The Final Countdown

Single released on February 14, 1986 by the Swedish group Europe . At the time of its release , it had climbed to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and in 2015, 30 years after its release, it was inserted in an advertisement for American insurance company GEICO , and it vomited its spirit by taking No. 1 on the Billboard Hard Rock Chart and No. 1 on the CM Song Chart. . It is a world-famous song with more than 1 billion YouTube views.

It is a representative song of the glam metal that was popular at the time , and is still used as an insert song due to the eerie opening.

Unlike the opening part, which is overwhelming even by today's standards, it is also famous for its bizarre songs that become dull after that. The intro part was made using two synthesizers. After that, the lyrics were omitted because they were buried. Moreover, the performance after the intro was monotonous... . Just take out the lyrics. This is not a simple review. After this final countdown, the main guitarist, John Norum , expressed dissatisfaction and even left the band, asking if this was pop or metal.

Some people know this song as a memorial song for the STS-51-L Challenger space shuttle explosion that occurred in January 1986 . However, the actual recording was already completed in 1985, the year before, so the story ended as a mere rumor. You cannot predict an accident in advance and compose a memorial song. Of course, if you look at the lyrics and hear them as a memorial song, such as "leaving the earth," "heading for Venus," "several light years away," and "everyone will miss you," there is room for interpretation, and the countdown in the song's title also appears before the spacecraft launch. Therefore, Final may sound more plausible. However, no matter how hard you search, there is no mention of Challenger in the comments on the original music video posted on YouTube. If it is a serious event such as a person's death, it will be mentioned in some way, but the fact that there is no mention of Challenger in the comments shows that this song is completely unrelated to the incident. In the disaster episode of The Man Who Runs the Charts, this appeared to be true.

It is said that the name of the song was initially The Final Breakdown, not The Final Countdown.

It was a famous song that made Europe a world -class band, but it was surprisingly not in Europe's best masterpiece TOP 10 by Joy Tempest , a European vocal.

In 2016, thanks to the singer's name or song title, a drip that was actually a Brexit theme song became popular overseas.

It was this song that made Yoo Hee-yeol and Kim Jang-hoon meet. Seeing Yoo Hee-yeol, who was in a school band in college, playing the synthesizer part of the song with a slouch indifferently, Kim Jang-hoon said, 'What should I do with him?' Later, Yoo Hee-yeol received a blind date offer from his senior and went out, but met Kim Jang-hoon, who was not a blind date woman, and debuted as a keyboardist for his band 'Kim Jang-hoon and Koreans'.

In the United States, it is also played during NFL or NBA games. For example, with only a few seconds remaining in the game, a song is played to heighten the atmosphere when the game is lost, come-from-behind, or victory. In particular , the Detroit Pistons used it as a player's theme song until the 2010/11 season .


The Yakult Swallows used this song as a prelude to a starting song centered on the setup man and the finisher around 2011, but at this time, the finisher was Lim Chang-yong, who was treated as the king of the end, so it matched quite well unintentionally.


Johann Electric Bach did a mix and mash-up with the opening song of the National Song Contest.

Doosan Bears is used as a starting music, but it is said to be kanji. Since the time of Doosan's predecessor OB Bears[1] So far, it has never changed. 2021 version

Japan's legendary professional wrestler Muto Cage was used as a theme song as a rookie. After that, I used it again during the retirement.

American professional wrestler Brian Danielson used it as an appearance theme song when he was active in ROH and various indie organizations, and in 2023, when the copyright issue in Europe was resolved, it was used again in AEW 's Forbidden Door 2023 with official permission. .

kt wiz It was used as a song of Hwang Jae -kyun .

It appeared as a song played on radio channel The Mix 107.77 on Saints Row 2 .

It was inserted as background music in the TV commercial for the Suzuki Cultus GT-i ( starting at 2:23 ).

It is inserted into Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare . It is not a campaign, but is inserted into Zombies mode. In the basic map "Zombies in Spaceland," David Hasselhoff , a DJ at the Spaceland theme park of the same name , plays the song randomly along with other famous songs.

It is also inserted into the Guardians of Galaxy . It is played in the final match against Magus and can also be played on the spaceship.


In 2025, David Geta and Hypaton released the 2025 remix version. However, it is not good because of the drop instead of the original melody.

A remix of this song was included in beatmania IIDX 4th style . The subtitle is MTO CRY BABY STYLE, and Des-ROW was in charge of playing guitar in dj TAKA 's remix. Among the copyrighted songs, it has survived quite a long time. Part 2 of the original song was published.

Originally, it was planned to be included in the 5-key beatmania CLUB MIX, but due to scheduling issues, it was included here.

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It was included in Just Dance 4 and Unlimited. In 4, the difficulty was hard, but in Unlimited, the difficulty was lowered to easy.