How HEARTSTEEL's Live My Life set up the 2026 Worlds Season

HEARTSTEEL released their comeback, Live My Life, and kicked off Worlds season. The band, made up of League of Legends champions Ezreal, Sett, Kayn, and K’Sante as singers and Yone and Aphelios as producers, broke a 1,000-day drought without new music on September 18th, when the single dropped on all streaming platforms.

Riot Games' flagship boy band’s freshest single is an upbeat, bubbly pop song that dives into themes like self-worth, living to the fullest, and marching to your own beat. The song’s official music video features all six members making the most of everyday scenarios like a pick-up basketball game, doing the laundry, and lounging with the boys.

This iteration of HEARTSTEEL returns with its renowned flair and flamboyance, but it also features a new set of singers. Ezreal is the only member to retain its original singer, EXO’s superstar BAEKHYUN. The rest of the members received a new singing voice, who were tasked with bringing HEARTSTEEL back to life:

The biggest addition to Live My Life is eight-time Grammy Award winner Anderson.Paak as K’Sante. Jon Bellion, Pete Nappi, and Johnny Simpson produced HEARTSTEEL’s comeback, replacing Sebastien Najand and Kill Dave, who produced PARANOIA.

In addition to the band’s freshly released single, HEARTSTEEL will also debut a new skin line to celebrate the song’s release. The aptly named HEARTSTEEL Live My Life skin line will cost 1350 RP and will feature an Epic tier skin for each band member, with one exception.

Sett is slated to release as Season 3 Act 2’s Battle Pass Prestige skin. The Boss leans on his appearance throughout the music video, and his recall highlights his basketball skills and his ripped physique. These six skins will be publicly available in Patch 26.20, the same patch the 2026 World Championship will be played on, and are slated to release on October 7th.

Heartbeats, HEARTSTEEL’s official fandom name, were eager for the long-awaited comeback. However, the fandom and casual League of Legends fans seemed somewhat shell-shocked by the single straying from the band’s debut sound.

Fans shared mixed reactions through the official M/V and took to social media to share different perspectives. Some fans compared HEARTSTEEL’s new direction to the aesthetic and style of other popular intellectual property. However, as the release days passed, some fans seemed to develop a different appreciation for the song, which could position it as a cult classic in the future.

According to X Account ChartsLoL, which tracks League of Legends bands across several music charts, Live My Life saw 192K streams on release day. These statistics are somewhat skewed because the single had a partial day to rake in numbers. The new single also failed to debut in Spotify’s Global Chart.

Compared to PARANOIA’s debut three years ago, the new release was totally eclipsed. HEARTSTEEL’s debut single saw 1.3M streams on release day and debuted at #43 on Spotify’s Global Chart after adding 600K streams. This meant Live My Life dropped 80.8% in streams compared to PARANOIA.

The numbers on the official music videos have also dwindled. HEARTSTEEL’s debut single posted around 9 million views in the first two days; meanwhile, Live My Life had 2.8 million in the same timeframe. This represents a 68.9% fall in views from the debut compared to the comeback.

The latest video shared on League of Legends’ official X account has HEARTSTEEL members relaxing as their week of promotion comes to a close. Forty seconds into the video, Yone receives a phone call from a mysterious voice, which pushes him to answer, “he won’t miss it,” vaguely.

Fans speculate that Yone could be talking to Yasuo, the DJ for another Riot Games music project: True Damage. During the same video, Yone mentions his brother should be busy and calls him impatient. This fuels rumors that new music from most of Riot’s music projects will fill the Autumn leading up to Worlds. If the rumors are true, 2026 would mark True Damage’s first comeback after their 2019 debut.