the games. Their first single, Ai no Uta, was a massive success in Japan, reaching #2 on the Weekly Oricon Top 200 Singles chart. In 2020, Sega and Sanrio teamed up to make their first collaboration virtual band, Beatcats. Western virtual bands Britain's Gorillaz was formed by Blur's Damon Albarn and Tank Girls Jamie Hewlett in 1998 and produced by Deltron 3030's Dan the Automator. The group brought virtual bands to the musical fore again, with their scoring numerous Top 20 positions around the world. The band has since released seven studio albums in addition to two B-sides albums and two EPs. One-T was a similar French virtual band concept created by Eddy Gronfier and Thomas Pieds that centred around a fictional animated hip-hop group. It saw brief success in the early 2000s with the hit singles Music Is the One-T ODC and The Magic Key but since then only showed little activity. Dethklok is an animated heavy metal band that originates from the Adult Swim animated television series Metalocalypse. They have released three albums so far. Dvar was an anonymous darkwave virtual band from Russia that existed from 1995 to 2012. Consisted of three virtual unnamed characters Elite Tauren Chieftain is a virtual hard-rock band of five members in World of Warcraft Universe composed of Blizzard Entertainment employees in 2003 (Samwise Didier, Chris Sigaty, Dave Berggren, Mike Morhaime, and Alan Dabiri). Pentakill is a virtual heavy metal band consisting of six themed versions of League of Legends characters revealed in 2014. Pentakill was followed by K/DA, a virtual K-pop girl group consisting of four themed versions of characters, which unveiled at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship with an augmented reality-based live performance of their first song, "Pop/Stars". After a two-year hiatus, the virtual group released a second single, "The Baddest". The group appeared on stage at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship to promote an EP "All Out" which was released in November 2020. In 2019, Riot created a virtual hip hop group called True Damage, featuring the champions Ekko, Akali, Qiyana, Senna, and Yasuo. The vocalists performed a live version of their debut song, "Giants", during the opening ceremony of the 2019 League of Legends World Championship, alongside holographic versions of their characters. See also Avatar (computing) Uncanny valley Virtual actor Virtual concert Virtual influencer Virtual YouTuber References