Lykke Li

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Lykke Li (2010)
Lykke Li at the 2011 Roskilde Festival

Lykke Li (born March 18, 1986 in Ystad as Li Lykke Timotej Svensson Zachrisson ) is a Swedish singer . She became known for a remix version of her song I Follow Rivers , which became a summer hit in 2012 .

biography

Lykke Li was born in Ystad as the daughter of the artist couple Kärsti Stiege and Johan Zachrisson . Because of the way her parents lived, she traveled a lot and lived as a child in Nepal, India, Morocco and Portugal, among others. At the age of 19 she decided to move to New York to become a singer. She then moved back to Stockholm and has lived in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles since 2012 .

Her first album Youth Novels was released on her own label LL Recordings in early 2008 in Sweden and Great Britain and entered the Swedish charts. It was published in the rest of Europe at the beginning of June 2008. The album was produced by Björn Yttling , member of the band Peter Bjorn and John , co-producer was Lasse Mårtén .

The album can be classified in the subgenre Independent . In addition to electronic instruments, piano and guitar, among other things, bell rings , castanets and claves are also used. Li's voice in the slow passages is reminiscent of Stina Nordenstam's . In 2009 she was awarded the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).

Her second album Wounded Rhymes was released in 2011. The The-Magician remix of I Follow Rivers reached 2011 in Belgium square one. In Germany, the song also became known through its use during broadcasts of the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League and made it into the top 5 of the iTunes charts. In July 2012, the title reached number 1 in the German single charts . At the end of January 2013, the song finally reached number 1 on the Italian singles charts for the first time .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2008 Youth Novels - - - - - SE3 (20 weeks)
SE
First published: January 30, 2008
2011 Wounded Rhymes DE42 (10 weeks)
DE
AT53 (2 weeks)
AT
CH38 (8 weeks)
CH
UK37 (3 weeks)
UK
US36 (4 weeks)
US
SE2
gold
gold

(19 weeks)SE
First published: February 25, 2011
Sales: + 20,000
2014 I never learn DE43 (1 week)
DE
AT50 (1 week)
AT
CH25 (2 weeks)
CH
UK33 (1 week)
UK
US29 (3 weeks)
US
SE2 (11 weeks)
SE
First published: May 6, 2014
2018 So Sad So Sexy DE78 (1 week)
DE
- CH27 (1 week)
CH
UK73 (1 week)
UK
US173 (1 week)
US
SE10 (2 weeks)
SE
First published: June 8, 2018

EPs

  • 2008: Little Bit
  • 2008: iTunes Festival: London 2008
  • 2011: iTunes Session

Singles

Chart placements as lead musician

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2007 Little Bit
Youth Novels
- - - - - SE20 (6 weeks)
SE
First published: September 24, 2007
2008 I'm Good, I'm Gone
Youth Novels
- - - - - SE58 (1 week)
SE
First published: January 14, 2008
2009 Possibility
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Soundtrack)
- - - - - SE59 (1 week)
SE
First published: October 16, 2009
2011 I Follow Rivers
Wounded Rhymes
DE1
Quintuple gold
× 5
Quintuple gold

(62 weeks)DE
AT2
platinum
platinum

(39 weeks)AT
CH2
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(61 weeks)CH
UK-
silver
silver
UK
- SE44 (1 week)
SE
First published:
Jan 21, 2011 Sales: + 1,620,000

Chart placements as a guest musician

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US SE SE
2019 Late Night Feelings
Late Night Feelings
- - - UK30th
silver
silver

(16 weeks)UK
- -
First published: April 12, 2019
Sales: + 210,000; Mark Ronson feat. Lykke Li

