TNA wrestling star Joe Hendry explains why he released his theme song as a single

TNA star Joe Hendry has always had a passion for music, even using cover songs to annoy some of his opponents. However, it was only a matter of time before Hendry landed a real mainstream hit, and it came in the form of his own entrance song, “I Believe in Joe Hendry,” which became a viral chart sensation earlier this year.

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“I saw it go mega-viral on TikTok and then I was like, ‘oooh,'” Hendry said in an interview with Cultaholic Wrestling. “People had been asking me to release it and I was like, ‘Maybe now is the time.’ People were making videos with it and it was getting hundreds of thousands of views and I was like, ‘Now is probably the time to release it.'” Hendry revealed that he actually did some research on how to get a song into the UK singles chart, pointing to a video of a group of YouTubers who got money from a video game company to make a song to promote ‘Saints Row’ as a rough template, as their song reached number 27.

As for his song’s placement, Hendry himself didn’t expect the instant success it would achieve. “It did a lot better than I ever expected,” said Hendry. “I woke up and saw it was number 20 on the UK iTunes chart and I was like, ‘Oh, damn.’ Then I tweeted it and it went to number one on the UK iTunes chart, number one in Malta, number three in Ireland, number six in the US. Then the challenge became ‘How do we keep the fire burning to get it into the Big Top 40?’ And it went to number four.”

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Hendry recently made a big splash on WWE NXT, garnering tremendous enthusiasm from the crowd at Tuesday’s Battle Royal before being quickly eliminated by Kazarian.

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