Get your New Year’s party on track with our Paris 2024 playlist

For fans of the Games, it’s not easy to say goodbye to an Olympic year. After so much excitement, so many magical sporting moments and the prospect of another four-year wait until the next summer Games, some people would rather rewind the clocks than head into an Olympic-free 2025.

But even as 2024 draws to a close, there’s still one more opportunity to celebrate Paris 2024, with an Olympic-themed playlist for your end-of-year celebrations.

Read on to discover the perfect Olympics-inspired tunes that will keep your spirits up and help you see off 2024 in style.

Celebrate every moment of the new year with music from the last Olympic Games

One thing that became clear in the earliest stages of the last Olympics was that Paris 2024 was going to be a party.

That party atmosphere could be felt in every venue across France’s capital and the surrounding areas that hosted events during the Games.

If you’re looking to get people on their feet at your own New Year’s party this year, how about borrowing some of the upbeat themes that kept the crowd dancing from the stands at Paris 2024?

One place to start could be the club anthem ‘Freed from Desire’, which was released by Italian singer Gala in 1996.

The song was a mainstay in stadiums at Paris 2024 and could be heard across the city throughout the duration of the Games.

Or what about another dance music classic to get your celebrations up and running? Cassius’s hit song ‘1999’, which featured in the Closing Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, is a sure bet to send people to the dancefloor, while ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’, which blared from the speakers when Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis broke the pole vault world record at Paris 2024, is another top pick for party goers of all ages.

And if you want to experience all the feels during your New Year’s party, look no further than ‘Parade’, the song of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. From its classically inspired beginning to its funk-filled ending, there’s no better way to celebrate this year’s Games than by adding Victor le Masne’s anthem to your playlist.

Music for when the clock chimes to ring in the new year

In many countries, Auld Lang Syne is the most popular song used to celebrate the first moments of the New Year.

But for an Olympics fan, Paris 2024 brought some incredible options that could well replace the Scottish classic at the end of 2024.

How about re-living the finale of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony by playing Celine Dion’s emotion-filled version of Edith Piaf’s **‘Hymne A L'Amour’?

Just one warning, though, there most likely won’t be a dry eye in the room after the Canadian chanteuse finishes belting out the song she famously performed from the Eiffel Tower.

Another option for any Olympic-themed celebration is John Lennon’s legendary song, ‘Imagine’, which has become a mainstay of recent editions of the Games.

This year, it once again featured during the Opening Ceremony - much to the delight of fans across the world.

Down for a late-night singalong? We’ve got you covered

Of course, no New Year’s party would be complete without a tune-less singalong with your nearest and dearest.

Thankfully, Paris 2024 featured a number of classics that had thousands crooning together during the Games.

Where better to start than Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’ - a favourite of fans at the Stade de France during the Rugby Sevens tournament?

Or how about Joe Dassin’s ‘Les Champs-Élysées'? While the song may have been released in 1969 it was on everyone’s lips during Paris 2024.

And if you are feeling the love after an Olympic Games hosted in a city known for its romance, Paris 2024 was chock-full of ‘amour’.

Both Johnny Hallyday’s ‘Que je t'aime’ and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s ‘Je t'aime moi non plus’ featured in the Paralympics Opening Ceremony at Paris 2024 as fans everywhere fell in love with this year’s Games.