Avicii’s touring career in numbers

Dance music superstar Avicii yesterday announced his retirement from live performance in an emotional letter to fans.

Writing on his website, the Swedish DJ explains that although “I know I am blessed to be able to travel all around the world and perform, I have too little left for the life of a real person behind the artist”, adding that while he will “never let go of music”, his run of shows and festival appearances this year will be his last.

Avicii, real name Tim Bergling, has been a key figure in the transformation of plain ol’ dance music to the global, arena-filling mainstream phenomenon that is ‘EDM’ (indeed, right on cue, Electronic Beats wonders if EDM is now “finally dead”) and his retirement will surely…

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