Artist · chart history
Avicii
Solo artist Stockholm Sweden
Avicii is an artist from Stockholm. Avicii has 16 chart appearances on 15 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Wake Me Up”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Avicii most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Tim Bergling, the Stockholm kid who became Avicii, got going at 16 by sharing his remixes online, signed to Dejfitts Plays in May 2007, and after winning a BBC Radio 1 competition in 2008 teamed up with manager Arash Pournouri. What he built was house music with pop in its bloodstream and a habit of pulling in folk, country, bluegrass, soul and blues, and it helped carry EDM into the mainstream.
"Levels" gave him his Billboard Hot 100 debut and earned a Grammy nomination in 2013, a year after his work with David Guetta on "Sunshine" had earned another. His debut album, True, in 2013, reached the top 10 in over 15 countries, and its lead single "Wake Me Up" is the big one: a stomping acoustic hoedown that explodes into a festival drop, a campfire singalong that wandered into a rave. "Hey Brother" came off the same record, and Stories in 2015 went to number one in Sweden.
Shy by his own account, he struggled with anxiety and depression, and years of health problems pushed him to retire from touring in March 2016. He died in Muscat, Oman, on 20 April 2018, at 28. Tim, his final album, arrived posthumously in 2019 and topped Billboard's Top Dance Albums chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Avicii on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wake Me Up | 10 | #9 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | Levels | 3 | #38 | – | – | |
| 3 | Hey Brother | 2 | #45 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | Silhouettes | 1 | #68 | – | 2012 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Avicii as a guest.
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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