25 Most Iconic Darts Walk-On Songs – The Definitive Countdown

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Phil Taylor’s ‘The Power’ is the most iconic darts walk-on song ever.

A Sky Sports floor manager broke a CD. The replacement was Snap!’s ‘I’ve Got the Power’. Taylor got the nickname, the walk-on, and 16 world titles. No other entrance in sport is this tightly wired to a player’s identity.

Below: 25 darts walk-on songs ranked from good to untouchable, with the story behind each pick and a Spotify clip so you can hear exactly what 3,000 people at Alexandra Palace lose their minds to.

Bennett was 13 when he won the BDO World Youth Championship. Thirteen. He walked on to Boom Boom Boom and the crowd treated him like a headliner. The song is pure 90s cheese and it works because Bennett’s energy matches it – bouncy, fearless, zero self-consciousness. He is proof that darts walk-on songs are earned by attitude, not age.

The Wizard from Australia. Long beard. Leather waistcoat. Walking on to Men at Work’s Down Under. It is the most on-the-nose national anthem choice in darts, and it works because Whitlock commits to the whole act. The song is the punchline to a visual joke that never gets old. Every time he throws at a major, 3,000 English fans sing an Australian song. That is the power of a well-matched walk-on.

Hardstyle at Alexandra Palace. Wattimena brought a genre that most darts fans had never heard onto the biggest stage in the sport. The Gunz For Hire remix of Bella Ciao hits different from every other walk-on – harder, louder, more aggressive. It splits the crowd. Some love it, some hate it. But nobody ignores it. And that is exactly what a walk-on should do.

The name is King. The song is King of Kings. Motorhead played it. It does not get more straightforward than this. Mervyn King has never needed to change his walk-on because nobody could find a better fit if they tried. The Triple H connection gives it crossover appeal too – WWE fans hear it and immediately understand what kind of competitor is coming to the board.

The Freeze from the Netherlands. High Hopes is one of those songs that sounds like it was written for a sports entrance – the build, the chorus drop, the fist-pump energy. Noppert’s rise through the rankings has given the song extra meaning. When he walks on at a major now, the crowd knows what he is capable of. The song went from aspirational to statement.

The Rockstar from Bradford. Oasis in a darts arena is a cheat code – the entire crowd knows every word and they will sing it whether you ask them to or not. Cullen’s 2022 Masters win cemented this walk-on. The song carried him through smoke to the biggest result of his career. And the crowd carried the chorus.

The Dancing Dimi. The Dreammaker. Van den Bergh treats his walk-on like a performance – he dances, he points to the crowd, he feeds off the energy. Play Hard is the soundtrack to a player who genuinely looks like he is having the best night of his life every time he steps on stage. His 2020 World Matchplay win behind closed doors robbed us of one of the great walk-on moments.

Chizzy bounces onto stage like a man at a wedding disco who has just been told the buffet is open. Dizzy is a novelty record and it should not work as a walk-on song. But Chisnall makes it work by being the most genuinely happy person in the building. The crowd spins around. He grins. Everyone has a good time. Darts at its purest.

The Queen of the Palace. Sherrock made history at the 2020 World Championship by becoming the first woman to beat a man on the Ally Pally stage. Last Friday Night became the soundtrack to that moment. Every time she walked on after, the song carried the memory of what she had already achieved. The walk-on stopped being an introduction and became a victory lap.

Rocky from Northern Ireland. Twenty-two years old and walking on like he owns the venue. Welcome to the Party is exactly what it sounds like – a statement that the party starts when Josh Rock arrives. He already has a Grand Slam of Darts title. The walk-on has gone from confidence to evidence.

The Aubergenius works in an aubergine factory. He plays hardstyle music at maximum volume. He wears orange and goes wild on stage. Just Like You by Radical Redemption is not a song most darts fans would choose. But that is the point. Van Duijvenbode brought an entirely different energy to the PDC and his walk-on is the loudest signal of it.

