Avicii
小档案
姓 名:Avicii艾维奇/提姆伯格林
国 籍:瑞典
星 座:处女座
出 生 地:斯德哥尔摩
出生日期:1989-09-08
逝世日期:2018-04-20
职 业:DJ、电音制作人
经纪公司:At Night Management
音乐风格:电子音乐:House/出神音乐
艺人资料
出道初期
Avicii 原名Tim Bergling,1989年9月8日出生于瑞典的斯德哥尔摩省。2008年,不满20岁的Avicii开始尝试为游戏(Commodore 64)制作主题曲,这促使他创作出了自己的第一支单曲《Lazy Lace》,该曲在Strike Recordings发行后立刻引起轰动,只是牛刀小试的瑞典少年得到了众多新老DJ的称赞,他们惊讶这位18岁年轻人的处子作居然如此专业和迎合时代潮流。
事业转折
很快,Avicii被英国老牌House天王Pete Tong注意。在前辈的力邀下,Avicii的第二首单曲《Manman》在Pete Tong的节目(First Trax)当中成为主打,超过七成的听众支持率让Bergling一下子成为炙手可热的明日之星,这首作品顺势被Pete Tong拿来发行在自己的厂牌Bedroom Bedlam下。Pete Tong的力荐对Avicii来说可谓一个重要的转折,让他一下子从混沌的卧房制作人集团中脱颖而出,加上从2008年逐渐升温的瑞典效应,给了这位后生迅速成长所需要的一切外部优势。随着《Manman》的走红,他得到了更多优质的合约:澳洲老牌House大厂Vicious Grooves将其视为门下至宝,Armada加盟音乐公司Zouk给了他更多站上主流舞台的机会,就连老东家Strike Recordings也调转船头集结Avicii早期作品重新发行。众多的机会当中,Vicious Grooves的历练赐予他成为House未来巨星的潜质,从2008年末开始,包括《Even》《Sound Of Now》《Ryu-Strutnut》《My Feelings For You》等在内多首在Beatport上打榜的作品让他积累起不少人气,不到两年的时间,Avicii俨然成为Vicious Grooves最高产艺人。
合作成名
2010年,这位准90后开始和瑞典知名制作人John Dahlbck合作,不但联合发行了单曲《Don't Hold Back》,而且还共同推出了一张混音专辑《Super You & Me - Vol 01》,他的大热单曲《Levels》也获得了世界舞曲连续17周排行第一共18周的惊人成绩。此外,他也获得了与瑞典三杰之一的Sebastian Ingrosso、荷兰DJ天王Tiesto亲密接触的机会。也是在这一年,凭借极高的人气,他首次出现在DJ Mag世界百大DJ排行榜上,第38名的成绩让他成为Top 40当中年龄最小的成员。在2011年百大DJ榜单中Avicii名列第6,在2012年百大DJ榜单中Avicii名列第3,在2013年百大DJ榜单中蝉联季军,这也是对Avicii充分的肯定。在2014年百大DJ榜单中他跌至了第六名。
首发专辑
总是乐于尝试运用新鲜刺激的方式推出自己音乐的全球百大DJ季军Avicii艾维奇,这一次带来了由环球音乐与Fourclops创意视频团队共同研发出的最新成果——TrueTube创意视频网站,是继“Avicii x You”、“Gravity”之后建成的又一将个人音乐与歌迷连结的全新力作。
Avicii在经历了携个人音乐力作《True真实》高居各大榜单、风生水起的2013年之后,进而推出了一项致力于让歌迷基于Avicii的专辑《True真实》中的歌曲去编创个人音乐录像的全新在线视频网站。歌迷们任意挑选视频去和专辑中的歌曲配对,TrueTube就会自动将二者结合,专属打造高享Avicii音乐盛宴。
即使在专辑《True真实》发布之初反响不绝于耳,但是TrueTube代表了Avicii的又一新篇章。此外,全球百大DJ季军Avicii艾维奇2013力作《True真实》已有环球音乐中国引进,并与全国同步上市。
演艺经历
2007年 - 2009年
2008年得到电音天王Tiesto的提拔,成为可容纳万人的全球最大夜店Privilege Ibiza的每周驻场DJ。
2010年
2010年,Avicii用他的本名Tim Bergling发表了 ,此单曲攻占了欧洲多国的热门歌曲榜前20名。
2011年
2011年是Avicii崛起的一年,他以Etta James的
