title: Entrance music
text: # Entrance music
  
  Entrance music (also known as an entry theme or walk-on music) is a musical piece or song that is played for athletes or entertainers when they first appear in front of the spectators before beginning a performance. Popular music acts may have recorded intro and/or outro music played before and after a concert performance, which is often of a different genre from that of the act's own live music. Acts often retain a single signature tune throughout their career; music acts typically retain the same intro/outro at least for a whole concert tour.
  
  ## Combat sports
  
  * Ricky Hatton - Blue Moon by
  * Wanderlei Silva - Darude - Sandstorm
  * Anderson Silva - DMX - Ain't No Sunshine
  * Roy Nelson - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Fat
  * Brock Lesnar - Metallica - Enter Sandman
  
  YouTuber and rapper KSI tends to use his own music as his entrance themes, most notably Down Like That, in which a live performance was held for KSI's walkout.
  
  ## Professional snooker
  
  As part of Barry Hearn's vision for the future of the professional game, walk-on music was introduced from the 2010 World Snooker Championship. As of the 2012 World Snooker Championship, the last 32 players and their walk-on music was as follows:
  
  Walk-on music :
  
  | Player | Song | Artist |
  | - | - | - |
  | Mark Allen | "Titanium" | David Guetta feat. Sia |
  | Stuart Bingham | "In the Air Tonight" | Phil Collins |
  | Luca Brecel | "Earthquake" | Labrinth feat. Tinie Tempah |
  | Cao Yupeng | "Blah Blah Blah" | Kesha |
  | Ali Carter | "Good Feeling" | Flo Rida |
  | Dominic Dale | La donna è mobile | Giuseppe Verdi |
  | Mark Davis | "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" | Michael Jackson |
  | Ryan Day | "One Step Beyond" | Madness |
  | Ding Junhui | "Poker Face" | Lady Gaga |
  | Ken Doherty | "Irish Rover" | The Pogues |
  | Graeme Dott | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
  | Peter Ebdon | "Wrapped Up in Time" | Marillion |
  | Marco Fu | "I Gotta Feeling" | Black Eyed Peas |
  | David Gilbert | "Superstylin'" | Groove Armada |
  | Martin Gould | "The Game" | Motörhead |
  | Barry Hawkins | "Beautiful People" | Chris Brown |
  | Stephen Hendry | "Get the Message" | Electronic |
  | John Higgins | "Nowhere to Hide" | Arnold McCuller |
  | Andrew Higginson | "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | Joy Division |
  | Jamie Jones | "Sexy and I Know It" | LMFAO |
  | Stephen Lee | "Pump It" | Black Eyed Peas |
  | Liang Wenbo | "Zhongguoren" | Andy Lau |
  | Liu Chuang | "Down" | Jay Sean |
  | Stephen Maguire | "Here I Go Again" | Whitesnake |
  | Shaun Murphy | "Disco Inferno" | The Trammps |
  | Ronnie O'Sullivan | "Drops of Jupiter" | Train |
  | Joe Perry | "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman" | The White Stripes |
  | Neil Robertson | "Heart of Courage" | Two Steps from Hell |
  | Mark Selby | "Underdog" | Kasabian |
  | Matthew Stevens | "OMG" | Usher |
  | Judd Trump | "High on Life” | Martin Garrix (feat Bonn) |
  | Mark Williams | "Jump" | Van Halen |
  
  ## Roller derby
  
  Walk-on music used in roller derby, also called skate-out music, has been a part of the sport since its very beginning.
  
  Skate-out music :
  
  | League | Team | Song | Artist |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Gotham Girls Roller Derby | All-Stars | "Turn Down for What" | DJ Snake ft. Lil Jon |
  | Minnesota RollerGirls | All-Stars | "Boneless" | Steve Aoki |
  | Minnesota RollerGirls | Minnesota Nice | "Roller Girls" | The Soviettes |
  
  ## Major League Baseball
  
  The practice of using a heavy metal theme song to signal the entrance of a relief pitcher began at Qualcomm Stadium in 1998, when the San Diego Padres started playing "Hells Bells" by AC/DC to accompany Trevor Hoffman's taking the mound. San Jose Mercury News and ESPN.com wrote that the song should be honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The use of rock and roll for entrance music emerged from the comedy film Major League (1989), in which relief pitcher Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn entered the game to a cover of "Wild Thing" performed by X. In addition, batters will often select a song to play as they come to the plate in home games.
  
  ## Wrestling
  
  Wrestling companies often have an inhouse composer composing theme music for wrestlers. They also may use stock music.
  
  Many wrestlers have used many themes over the course of their careers. Some wrestlers like Ric Flair and "Macho Man" Randy Savage are known for their one particular entrance theme song, Also Sprach Zarathustra and Pomp and Circumstance respectively.
  
  