Davido Joins Major Lazer and Nelly Furtado on Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Track 'No Place Like Home'

Davido is back on the World Cup stage, and this time he brought Major Lazer and Nelly Furtado with him.

The Nigerian superstar has been confirmed as part of the official soundtrack for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, featuring alongside Major Lazer and Nelly Furtado on a new single titled 'No Place Like Home'. The track was released late Thursday and is one of 18 songs selected for FIFA's official 2026 World Cup album, a collection designed to reflect the musical breadth of a tournament being hosted across three nations the United States, Canada and Mexico and watched by a global audience of billions.

The song wasted no time making its presence felt. Within twenty minutes of release it had already climbed to number nine on Apple Music Nigeria, a debut speed that speaks both to the size of Davido's fanbase and to the immediate appeal of the record itself. Fans flooded social media with praise for his verse and for the infectious energy of a track that blends Afrobeats, dancehall and pop in a way that feels celebratory without being formulaic.

The collaboration makes musical sense. Major Lazer have spent over a decade building a body of work that sits at the intersection of global bass music and Caribbean sound, with a proven ability to create records that travel across cultures and borders. Nelly Furtado brings a pop sensibility and a vocal range that has made her one of the most versatile artists of her generation. Davido slots into that combination with the Afrobeats fire that has made him one of the most recognisable Nigerian voices on the international stage, and the result is a track that sounds genuinely global rather than assembled.

For Davido, this is familiar territory. In 2022 his song Hayya Hayya became one of the defining anthems of the Qatar World Cup, accumulating over 400 million streams on Spotify alone and introducing him to an even wider international audience. The fact that FIFA has returned to him for the 2026 edition is a clear statement about the reach and reliability he brings to a project of this scale. Two World Cup cycles, two official tracks it is a record very few African artists have come close to matching.

'No Place Like Home' is tipped to feature prominently across the tournament's opening ceremonies in Los Angeles, Toronto and Mexico City as the competition gets underway from June 11. With 48 teams, three host nations and a global footprint larger than any previous World Cup, the 2026 edition presents an audience for the song that Hayya Hayya itself a remarkable success never had access to.

Davido's trajectory from the streets of Lagos to back-to-back FIFA World Cup anthems is one of the more remarkable stories in the modern history of African music. 'No Place Like Home' is the latest chapter, and it has arrived exactly on time.