Avicii

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Tim Bergling (Swedish pronunciation:[tm brjl]; born 8

September 1989), better known by his stage name Avicii
(/viti/, -VEE-chee; Swedish pronunciation:[avt]; stylized as
), is a Swedish musician, DJ, remixer and record

Avicii

producer.[4]
Bergling was ranked third on DJ Mag in 2012 and 2013[5][6] and
has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award, once for his
work on "Sunshine" with David Guetta in 2012[7] and once for
his song "Levels" in 2013. Some of his most famous songs are "I
Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero, "Wake Me Up", "You
Make Me", "X You", "Hey Brother", "Addicted to You", "The
Days", "The Nights", "Levels" and "Waiting for Love". He
released his debut studio album, True, in 2013. It received
generally positive reviews from music critics, peaked within the
top ten in more than fteen countries and topped the Australian,
Swedish, Danish and US charts.[8][9][10][11] In 2015, Bergling
released his second studio album, Stories.

Avicii in 2014
Background information
Birth name

Contents

Tim Bergling

Also known as Tim Berg Tim Lidn Tom

Hangs[1] Timberman

1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Origin of the name "Avicii"
2.2 201112: "Levels" and international
breakthrough
2.3 2013: True
2.4 20142015: Stories and major collaborations
2.5 2016: Touring Retirement and Upcoming
Third Studio Album
3 Inuences
4 Philanthropy
5 Discography
6 Concert tours
7 Awards and nominations
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Early life

Born

8 September 1989
Stockholm, Sweden

Origin

stermalm, Stockholm, Sweden

Genres

EDM progressive house electro

house

Occupation(s) Electronic musician DJ remixer

record producer
Instruments

Guitar piano keyboards

synthesizers FL Studio Logic
Pro

Years active

2006present

Labels

Island[2] LE7ELS (http://www.be

atport.com/label/le7els/21672)
Vicious Big Beat Size
Armada[3] Spinnin' Ultra Joia
UMG PRMD

Associated acts David Guetta Wyclef Jean

Coldplay

Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm,

Website

avicii.com (http://avicii.com)

Sweden, to Klas Bergling and actress Anki Lidn.[12] In May

2007, Avicii signed on with the Dejtts Plays label.[12] Then, in 2010, Bergling released the hit song "Seek
Bromance", which reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium,[13] France,[14] the Netherlands,[15]
United Kingdom,[16] and Sweden.[17] He also remixed Nadia Ali's classic single "Rapture" for her album Queen of
Clubs Trilogy: Onyx Edition. In October 2010, Bergling signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music
Publishing.[18]

Career
Origin of the name "Avicii"
Bergling explained that the name Avicii means "the lowest level of Buddhist hell and he chose the moniker
because his real name was already used upon creating his MySpace page.[19][20]

201112: "Levels" and international breakthrough

In 2011, Bergling released "Levels", which launched him into the
mainstream. The song was produced and written by Tim Bergling and
contains a vocal sample from the 1962 gospel-inspired "Something's
Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James.[22] The same vocal sample was
used rst by Pretty Lights in his 2006 song "Finally Moving".[23] This
sample was also used by Drum and Bass producer Logistics on "Call
Me Back"[24] and by Flo Rida in his single "Good Feeling", which
was produced by DJ Prak and Cirkut.[25] "Levels" reached the top ten
in

Austria,[26]

Germany,[30]

Belgium,[27]

Bosnia, Croatia,

Denmark,[28]

Finland,[29]

Avicii wordmark, 2008[21]

Greece, Ireland,[31] Italy,[32] the Netherlands,[33]

