Now, holding records and shedding light into the lives of hundreds of millions, “Faded” is a monumental song in the world of electronic music. She ended up being the vocalist for ‘Faded’ and ‘Sing Me To Sleep.’ But, no way did we have any idea how much ‘Faded’ would grow… it started to become big within, like, the first few weeks it was out.” We got a fantastic singer, Iselin Solheim, who just absolutely killed it. “It was a whole project, of course, but it was really fun. “I turned the idea into an actual thing,” Walker said with a matter-of-fact sense of satisfaction. But, that’s when I started to see that it had the potential to be flipped into, like, a vocal-friendly song.”īut even with the amount of mental preparation and training Walker had, little could’ve prepared him for what was going to happen next: teaming up with vocalist Iselin Solheim, they made an augmented version of “Fade,” which they renamed “Faded.” The end result is one of the most popular songs of all time (it’s the video that got that aforementioned “20th most-viewed video” title, coming in with nearly 3.1 billion views). “That’s kinda a weird thing to say, because it’s just an instrumental song with the same melody over and over again with a few alterations. “The original song was an instrumental, but I remember that back in 2014, a lot of people said, ‘Oh, it feels like this song has lyrics, but there are no words,’” Walker explained. Today, Walker is one of the biggest artists on the planet-with 24 million monthly listeners on Spotify and billions of views on his YouTube videos (one of which currently holds the title for 20th most-viewed YouTube video of all time), his melody-driven electronic dance music has become astronomically successful.īut when Walker’s instrumental track ‘Fade’ first started to get some traction, his journey was just getting started.
Raised alongside the dynamic and ever-evolving culture of the internet, once he started figuring out how to make music, YouTube quickly became the dominant platform… and it raised him all the way to stardom. It was 2014-the English-Norwegian producer and DJ was still finding his voice. “I was around 16 or 17 when I put out ‘Fade’ and it started to get huge, global recognition, at least on the internet,” Alan Walker tells.
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