Victor Leksell (Lars Victor Andreas Leksell), born April 4, 1997 in Torslanda, Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden, is a Swedish singer known through TV4’s music show Idol. In 2020 Leksell became the first artist whose Swedish-language song passed 100 million streams on Spotify. Leksell participated in Idol 2017 where he made it to the Top 21 and qualifying week before being voted off. In 2018, he released “Var du sover’’ and “Tappat’’ (written by William Forsling and Petter Alfredsson), of which the latter in May 2021 had received over 36 million strams on Spotify and ended up in sixth place on the Swedish charts the same year. Leksell has a record contract with Sony Music. In 2019, he released "Allt för mig" and "Klär av dig", of which the former has also been on the Swedish top list. In the summer of 2019, Leksell was nominated in three categories at the Swedish magazine Aftonbladet's competition "Rockbjörnen (Rock bear)’’. He won his first "Rockbjörn (Rock bear)’’ on 13 August 2019 in the category "Årets genombrott (Breakthrough artist of the year)” Leksell was also nominated for "Årets nykomling (Newcomber of the year)’’ at the Swedish "Grammisgalan" in 2020. On August 30, 2019, he released “Bra för dig’’ together with Swedish band Estraden. The song reached number one on the Top 50 in Sweden on Spotify and today the song has over 43 million streams on Spotify. On January 17, 2020, he released the song ‘’Svag’’ and after only 24 hours, the song ended up in first place on the Top 50 in Sweden on Spotify. After a few weeks, the song also reached number one on the Top 50 in Norway on Spotify. The song is currently Leksell's most played song with over 172 million streams on Spotify. The most played song ever in Swedish but also the most played song in any Scandinavian language ever on Spotify. The song held the number one spot for seven consecutive weeks, from week four to week eleven, being replaced by the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" in the latter week. "Svag" returned to number one on the chart in week 12 and stayed there for one week. On 3 May 2020, the song also placed at number one on Sveriges Radio's chart Svensktoppen. The song was subsequently certified nonuple platinum in Sweden. On March 13, 2020, Victor Leksell released his next single "Fantasi”. The song went straight into a fourth place on the Top 50 in Sweden on Spotify. On 10 April 2020, Leksell, Molly Sandén and Joakim Berg released a cover of Kent's song "Sverige" and all of its revenue will go to Radiohjälpen's fundraising for the COVID-19 risk groups in Sweden. The song peaked at number 11 on the Swedish Singles Chart. Leksell subsequently performed at the SVT live-show En kväll tillsammans on 11 April 2020, in support of the fundraising. In May 2020, Leksell performed the song "Svag" together with Norwegian singer Astrid S at the border between Norway and Sweden. On 17 June 2020, Leksell released his debut studio album, titled Fånga mig när jag faller. The album contains the previously released singles "Vart du sover", "Tappat", "Allt för mig", "Klär av dig", "Svag" and "Fantasi". The album debuted at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart. In the spring of 2021, Victor Leksell won the award as artist of the year, album of the year ("Fånga mig när jag faller") and song of the year (“Svag’’).