Slovenia and the United Kingdom,[34] whilst topping the charts in Hungary,[35] Norway[36] and Sweden.[37]
In 2012, his collaboration track "Sunshine" with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the
category for Best Dance Recording.[7] His track "Fade into Darkness" was sampled by Leona Lewis on her single
"Collide". The sampling was not accredited and led to controversy as Bergling attempted to block the single's
release. However, the matter was resolved outside of court with representatives stating "that Leona Lewis and
Avicii will work together on the forthcoming single of Collide".[38]
On 23 March 2012, Bergling's unsigned single "Last Dance" was previewed on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio
1.[39] The song was later released on 27 August 2012. At Ultra Music Festival 2012 in Miami, he premiered two
tracks, "Girl Gone Wild" (Avicii's UMF Remix) with Madonna[40] and "Superlove" with Lenny Kravitz.[41] Avicii's
UMF Remix of "Girl Gone Wild" was released on 20 April 2012, and "Superlove" with Kravitz was released on 29
May 2012. After reaching two million followers on Facebook, Bergling released a new song titled "Two Million".
It was put out as a free download on his ofcial Soundcloud page. On 27 April 2012, Bergling released
"Silhouettes". The song featured vocals from Salem Al Fakir and peaked at number 5 on the UK Dance charts[42]
and number 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.[43]

Bergling was a featured performer on 4 August 2012 at Lollapalooza festival in Chicago's Grant Park. On 12
August 2012, he released "Dancing in My Head" (Avicii's 'Been Cursed' Mix) on Beatport.[44] The track features
vocals from Eric Turner. A radio edit of the track, titled "Dancing in My Head" (Tom Hangs Mix) was released on
14 August 2012 on iTunes, and a remix EP was later released on 30 October 2012 featuring remixes from Charlie
Bernardo and Michael Woods. On 26 September 2012, Bergling made history by being the rst DJ to headline the
world-famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City.[45] He performed two sold out shows on 26 and 27
September. He was supported by Matt Goldman and Cazzette at the two shows. At his Radio City Music Hall
shows, he played a preview of his new track with Mike Posner titled "Stay with You".
On 29 December 2012, Bergling premiered many new songs at Lights All Night, Dallas Convention Center, some
of which made it into his rst album, True. These unreleased songs included "I'll Be Gone" and "Let It Go".[46] The
instrumental of "Let It Go" was mixed with the a capella of "Addicted to You" to become "Addicted to You (Avicii
by Avicii)".
On 29 December 2012, Bergling released "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero.[47] After rst being debuted at
his shows almost a year earlier, the track nally got released via Bergling's record label LE7ELS. The new vocal
version was released along with an instrumental version, a radio edit, and remixes from Audrio and Didrick. On 9
January 2013, Bergling launched the Avicii X You project, a partnership with Ericsson[48] designed to create the
world's rst "crowdsourced" hit song. The project enabled fans to send in basslines, effects, melodies, rhythms and
vocals to Bergling as sound les over the Internet.[49] The song features sequences from Kian Sang (melody),
Naxsy (bassline), Martin Kupilas (beat), (break), Jonathan Madray, Mateusz Kolata, and Christian
Westphalen (effects). Bergling acted as executive producer and created the nished song ofcially titled X You,
which was released on 26 February 2013. On 30 January 2013, Bergling released "Three Million" featuring Negin
to celebrate three million fans on his Facebook page.[50]
Bergling was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording with "Levels" at the 2013 Grammy Awards.[51]
He was nominated alongside Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo, Skrillex, Swedish House Maa and John Martin, and Al
Walser. The award show took place on 10 February 2013. From late February to early March 2013, Bergling toured
Australia as one of the headline acts in the Future Music Festival alongside The Prodigy and The Stone Roses.[52]
In late February 2013, Bergling made his rst South American tour, with concerts in Venezuela, Argentina,
Colombia, Brazil and Chile.[53]

2013: True
In March 2013, Bergling announced and premiered many new tracks from his new album True, which would later
be set to be released in September, during his Main Stage set at Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The new tracks
were experimental in nature. For example, Bergling brought out a stomping band to play through the new
bluegrass-tinged song "Wake Me Up".[54] Many of these new songs, however, received mixed critical reviews after
the concert.[55]
On 11 April 2013, Bergling released his new album promo mix on SoundCloud. It contained some songs from True
and some of his non-album singles.[56] It also contained some of his ID's such as "Black and Blue" and "Enough is
Enough (Don't Give Up On Us)".
The EBU and SVT announced on 15 April that Bergling, along with ex-ABBA members Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny
Andersson, had composed the anthem for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. The song was performed for the rst
time in the Final on 18 May.[57]

