Alan Walker Came To India, Twice in Six Months. India was ready for it, both times.
Nine Cities, 500 Drone Lights, and Faded at the end of Every Night.
Alan Walker. The artist who made anonymity his identity
There’s a moment at every Alan Walker concert that fans talk about more than anything else.
It’s not the drop, it’s not a laser show, It’s the second before Faded starts, that specific pause where the whole crowd knows what’s coming, and nobody says a word. And then those opening notes hit and every single person in the room becomes one. That moment happened across nine Indian cities in 2024. And then four more in 2025. Because India couldn’t let it go after the first time.
But let’s start from the beginning. Because Alan Walker’s story is one of those that makes you want to go back to your own bedroom and pick up whatever you abandoned.
He was born in Northampton, England in 1997 but moved to Bergen, Norway when he was two years old. He grew up there, surrounded by fjords and Norwegian winters, and somehow found his way to electronic music through YouTube. Not through music school. Not through a producer mentor. Through watching tutorials online, figuring out FL Studio on a basic laptop, and spending hours in his bedroom trying to replicate the sounds he was hearing from producers he loved. He was fourteen when he started making music. Seventeen when he released Fade on NoCopyrightSounds. And eighteen when Faded, the reworked vocal version with Iselin Solheim, came out and changed everything.
Faded went to number one in multiple countries. It now has over 3.5 billion views on YouTube. A bedroom producer from Bergen had made one of the most recognised songs on the planet. And he was still a teenager.
What makes Alan Walker different from most artists at his level is the mask. He always performs in a hoodie and a face mask. Half hidden, never fully visible. He’s talked about it as a symbol of unity, the idea that when his face is covered everyone is equal. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a philosophy. And it’s become one of the most recognisable images in electronic music. You see the AW logo, the hoodie, the mask, and you know exactly who it is without seeing a single feature of his face.
India understood the music before it understood any of that. Faded found Indian listeners the way it found everyone else, quietly, through earphones, on late night YouTube sessions, in the background of long drives. Alone. The Spectre. Darkside. On My Way. These songs have a quality that is hard to describe precisely. They’re electronic but they feel personal. They have drops but they also have melody lines that sit somewhere between euphoria and ache. That combination, the feeling of being both completely swept up and quietly moved at the same time, is what makes a Walker crowd different from other EDM crowds. People don’t just dance at his shows. They feel something while they’re dancing.
So, when the WalkerWorld India Tour 2024 was announced, across nine cities with Sunburn, the response was immediate. Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Hyderabad, Pune, Shillong and Chennai. A month-long run that nobody had attempted at that scale for an international EDM artist in India. Over a lakh and sixty thousand fans showed up. It became the highest selling international tour in India’s history. It generated over five million dollars in revenue. And every single show, in every single city, ended with Faded.
Each city got its own moment. In Bengaluru, Alan Walker became the first international artist to use a drone light show in India. A fleet of 500 drones lit up the sky in formation above the crowd. Something that had never happened at an Indian concert before happened right there, during a Walker set, for Bengaluru fans. He also performed Team Slide, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru theme song, as a tribute to the city. In Mumbai, Kartik Aaryan walked on stage. The crowd, already at maximum volume, found another level entirely. A Bollywood star and a Bergen DJ standing side by side in front of a sea of people who had grown up loving both of them. Nobody had planned to feel that specific way that night. But they did.
And then Walker came back. Six months later, in April 2025, he returned with WalkerWorld India Part II. Four new cities, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad and Jaipur. Cities he had never played before. Cities whose fans had watched the 2024 tour from the outside and needed their own night. In Hyderabad, the show opened with Alone and closed with Faded and the crowd sang every word of both. Two hours of music, lights and the particular feeling that comes from being in a room full of strangers who all feel the same thing at the same time.
Here’s what makes Alan Walker’s relationship with India different from most artists who tour here. He doesn’t just show up and play the hits. He finds ways to make each city’s night belong to that city. The drone show in Bengaluru was a first for India. The RCB theme was for Bengaluru. Kartik Aaryan in Mumbai was for Mumbai. He has also collaborated with Indian composer Pritam on a single called Children of the Sun, a genuine creative bridge between his world and India’s. This isn’t an artist doing India as a stop on a world tour. This is an artist who keeps coming back because something real is happening here.
And MYFANDOM was there for all of it. The official WalkerWorld India Tour merch range, hoodies, tees, bucket hats, keychains, badges, totes and the mask, was available exclusively through MYFANDOM for Indian fans. The mask especially meant something. Because when you wear Alan Walker’s mask, you’re not just wearing merch. You’re wearing the idea behind it. The philosophy of it, that everyone is equal. That the music is the thing, not the face behind it.
Because that’s what being a Walker is. You found the Music somewhere quiet and private. And then one night you’re standing in a field in your city with tens of thousands of other people, and Faded starts, and you realise you were never Alone in it.
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