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Melodrama (Lorde album)

January 09, 2023

Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde. It was released on 16 June 2017 by Lava and Republic Records and distributed through Universal. Following the breakthrough success of her debut album Pure Heroine (2013), Lorde retreated from the spotlight, and travelled between New Zealand and the United States. Initially inspired by her disillusionment with fame, she wrote Melodrama to capture heartbreak and solitude after her first breakup.

Melodrama
Studio album by
Lorde
Released16 June 2017 (2017-06-16)
Recorded2015–2017
Studio
Genre
Length40:58
Label
Producer
Lorde chronology
Pure Heroine
(2013) 		Melodrama
(2017) 		Solar Power
(2021)
Singles from Melodrama
  1. "Green Light"
    Released: 2 March 2017
  2. "Perfect Places"
    Released: 1 June 2017
  3. "Homemade Dynamite"
    Released: 16 September 2017

Lorde chose Jack Antonoff as the main collaborator because she felt the need to expand her artistry from the Joel Little-produced Pure Heroine. The final product is an electropop record incorporating piano-based melodies, pulsing synthesisers and dense electronic beats. Critics viewed the album as a maximalist departure from the minimalist hip hop-influenced production of its predecessor, and considered it a loose concept album chronicling the emotions ensued from a house party. The songs "Green Light", "Perfect Places", and "Homemade Dynamite" were released as singles. Lorde promoted the album through several music festivals she headlined, and the Melodrama World Tour in 2017 and 2018.

The album was Lorde's first number one in the United States and Canada, and also peaked atop the charts in Australia and New Zealand. It received gold or platinum certifications in the said countries and the United Kingdom. Melodrama received widespread acclaim from contemporary critics and featured on various year-end and decade-end lists. It won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year, and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. In 2020, Melodrama ranked at number 460 on Rolling Stone's revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

Background and recording

 
Jack Antonoff (pictured) co-wrote and co-produced the majority of the album with Lorde.

In December 2013, Lorde announced that she had begun writing material for an upcoming second studio album.[1] The following year, she said it was in its early stages and that it was "totally different" from her debut album released earlier that year; she also said the shift in sound was due to the change in circumstances and settings of her life.[2] Later in 2014, Lionsgate announced that Lorde would curate the soundtrack for the third installment of The Hunger Games franchise, which would be followed by the release of the film's lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat" to critical acclaim.[3]

In an interview with Australia's Triple J radio network in February 2015, Joel Little, who produced Pure Heroine, said he was scheduled to join Lorde for a writing session in a recording studio the following month,[4] although a definite plan was not yet established. More than a year later, he reported that even though he had written a few songs for the album, he would not serve as an executive producer, attributing this to Lorde "trying to do something different".[5] Lorde was eventually featured on Disclosure's track "Magnets" which appears on the duo's 2015 album Caracal.[6]

In January 2016, The New Zealand Herald reported that Lorde and James Lowe, her boyfriend, had ended their three-year relationship.[7] The singer confirmed the break-up during interviews following the release of "Green Light" (2017),[8] leading to her indulging in "heavy drinking" and noticing there was an "element of escapism and exploration" in doing so.[9] Lorde eventually replied to a comment on her Instagram account in late August 2016 that she completed the writing process of Melodrama — still untitled at the time — and that she was in the production stages.[10]

The singer went on to announce the album's title on 2 March 2017.[11] She also began posting pictures of herself at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with Jack Antonoff on social media taken in and after December 2015. Further recording sessions took place at Antonoff's home studio in Brooklyn Heights, dubbed Rough Customer Studio, and Jungle City in New York City, as well as Westlake and Conway in Los Angeles.[12] The duo recorded for 18 months.[13] Melodrama was released through Universal, Lava and Republic Records on 16 June 2017.[14]

Writing and production

 
Lorde's tendency to draw parallels to Greek tragedies (Medea pictured) was a source of inspiration for the album's title.

