You Raise Me Up - Use in Popular Culture

Use in Popular Culture

• Shizuka Arakawa, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, used the piece as an exhibition number for many shows and professional competitions from 2005–2010. Michelle Kwan skated to the song during the 2004 Champion on Ice Tour and other competitions in 2005. Caroline Zhang skated this song in her exhibitions in the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 skating season.
• In 2004, Australian Idol Top 12 contestant Daniel Belle sang the song for his "Pop" song selection, and it has become one of the most performed songs on similar shows across the world.
• RTE (Ireland's national television station), screened a Roy Esmonde produced documentary titled You Raise Me Up on New Year's Day 2006. First screened a year earlier, this updated edition included the most recent successes for the song, as well as the story of how the song first came to be written by Løvland and Graham.
• I.K. Start, a Norwegian football club, uses this song as a club anthem.
• On May 8, 2007, the song was played at the historic opening of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
• On July 26, 2007, the song was performed on 6th International Competition Of Young Singers of Popular Music the "New Wave" (Jūrmala, Latvia) by Andris Ērglis representing Latvia on this contest. Song accompaniment recorded by Swedish producers from "Sunday Music" for Latvian music company "Microphone Records."
• X Factor judge Simon Cowell has named "You Raise Me Up" one of his favourite songs.
• On February 18, 2008, You Raise Me Up was released as the title of an album with '40 uplifting songs' including Elton John, Russell Watson, Girls Aloud and Shane Hampsheir.
• On 27–29 March 2009, The Australian Foster Care Conference in Fremantle, Western Australia used the title of the song "You Raise Me Up" as the Conference Theme and the song lyrics were posted on their website. "'Raise me up' in the context of foster care carries the dual meaning of 'raising, bringing up or growing up - the foster child', and in doing so 'lifting them up' high and giving them the opportunity to achieve great things.
• On 23 July 2010, the song was used as background for the announcement of the winners of the "Time of My Life" duet winners on Big Brother Ten as part of the series' two day Glee themed task.
• The song is played on a car radio during a sequence in the 2012 film Fun Size.