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Single cover. Butterfly / Big Machine Label Group (digital single) (2023)
"We Are the Champions / We Will Rock You" is a single by Dolly Parton. It was released on July 21, 2023, by Butterfly Records and Big Machine Label Group as the fourth single from Dolly's forty-ninth solo studio album, Rockstar. It is a cover of Queen's two 1977 hits from their News of the World album. The song and its music video were used to promote the 2024 Olympic Games.

Track listing

  • We Are the Champions / We Will Rock You (Freddie Mercury, Brian May) 3:51

Audio

Music video

A music video directed by Steve Summers was released to tie-in with the 2024 Olympics Games. A clip of the music video premiered July 27, 2023, on Today with the full video being uploaded to YouTube later that day. It is currently unavailable.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from Apple Music.
Performance
  • Dane Bryant – strings, harpsichord, Mellotron, timpani
  • Richard Dennison – background vocals
  • Kyle Dickinson – programming
  • Vicki Hampton – background vocals
  • Gary Lunn – bass
  • Jimmy Mattingly – viola, violin, cello​
  • Rob McNelley – electric guitar
  • ​Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
  • Mark Needham – programming
  • Nir Z – drums
  • Jennifer O’Brien – background vocals
  • Dolly Parton – lead vocals
  • Mike Rojas – piano
Production
  • Kyle Dickinson – editing engineer
  • Chris Latham – editing engineer
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing engineer
  • Brian Judd – additional engineer
  • Mark Needham – engineer
  • Joel McKenney – engineer
  • Dolly Parton – producer, executive producer
  • Kent Wells – producer, editing engineer
  • Kevin Willis – engineer
  • Christine Winslow – assistant recording engineer