Elena Jane Goulding conceived 30 December 1986 is an English vocalist and lyricist. Her vocation started when she met record makers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and she was subsequently spotted by Jamie Lillywhite, who turned into her administrator and A&R. Subsequent to marking to Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding delivered her presentation expanded play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding later that year.
In 2010, she turned into the second craftsman to top the BBC’s yearly Sound of… survey and win the Critics’ Choice Award at the Brit Awards around the same time. She delivered her presentation studio collection, Lights, in 2010; it appeared at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and has sold north of 850,000 duplicates in the UK. In November 2010, the collection was reissued as Bright Lights, generating two singles: a front of Elton John’s “Your Song”, which came to No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart; and “Lights”, which crested at No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, turning into Goulding’s most noteworthy graphing single to date.
Goulding’s second studio collection, Halcyon was delivered in 2012 and went before by its lead single “Anything Could Happen”. The collection appeared at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart, and beat the diagram following 65 weeks. Halcyon appeared at No. 9 on the US Billboard 200. Halcyon Days, a repackaged version of Halcyon, was delivered in 2013 and created the single “Consume”, which turned into her first No. 1 single in the UK. At the 2014 Brit Awards, she got the honor for British Female Solo Artist. Goulding delivered her third studio collection, Delirium, in 2015, with “On My Mind” as the collection’s lead single. That year, she accepted her most memorable Grammy Award selection for Best Pop Solo Performance for her single “Love Me like You Do”. Her fourth studio collection, Brightest Blue (2020), turned into her third collection to top the UK Albums Chart, and her fourth sequential RIAA-confirmed collection.