Avicii VS Nicki Romero

Avicii and Nicky Romero also have been two musicians that have glamoured the masses and taken dance music by storm. Tim Bergling, known professionally as Avicii, is a Swedish DJ, remixer, model, and record producer.

He began remixing and producing tracks in his own bedroom at the age of 18. His friends convinced him to put his work on various music blogs online, which led to him gaining a huge following and led to support from legendary DJ and Producer Tiësto, who invited him to perform a weekly residency at Privilege Ibiza.

Avicii's most sample-based song has been the single "Levels" which was released officially 28 October 2011. The song had already been a major hit in the electronic music world all through 2011, but after its official release it became a huge mainstream hit, greatly increasing Avicii's popularity. The song was written by Tim Bergling and contains a vocal sample from the 1963 gospel-inspired "Something's Got a Hold on Me" by Etta James.

On December 29, 2012, Avicii released his highly anticipated "I Could Be The One" with Nicky Romero. Formerly known as "Nicktim", the song's title was changed after vocals by Noonie Bao were added. After first being debuted at his shows almost a year earlier, the track finally got released via Avicii's record label LE7ELS. The new vocal version was released along with an instrumental version, a radio edit, and remixes from Audrio and Didrick. Avicii is currently ranked number 3 on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs List for 2012, moving up three spots from his position at number six in 2011.

On January 9, 2013, Avicii launched the Avicii x You project, a partnership with Ericsson designed to create the world's first "crowdsourced" hit song. The project enables fans to start sending basslines, effects, melodies, rhythms and vocals to Avicii as sound files over the internet. Avicii will act as executive producer and create the finished song, set for release on February 26, 2013. Avicii was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording with 'Levels' for the 2013 Grammy Awards. In late February - early March 2013, Avicii is set to tour Australia as one of the headline acts in the Future Music Festival alongside The Prodigy and The Stone Roses.

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