On 14 June 2013, the world premiere of Bergling's new single, "Wake Me

Up", was previewed by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, featuring vocals from
Aloe Blacc.[58] The song was later released on iTunes and radio on 25 June
2013. It is the rst single from Bergling's album True, which was released
on 16 September 2013. "Wake Me Up" was number 1 on the Spotify Global
Chart and Bergling was at 2 in most streamed artist worldwide.[59] "Wake
Me Up" later went on to set a then record of 14 weeks as the number one hit
on Billboards Dance/Electronic Songs list.[60] The Ofcial Charts Company
announced on 21 July that "Wake Me Up" had become the UK's fastest
selling single of 2013 after overtaking Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines",
having sold 267,000 copies in its rst week on sale in the UK.[61] "Wake
Me Up" subsequently became a major hit, topping the charts in over 20
countries including Australia,[62] Germany,[63] Ireland,[64] Italy,
Sweden,[65] the Netherlands,[66] and New Zealand.[67]

Avicii at Inox Festival, 2011.

On 19 October 2013, the DJ Mag 2013 Top 100 DJs List was announced,
with Bergling ranking number 3 on the list. Hardwell became the new World No.1 displacing Armin Van
Buuren.[68] On 28 October 2013, Bergling released the single "Hey Brother" with vocals by Dan Tyminski. On 10
November, Bergling won his rst award "Best Electronic" at the MTV EMA's.[69]
On 24 November 2013 he won the American Music Award for favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist.[70]
In December 2013, Bergling released his fourth single off the album, "Addicted To You", which reached number 1
in Australia, with vocals from Audra Mae, who also sings on Shame on Me and Long Road to Hell, both tracks on
the album.[71] Bergling also released the single, "Lay Me Down" featuring vocals from Adam Lambert and guitar
from Nile Rodgers.[72] On 29 December 2013, Bergling debuted his new track "Dreaming of Me", featuring vocals
from Audra Mae, via episode 19 of his LE7ELS podcast.[73] It is unknown whether it will be released in the future.
In January 2014, the French hit music radio station NRJ released a new web radio station called "NRJ AVICII",
which plays songs only by Bergling.
On 8 March 2014, Bergling's Instagram account conrmed a collaboration with Madonna. The extent of the
collaboration is unknown.[74] On 21 March 2014, Bergling released a remixed edition of his album True titled
True: Avicii By Avicii containing remixes by himself of all the tracks, excluding "Heart Upon My Sleeve" for
unknown reasons. The promotion of this album was supposed to begin at the 2014 Ultra Music Festival, but
unfortunately Bergling announced he had been hospitalised on 28 March, and was unable to play his closing set at
the festival.[75] On 28 March 2014, FIFA and Sony Music Entertainment announced that Bergling would be
collaborating with Carlos Santana, Wyclef Jean and Alexandre Pires for the ofcial FIFA World Cup Anthem titled
"Dar um Jeito (We Will Find a Way)". The anthem was performed at the FIFA World Cup Closing Ceremony on 13
July 2014.[76]
In 2014, following the FIFA World Cup, Bergling released his single "Lay Me Down".[77] He also produced and
collaborated with Chris Martin from Coldplay, co-writing and co-producing the track "A Sky Full of Stars" from
the band's sixth studio album Ghost Stories, released on 19 May 2014. He also played and recorded the piano parts

on the track. "A Sky Full of Stars" was released on 3 May as the second single from Ghost Stories.[78] "Lovers on
the Sun", a track Bergling co-produced with David Guetta, was released on 30 June 2014.[79] He has also worked
with Wyclef Jean on a single titled "Divine Sorrow" off his upcoming album Clecation.[80]

