--- title: Sam Smith, Ariana Grande Sing We Are The Champions With Jimmy Fallon description: Featuring Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Usher, Blake Shelton and more canonical: https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-02T15:31:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:26.867Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon Recruited All Your Favorite Pop Stars for an A Cappella Version of 'We Are The Champions' og:description: Featuring Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Usher, Blake Shelton and more og:url: https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b31f88dc96ed3b5/69877d265f570f51c4b150c0/screen-shot-2015-02-02-at-9-57-46-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-02-02 at 9.57.46 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Fallon Recruited All Your Favorite Pop Stars for an A Cappella Version of 'We Are The Champions' twitter:description: Featuring Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Usher, Blake Shelton and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b31f88dc96ed3b5/69877d265f570f51c4b150c0/screen-shot-2015-02-02-at-9-57-46-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Fallon Recruited All Your Favorite Pop Stars for an A Cappella Version of 'We Are The Champions' by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 2, 2015 3:31 PM CUT  by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 2, 2015 3:31 PM CUT Following the Patriots’ Super Bowl win, a special post-game episode of _The Tonight Show_ featured a star-studded version of the quintessential victory song “We Are The Champions.” The video starts off with Jimmy Fallon singing the opening lines of the Queen classic, with _Tonight Show_ house band The Roots providing the rhythm. The first singer to join is Carrie Underwood, followed by other superstars like Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Blake Shelton, Usher, Meghan Trainor, One Direction and Christina Aguilera. Despite the varied genres of these stars, they all blend together quite nicely. Christina Aguilera kind of steals the show at the end, overpowering everyone with her dramatic vocals. This does not seem to surprise anyone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Recruited All Your Favorite Pop Stars for an A Cappella Version of 'We Are The Champions'","datePublished":"2015-02-02T15:31:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:26.867Z","description":"Featuring Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Usher, Blake Shelton and more","url":"https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b31f88dc96ed3b5/69877d265f570f51c4b150c0/screen-shot-2015-02-02-at-9-57-46-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b31f88dc96ed3b5/69877d265f570f51c4b150c0/screen-shot-2015-02-02-at-9-57-46-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-02-02 at 9.57.46 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3692035/jimmy-fallon-roots-we-are-the-champions/","name":"Jimmy Fallon Recruited All Your Favorite Pop Stars for an A Cappella Version of 'We Are The Champions'"}}]}] ```