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Aurora
Solo artist Stavanger Norway Norwegian singer
Aurora is an artist from Stavanger. Aurora has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations on RockLists, spanning 2016–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Blade”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #36. The station that charted Aurora most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Aurora Aksnes, born in 1996 and from Stavanger in Norway, was writing songs and learning to dance at six, and she got discovered the modern way, without lifting a finger: a classmate put her music online without telling her. She started on piano and later picked up percussion and production, which explains a lot about records that sound hand-built from the ground up, all elfin folk melody wrapped in thumping electropop.
Signed to Petroleum and Glassnote in 2014, she put out the Running with the Wolves EP in 2015, and its "Runaway" found a whole second life on TikTok years later. Her debut album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, topped Norway's VG-lista in 2016 with "Conqueror" charging along inside it. The two-part concept set Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1) and A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) followed in 2018 and 2019, and The Gods We Can Touch, in 2022, gave her a first UK top 10 and the slinky "Cure for Me". What Happened to the Heart? came in 2024, and in 2025 she swung toward electronics with Tomora, a project with Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers.
She turns up everywhere else too: Frozen 2, Wolfwalkers, the live-action One Piece, Genshin Impact, and collaborations with Hans Zimmer, Bring Me the Horizon and Jacob Collier. At home the Spellemann Awards have come for best new act, singer of the year and video of the year, and she is the most-streamed female Norwegian artist ever. Rock radio met her through spectral covers of Massive Attack's "Teardrop" and the Beatles' "Across the Universe".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Aurora on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Blade | 1 | #36 | – | 2024 | |
| 2 | Conqueror | 3 | #72 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | Teardrop (originally by Massive Attack) | 1 | #54 | – | – | |
| 4 | Running With The Wolves | 1 | #74 | – | 2016 | |
| 5 | Cure For Me | 2 | #90 | – | 2021 | |
| 6 | Across the Universe (originally by The Beatles) | 1 | #86 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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