The five-year reign of Celeste’s Cease This Flame as Sky Sports activities’ Premier League has lastly come to an finish – however the place does it rank amongst their finest intro songs?
An solely rewritten, remixed model of Kasabian’s G.O.A.T would be the new music for the 2025-26 marketing campaign. We’ve held off together with that one for now as we remuniate with it.
There have been some memorable tracks chosen because the soundtrack for Sky Sports activities’ Premier League protection over time, whereas there have additionally been one or two we wouldn’t blame you for forgetting completely.
We’ve not included all of the songs/intros for you right here, as it will’ve been far too clunky to take action. However we will level you within the course of a Vimeo compilation from 1992 to 2001, a YouTube compilation from 2005 to 2023 and a useful Spotify playlist of all of the songs.
Observe: We’re not together with Monday Night time Soccer right here, which form of feels distinct, or Sky Sports activities’ different soccer protection – just like the League Cup, Soccer League or England – with apologies to Texas and Oasis. We’re speaking correct flagship weekend protection solely – if the match was billed ‘Soccer Particular’ or ‘Tremendous Sunday’ then the intro music options right here.
13. Ford Generic Guitar Observe (2003-04)
We’ve toiled to search out the artist or monitor ID and received nowhere. Shazam throws up nothing.
So we’ve received no option to bow right down to the obvious data of YouTube person @classicfootballbroadcastin4318 – that the selection for 2003-04 was not a commercially accessible monitor.
Pfft. C’mon, Sky. Do higher. A reminder of simply how outstanding the Ford branding was again within the day.
The snippet of the monitor itself is high-octane sufficient however type of nu-metaly? Very of its time, very a lot not Premier League.
12. Ronan Keating – Lovin’ Every Day (2001-02)
Now onto a choose for the mums.
This one type of has the sunshine and breezy tone required nevertheless it’s simply so monumentally naff, isn’t it? No marvel it solely lasted a season.
11. Labrinth – One thing’s Obtained to Give (2019-20)
One other one-season marvel, this one is completely forgettable. The one monitor on this checklist that we swear we’ve by no means heard earlier than in our lives, besides we should have performed as a result of it soundtracked a whole season of Sky Sports activities’ Premier League protection.
Come to think about it, that vocal breakdown when the title card comes up is form of acquainted. To be honest, given every thing else that was occurring in 2019-20 it’s in all probability not the one factor we’ve memory-holed.
10. Dario G – Carnaval de Paris (2002-03)
Is that this footbally? Completely.
Nevertheless it’s pure World Cup, having been particularly recorded and launched for France ’98. That is all about one particular month of sunshine from June into July, not run-of-the-mill December conferences between Everton and Tottenham.
The vibes are all unsuitable. No marvel it was rapidly canned.
9. Tom Grennan – Discovered What I’ve Been Trying For (2017-19)
Charmless, sorry.
It’s an earworm – however an annoying one. Responsible of that late 2010s vocal affectation adopted by actuality TV hopefuls and buskers attempting too onerous.
It does really feel Premier Leaguey, at the very least. We’ll give it that.
8. Sigma – Increased (ft. Labrinth) (2015-17)
We’re now depressingly sufficiently old that noughties nostalgia is a factor, and now we’re getting there with the 2010s. Oh god.
We’re in all probability simply being jaded however the mid-2010s really feel like a cultureless void of gray Tory austerity.
But when there was a sound of that period, this was in all probability it. Chart-friendly quasi drum & bass with a catchy hook. Does that imply it’s good? Nah.
Bonus factors for soundtracking Leicester’s title victory.
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7. Andrea Johnson – Wonderful (2000-01)
Looking back, it is a little bit of an odd selection. But it in some way works.
It’s in all probability pure nostalgia speaking. You couldn’t discover a extra middle-of-the-road early noughties pop tune, and but these strings immediately evoke photographs of Mark Viduka, Marcus Stewart and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
6. Celeste – Cease This Flame (2020-25)
What’s the other of recency bias? Now that Sky Sports activities has lastly determined to maneuver on, we reckon we’d really look again favourably on this one.
