FIFA World Cup 2026 Songs: From ‘Goals’ to the Opening Ceremony

A new playlist built around the FIFA World Cup 2026 songs officially released on Spotify this week offers a reminder of how football and music have always found a way to lean on one another, even when the connection is as oblique as Tom Petty soundtracking a penalty shootout in someone’s living room.

The ‘World Cup Songs: All World Cup Anthems’ playlist, released by uDiscover ahead of the tournament’s opening on 11 June, spans from 2010 to the present. Its brief is broad: football anthems sit beside tracks that simply carry the feeling of a big occasion. Black Eyed Peas’ ‘Pump It’, OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’, ‘Learning to Fly’ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters’ ‘Lucky, Lucky, Lucky’ all appear, alongside tracks with more direct tournament connections.

The Beatles’ ‘Come Together’ is one such case. The song recently served as the soundtrack to England’s squad reveal for the 2026 tournament, lending the playlist an immediate topicality beyond the merely nostalgic.

FIFA World Cup 2026 Songs Begin With a Three-Continent Collaboration

The playlist opens with ‘Goals’, a collaboration between BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema, and Brazilian pop star Anitta. The track was produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Cirkut and arrived with an official music video. It is also, according to FIFA, set to be performed at the Opening Ceremony in Los Angeles, which makes its position at the top of the playlist feel less like a curatorial flourish and more like a statement of intent.

Anitta was direct about what the moment means to her: ‘My connection to the World Cup is deeply emotional. 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 kept his framing simpler but no less considered: ‘Three continents, one track… bringing all our sounds together like this is a big moment for music on the world stage.’

That geography is part of the design. ‘Goals’ marked the fourth single from the Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album, a project structured so that each release draws on regional sounds from a different part of the world. The three singles before it were ‘Por Ella’ by Los Ángeles Azules and Belinda, ‘Echo’ by Daddy Yankee and Shenseea, and ‘Illuminate’ by Jessie Reyez and Elyanna. The full album, as Yahoo Entertainment reports, contains 18 tracks in total, making it one of the more substantial official tournament albums in recent memory.

The Official Anthem Anchors a Wider FIFA Sound Universe

Separate from the album’s rolling release schedule sits the Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Anthem: ‘DNA’, a collaboration featuring Maestro Andrea Bocelli, David Guetta, Megan Thee Stallion and EJAE. FIFA has positioned ‘DNA’ as the centrepiece of its broader musical programme for the tournament, a track designed to carry the ceremonial weight that official anthems have traditionally borne since at least ‘Waka Waka’ reframed what a World Cup song could do in 2010.

That lineage, from Shakira’s South African exuberance through to a three-continent pop single opening a Los Angeles ceremony, is precisely what a playlist like this is built to trace. The FIFA World Cup 2026 songs collected here are not all official commissions, but they share a function: they exist to make a very large sporting event feel, for a few minutes at a time, like something personal. Whether they manage it, of course, is down to the listener. The Opening Ceremony in Los Angeles on 11 June will be where ‘Goals’ gets its largest test.