Season two of Netflix’s acclaimed animated sequence Arcane can be accompanied by a soundtrack launched by way of Common Music Group’s Virgin Music Group.
Riot Video games – maker of League of Legends, the hit multiplayer on-line recreation on which Arcane is predicated – 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 will probably be distributed by Riot Video games’ mother or father firm, Tencent.
The present’s season one soundtrack proved to be a significant business 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 Different Airplay chart, and was additionally a prime 10 hit on dozens of different charts worldwide. It has racked up greater than 3 billion streams worldwide.
The whole soundtrack, launched by way 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 the moment 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 in the course of the three weeks in late 2021 when new episodes have been being launched, and reached Netflix’s prime 10 in 87 international locations.
The present was nominated for 5 Emmy Awards, profitable 4 of them, together with Greatest 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 workforce and a number of the world’s best artists – lots of whom play our video games and love the League of Legends IP.”
Maria Egan, Riot Video games
“At Riot we deeply imagine on the earth constructing energy of music and with Arcane that imaginative and prescient is absolutely realized by way of the present’s utterly authentic soundtrack,” stated Maria Egan, International Head of Music at Riot.
“Each tune is a real collaboration between the present creators, our in-house music workforce and a number of the world’s best 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 workforce behind us. Jacqueline Saturn and everybody at Virgin Music Group are the very best in school. We’re excited to companion on this groundbreaking challenge.”
Jacqueline Saturn, President, Virgin Music Group North America and EVP of International 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 international locations around the globe, Virgin Music Group is uniquely suited to companion with Maria and the music workforce 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 pacesetter within the discipline 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 one of the crucial distinguished multiplayer on-line video games since 2009, and has built-in musical acts into its occasions, together with Ok-pop stars NewJeans in its 2023 world championships.
Riot has relationships with the music trade past Virgin Music Group, together with a collaborative enterprise, shaped in 2023, with BMG, with whom Riot additionally has a worldwide publishing administration deal.
In 2020, Riot signed a cope with Spotify for the streaming service to be the official audio streaming companion for League of Legends esports occasions.Music Enterprise Worldwide
