Lorde (born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Conno) has just released her long-awaited album Melodrama and followed that with a debut performance at Glastonbury. Both resulted in huge success for the 20 year-old New Zealander: Melodrama is the #1 album on the Billboard 200 Chart and all reports of Glastonbury involve high acclaim for Lorde's daring show. 

Lorde's New Album Melodrama

Melodrama has just kicked Katy Perry out of her #1 spot on the Billboard charts, with over 100,000 album units sold. Lorde reached out to fans on Twitter to express gratitude:

https://twitter.com/lorde/status/879339994472738816

2 Chainz' album Pretty Girls Like Trap Music is sitting at #2 on the charts with DAMN. from Kendrick Lamar taking the third spot. 

Melodrama follows Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine, released in 2013 and known for its hugely successful track–"Royals." The first release off the new album is "Green Light" and the reactions from fans thus far has been overwhelmingly positive. Melodrama serves as a diary through adolescence, specifically though the range of emotions felt at a party...and fans are feeling it: 

https://twitter.com/terrorpigeon/status/878479455668367361

Lorde at Glastonbury

Picture this: a massive stage, even bigger crowd, sheer darkness and a glass cage. Enter Lorde, who engages with her audience through melodramatic theatrics. Around her, dancers act out scenes from a party, as influenced by the album's inspiration. This was the singer's first performance at Glastonbury; fans and critics are eating it up, although some considered it slightly self-indulgent. 

Being different is what gained her the title of being the youngest solo-artist to achieve a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1987 with "Royals." And different is what has continued to see her through to even more success. As she puts it:

when i was a kid i thought big records had to be made a certain way—to be sterile & calculated in craft; that something had to be sacrificed. i have had the divine thrill of disproving that firsthand, twice over. 

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