Season two of Netflix’s acclaimed animated sequence Arcane will probably be accompanied by a soundtrack launched by means of Common Music Group’s Virgin Music Group.
Riot Video games – maker of League of Legends, the hit multiplayer on-line sport on which Arcane relies – has partnered with Virgin to launch the season two soundtrack this fall, the businesses introduced on Thursday (August 22). Season two of the present is scheduled for launch on Netflix in November.
Virgin will distribute the album worldwide, besides in China, the place it will likely be distributed by Riot Video games’ dad or mum firm, Tencent.
The present’s season one soundtrack proved to be a serious industrial success. The theme tune, Think about Dragons’ Enemy, reached primary on Billboard’s Pop Airplay charts within the US, and quantity two on the Rock Airplay chart.
Launched by UMG’s Interscope and Kidinacorner, Enemy charted for 54 weeks on Billboard’s Various Airplay chart, and was additionally a high 10 hit on dozens of different charts worldwide. It has racked up greater than 3 billion streams worldwide.
The entire soundtrack, launched by means of Virgin and Riot Video games, has amassed greater than 5.6 billion streams since its launch in November 2021. It reached quantity 5 on Billboard’s US Soundtrack Albums chart, and at present has 12.3 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify alone.
The present itself was additionally a hit, commercially and critically. It was the most-streamed present on Netflix globally throughout the three weeks in late 2021 when new episodes have been being launched, and reached Netflix’s high 10 in 87 nations.
The present was nominated for 5 Emmy Awards, successful 4 of them, together with Finest Animated Present – making Arcane the primary online game adaptation to win in that class.
“Each tune is a real collaboration between the present creators, our in-house music group and a number of the world’s biggest artists – lots of whom play our video games and love the League of Legends IP.”
Maria Egan, Riot Video games
“At Riot we deeply consider on this planet constructing energy of music and with Arcane that imaginative and prescient is totally realized by means of the present’s utterly authentic soundtrack,” stated Maria Egan, World Head of Music at Riot.
“Each tune is a real collaboration between the present creators, our in-house music group and a number of the world’s biggest artists – lots of whom play our video games and love the League of Legends IP,” she added.
“After the record-breaking success of season one’s music, we’re much more bold for the second season OST and wanted a worldwide group behind us. Jacqueline Saturn and everybody at Virgin Music Group are the most effective at school. We’re excited to associate on this groundbreaking mission.”
Jacqueline Saturn, President, Virgin Music Group North America and EVP of World Artist Relations, stated Riot Video games “are specialists in creating enormously highly effective moments round world fandom – first in gaming and now in leisure and music.
“With native specialists in additional than 30 nations all over the world, Virgin Music Group is uniquely suited to associate with Maria and the music group at Riot to gasoline world fandom round this vastly thrilling soundtrack album.”
Music has lengthy been an integral a part of the League of Legends IP and Riot Video games, which has been a frontrunner within the subject of creating digital musical acts.
“Riot Video games are specialists in creating enormously highly effective moments round world fandom – first in gaming and now in leisure and music.”
Jacqueline Saturn, Virgin Music Group
League of Legends, which has been some of the outstanding multiplayer on-line video games since 2009, and has built-in musical acts into its occasions, together with Okay-pop stars NewJeans in its 2023 world championships.
Riot has relationships with the music business past Virgin Music Group, together with a collaborative enterprise, fashioned in 2023, with BMG, with whom Riot additionally has a worldwide publishing administration deal.
In 2020, Riot signed a take care of Spotify for the streaming service to be the official audio streaming associate for League of Legends esports occasions.Music Enterprise Worldwide
