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AT&T Team USA Soundtrack

2008 compilation album; various artists

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ4654557 ↗
Source-derived summary

AT&T Team USA Soundtrack is a sporting compilation by various artists, released on August 7, 2008. It was created for the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing.

Background

On the album appear singers and bands like Lady Antebellum, 3 Doors Down, Nelly, Queen Latifah, Chris Brown, Sheryl Crow, Kate Voegele, and Taylor Swift. The album consist of 15 English tracks and one Spanish track by Luis Fonsi. The album was released on the USA iTunes Store on August 7, 2008, and can be accessed through its official website.

Track listing

AT&T Team USA Soundtrack 2010

AT&T Team USA Soundtrack 2010 is a compilation album of various artists, put together for the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canada. It features 12 tracks from artists such as Rascal Flatts, 3 Doors Down, Sugarland and Train, among others. It was released on iTunes.

All proceeds from sales of the album made through March 1, 2010 benefited Team USA.

Rascal Flatts re-recorded its single "Unstoppable" with slightly altered lyrics for their contribution to the album. The new lyrics celebrate the spirit of competition of the games.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “AT&T Team USA Soundtrack” is 2008 compilation album; various artists. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Team, Soundtrack and compilation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-08-07. For this dossier, Team, Soundtrack and compilation is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2008 compilation album; various artists” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4654557. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “AT&T Team USA Soundtrack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.