{"id":542996,"date":"2026-07-10T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:36:12","slug":"erling-haalands-rap-song-remix-tops-spotify-charts-in-norway-amid-2026-world-cup-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542996\/","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland&#8217;s Rap Song Remix Tops Spotify Charts in Norway amid 2026 World Cup Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A remix of a rap song that Norwegian soccer sensation Erling Haaland released 10 years ago is currently topping the charts in his home country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to ESPN&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49320148\/world-cup-daily-live-remix-teen-erling-haaland-rap-song-hits-no-1-spain-face-belgium\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Wright<\/a>, Haaland formed a group called Flow Kingz with two of his under-17 international teammates a decade ago, and they dropped a song called Kygo Jo on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Norwegian DJ and producer Kygo vowed to remix the song if Haaland scored in Norway&#8217;s Round of 16 match against Brazil at the FIFA World Cup, and he did precisely that after Haaland netted a pair of goals in a 2-1 victory:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kygo subsequently shared a screenshot of Kygo Jo quickly emerging as the No. 1 song on Spotify in Norway:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Haaland is arguably the most popular person in Norway right now given that he has already led the country to its best-ever result at the World Cup by reaching the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Should Haaland and Norway pull off the upset over England in the quarterfinals on Saturday, Kygo Jo just might go platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A remix of a rap song that Norwegian soccer sensation Erling Haaland released 10 years ago is currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-542996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}