World In Motion, Three Lions, Back Home, more: England's greatest football songs ranked

Ahead of England's World Cup opener on Wednesday, ESPN have ranked the five greatest songs ever attached to the Three Lions.

The story behind the best World Cup song of the summer

INTERVIEW: A deadpan electro-ballad name-checking Scott McTominay has become the sound of Scotland’s World Cup. Its creator, ...

‘It’s been wild’: The unexpected story behind the (unofficial) Scotland World Cup song

INTERVIEW: A deadpan electro-ballad name-checking Scott McTominay has become the best World Cup song of the summer. Its ...
MusicRadar

“Grown men were coming up to him with tears in their eyes, saying how he would never fully understand what the song had done for them over the years”: Producer …

Producer Stephen Hague shares how he helped New Order top the charts - and turned John Barnes into a rap icon - with the ...

World Music Day 2026: From Maskara to Qinniya Soni, songs that stayed with us long after the first listen

This World Music Day, revisit five standout songs that have left a lasting impression in 2026. From Adnan Sami's Lipstick and ...
KTAR

How ‘Country Roads’ became the soundtrack of the US team’s World Cup run

It's become one of the enduring scenes of the U.S. team during this World Cup: jubilant U.S. players joining tens of ...
Neos Kosmos

Teaching the world to hear Homer again – as song

A flaxen-haired young man appeared in my social media feed some months ago singing Homer’s Iliad in Ancient Greek. Yes, ...

The World Cup – soccer in general – seems to have escaped its once-stubborn naffness

The vast efficiency of the current tournament wipes out the comforting leathery embarrassment football once allowed ...

Shakira reached out to Ed Sheeran over FIFA World Cup anthem collaboration

Shakira personally contacted Ed Sheeran to ask if he would be interested in collaborating on the new FIFA World Cup anthem. The Colombian superstar and Nigerian singer-songwriter Burna Boy dropped Dai ...

World Cup 2026: Fifa urged to remove official over hand gesture; teams hit back at Ceferin; Iran arrive in US – as it happened

All the latest updates from the World Cup ...