Lykke Li

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	AT	CH	UK	US	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 (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	AT	CH	UK	US	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 × 5 Quintuple gold (62 weeks)DE	AT2 platinum (39 weeks)AT	CH2 × 3 Triple platinum (61 weeks)CH	UK- 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	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2019	Late Night Feelings Late Night Feelings	-	-	-	UK30th 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

• Possibility - Soundtrack contribution to New Moon - Till noon (2009)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2014: for streaming I Follow Rivers  Germany 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers ( Triggerfinger )  Poland 2020: for the single Late Night Feelings  Switzerland 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger) Platinum record  Austria 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger)

2 × platinum record  Belgium 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger) 2013: for the single I Follow Rivers  Netherlands 2012: for the author participation I Follow Rivers (Triggerfinger) 3 × platinum record  Italy 2013: for the single I Follow Rivers Diamond record  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	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	-	120,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	-	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	-	900,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	-	diamond1	250,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	3 × platinum3	-	90,000	fimi.it
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	40,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	60,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	-	105,000	hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	-	-	-	400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	6 × gold6th	16 × platinum16	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

• Official website (English)
• Lykke Li at Discogs (English)
• Lykke Li in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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 
9. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/youth-knows-no-pain-single/id466426634