20142015: Stories and major collaborations

In July 2014, Bergling told Rolling Stone that he had worked on 70 songs for his next album Stories, which would
include collaborations with Jon Bon Jovi, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Chris Martin, Wyclef Jean and
Matisyahu.[81] Describing the album, Bergling said: "It's going to be a lot more song-oriented."[82]
During his tour for True, he also performed his upcoming single "No Pleasing A Woman" with vocals from Billie
Joe Armstrong of American rock band Green Day. It has a similar instrumental to "Wake Me Up" albeit different
chord progressions, along with "No Pleasing A Woman." Bergling also performed other upcoming songs like "In
Love With Your Ghost" with Daniel "Danne" Adams-Ray, "Love To Fall" with Tom Odell and "Million Miles"
with LP which is the demo version of "Trouble", a song from "Stories" with vocals from Wayne Hector.[83]
"Lose Myself", a collaboration between Bergling and Chinese singer Wang Leehom, was released on 1 September
2014.[84] On 8 September 2014, his 25th birthday, Bergling decided to cancel all of his remaining performances of
2014 due to health concerns.[85] The following day, he announced through Denim & Supply that he would release
his new single "The Days" later in 2014; a video was also featured with a preview of the track.[86] "The Days" is a
collaboration between Bergling and Robbie Williams, and was released on 3 October 2014 via PRMD. On 16
September 2014, it was announced through EA Sports that Bergling was debuting a brand new track called "The
Nights" exclusively on FIFA 15.[87] On 17 November 2014, it was ofcially announced that the track is to be
released as a part of an EP together with "The Days".[88]
On 17 November 2014, Wyclef Jean released a track titled "Divine Sorrow" featuring Avicii.[89]
On 2 March 2015, Bergling performed live at Australia's Future Music Festival his upcoming single "Heaven", a
collaboration with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin on vocals. However, the vocals were later resung by singer
Simon Aldred from Cherry Ghost; Chris Martin will receive writing credits on "Heaven".[90] A lot of songs were
leaked into the internet via Bergling's UMF set 2015.[91] These songs include "Heaven", "Waiting For Love," and
some of his ID's "For A Better Day", "City Lights", "Can't Catch Me", "True Believer", "What Would I Change It
To", "Can't Love You Again" (previously leaked on the internet under the name "Don't Call") and "Attack".[91][92]
On 25 April 2015, Bergling announced on episode 35 of his LE7ELS podcast that he would be playing some of his
unreleased songs on his show. He also previewed his bootleg of Kings of Tomorrow's song "Finally" and one of his
old songs that he did with ASH, titled "Papa Was a Rolling Stone".[93]
On 6 May 2015, Bergling released his rework of Nina Simone's version of "Feeling Good",[94] composed in 1964
by the English songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. On 8 May 2015, Bergling previewed his song "I'll
Be Gone" via episode 422 of Tisto's Club Life Podcast[95] which has a very similar instrumental to Liar Liar
(Avicii by Avicii) albeit different vocals and chord progressions. It was leaked into the internet between 20132014
via the name "Stars" and is yet to be released. It also shares a similar drop to one of Bergling's ID's "Black and
Blue".[96] On 22 May 2015, Bergling premiered another single from Stories, "Waiting for Love". The track was coproduced by fellow DJ and producer Martin Garrix, and featured vocals from Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost.[97]
On 25 May 2015, Bergling previewed three old tracks on episode 36 of his LE7ELS podcast: "Tracks of My

