Primary Wave Music has reached a deal to purchase a portion of singer/songwriter Joey Tempest’s music catalog. The purchase includes tracks such as “The Final Countdown,” the song that Bryan Danielson used during his time in Ring of Honor before he signed with WWE.
This may also be the opening for Tony Khan/AEW to license the rights to the song. When Danielson signed with AEW in 2021, there was an attempt to get the rights to use the song but the price was too much. Danielson talked about this during an interview with BleacherReport.com.
“Tony and I talked about a couple of things. We had talked about ‘The Final Countdown,’ but that was way too expensive,” he said. “I hate talking business stuff when I don’t exactly know what it was, but it wasn’t just the amount of money. They would only let [AEW] play it like 20 times a year or something like that. For several $100,000 you can play ‘Final Countdown’ 20 times a year. That doesn’t work for us.”
“I had kind of wanted something a bit different, so I reached out to my friend, Elliott Taylor, and said ‘Hey, here’s an idea. But I don’t know if it’s any good. Could you do something like this?’ He dropped everything. I think he’s done 72 hours in the studio and made the song that I come out to now, which I think he’s also going to do a full-length release because it actually has like two chorus lyrics,” Bryan said. “I really, really liked it. And it also incorporates a chant that people would do when I was on the independents. I kind of wanted to get it in there. I would love for people to start chanting it again.”
Primary Wave Music’s purchase could mean that the price to use the song will come down, thus allowing AEW and Danielson to use the song. We’ll see if this ends up happening.
“The Final Countdown” song might be available to use now if AEW and Bryan Danielson want it.
“Primary Wave Music has struck a deal with Joey Tempest, the lead vocalist of the rock band Europe, acquiring what it says is a portion of his music publishing catalog, encompassing… pic.twitter.com/G7vFFuDylx
— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) June 23, 2023
