Faded (Alan Walker song)

"Faded" is a song by British-Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker with vocals provided by Norwegian singer Iselin Solheim. It was written by Alan Walker, Jesper Borgen, Mood Melodies and Gunnar Greve, production was handled by Alan Walker, Jesper Borgen and Mood Melodies. The song was released as a single by Mer Musikk on December 3, 2015 for digital download and streaming.

The song topped the charts in several countries around the world, including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. obtained. She has received several certifications around the world, including 11x platinum in Sweden, double diamond in Poland, 7x platinum in Italy, and quadruple platinum in Australia and Spain. It also reached number one on the Shazam Worldwide Top 100 Popular Songs in February 2016, and by March 2016, had become the world's most Shazamed song. As of June 2023, it is the 28th most viewed video on YouTube and also the 14th most viewed music video, with over 3.3 billion views, and was the first EDM track to hit 3 billion views. "Faded" is also the 95th most-streamed song on Spotify as of March 2024, with over 1.8 billion streams.

The song "Faded" is a revamped version of Walker's past composition "Fade", which was released via the record label NoCopyrightSounds in 2014. At first, when creating "Fade," the idea was to create a tropical house sound, but then an electro house drop was inserted into the song. However, tropical house and electro house did not blend well together, so he decided to make it completely electro house.

Walker debuted a live performance of "Faded" with Solheim and string support on 27 February 2016 at the X Games in Oslo. The performance was aired live on Norwegian television. The song was put as the ultimate track on Walker's 2018 album Different World after an interlude specific to the track.