Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a British-born Norwegian music producer and DJ primarily known for the critically acclaimed single “Faded” (2015), which was certified platinum in 14 countries. He has also made several songs including “Sing Me to Sleep”, “Alone”, “Darkside”, and “On My Way”, all of which attracted millions of views on YouTube.

In early 2017, Walker’s channel emerged as the most subscribed YouTube channel registered in Norway, with then 42.9 million subscribers as of Jan 2023. He also has the most views of any Norwegian creator, with approximately 12.1 billion views as of 21 January 2023. Although many critics and fans have viewed Walker as one of the pioneers of electronic dance music, several have criticized him for hiring “ghost producers”, while some fans were divided and generated concerns over his departures from his typical production style, most notably in his recently released songs.

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Early life

Alan Olav Walker was born on 24 August 1997 in Northampton, England, to Anglo-Scottish British Philip Alan Walker, and his Norwegian wife Hilde Omdal Walker. As a result, by his international parental inheritance, he was granted dual citizenship from both the United Kingdom and Norway.

He grew up with two siblings, an elder sister named Camilla, who was also born in England; and a younger brother named Andreas, who was born in Norway. At the age of two, he and his family moved to Bergen. Walker later found interest in computers, a hobby which has driven him deeper to computing graphical design, and musical programming. He initially had no musical background, but was able to teach himself by watching YouTube tutorials based on musical production.

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Artistic Image

Walker was originally known as “DJ Walkzz” or “Walkzz” when he started out. He ended up using his real name, Alan Walker, as his artist name after signing up with a record label. He designed his logo in 2013, a symbol consisting of intertwined letters “A” and “W” which are

the initials of his name. He uses a hoodie and face mask when he performs on stage. When asked why he uses a mask during an interview with Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, he stated that “It is to keep a low profile while maintaining the mental image they have given me. I think it’s pretty cool. A little twist that makes people ask themselves questions about who really is the person behind Alan Walker.” On an episode of his Unmasked series, he stated that “The mask is more of a sign and a symbol of unity and being alike each other, rather than me being different.”

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Alan Walker Height Weight Age And Body Statistics Biography

Real Name	Alan Olav Walker
Nick Name:	Alan Walker
Birth Place:	Northampton, United Kingdom
Date Of Birth/Birthday:	24 August 1997
Age/How Old:	24 Years old
Height/How Tall:	In Centimeters – 180 cm In Feet and Inches – 5′ 11″
Weight:	In Kilograms – 72 kg In Pounds – 159 lbs.
Eye Colour:	Blue
Hair Colour:	Light brown
School:	N/A
College:	N/A
Religion:	N/A
Nationality:	English-Norwegian
Zodiac Sign:	Virgo
Gender:	Male
Sexual Orientation:	Straight
Kids/Children Name:	No
Profession:	Norwegian DJ
Net Worth:	$20 Million

Alan Walker Relationship & More

Affairs	Not know
Girlfriend	Viivi Niemi
Best Friend	N/A
Spouse	N/A
Divorce	N/A
Children	No
Father	Philip Alan Walker
Mother	Hilde Omdal Walker
Siblings	Camilla Joy (elder sister) Andreas Walker (younger brother)

Alan Walker Net Worth

Alan Walker Social Media Accounts

Instagram	More than 8.4M Followers	Click here
Facebook	More than 7.5M Followers	Click here
Twitter	More than 801.9K Followers	Click here
Soundcloud	More than 741K Followers	Click here
You tube	More than 40.4M Subscribers	Click here
Tik Tok	N/A	N/A

Career

2012–2016: Career beginnings and breakthrough
In 2012, Walker was listening to a song by Italian DJ David Whistle (also known as DJ Ness) and reached out to him to find out how he produced his music. He was inspired by EDM producers K-391 and Ahrix, and by film composers like Hans Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky. He started producing his music on his laptop using FL Studio. In July 2012, with the help and feedback from his fans online, he began pursuing his music production career and slowly began posting his music to YouTube and SoundCloud. Starting as a bedroom producer, he was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a record deal and releasing his debut single in 2014.

Walker released the track “Fade” on 17 August 2014. The track gained attention after its re-release via the record label NoCopyrightSounds on 19 November 2014. Walker stated that the creation of the track was inspired by K-391 and Ahrix, whose tracks were also picked up by the record label. The track has over 400 million views on YouTube, million plays on Spotify, and 41 million streams on SoundCloud. The tracks “Spectre” and “Force” followed in 2015.

Walker signed with MER Musikk under Sony Music Sweden and released his next single, “Faded”, a remastered vocal version of “Fade”. It was released on 8 December 2015 and featured uncredited Naustdal pop singer Iselin Solheim. The single topped the year-end charts in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden, iTunes charts in 33 countries, as well as entering top 10 in Spotify Global Chart. The music video on YouTube has over 3.2 billion views and 24 million likes, placing it among the top 10 most-liked YouTube videos. It has over 1.6 billion plays on Spotify, and is also one of the Top 10 Most Shazamed tracks of 2016. The single also received official remixes from Tiësto, Dash Berlin, and Hardwell. He later released an acoustic “restrung” version of the song, with all the EDM elements taken out.