The Machine has used I’m Still Standing for over 20 years. He has never changed it. In a sport where players swap songs like flights, Wade’s loyalty to Elton John says everything about his approach. He is still standing. Still winning titles. Still walking on to the same song he picked when he was a teenager. The consistency is the statement.

His name is Johnny. The song is Johnny B. Goode. Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one. Clayton’s walk-on gets extra points because Chuck Berry is genuinely cool and because the crowd chants “Go Johnny go, go, go” without needing any encouragement. The Ferret from Pontypool won the 2021 Premier League and the Grand Slam with this song blaring. bet365 called it a walk-on that “gives listeners goosebumps.”

The coffin dance meme song. In 2020, pallbearers dancing to Astronomia became one of the most shared videos on the internet. Five years later, a 21-year-old Dutch darts player walks on to it at Alexandra Palace and the entire Gen Z section of the crowd goes ballistic. Van Veen brought internet culture to darts. Currently ranked 3rd in the world, the song is becoming a genuine anthem.

Superchin. Sweet Caroline. 3,000 people singing “BAH BAH BAH” in unison. It is one of the purest crowd participation moments in darts. The song exists to be sung badly and loudly, and a darts crowd is the ideal audience for that. Gurney’s walk-on is proof that sometimes the best walk-on song is not about the player. It is about giving the crowd something to do.

THE TOP 10

The Walk-Ons That Define the Sport

Every song from here changed something. A crowd reaction. A player’s brand. The way television covers darts. These are not just entrance themes. They are cultural moments.

The Iceman. The most divisive player in modern darts walks on to the most divisive song of the 1990s. Price has also used Discoland by Gerry Cinnamon, but Ice Ice Baby is the one that stuck. And it stuck because it matches his persona perfectly – loud, confident, impossible to ignore.

The crowd boos. He feeds off it. The song plays. He raises his arms. Whatever you think of Price, his walk-on creates a reaction. That is the entire point.

Littler was 16 when he walked onto the Ally Pally stage for the first time. The walk-on went viral. Not because of the song – ESPN actually called it “a bit of a letdown” as a track choice – but because of the moment. A teenager, walking through smoke, about to dismantle the PDC order of merit.

Greenlight works because of who is walking to it. The Pitbull track has energy, and Littler’s cold-blooded composure against it creates a contrast that makes the whole thing compelling. He does not dance. He does not play to the crowd. He just walks. And the crowd goes mad anyway. He is now the world number one and the walk-on carries the weight of everything he has done since that first night.

Voltage. Rob Cross won the World Championship in his first full year on the PDC tour in 2018. He beat Phil Taylor in Taylor’s final ever match. His walk-on had to carry the weight of that moment, and I Don’t Wanna Wait delivered.

The David Guetta and OneRepublic collaboration is the most modern-sounding walk-on in the top 10. It sounds like a festival headline slot, which is fitting because Cross’s entrance at big events has festival energy. The crowd bounces. The lights pulse. And Cross walks through it all looking like he belongs there. Because he does.

Snakebite. The mohawk changes colour every tournament. The outfits get more outrageous. And the walk-on is always the same – Don’t Stop the Party, full volume, maximum energy.

Wright is the only player whose walk-on is a complete visual and audio experience. The song is the soundtrack, but the costumes are the show. He has walked on dressed as the Grinch, a pirate, a Christmas tree, and once as what appeared to be a glitter-covered alien. Two world titles later, the walk-on is as much a part of his legacy as his Red Dragon darts. ESPN ranked it #2 all-time. We put it at #7 because the song alone, without the visuals, is not as strong as the entries above it.

Barney. Five-time world champion. The man who beat Phil Taylor in the greatest darts match ever played – the 2007 PDC World Championship final, 7-6 in sets, both players averaging over 100.

Eye of the Tiger is the ultimate comeback song. And Van Barneveld has made more comebacks than anyone in darts. He retired in 2019. He came back in 2021. Each time he walks on to Survivor, the song means something different. William Hill called it “one of the greatest walk-ons in the world of darts.” When the opening notes hit at Ally Pally, the Dutch contingent erupts. Every single time.

