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Shakira and Burna Boy Unveil FIFA’s 2026 World Cup Song ‘Dai Dai’
Shakira and Burna Boy release FIFA's 2026 World Cup song 'Dai Dai,' following in the path of 'Waka Waka.'
The official song for the 2026 FIFA World Cup arrived on Thursday, May 14, with Shakira and Burna Boy at the center of it. The Colombian superstar and the Nigerian hitmaker join forces on “Dai Dai,” a nearly four-minute anthem built to work as both a pop crossover and a tournament rallying cry.
“Dai Dai” moves between Afrobeats, dance-pop, world beats and reggaetón without sounding like it is trying too hard to merge them. That balancing act is part of the point. FIFA songs have always been asked to carry more than one job at once: they need to travel, translate and somehow feel bigger than the tournament itself. This one does that by leaning into the familiar emotional grammar of football, with lyrics that aim squarely at players and fans.
Shakira opens with a line that frames the song as a kind of hard-earned affirmation: “You knew from the day you were born/ That here in this place you belong/ You’ve been this brave all along/ What broke you once, made you strong.” Burna Boy follows with, “Go follow your desire/ Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” before the pair start name-checking football royalty: Maradona, Maldini, Romário, Cristiano Ronaldo, Beckham, Kaká and Messi. The song also nods to this year’s participating countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, United States and Netherlands.
The release also extends Shakira’s long relationship with FIFA. “Dai Dai” is her second official World Cup song after “Waka, Waka (This Time for Africa),” the 2010 anthem that became one of the defining pop songs attached to the tournament. That track peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs, Latin Airplay and Latin Pop Airplay charts in July 2010, reached No. 8 on Latin Rhythm Airplay, climbed to No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 42 weeks at No. 1 on Latin Digital Song Sales, her longest run atop that chart.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins June 11 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City and runs through July 19, when the final will take place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, renamed the New York New Jersey Stadium for the games. Shakira is also set to co-headline the halftime show at the World Cup final with Madonna and BTS.