Walker performing at the Stavernfestivalen in 2016.
Walker quit high school in January to pursue his music career. On 27 February, Walker made his performance debut at the Winter X Games in Oslo, where he performed 15 tracks including the song “Faded” together with Iselin Solheim.[23][24] 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. On 7 April, Walker teamed up with Zara Larsson at the Echo Awards in Germany. Together they performed each other’s songs “Faded” and “Never Forget You”. 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.

The single “Sing Me to Sleep” was released on 3 June, featuring female vocalist Iselin Solheim, the same vocalist as in “Faded”. The song topped iTunes charts in 7 countries. Its music video on YouTube has over 570 million views, and it also reached 250 million plays on Spotify. Another single titled “Alone” was also released on 2 December of that same year, incoperating uncredited Swedish singer Noonie Bao. The music video on YouTube has over 1 billion views, the track also gained over 390 million plays on Spotify. 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.

On 21 and 22 December, Walker held the concert “Alan Walker is Heading Home” in his hometown Bergen 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. The concert was officially live-streamed on YouTube. He premiered several unreleased tracks, including a restrung version of “Sing Me to Sleep”, as well as “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 earlier and on some concerts on the “Walker Tour”. The track was made in collaboration with David Whistle. Its music video on YouTube has over 58 million views, and 47 million plays on Spotify.

2017–present: Different World, World of Walker and other projects
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 7.7 billion views as of 25 January 2020. Between February and April, he toured around America including attending the Euphoria Festival in Texas.[39] In 2019, Alan’s music video ”Diamond Heart” received a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Berlin Music Video Awards. His music video for ”Heading Home” featuring Ruben appears on the festival’s 2021 Silver Screenings selection list.

On 26 November 2021, Alan Walker released his second studio album titled “World of Walker”, which consists of 15 tracks, primarily made in electropop and EDM. In 2022, he announced his new Walkerverse world tour, alongside his upcoming album of the same name that will be released in two parts. The first part was released on June 17, 2022, which consists of five tracks: a remix of “Adventure Time”, originally written and produced by Philter, “Somebody Like U” with Au/Ra, “Blue” with Ina Wroldsen, and previously-released songs “The Drum” featuring uncredited vocals by Kristin Carpenter and “Hello World” with Torine. The second part, “Walkerverse, Pt. 2” as of yet contains five songs: “Extremes” with Trevor Daniel, “Shut Up” with UPSAHL, “Catch me if you can” with Sorana, “Lovesick” with Sophie Simmons, and “Ritual”.

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Discography

Different World (2018)
World of Walker (2021)
Walkerverse (2022)

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Tour

Headlining

Walker Tour (2016–2018)
World of Walker Tour (2018)
Different World Tour (2018–2019)
Aviation Tour (2019)
Walkerverse (2022)

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
February 21	Antwerp, Belgium	TRIX
February 22	Hamburg, Germany	Docks
February 23	Frankfurt, Germany	Batschkapp
February 24	Berlin, Germany	Huxleys
February 28	Zurich, Switzerland	Halle 622
March 1	Strasbourg, France	La laiterie
March 2	Munich, Germany	Tonhalle
March 3	Milan, Italy	Fabrique
March 7	London, United Kingdom	Electric Brixton
March 9	Manchester, United Kingdom	02 Ritz Manchester
March 11	Paris, France	Le Trianon
March 29	Tallinn, Estonia	Kultuurikatel
March 30	St.Petersburg, Russia	A2 Club
March 31	Moscow, Russia	Stadium Live

