseea, and ‘Illuminate’ by Jessie Reyez and Elyanna. The project has been constructed in stages, with each release drawing on a different region’s sound, a deliberate structural choice that separates this campaign from earlier tournaments’ tendency to anchor everything around a single global anthem.

That said, a central anthem does exist. Gulf News reports that Shakira recorded a track called ‘Dai Dai’ with Burna Boy, released on 14 May, as the tournament’s primary anthem. Shakira’s association with World Cup music stretches back to her work on the 2010 South Africa tournament, so her presence here carries its own continuity, even as the overall project gestures outward towards a wider cast. Gulf News also reports that the full artist roster across the FIFA World Cup 2026 album runs to 36 names in total, a figure that begins to suggest something closer to a genre-spanning compilation than a conventional tied release.

That breadth is also what gives the uDiscover playlist its logic. Sitting older catalogue tracks (the Beatles, Tom Petty, the Black Eyed Peas) alongside fresh 2026 commissions reflects a truth about how football and music have always intersected: a tournament does not generate its soundtrack from scratch. It borrows from what is already in circulation, then adds a layer of purpose-built anthems on top. The FIFA album follows that pattern, just with an unusually large and internationally diverse cast of contributors.

The playlist is available now on Spotify, with the tournament and the Los Angeles opening ceremony performance of ‘Goals’ arriving on 12 June.