Alan Walker

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Alan Olav Walker
Alan Walker in 2016
Alan Walker in 2016
Background information
Born (1997-08-24) 24 August 1997 (age 26)
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Genres
Websitealanwalker.no

Alan Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and music producer. He is best known for his song "Faded". The song got good ratings worldwide and became a platinum single in 14 countries. The Magazine DJ Mag said Walker was 27th on their Top 100 DJs list of 2019.[1][2][3][4]

In 2018, he released his music album Different Worlds.[5]

Career[change | change source]

2012–2016 - Career beginnings[change | change source]

In 2012, Walker started making music with his laptop and posting it to YouTube and SoundCloud.[6] In 2014, he released "Fade" which has more than 400 million views on YouTube.[7] He then released "Faded", which was a vocal version of Fade in 2015 with singer Iselin Solheim. "Faded" has more than 3 billion views on YouTube[8] and 1.5 billion streams on Spotify. He then released the following songs thereafter:

2017–present[change | change source]

In 2017, Walker's channel became the most subscribed YouTube channel in Norway. The same year he released the song "Ignite" together with Norwegian music producer K-391. He then released "Tired" with Gavin James. On 9 June 2017, he released "Sky" featuring Dane Alex Skrindo. He then released other songs such as "Spectre", "All Falls Down" with Noah Cyrus and Digital Farm Animals, "Ignite", "Darkside" with Au/RA and Tomine Harley, and "Diamond Heart" with Sophia Somajo.

In 2019, he released "Are you Lonely" with Steve Aoki, "On My Way" with Sabrina Carpenter and Farruko, "Live Fast" with ASAP Rocky, Play, Ghost, Avem and Alone pt 2. He then released "End of Time" featuring Ahrix and K-391, "Heading Home" featuring Ruben, and a remix of "Time" by Hans Zimmer from the movie Inception.

Discography[change | change source]

Albums[change | change source]

  • Different World (2018)
  • World of Walker (2021)
  • Walkerverse Pt. I & II (2022)
  • Walkerworld (2023)

Extended plays[change | change source]

  • Alan Walker Hits (2017)
  • Faded Japan (2018)
  • Live Fast (Japan Exclusive) (2019)
  • Walker Racing League (2021)
  • Walkerverse Pt. I (2022)
  • Origins (2022)
  • Walkerverse Pt. II (2022)

Awards[change | change source]

Year Organization Award Nominee/work Result Ref.
2016 Gullsnutten Årets Musikk (Music of the Year) Alan Walker Won [9]
MTV Europe Music Awards Best Norwegian Act Won [10]
P3 Gull Årets Nykommer
(Newcomer of the Year) 		Nominated [11]
Årets Låt (Song of the Year) "Faded" Nominated
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity The Cannes Lions Award Won [12]
Eska Music Awards Best International Hit Won [13]
NRJ Music Awards Norge Årets Norske Låt
(Norwegian Song of the Year) 		"Sing Me to Sleep" Won [14]
EBBA Awards '17
by Eurosonic Noorderslag 		European Border Breakers Award Alan Walker Won [15]
2017 Public Choice Award Nominated
Spellemannprisen '16 Årets Låt (Song of the Year) "Faded" Won [16]
Brit Awards British Single of the Year Nominated [17][18]
KKBox Music Awards Best Western Artist of the Year Alan Walker Won [19]
Best Western Single of the Year "Faded" Won
WDM Radio Awards Best New Talent Alan Walker Won [20]
Gullsnutten Årets Musikk (Music of the Year) Won [21]
Echo Awards Best International Newcomer Nominated [22]
Song of the Year "Faded" Nominated
Swiss Music Awards Best International Hit Won [23]
Berlin Music Video Awards Best Editor "Sing Me to Sleep"
(music video) 		Nominated [24]
Spellemann and Music Norway Eksportprisen '16
(The Export Prize '16) 		Alan Walker Won [25]
MTV Europe Music Awards Best Norwegian Act Won [26]
2018 Spellemannprisen '17 Årets Låt (Song of the Year) Alone Nominated [27]
WDM Radio Awards Best Bass Track "All Falls Down"
(shared with Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals) 		Nominated [28]
Best Trending Track "Tired" Nominated
Best Remix "Issues" Nominated
International Dance Music Awards Best Breakthrough Artist Alan Walker Won [29]
MTV Europe Music Awards Best Norwegian Act Won [30]
2019 Spellemannprisen '18 Årets Låt (Song of the Year) "Darkside"
(shared with Tomine Harket & Au/Ra) 		Nominated [31]
"Ignite"
(shared with K-391, Julie Bergan & Seungri) 		Nominated
Årets Spellemann (Spellemann of the Year) Alan Walker Won

Personal life[change | change source]

Walker has an older sister Camila and a younger brother Tom.[32]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ "Feirer bursdagen i hjembyen med massivt show". GAFFA.no (in Norwegian). 2017-12-08. Archived from the original on 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. ↑ "Alan Walker talks fame, gaming and music-making". DJ Mag. 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  3. ↑ DJ Mag staff; Guttridge-Hewitt, Martin (2018-10-11). "Alan Walker". DJ Mag.
  4. ↑ Hansen, Karianne. "Slik var NRJ Music Awards Norge". www.nrj.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. ↑ "Different World". Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  6. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Interview with 'Faded' hit maker Alan Walker". CelebMix. 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  7. ↑ "Youtube".
  8. ↑ Staff, PopCrush. "Best Songs We Heard This Week: Jeremih, The 1975, Alan Walker + More". PopCrush. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  9. ↑ "Vinnere Gullsnutten 2016". 16 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "MTV European Music Awards: Alan Walker".
  11. ↑ "Her er de nominerte til P3 Gull 2016". 8 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "Cannes Lions Winners: Cannes Lions Archive". Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  13. ↑ "Zagraniczne gwiazdy Gali ESKA Music Awards 2016". Archived from the original on 2021-07-12. Retrieved 2023-10-17.
  14. ↑ "Slik var NRJ Music Awards Norge".
  15. ↑ "The winners - EBBA, European Border Breakers Awards, the awards for best European new music". Archived from the original on 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  16. ↑ "Årets Nominerte (2016)". Archived from the original on 2017-01-06.
  17. ↑ "British Single Nominations Announced".
  18. ↑ "Alan Walker nominert til Brit Awards".
  19. ↑ "2016 Annual Western Chart List (In Chinese)". KKBox. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  20. ↑ LOS40. "WDM Radio Awards 2017". WDM Radio Awards 2017 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ↑ "Årets Nominerte (2017)". 17 March 2017.
  22. ↑ "Echo Awards 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  23. ↑ "WINNERS". Swiss Music Awards (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  24. ↑ "Berlin Music Video Awards". berlinmva.com. Archived from the original on June 13, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  25. ↑ "Disse er nominert til Eksportprisen". 28 April 2017.
  26. ↑ "Breaking: The 2017 MTV EMA Nominations Are Here!". MTV. 4 September 2017. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  27. ↑ Fold, The (9 January 2018). "Spellemann // NOMINERTE SPELLEMANN 2017". Spellemann. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  28. ↑ "WDM Radio Awards 2018". Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  29. ↑ "International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) presents 2018 winners". 22 March 2018.
  30. ↑ "Best Norwegian Act". MTV. 5 October 2018. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  31. ↑ "Spellemann // Vinnere av Spellemannprisen 2018". Spellemann.com. 30 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  32. ↑ Rolfsnes, May-Helen (2016-11-09). "Alan Walker droppar maska". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2020-06-26.

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