10 Things You Didn't Know About Avicii

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When coming up with names, someone told Tim Bergling that "Avici" was a level of Buddhist hell. He tried to make "Avici" on MySpace, but it was taken, so he added an "i."

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At least, that's what deadmau5 says.

That is, outside of his manager, Ash Pournouri.

Which is why he and his manager Ash started House for Hunger in 2011.

In January of 2013, Avicii announced his "Avicii X You" project where he planned on creating a truly-crowdsourced track. While the work of seven artists were credited with the final product, a staggering 4,199 sounds were contributed to this month-long project.

Roxette's "The Look" held this distinction previously, but at six weeks on top, Avicii's latest single (which features uncredited vocals from Aloe Blacc) took the spot.

You have to love those opportunists. "Wake Me Up" was supposed to be released on September 8 in the United Kingdom. A group that goes by the name "Spark Productions" must have noticed some excitement over the track, and released a cover of it that hit #26 on the UK charts. This then prompted Avicii to go ahead and release the single months early, dropping it in July.

This put it at #19 on the list of 2012's most Shazam'd songs. We wonder how many of those Shazams turned up Flo Rida's "Good Feeling," though.

We're not sure if this is Zedd hating on the huge mainstream hit, or just poking fun at one of his peers, but Zedd has done everything from shouting the Avicii single out in the digital booklet for Clarity to creating "unoriginal' mixes based on the track. We know Zedd is a prankster, and doesn't seem like a malicious individual, but it is funny when you look back at how many times Zedd referenced the track in the past.