Lorde said that during the early stages of writing content for Melodrama, she imagined writing the album from the perspective of aliens stepping outside a hermetically sealed environment for the first time, citing the 1950 science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury as an inspiration. This was a reflection of her disengagement with her early fame. She scrapped the aliens idea and decided to write about her own struggles with the early stages of adulthood.[15] Lorde also took notes from conversations with her friends and would fly multiple times between the United States and New Zealand to examine the world around her.[15] The singer also travelled by helicopter to a rental house on Waiheke Island, where she could write without distractions,[16] would continue working through "false starts, fruitless detours and stretches of inactivity" as she retreated from the public spotlight.[16]

According to The New York Times, Melodrama is about a "grapple with emotions" in the aftermath of a break-up.[16] Interviewed by the publication, Lorde says Melodrama is not simply a "breakup album" but is rather a "record about being alone", featuring both the favourable and unfavourable aspects associated with "heartbreak and solitude".[16] She did, however, call "Green Light" a traditional break-up song.[17] In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lorde said the title of the album is a "nod to the types of emotions you experience when you're 19 or 20."[17] She cites her "love of theater" and drawing parallels to Greek tragedies as inspiration for the album's title.[17] According to Lorde, she had to deal with "very serious, vivid feelings" she needed to express after experiencing her first heartbreak and moving out of her parents' home; as a result, she spent time isolated in her own house.[17]

While writing content for the album, Lorde took influence from a number of settings and tested new material by listening to demos through earphones at a diner near Columbus Circle, which she did for about four months to understand how the music would sound in everyday life.[16] The diner usually played Top 40 radio, which she said would occasionally distract her from writing, although she sometimes removed her headphones to let the songs "wash over" her. She also took inspiration from strangers' conversations, often hearing certain phrases that she would think about for hours. These phrases also illustrated a "tableau" in her thoughts.[16] In her home in New Zealand, Lorde had a wall of notes for her songs, which she used to "skim" the whole album; it allowed her to find connections to each track and "fill in their blanks". Each song was colour coded due to her sound-to-colour synesthesia; Lorde arranged the colours according to its theme and emotion.[16]

Artwork

The cover artwork for Melodrama was painted by American abstract painter Sam McKinniss, with whom Lorde had communicated by email. The pair agreed to meet and started discussing a collaboration. Lorde later visited McKinniss' studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she took a liking to a full-figure portrait of the cover photograph of Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain and a painting of Lil' Kim. Lorde asked McKinniss to create a painting with a "kind of colorful teenage restlessness and excitement and energy and potential".[18]

McKinniss and Lorde met in November 2016 at his friend's studio on the 42nd floor of Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street skyscraper,[19] which consisted of coloured bulbs on a lighting rig and a space with several windows. For the album shoot, Lorde wore a vintage negligee and posed for two hours. According to McKinniss, the album art is the "converging of two like minds" and "simpatico spirits".[20] The pair considered making the photography session "operatic" and pre-Raphaelite-inspired, but scrapped the idea because they were satisfied with Lorde's facial expressions on the resulting images. McKinniss made two paintings from his photographs; one featured a blue glow with a warm flush on Lorde's cheek and the other has different lighting, with "paler, sweeter" colours.[19] The unused painting was later revealed in an interview with McKinniss for Dazed.[21]

NME placed the cover on their list of the best album artworks of the 21st century so far.[22] Paste ranked it at number 11 in their year-end list for album covers,[23] and it also appeared on Billboard's unranked list. Tatiano Cirisano, writing for the latter publication, said McKinniss "perfectly communicates the intimacy and coming-of-age storyline" of the record with its "hazy twilight hues and bedside setting".[24] Fuse also ranked the cover in their year-end list.[25]

Music and lyrics

 
 
Among the album's inspirations were the deaths of David Bowie (left) and Prince (right).[26][27]

Lorde's vocals on Melodrama have been noted for her emotional and multitrack delivery. She cites the emotional vocals of Kate Bush and Sinéad O'Connor, as well as Laurie Anderson's use of vocoder as inspiration for her vocal delivery on the album.[27] The Daily Telegraph writer Neil McCormick noted that Lorde's vocals locate "different levels of intimacy in different vocal timbres, multi-tracking her voice so that it often sounds like songs are being delivered by competing versions of herself".[28] According to NME, different personae of Lorde, ranging from the "strong, composed young woman" to the hidden "psycho", are showcased through her vocal performances on the album.[29]

