Usually when a sport needs music the athlete or team plan a routine around a song. Some might choose a song that’s well known in their country but universaly known. If it’s a folk song it might come off as royalty free.
With the breakdancing they had live DJs cutting songs together and the dancers had to adlib their rutines. According to this article the Olympics licensed around 400 songs for the DJs to use. Since each battle used multiple songs you’re going to hear more tracks that you know and forget about the ones you don’t.
Hmmm. A Ukrainian girl used Michael Jackson’s Thriller during her rhythmic gymnastics number. I don’t think that’s royalty free. And the US artistic swimming team used Smooth Criminal, also by Michael Jackson.
I saw two artistic swim teams in a row use Eminem’s Lose Yourself.
That’s because you only get one shot.
Make perfect sense to use influencial hip hop music for breakdance
Historic hip-hop still comes with royalties.
Because the Olympics can afford the licensing fees.
Didn’t all 3 podium winners of one of the gymnastics events dance to Beyonce?
If you were the artist/label and Olympics asked to use your music. You’d say, “What?!?!” And the beat would bounce quicker than your ass letting loose of that latest burrito from Taco Bell.
well no wonder you have to shit, why are you ordering burritos at Taco Bell?
Because they’re the only restaurant that survived the Fast Food Wars.
Some may say it was Pizza Hut that won.
We don’t take kindly to history revisionists in these parts.
…What!!!
Now I’m imaging Olympic Breakdancing to like “Yankee Doodle” or some other public domain song.
This is one of those times where agreeing to do something ‘for the exposure’ is actually probably worth it. Your song is going to be played on a world stage, You really gonna say no?
On the other hand, the Olympics is not a charity. I would not accept exposure credits as payments to artists.
Not how it works- licensing will be through a third party agency
I wonder how many songs they licensed are by artists that would actually need that kind of exposure.
