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Organisers have apologised for playing the North Korean national anthem for the South Korean men's hockey team at the Asian Games in Japan.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"You sang the Canadian anthem because it needed to happen," Grier said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

For Drew Grier, an American who lives eight minutes from the stadium, "the anthem playing tonight is a core part of who we are as a border city".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The duo gained further notoriety with hits “Can’t Hold Us” and same-sex marriage anthem “Same Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The Nuremberg Rally of 1934 was itself an anthem to power and a carefully designed tool for further concentrating and advancing it.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Take a bite out of history: In Part 2 of its series on McGruff the Crime Dog, Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast asks the question: Did a trench-coat-wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Mahalia Jackson’s gospel anthems and Harry Belafonte’s interpretations of calypso music took on special relevance for the civil-rights movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He was booed by the crowd during the national anthems and again when he took the field with Infantino after the game for the awards ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

And just like she promises in my summer staple, Bonnie Tyler’s huge choruses and blockbuster anthems will be ravishing us until the end of this endless night.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

I have no praise anthems, nor old Negro spirituals.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates