Martin Tungevaag

Martin Tungevaag (born July 9, 1993), known professionally as Tungevaag, is a Norwegian artist and music producer who has achieved success in Europe with the electronic songs "Samsara 2015" and "Wicked Wonderland" on the German EDM label Kontor Records, and "Play" together with K-391, Alan Walker and Mangoo. He has twice been nominated for the Norwegian and Swedish Grammy Awards (Spellemannprisen and Grammis). Tungevaag was also part of Tungevaag & Raaban, a dance music producer duo with Swedish Robbin Söderlund better known by his artistic name Raaban.

Tungevaag
Birth nameMartin Tungevåg[1]
Born (1993-07-09) 9 July 1993
Genres
Occupation(s)
Years active2007–present
Labels
Associated actsAlan Walker, K-391, Tungevaag & Raaban

Career

At the age of 15, Tungevaag began to explore different digital audio workstations (DAW) in his bedroom studio in 2008. Years later, June 12, 2014 he got signed and started his music career at Kontor Records in Germany and scored his first major hit in 2014 with "Wicked Wonderland". It became a summer hit and led to shows at clubs and festival main stages all over Europe. Later the same year, "Samsara 2015" reached number 1 in Finland, number 2 in Norway and number 4 in Sweden. It also sold platinum in all three countries.

After these releases he became Grammy nominated in Norway and Sweden for «hit of the year» and «best EDM song». Additionally, he got multi-platinum awarded, and reached the #1 spot in all the Nordic countries, #1 Austria, #3 Germany and top #10 for Switzerland, Italy, Chile, China, Korea and Japan.

In 2018, Tungevaag released "All For Love" at Warner Music and in 2019 "Million Lights" at Spinnin. Later in 2019 he worked with Alan Walker, K-391 and Mangoo on a remake of Mangoo's "Eurodancer" known as "Play". The single was released everywhere on 30 August 2019, was streamed over 760 thousand times on its first day at Spotify and reached top lists in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore.

Discography

Singles

As solo artist:

Year Single Peak positions
NOR
[2]		 AUT
[3]		 DEN
[4]		 FIN
[5]		 FRA
[6]		 GER
[7]		 SWE
[8]		 SWI
[9]
2014 "Wicked Wonderland" 4 1 — 5 9 6 2 21
"Vidorra" — — — — — 72 21 —
2015 "Samsara 2015"
2 7 8 1 — — 4 —
"Springfield"
(with ItaloBrothers)		 22 — — 3 — — 51 —
2019 "Play"
(with K-391 and Alan Walker featuring Mangoo)		 2
[10]		 45 — 11
[11]		 — — 25
[12]		 78
"Dance"
(with CLMD)		 12 — — — — — — —
"Knockout"[13] 22
[14]		 — — — — — — —
2020 "Peru"[15] — — — — — — — —
"Stay"[16]
(with The Second Level featuring Mvrt)		 — — — — — — — —
"Make You Happy"[17]
(featuring Richard Smitt)		 — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released.

As Tungevaag & Raaban:

  • 2015: "Samsara"
  • 2015: "Parade"
  • 2015: "Russian Roulette"
  • 2016: "Wolf"
  • 2016: "Magical"
  • 2016: "Beast" (feat. Isac Elliot)
  • 2017: "Wake up Alone"
  • 2017: "Cold Blood"
  • 2017: "Coming Up"
  • 2018: "All For Love"
  • 2018: "Bad Boy"
  • 2018: "Hey Baby"
  • 2019: "Million Lights"
  • 2019: "Try Again"
  • 2019: "Take Me Away"

Remixes
  • 2020: Rat City and Kiesza — "Naked (With My Headphones On)" (Tungevaag Remix)[18]

Awards and nominations
Year Organization Award Work Result Ref.
2015 Spellemannprisen Hit of the year Tungevaag - Samsara Nominated [19]
Year Organization Award Work Result Ref.
2018 MTV Europe Music Awards Best Norwegian Act Tungevaag & Raaban Nominated [20]
Year Organization Award Work Result Ref.
2019 Grammis Best Electronic Act All For Love Nominated [21]
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References
  1. Tungevåg Music
  2. "Martin Tungevaag discography". norwegiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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  8. "Martin Tungevaag discography". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  9. "Martin Tungevaag discography". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  10. "VG-lista – Topp 20 Single uke 38, 2019". VG-lista. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  11. "Singlet 37/2019 – Suomen virallinen lista". Suomen virallinen lista (in Finnish). Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  12. "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 36". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  13. "Knockout - Single by Tungevaag on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  14. "Singel 2020-W06". VG-lista. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  15. "Peru - Single by Tungevaag on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  16. "Stay (feat. MVRT) - Single by Tungevaag & The Second Level on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  17. "Make You Happy (feat. Richard Smitt) - Single by Tungevaag on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  18. "Naked (With My Headphones On) [Tungevaag Remix] - Single by Rat City & Kiesza on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  19. "Hit of the year". Spellemann. January 2015.
  20. "Best Norwegian Act". MTV. 5 October 2018.
  21. "Best Electronic Act". Grammis Sweden. 2019.
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