The World Cup Songs playlist that uDiscover has assembled ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is a curious, generous thing: a collection that stretches from Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters to BLACKPINK’s Lisa, held together not by decade or genre but by the loose, powerful idea of collective anticipation. It is now live on Spotify, billed 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.’
The tournament itself is set to begin on Thursday, 11 June, and the playlist arrives at exactly the right moment of pre-tournament restlessness, when supporters are already reaching for music to fill the gap between fixture announcement and kick-off.
From The Beatles to BLACKPINK: What the World Cup Songs Playlist Contains
The tracklist covers a broad sweep of pop history. Black Eyed Peas’ ‘Pump It’, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ ‘Learning to Fly’, ‘I Lived’ by OneRepublic, and Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters’ ‘Lucky, Lucky, Lucky’ all appear. Many of the inclusions connect to football fandom in a general, atmospheric sense, but at least one carries a very specific recent association.
The Beatles’ ‘Come Together’ was used as the soundtrack to England’s squad reveal for the 2026 World Cup, which gives the song a fresh layer of context beyond its five-decade cultural life. It is the kind of curatorial decision that rewards listeners who have been following the tournament build-up closely.
The playlist opens, though, with something altogether newer. ‘Goals’, the collaboration between BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema, and Brazilian pop star Anitta, leads the running order. According to LAmag, the track blends K-pop, Latin pop and Afrobeats into a single piece, which makes it an unusually literal expression of the tournament’s global ambitions. It arrived alongside an official music video and was produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Cirkut.
‘Goals’ and the Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album
‘Goals’ is the fourth single from the Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album, a project that has been rolling out in stages ahead of the tournament, with each release drawing on regional sounds from a different part of the world. The three preceding singles were ‘Por Ella’ by Los Ángeles Azules and Belinda, ‘Echo’ by Daddy Yankee and Shenseea, and ‘Illuminate’ by Jessie Reyez and Elyanna. The sequencing has been deliberate: each track plants a flag in a different musical geography before the whole project converges.
Anitta spoke about what the collaboration means to her personally: ‘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 offered a more compressed version of the same idea: ‘Three continents, one track, bringing all our sounds together like this is a big moment for music on the world stage.’ What is worth sitting with in that description is how accurately it maps the album’s overall logic. Each single has been constructed to represent a region rather than a single nationality, and ‘Goals’ is the most explicit articulation of that approach yet, pulling three continents into a three-minute pop song.
The broader World Cup Songs playlist places that new material alongside decades of football-adjacent anthems, which is a sensible editorial choice. It gives ‘Goals’ a lineage rather than asking it to stand alone, and it allows the older material to feel renewed by proximity to something current. The playlist’s genre-spanning character is, in that sense, a feature rather than a concession: football has never belonged to one sound, and neither does this collection.
‘Goals’ is set to be performed at the FIFA World Cup 2026, according to LAmag, making the playlist’s opening track something fans will hear again in the stadium before the tournament is over.
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