When did their career begin?

• Swedish House Mafia was a Swedish electronic dance music supergroup consisting of disc jockeys and producers: Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008. The supergroup placed at number ten on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011 and have been called “the faces of mainstream progressive house music”. Swedish House Mafia is an example of an act whose name perfectly describes the group. The trio, consisting of Swedes Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell, got together in the early 2000s to play house music and grew to become one of EDM’s most successful artists.

Group Members• Axwell• Steve Angello• Sebastian Ingrosso• Angello and Ingrosso met as children in Stockholm; Axwell did not become a member until years later

when they contacted him after a chance meeting. Suggested names for the formation included, Swedish House Mafia and CD Playing Charlatans. Since Swedish House Mafia’s popularity exploded just in the past couple of years, the guys are still unknown to some degree.

Splitting up?

• Even though they announced in June 2012 that they were breaking up, they proceeded to schedule additional tour dates and earned the biggest hit single of their careers with ‘Don’t You Worry Child.’ They embarked on one final tour, a global trek that finally wrapped up on March 24 at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami.

Swedish house mafia accidently got their name

• As Angello, Axwell and Ingrosso began attracting attention beyond their home country, other artists provided them with the moniker that stuck. “When we would bring people to Sweden to DJ with us, they’d ask, ‘So what are you guys, some kind of house mafia?,’” Angello said. “We didn’t use the name. Then one day Pete Tong heard about that story and said, ‘I’ve heard you’re the Swedish House Mafia.’ And we were like, OK, whatever.”

They're the third highest-earning EDM act.

• Forbes ranked Swedish House Mafia third in its annual list of the highest-earning EDM artists, listing the trio’s yearly income as $14 million -- and that was before their recent farewell tour. SHM trailed only Tiesto at $22 million and Skrillex at $15 million. Forbes noted that Swedish House Mafia were the first electronic artists to headline at Madison Square Garden.

Swedish House Mafia have no regrets about breaking up

• Despite the outpouring of love after they decided to split, Axwell, Angello and Ingrosso are at peace with their decision to walk away. Angello said, “I think we felt like it had become a very big machine. It just wasn't having fun anymore. It was this humongous monster. We felt tired. Swedish House Mafia was never something planned, it was just like, we're three guys, let's do this and have fun and throw parties and have a blast. So we just thought, ‘You know what? Let's end this.’”Ingrosso added, “So many years and so much hard work put into it. It’s bittersweet. But also, it needed to be done… We were like: Let’s bang it out now, we’ll do SHM world tour as big as we can, do our last single, just enjoy it and go say goodbye to our friends.”

Artist influences for Swedish House Mafia

• Daft Punk• Underworld