Coldplay have jumped on for a brand new model of Stromae and Pomme’s fan-favorite Arcane tune “Ma Meilleure Ennemie,” essentially the most notable add-in for an prolonged model of the present’s season two soundtrack that was launched Friday via Riot Video games and Virgin Music Group.
The characteristic provides to an already star-studded soundtrack for the second season of Netflix’s animated present impressed by the favored online game League of Legends, with Twenty One Pilots, Stray Children, King Princess and D4vd, amongst others, contributing as properly. However “Ma Meilleure Ennemie,” French for My Greatest Enemy, grew to become one among season two’s largest songs, with 335 million Spotify streams to this point.
That’s second solely to JID and Think about Dragons’ quadruple-platinum hit “Enemy,” the present’s theme and the lead single to Arcane‘s season one soundtrack. Riot Video games stated the season two soundtrack has amassed over 1.5 billion streams general because it was launched final November. The brand new model of “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” additionally options vocals from Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna.
“We love Stromae and Pomme and we love the attractive tune that they wrote for Ekko and Powder,” Coldplay stated in an announcement. “It’s an honor to contribute to this new model and to the Arcane and League of Legends universe.”
As Stromae stated in an announcement: “Along with Pomme & Riot Video games, we wished to provide the followers a bit further reward by inviting an artist we admire. Coldplay has been an enormous inspiration for me for a very long time, so it instantly felt like the correct alternative. Once I requested them to hitch the undertaking, they stated sure with out hesitation. I’m past comfortable about this collaboration, and the result’s one thing actually particular.”
Other than the brand new Coldplay characteristic, the prolonged season two soundtrack contains eight extra added tracks from the unique, together with a demo model of King Princess’ “Unbelievable,” a remix to Stray Children, Younger Miko and Tom Morello’s “Come Play” by Kordhell, and a Bloodpop remix of Ashnikko’s “Paint the City Blue.”
“The unbelievable response our gamers needed to ‘Ma Meilleure Ennemie’ impressed us to create a brand new model to rejoice the discharge of Arcane season two’s prolonged authentic soundtrack,” Maria Egan, Riot Video games’ international head of music, stated in an announcement. “The tune has been a world phenomenon for the reason that launch of the present and Coldplay’s model of the observe brings it to new heights with the addition of Chris Martin’s good English verse. Coldplay and Stromae have wished to make music collectively for a very long time, and this collaboration felt like a totally natural manner so as to add a brand new dimension to this iconic tune.”