2012年
3月23日,Avicii的单曲“Last Dance”在BBC广播一台上为英国浩室教父Pete Tong所首播,其后该单曲在8月27日正式发行。在迈阿密举行的Ultra Music Festival上,他首播了两首单曲:与麦当娜合作的“Girl Gone Wild(Avicii's UMF Remix)”以及与Lenny Kravitz合作的“Superlove”。当他的Facebook关注者人数到达200万时,他发布了一首新歌“Two Million”。该曲目其后在他的官方Soundcloud页面上放出免费下载。
4月27日,他推出了与瑞典歌手Salem Al Fakir合作的,该曲在英国单曲榜舞曲榜上最高取得第五名的成绩,在美国Billboard排行榜舞曲榜的最好成绩为第四名。
7月中旬,英国女歌手Leona Lewis推出新歌曲,此曲爆出疑似抄袭他的,后来在法庭上决议Leona Lewis在此歌曲封面加上“Avicii”才得以和解,但此次风波也使的这两首歌迅速的串红。
12月29日,Avicii推出与知名荷兰DJNicky Romero和瑞典歌手Noonie Bao合作的“I Could Be The One”在英国拿下了第一名。该曲在Avicii近一年前首播该曲后终于得以在他自己的厂牌LE7ELS下发布,在这次新发布中放出的除了人声版本外还有一个纯器乐版本,一个电台剪辑版以及数首首混音。
2013年
1月9日,启动“Avicii X You”计划,与爱立信合作,旨在制作世界上第一首“全民参与制作”的热播单曲的计划。该计划允许爱好者们通过网络把自己制作的贝斯,效果,旋律,韵律和人声采样上传给Avicii。最后,该曲选用了这些参与者的样品:Kian Sang (旋律), Naxsy (贝斯), Martin Kupilas (鼓点), ВАНЯ ХАКСИ (转音), Jonathan Madray, Mateusz Kolata, and Christian Westphalen (效果)。Avicii最终制作了官方命名“X you”的成品曲,并在2013年2月26日发布。
9月,发表了首张大型创作专辑<
>,专辑中以电子音乐融合了多种乡村、摇滚、爵士创新的曲风尝试,最知名的即是与乡村歌手Aloe Blacc合作,融合了乡村蓝调与电音的元素来创作的,此曲荣登了多国的冠军,以及2013年Spotify年度最受欢迎歌曲(2亿多次播放),在Youtube的点阅率中也突破了3亿次。12月19日,Avicii的《Wake Me Up!》排名公告牌Hot 100单曲榜前十名。12月30日,英国单曲榜,Avicii的第二首打榜单曲《Hey Brother》从上周第五位攀升到了该周季军位置。
2014年1月,Avicii的专辑《True》首次冲进榜单前十。2月10日,获得英国专辑榜亚军。2014公告牌颁奖礼,Avicii的《Wake Me Up》荣获最佳舞曲、电子单曲。9月4日,王力宏Avicii推新单曲《Lose Myself忘我》。11月,加雷斯•马罗尼全明星合唱团翻唱他的《Wake Me Up》,并空降该周英国流行音乐单曲榜榜首。12月公告牌,Avicii当选年度最佳艺人。
2015年EMA音乐奖,Avicii荣获最佳电子艺人。
Early life
Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden.In May 2007, Avicii signed on with the Dejfitts Plays label.Then, in 2010, Avicii released the hit song "Seek Bromance", which reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium,France,the Netherlands,United Kingdom,and Sweden.He also remixed Nadia Ali's classic single "Rapture" for her album Queen of Clubs Trilogy: Onyx Edition. In October 2010, Avicii signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music Publishing.