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
June 1	Gothenburg, Sweden	Summerburst
June 15	Stockholm, Sweden	Summerburst
June 16	Landgraaf, Netherlands	Pinkpop
June 22	Ljubliana, Slovenia	Tusev Tek Barv
June 23	Lille, France	North Summer Festival
June 24	Skopje, Macedonia	Skopje Calling
June 28	Sopron, Hungary	Volt Festival
June 30	Odense, Denmark	Tinderbox
July 5	Constanta, Romania	Neversea Festival
July 6	Sundsvall, Sweden	Sensommar 2018
July 6	Turku, Finland	Ruisrock
July 7	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Beats For Love
July 8	Figueira da Foz, Portugal	RFM SOMNII
July 13	Neustadt-Glewe, Germany	Airbeat One Festival
July 14	Tysnes, Norway	Tysnesfest
July 19	Tønsberg, Norway	Slottsfjell
July 20	Boom, Gelgium	Tomorrowland
July 23	Zrce Beach, Croatia	Aquarius
July 26	Odesa, Ukraine	Ibiza Beach Club
July 28	Vienna, Austria	Electric Nation Festival
July 29	Ibiza, Spain	Ushuaia w/KYGO
July 30	Lloret de Mar, Spain	Disco Tropics
August 3	Chicago, United States	Lollapalooza Chicago
August 4	Montreal, Canada	Osheaga Festival
August 5	Toronto, Canada	VELD
August 8	Lloret de Mar, Spain	Disco Tropics
August 10	Malaga, Spain	Dreambeach
August 11	Saalburg, Germany	SonneMondsterne
August 13	Zrce Beach, Croatia	Aquarius
August 14	Venice, Italy	King’s club
August 15	Mykonos, Greece	Cavo Paradiso
August 16	Parnu, Estonia	Weekend Festival
August 17	Aalesund, Norway	Jugendfest
August 18	Bodø, Norway	Parken Festivalen
August 24	Bergen, Sweden	B-day Bash at Bastionen
August 25, August 26	Reading, United Kingdom	Reading Festival
September 1	New York, United States	Electric Zoo

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
November 23	Stockholm, Sweden	Nobelberget
November 24	Gothenburg, Sweden	Pustervik
November 30	Berlin, Germany	Columbiahalle
December 1	Poznan, Poland	Hala NR 2 MTP
December 3	Munich, Germany	Zenith
December 4	Paris, France	Olympia
December 6	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Paradiso
Decmber 7	Luxembourg city, Luxembourg	Rockhal
Demcember 8	Cologne, Germany	Paladium
December 13	London, United Kingdom	The Roundhouse
December 14	Manchester, United Kingdom	Albert Hall
December 15	Belfast, United Kingdom	Limelight 1

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
February	Seattle, Washington State	Showbox SoDo
February 3	Vancouver, British Columbia	Commodore Ballroom
February 5	Portland, Oregon	Roseland Theatre
February 6	Eugene, Oregon	McDonald Theatre
February 7, February 8	Oakland, Washington State	Fox Theatre
February 9	Los Angeles, California	Belasco Theatre
February 10	Pomona, California	Fox Theatre
February 12	Tucson, Arizona	Rialto
February 14	Houston, Texas	Stereo Love
February 15	Austin, Texas	Emo’s
February 16	Dallas, Texas	Crush: Southside Ballroom (Festival)
February 17	New Orleans, Louisiana	Metropolitan
February 18	Atlanta, Georgia	Buckhead Theatre
February 19	Raleigh, North Carolina	The Ritz
February 20	Charlotte, North Carolina	The Fillmore
February 21	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Theatre Of Living Arts
February 22	Brooklyn, New York	Great Hall At Avant Gardner

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
October 27	Chengdu, China	Huaxi LIVE·528 M Space
October 29	Shanghai, China	Mercedes-Benz Arena
November 2	Foshan, China	GBA International Sports & Cultural Center
November 9	Oslo, Norweigen	Spektrum Arena
December 6	Bengaluru, India	Ozone Urbana
December 7	Mumbai, India	Mahalaxmi Racecourse
December 8	Delhi, India	Backyard Sports Club

Date	Country	Nation	Venue
September 28	Manchester, United Kingdom	MANCHESTER ACADEMY
September 28	London, United Kingdom	O2 ACADEMY BRIXTON
October 1	Merksem, Belgium	LOTTO ARENA
October 6	Hamburg, Germany	SPORTHALLE HAMBURG
October 7	Düsseldorf, Germany	MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC HALLE
October 8	Krakow, Poland	TAURON ARENA
October 12	Vienna, Austria	ST MARX HALLEN
October 14	Zürich, Switzerland	HALLE 622
October 15	Milan, Italy	FABRIQUE
October 19	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	AFAS LIVE
October 20	Paris, France	ZENITH
October 21	Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	ROCKHAL
October 22	Frankfurt, Germany	JAHRHUNDERHALLE
November 3	Dallas, Texas	SOUTH SIDE BALLROOM
November 4	Austin, Texas	CONCOURSE
November 5	Houston, Texas	BAYOU MUSIC CENTER
November 8	Atlanta, Gergia	BUCKHEAD THEATER
November 9	Washington, District of columbia	ECHOSTAGE
November 11	Brooklyn, New York	GREAT HALL
November 15	Boston, Massachusetts	HOUSE OF BLUES
November 16	Montreal, Canada	MTELUS
November 17	Montreal, Canada	MTELUS
November 18	Toronto, Canada	REBEL
November 19	Chicago, USA	RADIUS
November 25	Montreal, Canada	MTELUS
November 25	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	HARBOUR EVENT & CONVENTION CENTRE
November 26	Portland, Oregon Columbia, Canada	ROSELAND THEATER
November 29	Denver, Colorado,	MISSION BALLROOM
December 2	Los Angeles, California	HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM
December 3	San Francisco, California	BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDITORIUM

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