“Our goal every year is to be a constant place of discovery for next-generation music fans, help define the tone of the sport and, as we move to FIFA to EA FC, also momentarily look back on what we created collectively with the players and the fans to have such a beautifully recognisable format,” he says, adding that the FIFA 23 soundtrack will feature over 100 songs. The imminent arrival of FIFA 23 – the last in the FIFA series after EA ended its partnership with the titular football governing body earlier this year to go it alone with EA Sports FC – has Schnur excited to showcase the “staggering surprises and incredible musical moments” he and his team have been assembling over the past year, as well as bringing the curtain down on FIFA by “really memorialising and celebrating what the last 20 years have brought to us”. Since joining EA in 2001, the New Jersey-born executive has spearheaded the prioritisation of licensed and original music across a number of EA’s best-known franchises (including Madden, Need For Speed and The Sims) to the point where, as Schnur says about FIFA, “people are going nuts to get their hands on a list of musicians and songs”. Schnur’s passion is convincing because, well, it’s his baby. Noting “the fanaticism” surrounding the annual reveal of the FIFA soundtrack that he and his small team at EA are responsible for delivering, Schnur says he’s “so proud that people care this much: that it’s so much a part of people’s culture, that it drives culture, that it is culture, that it’s the musical discovery platform that’s been so important to people for 20 years”. READ MORE: ‘FIFA 23’ release date, platforms, gameplay changes and latest news.“What my hope and vision then, I never even imagined that, as disruptive as it can be, a part of the leak was the list of music.” “I’ve been working on the FIFAfranchise, musically-speaking, since FIFA 02,” Electronic Arts’ worldwide executive and president of music tells NME on a Zoom call from LA about the recent FIFA 23 leak. But Steve Schnur isn’t one to get too downcast about it. Leaks can deliver quite a blow to video game publishers ahead of the release of any big title.
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