Melodrama is built around Antonoff's signature production, which incorporates drums, synths, layered vocals and straightforward hooks.[30] Lorde and Antonoff met in early 2014 at a Grammy after-party and later had several "exploratory" writing sessions before Lorde hired him as the main co-writer on the album. Lorde worked on Melodrama in Antonoff's Rough Customer Studios in New York City and at her home in New Zealand.[16] The song structures on the record are traditional in construction, with piano-based melodies in contrast with the hip-hop influences on Lorde's first album.[31] The singer took a classicist approach, usually composing a melody and then trying different vocal falsettos; Lorde said that because of this, the whole album can be played in acoustic form.[16] She also cited her desire to explore a "cathartic mode" for the album. Several publications noted its maximalist pop production, a departure from the singer's signature minimalist style.[32] Melodrama has been described by critics as a pop,[33] electropop,[34] and art pop record.[35]

The album's lyrics are about heartbreak and solitude.[36] Though it has been denied by Lorde,[16] music critics have described Melodrama as a loose concept album.[37] Lorde has stated that the record has only a loose narrative;[38] it follows the framework of a single house party, and the events and moods that ensue.[39] According to the singer, the album's shift in narrative focuses on "I" in contrast with Pure Heroine's inclusion of "we" and "us". Lorde wanted to showcase contrast, going from "big and grand" to "really tiny and intimate", as well as desired to reference personal events, headlines and themes associated with the World Wide Web.[16] She drew inspiration from Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, describing it as "enlightenment after love lost".[40] Lorde uses numerous metaphors on Melodrama, such as the teeth of great white sharks, continuing her incorporation of teeth in her lyrics.[41] The singer also cites Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Phil Collins and Joni Mitchell as inspirations for Melodrama.[27]

Songs

Tracks 1–5

 
"The Louvre"
"The Louvre" is an acoustic guitar-driven electropop song with elements of indie rock and ambient music. Influenced by Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde, the song omits a chorus defying the traditional song structure.[27]
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The album's opening track, "Green Light", features titular metaphors; reviewers interpreted the "green light" as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move into the future.[42] It was described by critics as an electropop,[43] dance-pop,[44] and post-disco song.[45] Lorde was inspired to write the track after attending a Florence and the Machine concert with Antonoff; the writing process took her 18 months to complete.[46] "Sober", which was formed using a bongo drum, was written after Lorde played a show at Coachella. The track's instrumentation also includes a tenor and baritone saxophone, a trumpet,[47] as well as the sound of a tiger's roar, which was added when Antonoff looked through samples on his computer.[48]

Lorde co-wrote "Homemade Dynamite" with Tove Lo.[49] It is the only song on which Antonoff is not credited as a songwriter or producer.[12] Lorde was inspired to write "The Louvre" after listening to Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde. She stated in a podcast interview with The Spinoff that she could have made a "big, easy single" but refrained from doing so because she felt it would not mean much to "simplify the journey" or "force a big chorus".[50] She said that the production process was "exciting", stating, "I can use guitars and I can get a big gnarly Flume beat and throw it under water."[51] According to Newsweek, the singer's cadence in some lines almost turns into rapping, which was compared with cross-genre music.[27] "Liability" is the first piano ballad on the album; in a profile with The Spinoff, Lorde said was inspired by the track "Higher" from Rihanna's 2016 album Anti, which she listened to when she took a taxi home from a hike.[46]

Tracks 6–11

 
 
Lorde often listened to Paul Simon's (pictured left) 1986 album Graceland on taxis she took on her way home from parties.[27] Critics also noted Phil Collins' (pictured right) signature instrumentation on the album.[27]