More singles

  • 2008: Tonight
  • 2008: Breaking It Up
  • 2009: After Laughter (Comes Tears) / (At Your Best) You Are Love
  • 2010: Get Some
  • 2011: I Follow Rivers
  • 2011: Sadness Is a Blessing
  • 2011: Youth Knows No Pain
  • 2014: You're the end
  • 2014: No Rest for the Wicked
  • 2014: No One Ever Loved
  • 2014: Gunshot
  • 2015: Never Gonna Love Again
  • 2017: Unchained Melody
  • 2018: Time in a Bottle
  • 2018: So Sad, So Sexy
  • 2018: Deep End
  • 2018: Hard Rain
  • 2018: Utopia
  • 2018: Sex Money Feelings Die
  • 2018: Two Nights (feat. Aminé)

Other Projects

with the Shout Out Louds

  • Our Ill Wills (2007)

with NASA, Kanye West & Santigold

  • Gifted (2009)

with Kleerup

  • Until We Bleed (2009)

with Röyksopp

  • Miss It So Much (2009)
  • Were You Ever Wanted (2009)

with David Lynch

  • I'm Waiting Here (2013)

with U2

  • The Troubles (2014)

with Robin Schulz

  • No Rest for the Wicked (Robin Schulz Remix) (2014)

with Woodkid

  • Never Let You Down (2015)

with Mark Ronson

  • Late Night Feelings (2019)

Others

Awards for music sales

Golden record

  • DenmarkDenmark Denmark
    • 2014: for streaming I Follow Rivers
  • GermanyGermany Germany
    • 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers ( Triggerfinger )
  • PolandPoland Poland
    • 2020: for the single Late Night Feelings
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
    • 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger)

Platinum record

  • AustriaAustria Austria
    • 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger)

2 × platinum record

  • BelgiumBelgium Belgium
    • 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger)
    • 2013: for the single I Follow Rivers
  • NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
    • 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger)

3 × platinum record

  • ItalyItaly Italy
    • 2013: for the single I Follow Rivers

Diamond record

  • FranceFrance France
    • 2014: for the single I Follow Rivers

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Silver record icon.svg silver Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Diamond record icon.svg diamond Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA) Belgium (BEA) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 4 × platinum4th 0! D.- 120,000 ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI) Denmark (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 0!- ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg 2 × gold2 Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2 0! D.- 900,000 musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP) France (SNEP) 0! S.- 0! G- 0! P- Diamond record icon.svg diamond1 250,000 snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI) Italy (FIMI) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3 0! D.- 90,000 fimi.it
Netherlands (NVPI) Netherlands (NVPI) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2 0! D.- 40,000 nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI) Austria (IFPI) 0! S.- 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2 0! D.- 60,000 ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV) Poland (ZPAV) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 10,000 bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI) Sweden (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 0! D.- 20,000 sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 0! S.- Gold record icon.svg gold1 Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3 0! D.- 105,000 hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg 2 × silver2 0! G- 0! P- 0! D.- 400,000 bpi.co.uk
All in all Silver record icon.svg 2 × silver2 Gold record icon.svg 6 × gold6th Platinum record icon.svg 16 × platinum16 Diamond record icon.svg diamond1

Awards

year Award category plant Result
2009 Grammis 2009 Artist of the year Youth Novels Nominated
2012 Grammis 2012 Album of the year Woundes Rhymes Won
Artist of the year Won
Composer of the year (together with Björn Yttling & Rick Nowels ) Nominated
Pop of the year Nominated
Biggest Swedish success abroad Nominated
2015 Grammis 2015 Pop of the year I never learn Nominated
2019 Grammis 2019 Composer of the year So Sad So Sexy Nominated
Alternative pop of the year Nominated
Album of the year Nominated

Web links

Commons : Lykke Li  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lykke Li doesn't just follow the rivers on n-tv from May 6, 2014
  2. a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US SE
  3. ^ Music / Films
  4. on discogs.com
  5. on itsatrap.com
  6. http://www.ultratop.be/fr/showitem.asp?interpret=Lykke+Li&titel=I+Follow+Rivers&cat=s.asp
  7. Message from media control on single charts valid from July 13, 2012
  8. FIMI ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Official charts, accessed February 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fimi.it
  9. https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/youth-knows-no-pain-single/id466426634