Music in professional wrestling serves a variety of purposes. The most common uses of music in professional wrestling is that of the entrance theme, a song or piece of instrumental music which plays as a performer approaches the ring. After a match, the entrance theme of the victor will normally be played as they exit the ring. Entrance themes are used to alert the audience to the immediate arrival of a wrestler, and to increase anticipation.
James Alan Johnston is an American music composer and musician best known for his time with professional wrestling promotion, WWE. Over the course of three decades, he composed and recorded entrance theme music for the promotion's wrestlers, and compilations of his music released by WWE charted highly in several countries.
WWF The Music, Volume 3 is a soundtrack album by WWE. Released on December 19, 1998 by Koch Records, it features entrance theme music of various WWF superstars, all of which were composed and performed by Jim Johnston. The album was a commercial success, charting at number ten on the US Billboard 200.
Christopher P. Warren was an American musician who performed in numerous bands, the last being New York band Bro-Kin. He is best known for being the lead singer in The DX Band, a group who performed entrance themes for many stars and shows of professional wrestling over the years. They are mainly known for the songs "My Time" for Triple H and "Break It Down" for stable D-Generation X.
WWE Anthology is a compilation album by WWE. Released on November 12, 2002 by Koch Records, it features entrance theme music of various WWE wrestlers and events. The album is the first on which the company is named WWE, after it was renamed from World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in May 2002. The album was a commercial success, charting at number 13 on the US Billboard 200.
WWF The Music, Volume 4 is a soundtrack album by WWE. Released on November 2, 1999 by Koch Records, it features entrance theme music of various WWE superstars, all of which were composed and performed by Jim Johnston. The album was a commercial success, charting at number four in the U.S.
WWF The Music, Vol. 5 is a soundtrack album by WWE. Released on February 20, 2001 by Koch Records, it features entrance theme music of various WWE superstars, all of which were composed and performed by Jim Johnston. The album was a commercial success, charting at number two on the US Billboard 200.
ThemeAddict: WWE The Music, Vol. 6 is a compilation album released by WWE in 2004. It mostly features recent theme songs of wrestlers on the roster at the time. The album reached a peak of #38 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart.
WWF The Music, Volume 2 is the second compilation album by the World Wrestling Federation on November 18, 1997. It primarily features contemporary theme songs of wrestlers on the roster at the time.
WWF Full Metal: The Album is the first compilation album released by WWE in 1995 by Edel Music. It features a selection of theme tunes of wrestlers on the roster at the time, and is considered to be Volume 1 of the WWE: The Music series. The album was reissued outside the United States as WWF Champions: The Album – Full Metal Edition in 1996.
Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II is the second soundtrack album released by the WWE. It was released on September 21, 1987 by Epic Records. It featured actual vocal performances from several of the wrestlers themselves.
WWE Libraries Inc. is a WWE-owned subsidiary that consists of the largest collection of professional wrestling videos and copyrights in the world. It is comprised not only of past and current works by WWE but the works of now defunct professional wrestling promotions dating back to the 1940s. As of 2014, the library stands at 150,000 hours of content including weekly television shows, pay-per-views, and recorded house shows. The collection represents a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling in the United States and Canada. WWE has made their classic holdings available through numerous home-video releases, the WWE Vintage television program, and the WWE Network.
WWE Music Publishing, Inc.; trade name WWE Music Group, LLC., is an American record label funded and operated by WWE. It was manufactured and co-marketed by Columbia Records and was distributed by Sony Music. The label specializes in compilation album of the WWE wrestlers' entrance themes, often by contributing performing artists, but also releases titles that have been actually performed by the wrestlers themselves, including the various-artists album WWE Originals and John Cena's You Can't See Me.
"The Time Is Now" is a song by professional wrestler and actor John Cena. It is the current entrance theme used by Cena. Currently wrestling for WWE, Cena recorded the song in 2005 for his debut studio album, You Can't See Me. The song was released on April 9, 2005 as the lead single from the album on Columbia and WWE Music Group. The song was released as a single on the iTunes Store on June 20, 2011.
Voices: WWE The Music, Vol. 9 is a compilation album released by WWE in the United States and Canada on January 27, 2009, Australia on January 24 and in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2009. The album was originally announced to be a three-CD set featuring new music by Jim Johnston and alternate mixes of older material from the past 25 years to commemorate the WrestleMania 25th anniversary. However, the album is now a single disc of original theme music, with a bonus disc containing a selection of past theme music.
Evan Jones known professionally as Eazy the Phoenix or E&J is an American independent rapper from Miami, Florida. He is best known for his work with Jim Johnston of WWE Music Group on Ezekiel Jackson's professional wrestling theme song, "Domination".
WWE: Uncaged II is a compilation album of unreleased professional wrestling entrance theme songs which was released by WWE on March 21, 2017 on online music stores. The album was originally scheduled to be released on March 17, 2017, but was delayed. The album features multiple tracks that were not available to the general public before the release of the album.
WWE: Uncaged III is a compilation album of unreleased professional wrestling entrance theme songs which was released by WWE on August 21, 2017 on online music stores.
WWE: Uncaged IV is a compilation album of unreleased professional wrestling entrance theme songs which was released by WWE on November 20, 2017 on online music stores. The album features multiple tracks that were not available to the general public before the release of the album.
WWE: Uncaged is the name of a series of albums featuring unreleased theme songs mostly written and performed by Jim Johnston. The first album was released on December 16, 2016, and so far there have been fifteen albums released in total as of February 8, 2021. Since WWE: Uncaged XI, WWE now releases the albums around the 'Big Four' pay-per-view events.
