Who Kygo is
Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), known professionally as Kygo (Norwegian: [ˈkỳːɡuː]), is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. He first received international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single "Firestone" (featuring Conrad Sewell). In late 2015, he reached one billion streams on Spotify faster than any other artist, and by June 2016, he had reached two billion streams. He also experienced commercial success with the singles "Stole the Show" (2015), "Here for You" (2015), "Stay" (2015), "It Ain't Me" featuring Selena Gomez (2017), remix of "Higher Love" (2019), a remix of "What's Love Got To Do With It" (2020), and two singles from his self-titled album, Kygo (2024), “Whatever" and “For Life”. His debut album, Cloud Nine, was released on 13 May 2016. Kygo became the first house music producer to perform at an Olympics closing ceremony in August 2016 at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In March 2018, Billboard ranked Kygo third on its 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100. The same year, he was ranked 32 on DJ Mag's top 100 DJs of the…
Biography from the Kygo article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Kygo, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
2 weekly snapshots. Peak so far: 30.6M in the week of Aug 10, 2026.
Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in house, and the biggest names from Norway.
Kygo in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Kygo have?
Kygo has 30,398,803 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026.
What is Kygo's world ranking?
Kygo is ranked #10 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Kygo from?
Kygo is from Norway, where they rank #1 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Kygo make?
Kygo is categorised as House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as tropical house.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from an exact public source.