music performances of alan walker

2016: Live performances, "Sing Me to Sleep" and "Alone"[edit]

Walker quit high school in January to pursue his music career.^[20]

On 27 February, Walker made his live performance debut at the Winter X Games in Oslo, where he performed 15 tracks including the song "Faded" together with Iselin Solheim.^[21][22]

By March, Walker had produced 30 to 40 songs in total, but "Faded" marks his first single with Sony Music Sweden, and the first to achieve such global success.^[17]

On 7 April, Walker teamed up with Swedish singer Zara Larsson at the Echo Awards in Germany. Together they performed each other's songs "Faded" and "Never Forget You".^[23]Four weeks previously, he achieved the first place on NRJ Euro Hot 30 for the first time, which only has been achieved by one other Norwegian artist, Kygo.^[24]

The single "Sing Me to Sleep" was released on 3 June, featuring female vocalist Iselin Solheim, the same vocalist in "Faded". The song topped iTunes charts in 7 countries. Its music video on YouTube has over 400 million views,^[25] and it also reached 170 million plays on Spotify.^[26]

The single "Alone" was released on 1. December, featuring uncredited Swedish singer Noonie Bao.^[27] The music video on YouTube has over 740 million views,^[28] the track also gained over 210 million plays on Spotify.^[29] The song was described as "the final piece of a trilogy consisting of 'Faded', 'Sing Me To Sleep' and 'Alone'" by Gunnar Greeve, Walker's manager and co-writer for the single.^[30]

Walker at Stavernfestivalen in Norway 2016

On 21 and 22 December, Walker held the concert "Alan Walker is Heading Home" in his hometown Bergen for the first time at USF Verftet, where he performed 16 songs and tracks together with Angelina Jordan, Marius Samuelsen, Alexandra Rotan, Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Tove Styrke as singers.^[31][32] The concert was officially live-streamed on YouTube.^[33] He premiered several unreleased tracks, including a restrung version of "Sing Me to Sleep", as well as "Sky" and "Heading Home", the latter of which was first performed during his debut at Winter X Games. The song "The Spectre", a remastered version of his earlier track "Spectre", was also performed during the concert.

On 23 December, Walker released the video for the single "Routine", which premiered on his concert in Bergen, two days before and some concerts on the "Walker Tour". The track was made in collaboration with David Whistle. Its music video on YouTube has over 30 million views,^[34] and 23 million plays on Spotify.^[35]

2017: "Tired", "The Spectre" and "All Falls Down"[edit]

At the beginning of 2017, Walker's YouTube channel became the most subscribed channel registered in Norway, after passing about 4.5 million subscribers, and had the most views among Norwegian YouTubers at around 3.4 billion views as of 10 February 2018.^[36][2]

On 7 April, Walker released the song "Ignite" instrumental version, which featured Norwegian music producer and songwriter K-391. It was released as a promotion of the launch of the Sony Xperia XZs smartphone. On 19 May, Walker released his first song with a male vocalist, Irish singer-songwriter Gavin James, titled "Tired". Walker said that the song "adds another dimension" to his productions. Its music video on YouTube has over 102 million views.^[37] On 9 June, his collaboration with Dane Alex Skrindo, "Sky", was released on the compilation, Insomniac Records Presents: EDC Las Vegas 2017. Its music video on YouTube has over 36 million views.^[38]

On 15 September, he released "The Spectre", a revamped version with vocals of his 2015 single "Spectre". The video depicts footage of his concerts, along with a team of dancers dressed in white jumpsuits and black helmets. The video currently has over 430 million views.

On 27 October, Walker released the song "All Falls Down", which featured American singer Noah Cyrus and British DJ and record producer Digital Farm Animals. The video storyline follows the visual for his previous song "Tired". Its YouTube music video has been viewed over 132 million times.^[39][40]

2018–present: "Darkside", "Diamond Heart" and "Different World"[edit]

During this year, Walker became the top YouTuber in Norway with 15 million subscribers.^[41] On 16 January, in an interview with Fuse, Walker revealed that an upcoming album is coming later in the year. "It's still in progress, not ready," Walker said. "I can't tell you much about features on it or anything yet, but I'm really, really excited about this one."^[42]

On 11 May, Walker and Norwegian music producer K-391 (Kenneth Nilsen) released "Ignite" vocal version, which featured Norwegian singer Julie Bergan and South Korean singer Seungri.^[43][44][45] The music video was released on 12 May on K-391's YouTube channel, because Nilsen was the lead artist of this single.^[43] Its YouTube music video has been viewed over 100 million times.^[46][47]

On 27 July, Walker released "Darkside", featuring Au/Ra from Ibiza and Norwegian singer Tomine Harket.^[48]

On 30 August, Walker released a remix of "Sheep" by Exo member Lay.^[49]

On 28 September, he released the single "Diamond Heart" featuring Sophia Somajo.^[50]

On 30 November, Walker released the single "Different World" from his upcoming debut studio album of the same name, which will be released on 14 December.^[51]