Cool Hand Luke. The 2024 World Champion chose I Predict a Riot because he is an avid Leeds United fan and the Kaiser Chiefs are from Leeds. That personal connection lifts it above a generic crowd-pleaser.

William Hill ranked it #1 for recognition. And they might be right – Humphries’ walk-on at the 2024 World Championship final, when he beat Littler 7-4 to win his first world title, was one of the most electric entrances in darts history. The entire arena sang every word. Humphries walked through it with the calm of a man who knew what was coming. He predicted a riot. He got one.

The Flying Scotsman. Two-time world champion. And the owner of the most physically demanding walk-on in professional darts.

When Jump Around hits, the crowd does what the song tells them to do. They jump. The floor of Alexandra Palace literally shakes. Anderson walks through the chaos with the composure of a man who has done this a thousand times because he has. There is something beautifully old-school about Anderson’s walk-on. No production tricks. No choreography. Just a 90s hip-hop track and 3,000 people losing their minds. His 2015 and 2016 World Championship wins both started with this song. It is not clever. It is not subtle. It just works.

The Bullet from St Helens. ESPN ranked this #1 and called it “a moment of transcendence.” Yahoo Sports also put it top. Two major publications independently picked Bunting’s walk-on as the best in darts. That is not an accident.

Here is why. Titanium starts quiet. Sia’s voice builds slowly over spare piano chords. The crowd waits. They know what is coming. And when the chorus hits – “I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose” – the entire arena erupts. The dynamic range is the key. Most walk-on songs start loud and stay loud. Titanium goes from silence to explosion, and the crowd’s energy follows the same arc. Bunting times his entrance to the drop. Every time. It is the most technically well-executed walk-on in the sport.

That riff. You know it. Everyone knows it. Seven notes. The crowd does not sing the words – they sing the riff. “Oh, Michael van Gerwen!” to the bassline, over and over, louder each time. It is the most recognisable walk-on sound in modern darts.

Van Gerwen chose Seven Nation Army because it already had pedigree as a sports anthem – football crowds across Europe had adopted it years earlier. But he made it his own. Three World Championship titles, two Premier League titles, and an era of dominance from 2014 to 2019 cemented the connection. When that riff plays at Alexandra Palace, 3,000 people stomp their feet in time. The building shakes. Cameras struggle to stay steady. DartsTickets ranked it #1 all-time. It is the walk-on that replaced The Power as the defining sound of darts. We gave it #2 because it replaced something. Number one invented it.

NUMBER ONE

Phil Taylor – The Power

Snap!

The story goes like this. A Sky Sports floor manager named Martin Turner was working a darts broadcast in the early 1990s. A CD broke. The replacement disc in the pile was Snap!’s “I’ve Got the Power.” Turner played it for Phil Taylor’s entrance. The crowd reacted. Taylor liked it. Turner then christened him “The Power” as a nickname to match the song.

A broken CD created the most iconic walk-on in darts history.

Taylor went on to win 16 World Championships with that song blaring. Sixteen. For over two decades, the opening synth of The Power meant one thing to every darts fan on earth: the best player who ever lived is about to throw. The song did not just accompany Taylor’s career. It defined it. His nickname came from it. His brand came from it. Every tribute, every highlight reel, every retirement montage starts with those opening bars.

No other walk-on in any sport has this level of integration between player, song, and identity. Conor McGregor walks on to The Foggy Dew. Undertaker had his theme. But those were performed for the athlete. Taylor’s walk-on was performed by the crowd. Three thousand people screaming “I’ve got the power” at a man from Stoke who threw arrows for a living. And he did have the power. Every single time.

Taylor retired in January 2018. He beat Rob Cross in the semi-final, lost to him in the final, and walked off the Ally Pally stage for the last time. The Power played him out. Nobody has used it since. Nobody would dare.

That is why it is number one. Not because the song is great – though it is. Because the song became the man. And the man became the song. There will never be another walk-on like it.

KEY TAKEAWAY

The best darts walk-on songs are not the best songs. They are the best matches between a player, a moment, and a crowd that wants to be part of it.