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Alan Walker

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Alan Walker

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Also known as DJ Walkzz

Norwegian DJ and music producer

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Alan Walker is a Norwegian record producer, disc jockey, and YouTuber who began his professional career in 2012. Born on August 24, 1997, in Northampton, he operates under the pseudonyms DJ Walkzz and Walkzz. His musical output spans electronic dance music, progressive house, and electropop, with releases associated with Sony Music, RCA Records, NoCopyrightSounds, and Ultra Records. He speaks both Norwegian and English.

The artist has accumulated 46,800,000 social media followers and 16,068,543,649 total viewers or listeners. On Last.fm, his profile lists 1,820,715 listeners and 49,053,991 plays, with tags including electronic, House, EDM, dance, and norwegian. His work is categorized within the 2010s and 2020s eras.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Open Library, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
289

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Norway
Active from
1997-08-24
2010s2020sclubdancedance-popedm

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,820,715
Total plays
49,053,991

Tags

electronicHouseEDMdancenorwegian

Alan Olav Walker is a British-Norwegian record producer and DJ. He started as a bedroom producer, taking inspiration from EDM producers K-391 and Ahrix, along with film composers Hans Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky. He was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a deal with the record label NoCopyrightSounds and releasing his hit debut single "Fade" in 2014, followed by "Spectre" and "Force" the following year. In the aforementioned year - 2015 - Walker released his most well-known single "Faded"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 76,010x

  2. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

    · 2013 · cited 34,833x

  3. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,255x

  4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,908x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

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Music

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Official website

Home | Alan Walker - Official Website

Welcome to the official Alan Walker website. Discover music, tour dates, merchandise, and join the World of Walker community.

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Encyclopedic overview

Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone", "All Falls Down", "Ignite", and "Darkside" have each been multi-platinum-certified and reached number 1 on the VG-lista chart in Norway. Walker values his anonymity and is known to wear a hoodie and mask to remain inconspicuous. His musical style is primarily described as house music, and is characterized by emotionally rich and grandiose melodies.

Walker grew up in Fana, Bergen, Norway, and began making music around 2012. Using feedback from fans online, he later gained recognition by posting several songs on YouTube and SoundCloud. Starting out as a bedroom producer, he was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a record deal and releasing his debut single "Fade" on NoCopyrightSounds (NCS) at the age of 17. In December 2015, his single "Faded" reached number 80 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He followed it up with the singles "Sing Me to Sleep" and "Alone" in 2016, and "All Falls Down" in 2017, the latter of which reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

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