It’s always awesome to see who Riot Games Music partners with in their major releases. Check out the news below!
TL;DR: VALORANT and Riot Games Music have collaborated with Thai rap phenomenon MILLI on the show-stopping new single “ONE PUNCH,” which is featured in the cinematic video for the upcoming VALORANT Masters Bangkok event released today. The tournament marks the first global event of the 2025 VALORANT Champions Tour.
Date: February 13, 2025
What You Need To Know:
- VALORANT and Riot Games Music (RGM) have collaborated with Thai music superstar MILLI on the electrifying new hip-hop single “ONE PUNCH,” which is featured in the first cinematic video for the upcoming VALORANT Masters Bangkok event.
- VALORANT Masters Bangkok, which marks the first global event of the 2025 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), will take place at UOB Live in Thailand from Thursday, February 20 – Sunday, March 2.
- The cinematic video featuring “ONE PUNCH” can be viewed on the VALORANT YouTube channel here.
- Riot Games Music and MILLI’s music label YUPP! & 88rising have also jointly released an alternate version of “ONE PUNCH” across streaming platforms. The single is now available wherever you can listen to music, and can be streamed here. This version of “ONE PUNCH” will also be included on MILLI’s upcoming second full-length album HEAVY WEIGHT, which will be released later this year.
- “ONE PUNCH” joins Riot Games Music’s catalog of nearly 1,000 songs, including nearly 60 songs for VALORANT. RGM’s songs for VALORANT have amassed over 450 million streams.
About Riot Games:
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, which has gone on to be one of the most-played PC games in the world. In the years that followed, Riot released VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot’s titles have led to the creation of some of the most-watched and widely recognized esports in the world, culminating in events like the League of Legends World Championship and VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), which are watched by millions of fans each year. Riot has also expanded its IP through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and Arcane, its Emmy-winning animated series.
About VALORANT:
VALORANT is a competitive 5v5 character-based first-person tactical shooter developed and published by Riot Games for PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation®5. VALORANT is a precise and lethal multiplayer game with high-fidelity gunplay, a diverse arsenal of guns, agents with unique abilities, and competitively tuned maps for unlimited hours of play. In VALORANT, players lock in their agent for the entire duration of the match and then attempt to win a round-based, attackers vs. defenders, best-of-24-rounds fight.
VALORANT is a free-to-play game and optimized to perform on a wide variety of PC and console platforms, allowing for a global audience to compete. Demonstrated by the game’s best-in-class game server quality, global infrastructure, and proprietary anti-cheat technology, Riot Games is committed to preserving the core tenets of the tactical shooter genre and upholding the competitive integrity of the gameplay experience across all available platforms.
Visit PlayVALORANT.com for more information and follow @VALORANT on social media.
About the VALORANT Champions Tour:
VALORANT is the highly competitive, 5v5 character-based tactical shooter attracting millions of players around the world. To foster and support global competition, Riot Games operates the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), a year-long, global circuit composed of leagues and global events spanning EMEA, Asia, and the Americas. Teams compete through four international leagues and global Masters events with the goal to qualify for Champions, a two-week long tournament where a single team is crowned the VALORANT Global Champion.
About Riot Games Music:
Riot Games Music builds on Riot’s fandom at the intersection of gaming and music — fostering partnerships with artists who can take the global player experience to the next level through music, live events, and IP expansion. RGM has amassed a catalog of nearly 1,000 songs including 11 original Esports Anthems for the annual League of Legends World Championships, which have collectively amassed over 10 billion streams across DSPs. These anthems have been performed by superstars including Linkin Park, Lil Nas X, Imagine Dragons, Zedd, NewJeans and many more.
Most recently, RGM and Virgin Music Group released Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 (Soundtrack From The Animated Series), the soundtrack to the second season of Riot’s hit Emmy-winning Netflix series Arcane. The album has amassed over 1.2 billion global streams thus far and features tracks from a diverse group of artists including Linkin Park co-vocalists Mike Shinoda & Emily Armstrong, Twenty One Pilots, Imagine Dragons, Stromae, Stray Kids, d4vd, Ashnikko and more.
Riot Games Music is also known for being a leader in virtual artistry including artists like K/DA, a record breaking K-Pop inspired girl-group based on some of the most popular female champions in League of Legends, whose music has received over 1.2 billion streams. Their single “POP/STARS” recently was certified platinum by the RIAA, and they have amassed over 3 million followers on Spotify. Other Riot virtual artists include Riot’s newest band HEARTSTEEL, heavy metal band Pentakill, hip-hop band True Damage, DJ Sona and Seraphine.
