One of the best parts of the pre-race festivities for the annual Bristol Night Race is the fact that the Cup drivers get to walk out to their hand-picked intro songs ahead of the 500-lap race.
Some fantastic moments have been born from it, like when Brad Keselowski walked out to AC/DC’s ‘For Those About To Rock’ in 2010, and then proceeded to grab a microphone to tell the audience that “Kyle Busch is an ass!”
Busch himself played in the villain role and in 2017, told the fans “If you love you some Rowdy, let me hear you go booo!” Many didn’t bother to listen to his words, and of course boos rained down from the grandstands.
Just last year, Denny Hamlin walked out to the Law and Order theme as the lawsuit between NASCAR and 23XI Racing (the team Hamlin and Michael Jordan co-own) was ongoing in the background of the 2025 season.
There were plenty of hilarious moments on Saturday night as well, with John Hunter Nemechek making light of his firing from Legacy Motor Club, Tyler Reddick wearing a Dolly Parton wig, and Carson Hocevar telling fans he drove the ‘Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet’ in a reference to the ongoing lawsuit.
Here’s a full and complete list of the songs each of the 37 starters chose for the 2026 edition of this iconic race, which some call NASCAR’s unofficial fifth crown jewel.
Also, if we at Motorsport.com had to pick an intro song for this year’s Bristol race, we would 100% choose ‘The Kyle Busch Show’ by Raytona 500…
2026 Bristol Night Race driver intro songs
Driver
SONG
ARTIST
AJ Allmendinger
Drifting
Tokyo
Christopher Bell
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica
Josh Berry
The War
Angels & Airwaves
Ryan Blaney
Blind
Korn
Josh Bilicki
2001: A Space Odyssey
John Williams & Boston Pops Orchestra
Alex Bowman
Stay Fly
Three 6 Mafia
Chris Buescher
Rainbow in the Dark
Lilac
William Byron
Fireman
Lil Wayne
Chase Briscoe
Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day
Luke Bryan
Ross Chastain
Jolene
Dolly Parton
Austin Cindric
Goofy Goober Rock
Spongebob Squarepants
Cole Custer
Glycerine
Busch
Ty Dillon
Heads Will Roll (A-Track Remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Austin Dillon
The Rowdy Song
Raytona 500
Chase Elliott
Holding My Own
Eric Church
Ty Gibbs
All the Small Things
Blink-182
Todd Gilliland
Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1
Kanye West
Noah Gragson
The Mockingbird & The Crow
Hardy
Denny Hamlin
Sirius
The Alan Parsons Project
Riley Herbst
The Nights
Avicii
Austin Hill
Southern Land
Taylor Ray Holbrook & Ryan Upchurch
Carson Hocevar
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Scorpions
Erik Jones
Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfieldf
Brad Keselowski
You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
Judas Priest
Kyle Larson
Trap Queen
Fetty Wap
Joey Logano
Gimme Some Lovin
The Spencer Davis Group
Michael McDowell
Options
NF
John Hunter Nemechek
Rocky Top
Dolly Parton
Ryan Preece
Rocket Man
Elton John
Tyler Reddick
9 to 5
Dolly Parton
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Money in the Bank
John Anderson
Zane Smith
Love Tonight
Shouse & Robin Schulz
Shane van Gisbergen
Not Many
Scribe
Daniel Suarez
Danza Kuduro
Don Omar
Bubba Wallace
Doses & Mimosas
Cherub
Cody Ware
Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
Creepy Nuts
Connor Zilisch
Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield
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