Lykke Li
Awards & Honours
18
Awards Won
2
Honours
6
Rankings
4
Covers
2
Records
Lykke Li has built a career on emotional honesty and sonic risk-taking, and the awards reflect that. She won a Swedish Grammis for Best Newcomer in 2009 and took home Best Pop Album and Best Female Artist in 2012 for Wounded Rhymes. That same year, she swept the P3 Guld Awards and the GAFFA Awards for Best Female Artist and Best Swedish Solo Artist. Her single "I Follow Rivers" was named World's Best Song at the 2014 World Music Awards, a rare global nod for a Swedish indie artist. What makes her record special is that she achieved all this without ever chasing mainstream formulas, she stayed true to her melancholic, minimalist vision and the industry rewarded her for it.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Export Prize
Awarded for her international success in music.
Key to the City of Stockholm
Honored for her cultural contributions to the city.
Rankings & Lists
50 Best Albums of 2012
50 Best Albums of 2012
50 Best Albums of 2014
50 Best Albums of 2018
Best Albums of 2022
500 Greatest Songs of All Time
Magazine Covers
Vogue (Swedish edition)
April 2012
Lykke Li: The New Queen of Indie
Rolling Stone (Scandinavian edition)
May 2014
Lykke Li's Heartbreak Album
GQ (UK edition)
June 2018
Lykke Li: Pop's Dark Angel
Vanity Fair (Italian edition)
May 2022
Lykke Li: The Art of Reinvention
Records & Feats
First Swedish female artist to have a single reach #1 in four European countries simultaneously
I Follow Rivers topped the charts in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands at the same time in 2012.
Longest-charting Swedish song on the German Singles Chart in the 2010s
I Follow Rivers spent 76 weeks on the German Singles Chart, a record for a Swedish artist.