Tears", "Sorry Mr. Atari" and "Time to Get lll",[98] all of which are songs that Bergling had made years ago.
"Tracks of My Tears" is the original version of Bergling's "All You Need is Love". On 27 May 2015, it was
conrmed by a Swedish newspaper through an interview with Bergling that his sophomore album Stories would be
released in fall 2015.[99]
On 3 July 2015, Bergling previewed two tracks from his album Stories on episode 37 of his LE7ELS podcast:
"Broken Arrows" featuring Zac Brown Band and "Cant Catch Me" featuring Wyclef Jean and Matisyahu.[100] He
also played a full version of his track "Heaven" and also revealed that he was doing another track with Chris Martin
on vocals called "True Believer". Later, Bergling also revealed that he is also singing on that track.[101] On 18 July
2015, it was announced by Bergling that he had nally nished production on Stories after 2 years of work.[102]
A couple of weeks later, on 4 August 2015, it was announced that the nal singles before the release of Stories
would be "For a Better Day" featuring American singer Alex Ebert and "Pure Grinding" featuring vocals from
Kristoffer Fogelmark and Earl St. Clair.[103] On 27 August, Bergling released a teaser video on Instagram with the
song "Pure Grinding" playing. The tracks "For a Better Day" and "Pure Grinding" were released the following day
through Spotify and iTunes.[104] On 26 September, Bergling announced "Stories Megamix" on Spotify.[105]
Stories was released on 2 October 2015 alongside 3 promotional singles: "Broken Arrows" with Zac Brown, "Ten
More Days" with Zak Abel and "Gonna Love Ya" with Sandro Cavazza.[106]

2016: Touring Retirement and Upcoming Third Studio Album

On 15 January 2016, Bergling released his remix of Morten's "Beautiful Heartbeat".[107] Coca Cola had partnered
with Bergling for a global campaign anthem "Taste the Feeling" featuring Conrad Sewell.[108] The song was
released on 19 January. On 25 January, Bergling teamed up again with Coldplay to co-produce the band's single
"Hymn for the Weekend", which was released as the second single from their album A Head Full of Dreams.[109] In
2016, according to a report by Inc magazine, Avicii was the 6th fastest growing company in Europe, with a revenue
of 7.7 million in 2014.[110][111][112]
On 19 March 2016, Bergling performed live at Ultra Music Festival and premiered new IDs such as "Without You
(feat. Sandro Cavazza)", "We Burn (Faster Than Light)", and a collaboration with Australian pop star Sia (which he
rst played in Dubai).[113] On 29 March, Bergling announced on Facebook that he would be retiring from
performing live and touring in 2016.[114]
On 7 April 2016, Bergling announced that he's working on a third studio album.[115]
On 3 June 2016, Bergling released his collaboration with Otto Knows titled "Back Where I Belong". It's the second
collaboration with the two producers after "Itrack", back in 2011.[116]
On 15 July 2016, Bergling released a remix of his own song, 'Feeling Good'. The remix was titled "Feeling Good
(Avicii By Avicii)".[117] This track was only released on Bergling's ofcial YouTube channel. However, on 1
August, it appears to have been pulled with the YouTube video being made private.
On 28 August 2016, Bergling performed his nal live performance in Ibiza, before retiring from touring citing
health concerns. His initial announcement was made on his website in April.[118]

On 22 December 2016, a representative of Avicii Music AB had announced that Avicii had parted ways with long
time manager Ash Pournouri and At Night Management along with Ash's record label PRMD. The representative
also announced that Avicii had signed on to Universal Music Sweden and is expected to release his third studio
album in 2017.[119]

Inuences
Bergling's inuences include Daft Punk,
former trio Swedish House Maa (Sebastian
Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Axwell) and Eric
Prydz.[120]
Bergling has described his earliest entree to
electronic music as "listening to a lot of Daft
Punk, way before I knew what house music
was."[121]

Daft Punk (left) and Swedish House Maa (right) have both been
inuences on Avicii.

Avicii is named in the song "I Took a Pill in

Ibiza" by American singer and songwriter Mike Posner. Posner recounts the event when he went to an Avicii show
in Ibiza and got a mystery pill from someone.[122] with the starting lyrics "I took a pill in Ibiza / To show Avicii I
was cool". The song was made in the week they wrote a song together in Sweden called Stay With You.