Career
2011-2012: "Levels" and international breakthrough
In 2011, Avicii 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.The same vocal sample was used first by Pretty Lights in his 2006 song "Finally Moving".This sample was also used by Drum and Bass producer Logistics on "Call Me Back"and by Flo Rida in his single "Good Feeling", which was produced by DJ Prak and Cirkut."Levels" reached the top ten in Austria,Belgium,Bosnia, Croatia, Denmark,Finland,Germany,Greece, Ireland,Italy,the Netherlands,Slovenia and the United Kingdom, whilst topping the charts in Hungary,Norway and Sweden.
In 2012, his collaboration track "Sunshine" with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the category for Best Dance Recording.His track "Fade into Darkness" was sampled by Leona Lewis on her single "Collide". The sampling was not accredited and led to controversy as Avicii 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"
On 23 March 2012, Avicii's unsigned single "Last Dance" was previewed on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1.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 and "Superlove" with Lenny Kravitz.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, Avicii released a new song titled "Two Million". It was put out as a free download on his official Soundcloud page. On 27 April 2012, Avicii released "Silhouettes". The song featured vocals from Salem Al Fakir and peaked at number 5 on the UK Dance charts and number 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.
Avicii 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.On 29 December 2012, Avicii premiered many new songs at Lights All Night, Dallas Convention Center, some of which made it into his first album, True. These unreleased songs included "I'll Be Gone" and "Let It Go".
On 29 December 2012, Avicii released "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero.After first being debuted at his shows almost a year earlier, the track finally got released via Avicii'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, Avicii launched the Avicii X You project, a partnership with Ericsson designed to create the world's first "crowdsourced" hit song. The project enabled fans to send in basslines, effects, melodies, rhythms and vocals to Avicii as sound files over the Internet.On 30 January 2013, Avicii released "Three Million" featuring Negin to mark the three millionth fan on his Facebook page.
Avicii was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording with "Levels" at the 2013 Grammy Awards.He was nominated alongside Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo, Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and John Martin, and Al Walser. The award show took place on 10 February 2013. From late February to early March 2013, Avicii toured Australia as one of the headline acts in the Future Music Festival alongside The Prodigy and The Stone Roses. In late February 2013, Avicii made his first South American tour, with concerts in Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
2013:True
In March 2013, Avicii 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, Avicii brought out a stomping band to play through the new bluegrass-tinged song "Wake Me Up".
On 11 April 2013, Avicii released his new album promo mix on SoundCloud. It contained some songs from True and some of his non-album singles.
The EBU and SVT announced on 15 April that Avicii, along with ex-ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, had composed the anthem for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. The song was performed for the first time in the Final on 18 May.
On 14 June 2013, the world premiere of Avicii's new single, "Wake Me Up", was previewed by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, featuring vocals from Aloe Blacc."Wake Me Up" was number 1 on the Spotify Global Chart and Avicii was at 2 in most streamed artist worldwide.The Official 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 first week on sale in the UK.
On 19 October 2013, the DJ Mag 2013 Top 100 DJs List was announced, with Avicii ranking number 3 on the list. Hardwell became the new World No.1 displacing Armin Van Buuren.
On 24 November 2013 he won the American Music Award for favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist.
In January 2014, the French hit music radio station NRJ released a new web radio station called "NRJ AVICII", which plays songs only by Avicii.
On 21 March 2014, Avicii 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 Avicii announced he had been hospitalised on 28 March, and was unable to play his closing set at the festival.
In 2014, following the FIFA World Cup, Avicii released his single "Lay Me Down". 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.
