4 You and Me Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman

This sedate duet could run the risk of putting you to sleep, with faint, almost childlike vocals from the Chinese singer and English soprano. But its message of unity — “You and me, from one world / We are family” — makes this 2008 Beijing anthem one of the Olympics’ most unexpectedly moving themes a decade later.

LIVINGOCEAN Korean artist Insooni lit a fire under this year’s Games.