The first part of the medley song "Hard Feelings/Loveless" uses a distorted synthesizer and elements of industrial,[52] noise[53] and electronica genres.[54] Antonoff said one of his proudest moments while producing the album was the placing of a "synth at the end [of the song] that sounds like metal bending".[55] The first two lines of "Loveless" were sampled from a documentary about Paul Simon's album Graceland Lorde watched. The drum solo used as the transition instrument linking "Hard Feelings" to "Loveless" was sampled from Phil Collins' 1981 song "In the Air Tonight".[46] She often listened to the soft rock music of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon while riding the subways in New York City and taking cab rides home from parties in Auckland.[27]

The following track, "Sober II (Melodrama)", a continuation of "Sober", details the emotions and sense of loneliness after a party is over.[56] The song was originally titled "Sober (Interlude)" before its release.[57] Lorde wrote down the main theme of "Writer in the Dark" after waking up in the middle of the night in a stranger's bed, feeling naughty and empowered while doing so. To her, it was a "cool, painful moment" on the record.[40] The singer was inspired to write "Supercut" after driving through Ponsonby Road in Auckland in a taxi listening to Simon's album Graceland.[46] Most of the song was constructed using drums, whereas "blanks" were later "filled" with piano sequences.[46] It features an interpolation of a piano riff used in "Green Light". She considered turning "Liability (Reprise)" into an a cappella track before deciding to "be sensible" and adding a backing beat.[46] "Perfect Places" was inspired after the deaths of David Bowie and Prince occurred, two musicians Lorde states were the most influential for the recording of Melodrama.[27]

Release and promotion

See also: Melodrama World Tour
 
Lorde performing at the Osheaga Festival in 2017

Lorde first promoted the album by posting a link to a website called imwaitingforit.com to her Twitter account on 27 February 2017.[58] The website featured a short clip of Lorde sitting in a car eating and drinking while a piano-backed track played in the background; this was followed with the dates "3.2.17 NYC" and "3.3.17 NZ" appearing onscreen. The video was titled "M" followed by seven asterisks and ending with "A", which would later be revealed as the album's name.[59] According to Fact magazine, the clip was also broadcast on New Zealand's major television channels.[60] The album was leaked online one day prior to release.[61]

On 2 March 2017, Lorde released "Green Light" as the lead single from the album.[62] The single was universally praised by critics, with many publications placing it in their year-end lists,[63] and was recognized as NME's Single of the Year.[64] It was commercially successful, earning platinum in the United States and a triple platinum certification in Australia.[65] The following week, Lorde released "Liability" as Melodrama's first promotional single.[66] She performed it alongside "Green Light" for the first time on 12 March 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live. This was her first performance in over two years,[67] and gained positive reviews from critics.[68]

Lorde released "Perfect Places" as the second single from Melodrama on 1 June 2017.[69] The following week, "Sober" was announced as the album's second promotional single.[70] At the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Lorde performed an interpretive dance to "Homemade Dynamite", which was met with mixed reviews from critics, some of whom called it "bizarre".[71] Her decision not to sing came after she was diagnosed with influenza.[72] Following her performance, Lorde released a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" that featured guest vocals by Khalid, Post Malone and SZA as the third single from the album on 16 September 2017.[73] To further promote the album, Lorde embarked on a world tour with several opening acts; she announced the tour in June 2017. The tour began at the O2 Apollo Manchester in England on 26 September 2017 and ended on 19 October 2017 in Trondheim, Norway.[74] The Oceania leg consisted of 13 dates. Lorde played an additional 30 shows in North America, which commenced in Milwaukee on 1 March 2018 and concluded in Nashville on 15 April 2018.[75]

Commercial performance

On the US Billboard 200, Melodrama debuted at number one with first-week sales of 109,000 album-equivalent units, of which 82,000 were pure sales, becoming Lorde's first number one in the United States.[76] The album dropped to number 13 the following week.[77] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the album a gold certification, which denotes 500,000 units in consumption.[78] Melodrama was also her first number-one album in Canada,[79] where it received a platinum certification.[80] It also debuted atop the charts in Australia[81] and New Zealand,[82] receiving platinum[83] and double-platinum certifications in respective countries.[84] It entered the UK Albums Chart at number five[85] and was certified gold in the United Kingdom.[86]

