Lupang Hinirang - National Anthem of the Republic of the Philippines (2024/2025 VERSION)

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NOTE: The audio used in this video was sourced from DepEd's official livestream of the National Teachers Day celebrations on October 3, 2024. As per Mareen of Proyekto Awit Pagkapit, the official government-produced MV of the national anthem was released to the general public by an official source after 20 years, since the last one was released in 2004 under then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which was presented by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), Office of the Press Secretary (now Presidential Communications Office or PCO) and Philippine Information Agency (PIA). The video released that year was performed by the University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers, in collaboration with the Philippine National Police Band in which the rendition was released 10 years before in 1994.

Although we have snippets of the official video of the national anthem seen in few livestreams of @RTVMalacanang and @DepEd_PH, we are now getting close to see the high-quality and full version of it.

"Lupang Hinirang" ("Chosen Land"), originally titled in Spanish as "Marcha Nacional Filipina" ("Philippine National March"), and commonly and informally known by its incipit "Bayang Magiliw" ("Beloved Country"), is the national anthem of the Philippines. Its music was composed in 1898 by Julián Felipe, and the lyrics were adopted from the Spanish poem "Filipinas", written by José Palma in 1899.

The composition known as "Lupang Hinirang" was commissioned on June 5, 1898, by Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the Dictatorial Government of the Philippines, as a ceremonial and instrumental national march without lyrics, similar to the status of the "Marcha Real" in Spain. It was first performed in public during the proclamation of Philippine independence at Aguinaldo's residence in Kawit, Cavite, on June 12, 1898. It was re-adopted as the national march of the Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina) in 1899.

Following the defeat of the First Republic in the Philippine–American War and the subsequent Colonial rule of the United States, the Flag Act of 1907 prohibited the public display of flags, banners, emblems, or devices used by the Philippine Republican Army during the war. Under the Flag Act, public performance of the national march was prohibited. Upon repeal of the Flag Act in 1919, the national march regained its popular status as the national anthem of the Philippines. Following the establishment of self-rule under the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Commonwealth Act No. 382, approved on September 5, 1938, officially adopted the musical arrangement and composition by Julián Felipe as the national anthem.

In the years after the revolution, the poem "Filipinas", written in 1899 by nationalist José Palma, gained widespread popularity as unofficial Spanish lyrics of the anthem. The Spanish lyrics were translated into English and, beginning in the 1940s, in the national language. The current Filipino lyrics, written in 1956 and with a slight revision in the 1960s, were adopted and made official. On February 12, 1998, Republic Act No. 8491 was passed, codifying these lyrics into law.

The rendition used in this video is the official government-produced version which was first seen during the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas Convention held on September 26, 2024.