Randal Keith Orton is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Orton has the tied-third most world championship reigns in history, and a career spanning over 20 years.
WWE No Mercy, also known as NXT No Mercy since 2023, is a professional wrestling event produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The first No Mercy was held on May 16, 1999, in Manchester, England, and was the only No Mercy event produced in the United Kingdom. A second No Mercy was then held in October that year in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Beginning with this second event, No Mercy became the annual October pay-per-view (PPV) until 2008. The event was then discontinued and replaced by Hell in a Cell in 2009. After eight years, No Mercy was reinstated in October 2016. However, No Mercy was again discontinued after the September 2017 event, as WWE reduced the amount of yearly PPVs held after they had ended the production of brand-exclusive PPVs following WrestleMania 34 in 2018. In 2023, WWE again revived the event, this time for its developmental brand, NXT, in September.
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 29, 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.
WWE Wreckless Intent is a compilation album released by WWE on May 23, 2006. The album is the sequel to the previously released WWF Forceable Entry, and like its predecessor it featured rock and metal artists performing versions of the wrestlers' entrance themes. A noted change with this album compared to the Forceable Entry album is the incorporation of rap and hip-hop artists doing versions of entrance themes as well as providing additional original tracks. This also marks as one of the last WWE albums being released by Columbia Records.
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, 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. It also marked the debut of Onika Maraj, or Nicki Minaj.
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.
WWE Music Publishing, Inc.; trade name WWE Music Group, LLC., is an American record label funded and operated by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), a division of TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It was manufactured and co-marketed by Columbia Records and was distributed by Sony Music. The label specializes in the production of theme songs serving as the WWE wrestlers' entrance music, sometimes 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, peaking at number 12 and 15 on the US Billboard 200, respectively.
Rev Theory is an American rock band formed in 2002 in North Andover, Massachusetts. The band has released four studio albums: Truth Is Currency (2005), Light It Up (2008), Justice (2011) and The Revelation (2016), as well as three EPs: Revelation Theory EP (2004), Acoustic Live from the Gibson Lounge (2009) and Take 'Em Out (2012). The song "Hell Yeah" was the opening theme song for the popular Spike show Blue Mountain State and the song "We Own The Night" was the main theme song for the WWE Network reality series Breaking Ground. The song "Voices" is currently being used by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Randy Orton.
Raw Greatest Hits: The Music is a compilation album released by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on December 18, 2007, to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the TV program, Monday Night RAW. It features theme-music of Raw roster-members of the time - as well as that of former members.
Voices: WWE The Music, Vol. 9 is a compilation album released by World Wrestling Entertainment (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.
WWE The Music: A New Day, Vol. 10 is a compilation album released by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on January 28, 2010. Unlike previous albums in the series, the album was released both in CD-R and digital download forms, exclusively on Amazon.com in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
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, track 10 "Danger in the Jungle" with Rainforest intro was originally used for The Headshrinkers, the version that Haku and Faces of Fear used was remixed with drums in WCW.
WWE: Uncaged III is a compilation album of previously 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 V is a compilation album of unreleased professional wrestling entrance theme songs which was released by WWE on August 20, 2018 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. Starting from WWE: Uncaged XI, the albums were released around the 'Big Four' pay-per-view events. However, there have been no new releases since February 2021, leaving the future of the series in doubt.
