WWE Music Publishing, Inc. trade name WWE Music Group, LLC., is an American record company financially backed and functioned by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Columbia Records produced and co-marketed it, and Sony Music released it. The label specialises in compilations of WWE wrestlers’ entry themes, often delivered by prominent performing artists, but it also publishes titles sung by the wrestlers themselves, such as the various-artists album WWE Originals and John Cena’s You Can’t See Me. Ever since 1980s, often these WWE entry themes have been authored or expected to perform by Jim Johnston, while concepts from 2014 to 2020 have been authored or expected to perform by John Alicastro and Mike Lauri, collectively known as CFO$.
In this article we will highlight the Top 5 WWE bands:
- Saliva
Saliva was a popular WWE band throughout the 2000s. The band’s first encounter with WWE came in late 2001, when their melody ‘Click Click Boom’ was utilized as the theme song for the year’s No Mercy. Their song “Superstar” was then used as one of the concepts for Wrestle Mania X8, which included a live performance by the band. WWE afterward used the band’s next greatest success, ‘Always,’ as the theme for Survivor Series 2002, which featured a live rendition of the song at WWE’s The World restaurant during the show. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ the band’s next biggest hit, was used as the theme for Wrestle Mania 23, while ‘Hunt You Down,’ was used for No Way Out 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Saliva’s song ‘Don’t Question My Heart’ was used as the theme music for WWE’s ECW brand.
- Creed
Creed could have ranked first on this list if they hadn’t already become a great band at the time WWE used them. Throughout fact, Creed was the greatest band in America and, by extension, the world at the time. Despite their fame, Creed never achieved the same level of success in the United Kingdom and Europe as they did in the United States, so WWE would have been the first place most of their international fans were introduced to the Grammy winners. Many other Creed songs have been used in WWE homages on weekly shows and DVDs, most prominently ‘Higher,’ the band’s greatest success, in tribute to Eddie Guerrero. WWE also used ‘Young Grow Old,’ a Creed B-side album song, as the theme for Backlash 2002, and the song would appear on WWE’s Forceable Entry CD.
- Shinedown
Shinedown, one other band that discovered many foreign fans through WWE, was doing quite well in the United States before WWE happened to come along. The band’s big hit ‘Save Me’ would be used as the theme for WWE No Mercy in 2005. Only five months later, WWE utilised their follow-up single ‘I Dare You’ for one of the themes for WrestleMania 22. Numerous songs from Shinedown’s succeeding album, ‘The Sound of Madness,’ would be used by WWE. They began with the album’s first single, ‘Devour,’ as the Night of Champions 2008 theme song.
- Fozzy
This one may give off the impression to include, but when you reckon about it, it isn’t. In 1999, WWE legend Chris Jericho formed a comedy rock cover band called Fozzy with Stuck Mojo band members Rich Ward and Frank Fontsere. Chris dubbed himself ‘Moongoose McQueen,’ and refused to admit that he and Chris Jericho were the same person. The band made up a sardonic background story in which they agreed to sign with a record label to move to Japan and become massive rock stars, but the firm went bankrupt, leaving them beached for 20 years while all of their demos were stolen and recorded by other bands. When the band’s second album, Happenstance, was released in 2002, Stephanie McMahon hinted that she was a fan in a backstage section to promote the album’s release. This was followed by Fozzy performing live on an episode of RAW in August 2002.
- Papa Roach
With their phenomenally successful debut album, ‘Infest,’ Papa Roach broke into the mainstream in 2000. The band was well-known before WWE used any of their songs, but many WWE fans did not have to pay them much recognition until 2006, when WWE used their most recent single, ‘To Be Loved…,’ as the new theme music for Monday Night RAW. ‘To Be Loved…’ had become a hit with WWE fans and was the RAW theme for three years. This past January, the band’s latest number one single, ‘Born For Greatness,’ was disclosed to be the latest official main theme for RAW.
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