2014-2015:Stories and major collaborations
In July 2014, Avicii 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."Lose Myself", a collaboration between Avicii and Chinese singer Wang Leehom, was released on 1 September 2014.On 8 September 2014, his 25th birthday, Avicii decided to cancel all of his remaining performances of 2014 due to health concerns."The Days" is a collaboration between Avicii and Robbie Williams, and was released on 3 October 2014 via PRMD. On 16 September 2014, it was announced through EA Sports that Avicii was debuting a brand new track called "The Nights" exclusively on FIFA 15.
On 17 November 2014, Wyclef Jean released a track titled "Divine Sorrow" featuring Avicii.On 2 March 2015, Avicii 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".
On 6 May 2015, Avicii released his rework of Nina Simone's version of "Feeling Good",composed in 1964 by the English songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. On 8 May 2015, Avicii previewed his song "I'll Be Gone" via episode 422 of Tiësto's Club Life Podcast which has a very similar instrumental to Liar Liar (Avicii by Avicii) albeit different vocals and chord progressions. On 22 May 2015, Avicii premiered another single from Stories, "Waiting for Love". The track was co-produced by fellow DJ and producer Martin Garrix, and featured vocals from Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost.
On 3 July 2015, Avicii previewed two tracks from his album Stories on episode 37 of his LE7ELS podcast: "Broken Arrows" featuring Zac Brown Band and "Can’t Catch Me" featuring Wyclef Jean and Matisyahu.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, Avicii also revealed that he is also singing on that track.
On 27 August, Avicii 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. On 26 September, Avicii announced "Stories – Megamix" on Spotify.
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.
2016: New music and upcoming third studio album
On 15 January 2016, Avicii released his remix of Morten's "Beautiful Heartbeat".The song was released on 19 January. On 25 January, Avicii 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.
On 19 March, Avicii performed live at Ultra Music Festival and premiered new IDs (Including a song called "Without You" with Sandro Cavazza).On 29 March, Avicii announced on Facebook that he would be retiring from performing live and touring in 2016.
姓 名:Avicii艾维奇/提姆伯格林
国 籍:瑞典
星 座:处女座
出 生 地:斯德哥尔摩
出生日期:1989-09-08
逝世日期:2018-04-20
职 业:DJ、电音制作人
经纪公司:At Night Management
音乐风格:电子音乐:House/出神音乐
艺人资料
出道初期
Avicii 原名Tim Bergling,1989年9月8日出生于瑞典的斯德哥尔摩省。2008年,不满20岁的Avicii开始尝试为游戏(Commodore 64)制作主题曲,这促使他创作出了自己的第一支单曲《Lazy Lace》,该曲在Strike Recordings发行后立刻引起轰动,只是牛刀小试的瑞典少年得到了众多新老DJ的称赞,他们惊讶这位18岁年轻人的处子作居然如此专业和迎合时代潮流。
事业转折