However right here, in 2025 – after a fifth straight season, the joint-longest reign – we’re determined for one thing else. Anything. Like whenever you come to the top of a Jet2 flight and you may’t keep in mind a time in your life that you simply weren’t listening to Jess Glynne’s Maintain My Hand.
It’s undeniably very Premier League, and that prolonged instrumental they use within the background whereas David Jones is speaking us by means of the most recent narratives is efficient. We are able to’t fake it doesn’t work, particularly when three many years in Sky Sports activities have refined their package deal to one thing monumentally slick.
The PSR period. The VAR period. Man Metropolis’s four-in-a-row. That’s what Celeste feels like.
5. Tinie Tempah – Written In The Stars (ft. Eric Turner) (2011-15)
Siri, play the definitive Barclays period theme.
That is Luis Suarez mercilessly slaughtering Norwich. Agueeerrroooo. Eden Hazard, Mesut Ozil, Gareth Bale and all the remaining. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
It’s virtually sufficient for us to forgive the truth that the principle hook is from some no-mark American singer who didn’t actually do anything of observe.
4. Fatboy Slim – Proper Right here, Proper Now (1997-00)
Right here’s the place our analysis will get a bit sketchy. We don’t fairly keep in mind this music for 3 straight years, however each Sky Sports activities compilation we’ve discovered suggests it options between the unique ‘Right here We Go’ music and Andrea Johnson in 2000. Appropriate us if we’re unsuitable.
Both manner, it is a correct soccer monitor. Captures the zeitgeist of late 90s soccer tradition as Arsene Wenger’s nascent Arsenal emerged to do battle with Sir Alex Ferguson’s all-conquering Manchester United.
If we’re being fussy, this one loses some extent or two for being too huge and recognisable in its personal proper. Virtually each different music on this checklist could be immediately related to Sky Sports activities’ Premier League protection. You wouldn’t say that for this, would you?
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3. ‘Right here We Go’ music (1992-97)
A bit secret for you right here – the Planet Soccer workplace is staffed virtually completely by millennials. Gen Z traits confuse and terrify us in equal measure.
We’re not on the older finish of the millennial scale, so whereas we got here of age through the Richard Keys & Andy Grey years, we should admit… we don’t really keep in mind this one. At the least this author doesn’t, having not had Sky Sports activities in the home till a lot in a while. We do very a lot recognise it from Keys & Grey Nook on the Soccer Cliches podcast, although.
Endearingly cheesy. An inexorable half within the early years of Sky Sports activities’ rise to a footballing broadcasting powerhouse. Credit score the place it’s due.
2. Kasabian – Membership Foot (2009-11)
We keep in mind shopping for the NME when Kasabian first emerged with a type of quasi-guerrilla imagery behind them – shut up, grandpa.
Ahem, transferring on, they naturally grew into lad-rock area fillers because the years progressed, whereas early hit Membership Foot and its distinctive distorted bass riff had a type of endurance that noticed it chosen as Sky Sports activities’ Premier League intro theme a half-decade after it was first launched.
A whole lot of their landfill indie imitators and the accompanying Soccer AM banter are finest left up to now, however there’s no denying that Membership Foot simply sounds huge. Works completely paired with the Sky Sports activities hype machine.
1000’s and hundreds of hours of soccer, every extra climactic than the final.
Fixed, dizzying, 24-hour, year-long, infinite soccer.
Each kick in it massively mattering to somebody, presumably.
1. Moloko – Time is Now (2004-2009)
There’s a Mandela impact factor occurring the place this was apparently Moloko’s greatest chart hit. It reached No.2 within the charts, whereas Sing It Again reached No.45 upon its preliminary launch and peaked at 4.
We’re not having that. Sing It Again was the ever present floor-filler. Time Is Now was the archetypal Sky Sports activities intro music and we will’t probably think about listening to it in every other context.
“The time is…now,” forward of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea vs Rafael Benitez’s Liverpool. Barely hungover on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. A cagey low-scoring match that, in all honesty, type of appears extra like pub soccer than the game as we all know it in 2025.
Take us again.
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