Multi-platinum, global artist Ellie Goulding has achieved another milestone with her latest album, Brightest Blue, which was certified Gold by the RIAA (500K albums in consumption). Her smash, “Close To Me” with Diplo ft Swae Lee, is also nominated for a Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Song. Winners for this will be announced at the ceremony on October 14.
March 2020 marked the 10-year anniversary of Ellie’s debut album Lights. Ellie’s incredible career to date has seen her receive two GRAMMY Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, two BRIT Awards, sales of 18 million albums and over 140 million singles, and 23 billion streams worldwide. With over 50 million followers combined on her social platforms, she also earned YouTube’s Diamond Award with 10 million subscribers on her YouTube channel and over 5 billion views globally. Ellie holds Billboard’s Hot 100 record for the most entries on the chart this century by a British female vocalist.
The album, Brightest Blue is presented in two parts: the first 13 tracks are the thoughtful contemplations that make up Brightest Blue (executively produced by Ellie Goulding & Joe Kearns) and the second part, EG.0, consists of huge pop bangers with collaborators including Lauv, Swae Lee and the late JUICE WRLD.
Across the two halves, Ellie enlisted a number of writers and producers to help create the finished product, including the likes of Tobias Jesso Jr., Starsmith, ILYA, serpentwithfeet, Patrick Wimberly (of Chairlift) and Jim Eliot amongst others.
Ellie has also shared a new remix of the track “Slow Grenade” from the new album Slow Grenade (Syn Cole Remix), released today.
Listen to Brightest Blue via YouTube Music
Listen to “Slow Grenade” via YouTube Music
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