Philanthropy
Since achieving widespread commercial success, Bergling began working with his manager and executive producer
Ash Pournouri to start House for Hunger[123] in 2011, a charity dedicated to alleviating global hunger. The pair
wanted to showcase the giving spirit fostered by the house music community. Bergling explained, "You have to
give something back. I am so fortunate to be in the position where I can actually do that. I feel lucky every day
when I wake up and am able to do what I love and make a living." In addition to donating $1 million to Feeding
America, a charity founded by John van Hengel, House for Hunger has helped fund the efforts of The Feed
Foundation, started by Laura Bush,[124] allowing it to distribute over two million school meals throughout
Africa.[125]

Discography
Studio albums
True (2013)
Stories (2015)

Concert tours
True Tour (2014)
Stories World Tour (2015)

Awards and nominations

American Music Awards

The American Music Awards is an annual American music awards show created by Dick Clark in 1973, which airs
on ABC. Avicii received two nominations and won one.
Year
2013[126]
2014[127]

Nominee/work
Avicii

Award

Result

Favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist

Won

Favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist

Nominated

Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards are an annual awards show from Billboard Magazine, Avicii received six
nominations.
Year

2014

Nominee/work

Result

Avicii

Top Dance/Electronic Artist

Nominated

True

Top Dance/Electronic Album

Nominated

Top Radio Song

Nominated

"Wake Me Up"
2015[128]

Award

Top Dance/Electronic Song

Won

Avicii

Top Dance/Electronic Artist

Nominated

True

Top Dance/Electronic Album

Nominated

Echo Music Awards

The Echo Music Awards is an annual music awards ceremony presented by Deutsche Phono-Akademie in
Germany. Avicii won two awards.
Year

Nominee/work

Award
Electronic Dance Music National/International

2014[129] Avicii

Hit des Jahres

Result
Won

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States.
Avicii received one nomination in 2012 and one nomination in 2013.
Year

Nominee/work

Award

Result

2012[130] "Sunshine" (David Guetta & Avicii)

Best Dance Recording

Nominated

2013

Best Dance Recording

Nominated

"Levels"

iHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards is an awards show created by iHeartRadio. Avicii received two nominations and
won an award.

Year

Nominee/work

Award
Best Lyrics

2014 "Wake Me Up"

Result
Nominated

EDM Song of the Year

Won

International Dance Music Awards

The International Dance Music Awards are held annually as part of the Winter Music Conference. Avicii has
received four nominations and won one.
Year

Nominee/work

Result

Best European DJ

Avicii
2013[131]

Award
Best Remixer

Levels Podcast

Best Podcast

Avicii

Best Artist (Solo)

Nominated
Won

MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe, Avicii received ve
nominations and won two.
Year

Nominee/work

2012

2013 Avicii

2015

Award

Result

Best Electronic

Nominated

Best Swedish Act

Nominated

Best Electronic

Won

Best Swedish Act

Won

Best Northern European Act

Nominated

Best Electronic

Nominated

Best Swedish Act

Nominated

MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards are presented annually by MTV and honor accomplishments in the music video
medium. Avicii has received two nominations.
Year
2014[132]

Nominee/work

Award

"Wake Me Up"

Best Pop Video

"Hey Brother"

Best Video with a Social Message

Result
Nominated

Teen Choice Awards

The Teen Choice Awards is an annual award ceremony to honour the year's biggest achievements in entertainment
and is voted by teen viewers. Avicii has won an award.
Year

Nominee/work

2014[133] "Wake Me Up"

Award
Choice EDM Song

Result
Won

World Music Awards

The World Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that honors best selling artists in the record industry.
Avicii received eight nominations.
Year

Nominee/work
"Wake Me Up"
True

2014
Avicii

Award

Result

World's Best Song

Nominated

World's Best Video

Nominated

World's Best Album

Nominated

World's Best Male

Nominated

World's Best Live Act

Nominated

World's Best Electronic Dance Artist

Won

World's Best Entertainer of the Year

Nominated

World's Best Swedish Act

Won

See also
Swedish popular music

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