Linkin Park will sing the anthem at the big League of Legends event.
Linkin Park will sing the anthem at the big League of Legends event.
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Riot Games taps Linkin Park for 2024 League of Legends World Championship anthem

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games announced global music superstars Linkin Park will sing an anthem at the next big League of Legends event.

The group will perform the 2024 League of Legends World Championship anthem, Heavy Is The Crown. This kind of marriage signals the bond between entertainment and games, where one superstar can join with another and drum up far more interest together. In this case, it’s music meets games, and it shows that Riot Games is always prepared to tap top flight entertainers to introduce its esports event.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.