Alan Walker

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.

On October 17, Alan Walker released his new single "Ghost" with Au/Ra. The song appears on the Death Stranding: Timefall album, which is based off of Hideo Kojima's 2019 video game, Death Stranding. Au/Ra was the lead artist of this song.

During his 2018 Ultra Music Festival Miami set, Walker was joined by Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren on stage, where they debuted "Slow Lane", their new collaboration. However, the record did not end up being featured on his album, and as of March 2019, it has yet to be released. In April, he performed at the 2018 Coachella, a music festival held in Indio, California.

On 9 June, his collaboration with Dane Alex Skrindo, "Sky", was released on the compilation Insomniac Records Presents: EDC Las Vegas 2017. Its music video on YouTube has over 58 million views.

On April 1, Alan released a song called "Heading Home" with the vocals of Ruben, where the video is an end of the trilogy which involved "On My Way" and "Alone, Pt. II". On streaming services, he also inserted "heading_home_demo2016.wav" which is an older version of the song, which he previewed in 2016.

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 2.6 billion views and 18 million likes, placing it among the top 10 most liked YouTube videos. It has over 1.1 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.

On 15 September, he released "The Spectre", a revamped version with vocals of his 2015 single "Spectre". The single's music video contains footage of his concerts, along with a team of dancers dressed in white jumpsuits and black helmets. The video currently has over 725 million views.

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, 115 million plays on Spotify, and 41 million streams on SoundCloud. The tracks "Spectre" and "Force" followed in 2015.

Walker was originally known as "DJ Walkzz" or "Walkzz" when he was starting 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 by 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."

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. Started as a bedroom producer, he was better known as DJ Walkzz before signing a record deal and releasing his debut single in 2014.

On May 15, Alan released a remix of "Time", a song from the soundtrack of the 2010 film Inception composed by Hans Zimmer. Both a regular and an extended version was released.

Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is an English-born Norwegian DJ and record producer. In 2015, Walker received international acclaim after releasing the single "Faded", which received platinum certifications in 14 countries. In 2019, he was ranked 27th on DJ Mag' s Top 100 DJs list of 2019. He released his debut studio album, Different World, in 2018.

On 1 November, Walker released his new single "Avem (The Aviation Theme)", launching his Aviation Tour and the Aviation mobile game. The song is a remake of "Norwegian Sunset", the theme song featured in the 1970s popular Norwegian film Flåklypa Grand Prix.