4
Virgin is Lorde’s fourth studio album—and the first one in four years—following Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017) and Solar Power (2021). The album runs 11 tracks and 34 minutes, and spans genres from its rave-ready opener “Hammer” to the ballad “David.”
2,000
Synesthesia, the condition Lorde has that lets her “see” music as colors—a trait she shares with Stevie Wonder and Pharrell Williams—is estimated to affect about 1 in 2,000.
6
The singer’s age when she aced the Woodcock‑Johnson III cognitive abilities tests and was briefly enrolled in a gifted education program at George Parkyn National Centre in New Zealand.
8,300,000
Lorde has amassed a total of 8.3 million equivalent album sales globally—counting album units, downloads and streams combined.
9
Lorde’s debut single, “Royals,” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks beginning in October 2013, making her the youngest solo artist to do so since Tiffany in 1987.
5,100,000
Pure Heroine, Lorde’s debut album, has sold approximately 3.5 million copies in
the U.S. and 5.1 million worldwide to date, making it her best-selling LP.
28
The 28-year-old—born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor—chose the stage name Lorde out of a fascination with nobility and aristocracy, adding an “e” to the end to “feminize it,” she recalls.
30
It took the singer just 30 minutes to write “Royals” in July 2012 at age 15. She had been scouted and signed two years prior by Universal Music Group at just 13.
1.37 Billion
Spotify streams for her breakout hit “Royals,” which made Lorde, then 17, the youngest-ever artist to win the Song of the Year Grammy in 2014. More than a decade later, the hit song still garners hundreds of thousands of streams daily.