On 11 May 2018, K-391 (Kenneth Nilsen), an up and coming Norwegian music producer released Ignite vocal version, which featured Alan Walker, Norwegian singer Julie Bergan and Controversial south Korean singer Seungri. The music video was released on 12 May on K-391's YouTube channel because Nilsen was the lead artist of this single. it was a major success, it was Nilsen first song after rebranding with MER
Global Highlight[]
ㅤ#1 in Norway Spotify, Top 20 in sweden Spotify, #3 on Finland Spotify, Top 100 on SHAZAM global charts, #1 China Western Chart on QQ music & KUWO, #1 Dance Charts in Switzerland, Top 200 Airplay in Germany, Top 30 Airplay in Poland, Soundtrack for Volkswagen 2018 China campaign, in china Ignite streamed over 40M in the first month, all the above achivement were made in 2018 alone, as of now it has 250M+ stream on spotify, Its YouTube music video has been viewed over 400 million times, the auto-generated video by YouTube on K-391 Topic channel reach 20M+ views, K-391 & Julie Bergan played Ignite LIVE on Nobels fredsfest in Norway, Ignite was nominated as Song Of The Year in Norwegian Grammy Awards, Trending on YouTube, K-391 YouTube Music Artist On The Rise
Trivia[]
- On 7 April 2017, Alan released the song Ignite Instrumental, which featured Norwegian music producer and songwriter K-391. It was released as a promotion of the launch of the Sony Xperia XZs smartphone.
- Both, Ignite and its official instrumental version, are remakes of K-391's song Godzilla 2015, the reason Alan & Nilsen release the instrumental version of Ignite was because the vocal interpretation was released under Liquid State. The final vocal version of Ignite and the instrument version was a bit different.
- Ignite was also played on a club in Seoul called Burning Sun, this is one of few performance they had with Seungri, around the same time there was a scandal in that club which seungri is the co-owner, the Burning Sun Scandal discovered a year later, it was the largest scandal to hit K-pop industry which lead to his arrest, since then Nilsen, Alan Walker & Julie unfollow him on social media and not mentioning his name whenever they mention Ignite to avoid being associated with that scandal
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