Tigers blast the music while belting HRs: Here are 2026 'walkup songs' for Detroit players

Detroit Tigers players' "walkup songs" — music played at Comerica Park as players enter the game — are among the most diverse in the MLB, according to the Tigers' website , and include rap, country, rock and electronic music. The Tigers' 2026 playlist showcases musical acts such as Snoop Dogg, Charels Wesley Godwin and Eminem, among others. “I’m not privy to the process of how they select them,” Stan Fracker, the Tigers' operational director, A/V systems and broadcasting, said previously.

“The one thing I know about successful people, is they often can be very particular about things and pay attention to details. So it’s not surprising that a lot of major league baseball players pay attention to the details, including their own walkup music. ” Here's more about the songs and artists players have chosen this year, according to the Tigers' website : What's a walkup song?

In the early days of Major League Baseball, organists played the national anthem and, perhaps, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame. " It wasn't until the 1970s that a Chicago White Sox organist expanded the repertoire to include specific songs for different players as they entered the game to pitch or bat. The Seattle Mariners expanded the practice in the early 1990s, and by 1993 each of the team's players had their own song when they entered the game, Michael Clair wrote for MLB.

com in 2019. In 1994, Lenny Dykstra decided to choose his own song for each at-bat in a game. "Even with Dykstra's specificity, the trend didn't immediately take off, though clearly the wheels were in motion.