Avicii

Swedish electronic music producer (1989–2018)

Audience21.5M
Fame83.5
Momentum3.0

Source-basedStable

21.5M youtube followers

Audience21.5M
Fame83.5
Momentum3.0
Sweden rank#5
Musicians rank#95
Wikipedia288.1K

Lived 1989–2018, aged 29Sweden

Sweden MusiciansSinger / Musician

Biggest on YouTube
21.5M
@@avicii
Wikipedia
85 languages
Cross-language footprint
Rank in Sweden
#5
Musicians
Era
1989–2018
Aged 29
Known for
Avicii: True Stories
2017

Summary

Updated 2026-08-31

He brought electronic dance music out of the clubs and onto Top 40 radio in the early 2010s, making EDM unavoidable for a generation that had never heard house music on mainstream airwaves before.

Biography

About

Tim Bergling started posting remixes on electronic music forums at 16 and signed with Dejfitts Plays in May 2007. He broke through in 2011 with "Levels," then followed with his debut album True in 2013, which blended electronic music with other genres and peaked in the top 10 in over 15 countries. Its lead single "Wake Me Up" became one of Spotify's most-streamed songs. His second album Stories and the EP Avīci (01) both hit number one in Sweden. But chronic health problems shadowed the rise: hospitalised for acute pancreatitis in 2012, he developed an addiction to the opioids prescribed for t…

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