Trivia
The song enjoys notable popularity in many sports arenas and stadiums; public address booths have often played the opening keyboard riff to rally the home crowd; it has also become a staple of high school and college pep bands for this same purpose. It was also frequently used in the American television show Arrested Development as the opening theme of G.O.B.'s magic show. The song was used for the American commercial of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and was used as an entrance theme for professional wrestler Bryan Danielson in Ring of Honor. It was the unofficial song of the Eurobasket 1987 held in Athens, Greece (it was the main song theme played during the time-outs) and it is still heavily associated with both the introductions of the Detroit Pistons at their home games at The Palace of Auburn Hills as well as the surprise and unprecedented victory of the Greek Men's Basketball team over the team of the Soviet Union in the last seconds of that Cup final (1987). It has been used as the opening theme for Henry Green's weekly radio show "Radio Therapy" on WQLT for several years and continues to see widespread airplay on similar Classic Hits and Classic Rock radio stations. On The Singing Bee, it was used preceding the final round, called "The Final Countdown." The song has been used in the video games SingStar '80s, Saints Row 2, Lego Rock Band and Just Dance 4. In 2010, the song was used in trailers for the third series of the BBC One television drama Ashes to Ashes, which is set in the 1980s. Radio DJ Benny Bashan on Israel's Galei Tzahal station has a daily portion of his show called "The greatest song ever, chosen by people who think that The Final Countdown is the greatest song ever". Listeners are invited to call in and vote for their favorite song, with the only qualifier being that they must be fans of The Final Countdown.
The song was named the 66th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. Blender included it as the 27th worst song ever, and both VH1 and Blender included it at 16 on the list of the "Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever".
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