The song charted before it was released, and made its way into the Top 40 in the UK, peaking at number 33. The single was released digitally in the UK on 12 December 2012. On 19 November 2012, the music video for Goulding's second single from Halcyon, titled ' Figure 8' was released. She has sold an estimated four million albums and five million singles worldwide. Influenced by Björk, Imogen Heap, Lauryn Hill and Kanye West, Goulding is recognised for her high piercing vibrato, breathy tone and emotive delivery. At the 2014 BRIT Awards she received the award for Best British Female. Halcyon Days, a repackaged edition of Halcyon, was released on 23 August 2013, it included new singles including ' Burn', which became her first UK number-one single in the same month, as well as ' I Need Your Love' with Calvin Harris and ' How Long Will I Love You'. The album also reached the top five in New Zealand, top ten in Ireland and Canada, and top twenty in Australia. Halcyon debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 Chart, her first top ten debut in the United States. Halcyon debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, and, after 65 weeks, reached number one. ' Anything Could Happen' preceded the album as the lead single, reaching the top five in the UK as well as the top twenty in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. Goulding's second album Halcyon was released in October 2012 to generally positive reviews from critics. The single, which lasted over a year on the Billboard Hot 100, was also certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's title track, ' Lights', was released in the US in March 2011, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 nearly a year and a half later during its thirty-third week charting, completing one of the longest ever climbs into the top two positions on the chart. Her cover of Elton John's ' Your Song' reached number two in the UK in December 2010 and on 29 April 2011 she performed the song at the wedding reception of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Buckingham Palace. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and has sold over 850,000 copies in the UK. Goulding released her debut studio album, Lights, in 2010. poll and win the Critics' Choice Award at the 2010 BRIT Awards in the same year, following Adele's win of both in 2008. In 2010, she became the second artist to both top the BBC's annual Sound of. Goulding signed to Polydor Records in 2009, in which she released her first EP in 2009, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding.

She was later spotted by Jamie Lillywhite, who became her manager and A&R. Born in Hereford, Herefordshire, her career began when she met record producer Starsmith and Frankmusik. Elena Jane 'Ellie' Goulding (born 30 December 1986) is an English actress, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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