United States of America
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States
The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written on September 14, 1814,
by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key
after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy
in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes
known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the U.S. victory.
 
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889,
and by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson in 1916,
and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931
Brazil
The melody of the Brazilian national anthem was composed by Francisco Manuel da Silva,
and was presented to the public for the first time in April 1831.
On 7 April 1831, the first Brazilian Emperor, Pedro I, abdicated the Crown and days later left for Europe,
leaving behind the then-five-year-old Emperor Pedro II.
From the proclamation of the independence of Brazil in 1822 until the 1831 abdication,
an anthem that had been composed by Pedro I himself, celebrating the country's independence
and that now continues to be an official patriotic song, the Independence Anthem
was used as the national anthem.
In the immediate aftermath of the abdication of Pedro I, the anthem composed by him fell in popularity.
United Kingdom
"God Save the Queen" is the national anthem of the United Kingdom
and one of two national anthems used by New Zealand since 1977
as well as for several of the UK's territories that have their own additional local anthem
It is also the royal anthem – played specifically in the presence of the monarch
of all the aforementioned countries,
as well as Australia (since 1984), Canada (since 1980), Barbados and Tuvalu.
Saudi Arabia
In 1947, because Saudi Arabia did not have a national anthem like many states did,
King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia visited Egypt and asked Egyptian composer Abdul-Raḥman al-Khaṭīb
to create a national anthem, and thus "Āsh al-Malīk" was created.
The melody is based on an Arab fanfare style,
and is similar to the national anthems of other Arab states in the area at the time.
In 1958, Mohammed Talat wrote the first set of lyrics which were not often heard,
so King Fahd asked poet Ibrāhīm Khafājī in 1984 to come up with a new set of lyrics,
which were completed within six months on 29 June 1984
Khafājī's lyrics are the ones that are used officially today
Saudis listened to their anthem for the first time during the celebrations of Eid in 1984.
Israel
The Hope") is a 19th-century Jewish poem and the national anthem of Israel
The theme of the romantic composition reflects the Jews' 2,000-year-old
hope of returning to the Land of Israel, restoring it, and reclaiming it as a free and sovereign nation
Its lyrics are adapted from a poem by Naftali Herz Imber,
a Jewish poet from Złoczów (today Zolochiv, Ukraine),
which was then in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria under Austrian rule.
Imber wrote the first version of the poem in 1877, while he was a guest of a Jewish scholar in Iași, Romania.
Pakistan
The Qaumī Tarānā ("Thy Sacred Land"), is the national anthem of Pakistan
It is written by Hafeez Jalandhari in 1952
and the music was produced by Ahmad G. Chagla in 1949,
Although, this song is in Urdu,
the anthem has heavy Persian influence, and only uses one exclusively Urdu word ka
It was officially adopted as Pakistan's national anthem in August 1954
and was recorded in the same year by eleven major singers of Pakistan including
Ahmad Rushdi, Kaukab Jahan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen,
Zawar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastagir, Anwar Zaheer, and Akhtar Wasi Ali.
Bangladesh
("Amar Sonar Bangla") is the national anthem of Bangladesh.
The lyrics was written by Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore in 1905
while the melody of the hymn was adopted from the Baul singer Gagan Harkara's song
"Ami Kothay Pabo Tare"  set to Dadra Tala.
The modern instrumental rendition was arranged by Samar Das.
Nepal
It was officially adopted as the anthem on August 3, 2007,
and a ceremony held at the conference hall of National Planning Commission,
inside the Singha Durbar,
by the speaker of the interim parliament, Mr. Subash Chandra Nemwang
The previous Nepalese national anthem, "Shreeman Gambhir", had been adopted in 1962,
but it was dropped following the abolishment of the monarchy.
The music was composed by late Amber Gurung.
The national anthem is simply worded, praising Nepali sovereignty, unity, courage, pride, scenic beauty,
progress, peace, cultural and biological diversity, and respect.
In August 2016, BBC ranked Nepal's national anthem third in its list of Rio 2016:
The most amazing national anthems, citing its musical differences compared to other anthems.
India
Jana Gana Mana is the national anthem of India.
It was originally composed as Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Later, it was written in sadhu Bengali or tatsama Bengali which is heavily sanskiritised.
The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India
as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.
A formal rendition of the national anthem takes approximately 52 seconds.
A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines (and taking about 20 seconds to play)
is also staged occasionally.
It was first publicly sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta
now (Kolkata) Session of the Indian National Congress.
Russia
The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" is the name of the official national anthem of Russia.
It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Soviet Union",
composed by Alexander Alexandrov,
and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov,
who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem.
From 1944, that earliest version replaced " Интернационал", as a new, more Soviet-centric,
and Russia-centric Soviet anthem.
The same melody, but without lyrics mentioning the denounced Stalin by name,
was used after 1956
A second version of the lyrics was written by Mikhalkov in 1970
and adopted in 1977, placing less emphasis on World War II
and more on the victory of communism.
