Won Spellemann Award for Newcomer of the Year

In early 2016, Aurora won the Spellemann Award for Newcomer of the Year , along with a 250,000- kroner Gramo scholarship, and the EBBA Award for international breakthrough with Running with the Wolves . That January, she was featured alongside Troye Sivan on Rolling Stone ‘ s “10 New Artists You Need to Know” list. Her debut studio album, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend , was released in March and topped Norway’s VG -lista for two consecutive weeks, marking her as the first Norwegian debutant to achieve a number-one debut since Emilie Nicolas in 2014. The record wove themes of fantasy, heartache, life, and death, drawing comparisons to Björk , Florence Welch , and Enya . It earned a Spellemann nomination for Album of the Year and won in the categories of Pop Soloist and Music Video of the Year for ” I Went Too Far “. As of September 2018, the album had sold 500,000 copies worldwide and was supported by a year-long international concert tour that began in North America and ended in Brazil.