很快,Avicii被英国老牌House天王Pete Tong注意。在前辈的力邀下,Avicii的第二首单曲《Manman》在Pete Tong的节目(First Trax)当中成为主打,超过七成的听众支持率让Bergling一下子成为炙手可热的明日之星,这首作品顺势被Pete Tong拿来发行在自己的厂牌Bedroom Bedlam下。Pete Tong的力荐对Avicii来说可谓一个重要的转折,让他一下子从混沌的卧房制作人集团中脱颖而出,加上从2008年逐渐升温的瑞典效应,给了这位后生迅速成长所需要的一切外部优势。随着《Manman》的走红,他得到了更多优质的合约:澳洲老牌House大厂Vicious Grooves将其视为门下至宝,Armada加盟音乐公司Zouk给了他更多站上主流舞台的机会,就连老东家Strike Recordings也调转船头集结Avicii早期作品重新发行。众多的机会当中,Vicious Grooves的历练赐予他成为House未来巨星的潜质,从2008年末开始,包括《Even》《Sound Of Now》《Ryu-Strutnut》《My Feelings For You》等在内多首在Beatport上打榜的作品让他积累起不少人气,不到两年的时间,Avicii俨然成为Vicious Grooves最高产艺人。
合作成名
2010年,这位准90后开始和瑞典知名制作人John Dahlbck合作,不但联合发行了单曲《Don't Hold Back》,而且还共同推出了一张混音专辑《Super You & Me - Vol 01》,他的大热单曲《Levels》也获得了世界舞曲连续17周排行第一共18周的惊人成绩。此外,他也获得了与瑞典三杰之一的Sebastian Ingrosso、荷兰DJ天王Tiesto亲密接触的机会。也是在这一年,凭借极高的人气,他首次出现在DJ Mag世界百大DJ排行榜上,第38名的成绩让他成为Top 40当中年龄最小的成员。在2011年百大DJ榜单中Avicii名列第6,在2012年百大DJ榜单中Avicii名列第3,在2013年百大DJ榜单中蝉联季军,这也是对Avicii充分的肯定。在2014年百大DJ榜单中他跌至了第六名。
首发专辑
总是乐于尝试运用新鲜刺激的方式推出自己音乐的全球百大DJ季军Avicii艾维奇,这一次带来了由环球音乐与Fourclops创意视频团队共同研发出的最新成果——TrueTube创意视频网站,是继“Avicii x You”、“Gravity”之后建成的又一将个人音乐与歌迷连结的全新力作。
Avicii在经历了携个人音乐力作《True真实》高居各大榜单、风生水起的2013年之后,进而推出了一项致力于让歌迷基于Avicii的专辑《True真实》中的歌曲去编创个人音乐录像的全新在线视频网站。歌迷们任意挑选视频去和专辑中的歌曲配对,TrueTube就会自动将二者结合,专属打造高享Avicii音乐盛宴。
即使在专辑《True真实》发布之初反响不绝于耳,但是TrueTube代表了Avicii的又一新篇章。此外,全球百大DJ季军Avicii艾维奇2013力作《True真实》已有环球音乐中国引进,并与全国同步上市。
演艺经历
2007年 - 2009年
2008年得到电音天王Tiesto的提拔,成为可容纳万人的全球最大夜店Privilege Ibiza的每周驻场DJ。
2010年
2010年,Avicii用他的本名Tim Bergling发表了 ,此单曲攻占了欧洲多国的热门歌曲榜前20名。
2011年
2011年是Avicii崛起的一年,他以Etta James的
2012年
3月23日,Avicii的单曲“Last Dance”在BBC广播一台上为英国浩室教父Pete Tong所首播,其后该单曲在8月27日正式发行。在迈阿密举行的Ultra Music Festival上,他首播了两首单曲:与麦当娜合作的“Girl Gone Wild(Avicii's UMF Remix)”以及与Lenny Kravitz合作的“Superlove”。当他的Facebook关注者人数到达200万时,他发布了一首新歌“Two Million”。该曲目其后在他的官方Soundcloud页面上放出免费下载。
4月27日,他推出了与瑞典歌手Salem Al Fakir合作的,该曲在英国单曲榜舞曲榜上最高取得第五名的成绩,在美国Billboard排行榜舞曲榜的最好成绩为第四名。
7月中旬,英国女歌手Leona Lewis推出新歌曲,此曲爆出疑似抄袭他的,后来在法庭上决议Leona Lewis在此歌曲封面加上“Avicii”才得以和解,但此次风波也使的这两首歌迅速的串红。
12月29日,Avicii推出与知名荷兰DJNicky Romero和瑞典歌手Noonie Bao合作的“I Could Be The One”在英国拿下了第一名。该曲在Avicii近一年前首播该曲后终于得以在他自己的厂牌LE7ELS下发布,在这次新发布中放出的除了人声版本外还有一个纯器乐版本,一个电台剪辑版以及数首首混音。
2013年
1月9日,启动“Avicii X You”计划,与爱立信合作,旨在制作世界上第一首“全民参与制作”的热播单曲的计划。该计划允许爱好者们通过网络把自己制作的贝斯,效果,旋律,韵律和人声采样上传给Avicii。最后,该曲选用了这些参与者的样品:Kian Sang (旋律), Naxsy (贝斯), Martin Kupilas (鼓点), ВАНЯ ХАКСИ (转音), Jonathan Madray, Mateusz Kolata, and Christian Westphalen (效果)。Avicii最终制作了官方命名“X you”的成品曲,并在2013年2月26日发布。
9月,发表了首张大型创作专辑<
>,专辑中以电子音乐融合了多种乡村、摇滚、爵士创新的曲风尝试,最知名的即是与乡村歌手Aloe Blacc合作,融合了乡村蓝调与电音的元素来创作的,此曲荣登了多国的冠军,以及2013年Spotify年度最受欢迎歌曲(2亿多次播放),在Youtube的点阅率中也突破了3亿次。12月19日,Avicii的《Wake Me Up!》排名公告牌Hot 100单曲榜前十名。12月30日,英国单曲榜,Avicii的第二首打榜单曲《Hey Brother》从上周第五位攀升到了该周季军位置。
2014年1月,Avicii的专辑《True》首次冲进榜单前十。2月10日,获得英国专辑榜亚军。2014公告牌颁奖礼,Avicii的《Wake Me Up》荣获最佳舞曲、电子单曲。9月4日,王力宏Avicii推新单曲《Lose Myself忘我》。11月,加雷斯•马罗尼全明星合唱团翻唱他的《Wake Me Up》,并空降该周英国流行音乐单曲榜榜首。12月公告牌,Avicii当选年度最佳艺人。
2015年EMA音乐奖,Avicii荣获最佳电子艺人。
Early life
Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden.In May 2007, Avicii signed on with the Dejfitts Plays label.Then, in 2010, Avicii released the hit song "Seek Bromance", which reached the top 20 in several countries including Belgium,France,the Netherlands,United Kingdom,and Sweden.He also remixed Nadia Ali's classic single "Rapture" for her album Queen of Clubs Trilogy: Onyx Edition. In October 2010, Avicii signed with the European A&R team with EMI Music Publishing.
Career
2011-2012: "Levels" and international breakthrough
In 2011, Avicii 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.The same vocal sample was used first by Pretty Lights in his 2006 song "Finally Moving".This sample was also used by Drum and Bass producer Logistics on "Call Me Back"and by Flo Rida in his single "Good Feeling", which was produced by DJ Prak and Cirkut."Levels" reached the top ten in Austria,Belgium,Bosnia, Croatia, Denmark,Finland,Germany,Greece, Ireland,Italy,the Netherlands,Slovenia and the United Kingdom, whilst topping the charts in Hungary,Norway and Sweden.
In 2012, his collaboration track "Sunshine" with David Guetta was nominated for a Grammy award under the category for Best Dance Recording.His track "Fade into Darkness" was sampled by Leona Lewis on her single "Collide". The sampling was not accredited and led to controversy as Avicii 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"
On 23 March 2012, Avicii's unsigned single "Last Dance" was previewed on Pete Tong's show on BBC Radio 1.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 and "Superlove" with Lenny Kravitz.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, Avicii released a new song titled "Two Million". It was put out as a free download on his official Soundcloud page. On 27 April 2012, Avicii released "Silhouettes". The song featured vocals from Salem Al Fakir and peaked at number 5 on the UK Dance charts and number 4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.
Avicii 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.On 29 December 2012, Avicii premiered many new songs at Lights All Night, Dallas Convention Center, some of which made it into his first album, True. These unreleased songs included "I'll Be Gone" and "Let It Go".
On 29 December 2012, Avicii released "I Could Be the One" with Nicky Romero.After first being debuted at his shows almost a year earlier, the track finally got released via Avicii'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, Avicii launched the Avicii X You project, a partnership with Ericsson designed to create the world's first "crowdsourced" hit song. The project enabled fans to send in basslines, effects, melodies, rhythms and vocals to Avicii as sound files over the Internet.On 30 January 2013, Avicii released "Three Million" featuring Negin to mark the three millionth fan on his Facebook page.
