Minecraft led to Persson becoming one of "Forbes" "World's Billionaires". "Minecraft"s music and sound effects were produced by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. The background music in "Minecraft" is instrumental ambient music. On 4 March 2011, Rosenfeld released a soundtrack, titled "Minecraft – Volume Alpha"; it includes most of the tracks featured in "Minecraft", as well as other music not featured in the game. The video game blog Kotaku chose the music in "Minecraft" as one of the best video game soundtracks of 2011. On 9 November 2013, Rosenfeld released the second official soundtrack, titled "Minecraft – Volume
Minecraft apparently taking full ownership of the CraftBukkit modification, although the validity of this claim was questioned due to its status as an open-source project with many contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License and Lesser General Public License. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the "Minecraft" intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for "trying to do the right thing". It was completed on 6 November 2014, and