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Avicii’s ‘Levels’ Was Released 15 Years Ago Today: Watch the Moment He Played It For the First Time at a Festival
Avicii’s 2011 Tomorrowland mainstage performance has been released in full to mark 15 years since “Levels” came out. The set captures the song’s first live performance at the festival, months before its official release, and documents an early moment in dance music’s shift into the mainstream.
The roughly 90-minute show is available on YouTube and the Avicii Community site, shared by the Avicii Estate, Pophouse and Tomorrowland. It includes “Silhouettes” and “Seek Bromance”, with Robyn and The Killers edits closing the set; “Levels” spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top five in 2012.
In short
- Avicii’s full 2011 Tomorrowland set is now available.
- He first played “Levels” there, three months before release.
- The song reached the Hot 100 top five in 2012.
Explained simply
Avicii was the stage name of Swedish DJ and producer Tim Bergling. In the early 2010s, electronic dance music was reaching wider audiences through festivals, radio and pop charts. “Levels”, one of his best-known tracks, helped bring that sound to listeners beyond club settings.
Tomorrowland is a large electronic music festival held in Belgium, where leading DJs perform on major stages. Avicii’s 2011 set included his own songs and reworked versions of tracks by other artists. His career later became the subject of the Avicii Estate, which manages his work, and Pophouse, an entertainment company involved in preserving music catalogues.
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