Avicii was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording with "Levels" at the 2013 Grammy Awards.He was nominated alongside Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo, Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia and John Martin, and Al Walser. The award show took place on 10 February 2013. From late February to early March 2013, Avicii toured Australia as one of the headline acts in the Future Music Festival alongside The Prodigy and The Stone Roses. In late February 2013, Avicii made his first South American tour, with concerts in Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
2013:True
In March 2013, Avicii 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, Avicii brought out a stomping band to play through the new bluegrass-tinged song "Wake Me Up".
On 11 April 2013, Avicii released his new album promo mix on SoundCloud. It contained some songs from True and some of his non-album singles.
The EBU and SVT announced on 15 April that Avicii, along with ex-ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, had composed the anthem for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. The song was performed for the first time in the Final on 18 May.
On 14 June 2013, the world premiere of Avicii's new single, "Wake Me Up", was previewed by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, featuring vocals from Aloe Blacc."Wake Me Up" was number 1 on the Spotify Global Chart and Avicii was at 2 in most streamed artist worldwide.The Official 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 first week on sale in the UK.
On 19 October 2013, the DJ Mag 2013 Top 100 DJs List was announced, with Avicii ranking number 3 on the list. Hardwell became the new World No.1 displacing Armin Van Buuren.
On 24 November 2013 he won the American Music Award for favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist.
In January 2014, the French hit music radio station NRJ released a new web radio station called "NRJ AVICII", which plays songs only by Avicii.
On 21 March 2014, Avicii 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 Avicii announced he had been hospitalised on 28 March, and was unable to play his closing set at the festival.
In 2014, following the FIFA World Cup, Avicii released his single "Lay Me Down". 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.
2014-2015:Stories and major collaborations
In July 2014, Avicii 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."Lose Myself", a collaboration between Avicii and Chinese singer Wang Leehom, was released on 1 September 2014.On 8 September 2014, his 25th birthday, Avicii decided to cancel all of his remaining performances of 2014 due to health concerns."The Days" is a collaboration between Avicii and Robbie Williams, and was released on 3 October 2014 via PRMD. On 16 September 2014, it was announced through EA Sports that Avicii was debuting a brand new track called "The Nights" exclusively on FIFA 15.
On 17 November 2014, Wyclef Jean released a track titled "Divine Sorrow" featuring Avicii.On 2 March 2015, Avicii 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".
On 6 May 2015, Avicii released his rework of Nina Simone's version of "Feeling Good",composed in 1964 by the English songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. On 8 May 2015, Avicii previewed his song "I'll Be Gone" via episode 422 of Tiësto's Club Life Podcast which has a very similar instrumental to Liar Liar (Avicii by Avicii) albeit different vocals and chord progressions. On 22 May 2015, Avicii premiered another single from Stories, "Waiting for Love". The track was co-produced by fellow DJ and producer Martin Garrix, and featured vocals from Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost.
On 3 July 2015, Avicii previewed two tracks from his album Stories on episode 37 of his LE7ELS podcast: "Broken Arrows" featuring Zac Brown Band and "Can’t Catch Me" featuring Wyclef Jean and Matisyahu.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, Avicii also revealed that he is also singing on that track.
On 27 August, Avicii 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. On 26 September, Avicii announced "Stories – Megamix" on Spotify.
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.
2016: New music and upcoming third studio album
On 15 January 2016, Avicii released his remix of Morten's "Beautiful Heartbeat".The song was released on 19 January. On 25 January, Avicii 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.
On 19 March, Avicii performed live at Ultra Music Festival and premiered new IDs (Including a song called "Without You" with Sandro Cavazza).On 29 March, Avicii announced on Facebook that he would be retiring from performing live and touring in 2016.
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