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Different World (Alan Walker album)

2018 studio album by Alan Walker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Different World is the debut studio album by Norwegian DJ and record producer Alan Walker. It was released on 14 December 2018 through MER Musikk and Sony Music Entertainment and includes his successful 2015 single "Faded". The album also succeeds a trilogy of releases leading up to the album, entitled World of Walker, which consisted of the singles "All Falls Down", "Darkside" and "Diamond Heart". The album was also nominated for Top Dance/Electronic Albums at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. To promote the album, Walker embarked on the Different World Tour, spanning 4 months across 29 cities.

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“Different World (Alan Walker album)” enters the record as 2018 studio album by Alan Walker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Different, World and Alan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2015, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Different, World and Alan.
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“Different World (Alan Walker album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Different, World and Alan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2015 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Different World (Alan Walker album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.