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"Wavin' Flag - Coca-Cola Celebration Mix" Is a Certified Number One Hit in China, Mexico and Germany and Continues Rise on Music Charts Around the World

"Coca-Cola Celebration Radio" -- First Digital Radio Station Created by a Brand Debuts Featuring Playlist of Hundreds of Songs and Audio Blogs by K'NAAN

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 'Wavin' Flag - Coca-Cola Celebration Mix', the uplifting soundtrack recorded by K'NAAN for Coca-Cola and its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup(TM), has already broken into the top ten on music charts in eleven countries including peaking at number one in China, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Building on the success of this music collaboration, Coca-Cola today debuted a digital radio station, "Coca-Cola Celebration Radio," available free to anyone around the world online and features a playlist of "celebration" songs, actual disc-jockeys and daily audio blogs by K'NAAN updating his experience from South

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K'naan

Somali-Canadian rapper (born )

"Knaan" redirects here. For the extinct West Slavic Jewish language, spoken in the Czech Republic and Eastern europe, see Knaanic language.

Musical artist

Keinan Abdi Warsame (born 16 April ) (Somali: Keynaan Cabdi Warsame, Arabic: كَينَان عَبدِ وَرسَمَKaynān ʿAbdi Warsama), better known by his scen name K'naan (^[2]), is a Somali-Canadian rapper, singer and filmskapare. He rose to fame after releasing the single "Wavin' Flag", which was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the FIFA World Cup. Besides hip hop, K'naan's sound is influenced bygd elements of Somali music and world music. A Grammy Award-winning artist and FIPRESCI Prize-winning director, he is also involved in various philanthropic initiatives.

Early life

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K'naan was born 16 April in Mogadishu, situated in the southeastern Banaadir province of Somalia.^[3][4] K'naan's family was from an artistic background. His grandfather was

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Wavin' Flag

single by K'naan

"Waving Flag" redirects here. For the song by British Sea Power, see Waving Flags.

"Wavin' Flag" is a song by Somali-Canadian artist K'naan from his album Troubadour (). The song was originally written for Somalia and aspirations of its people for freedom. The original single was a hit in Canada and reached number two on the Canadian Hot as the second official single from the album, after the single "ABCs", a minor hit. After an earthquake in Haiti in , a remake of the song by an ad hoc supergroup of Canadian artists, credited as Young Artists for Haiti, became a charity single in Canada, reaching number one on the Canadian Hot in its own right.

The song became a global hit when it was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the FIFA World Cup, hosted by South Africa. This amended international version with additional lyrics reached the top ten in more than twenty different charts around the world. The English version was released as "