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.7/10[87]
Metacritic91/100[88]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [89]
The A.V. ClubA[90]
The Daily Telegraph     [28]
Entertainment WeeklyA[91]
The Guardian     [92]
The Independent     [93]
NME     [29]
Pitchfork8.8/10[53]
Rolling Stone     [52]
ViceB+[94]

Upon release, Melodrama received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 91, based on 32 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[88]

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian suggested that the record was a "cocky challenge being issued to her musical contemporaries."[92] In a perfect five-star review, NME reviewer Dan Stubbs described Melodrama as a "rudely excellent album", praising its introspection, honesty and cleverness.[29] In contrast, Carl Wilson of Slate conceded that the record was "kind of a detour" in comparison to 1970s artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.[95] Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly awarded the album an A and commended her songwriting skills, describing the album as a "puzzle that’ll keep you busy long after the party is over."[91] Pitchfork writer Stacey Anderson concluded that it was "a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism, crafted with the utmost care and wisdom."[53] Sal Cinquemani of Slant echoed Anderson's judgment, describing it as "cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be".[96] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes lauded its production, labeling it a "tour de force."[52]

The A.V. Club writer Meagan Fredette dubbed the record as "rich and cohesive",[90] while Drowned in Sound's Joe Goggins concluded that Lorde "[operates] at the highest artistic level yet [puts] it across as easy-access modern mainstream pop."[97] Writing for Spin, Anna Gaca quipped that Melodrama "embodies a strange, studious undoneness, the blacklight black-and-blue of a perfectionist trying to capture imperfect feelings".[98] However, the Los Angeles Times critic Mikael Wood was less positive; he critiqued the album's storyline theme but acknowledged Lorde's potency when "owning her newfound authority".[99]

Accolades

Melodrama placed second on Metacritic's list of the best-received albums of 2017, based on inclusions in mainstream publications' year-end lists.[100] The album ranked at number four on The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop mass critics' poll for 2017.[63] Metacritic ranked it the tenth album with most appearances on critics' top 10 best-of-the-decade lists, with 11 points.[101] Regarding reception from music audiences, Rolling Stone readers voted Melodrama the second most popular album of 2017,[102] while Pitchfork readers voted it the tenth greatest album of the 2010s, the highest position for a female artist's album on the list.[103]

The album won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year,[104] and received nominations at the ARIA Music Awards[105] and the NME Awards.[106] At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018, it was nominated for Album of the Year, which went to Bruno Mars' 24K Magic (2016).[107] A day before the event, Variety reported that Lorde had declined to perform at the ceremony after the Recording Academy asked her to sing with other artists in a tribute to Tom Petty. Her decision came after other nominees, who were all male, were given the opportunity to perform by themselves.[108]

Critical rankings for Melodrama
Critic/Organization Time span Rank Published
year
The A.V. Club Year-end 17 2017[109]
BBC 3 2017[110]
Billboard 3 2017[111]
Jon Caramanica (The New York Times) 7 2017[112]
Jon Pareles (The New York Times) 7 2017[112]
Consequence of Sound 1 2017[113]
Decade-end 4 2019[114]
Decade-end (Pop music) 1 2019[115]
Entertainment Weekly Year-end 1 2017[116]
1990–2019 * 2020[117]
Genius Year-end 6 2017[118]
Insider Decade-end 8 2019[119]
NME Year-end 1 2017[120]
Decade-end 2 2019[121]
NPR Year-end 5 2017[122]
Pazz & Jop (The Village Voice) 4 2018[63]
Pitchfork 5 2017[123]
Decade-end 14 2019[124]
Rolling Stone Year-end 2 2017[125]
Year-end (Pop music) 1 2017[126]
Decade-end 7 2019[127]
All Time 460 2020[128]
Stereogum Year-end 1 2017[129]
Decade-end 17 2019[130]
Time Year-end 5 2017[131]

Track listing

Melodrama – Standard version[12]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Green Light"
3:54
2."Sober"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
3:17
3."Homemade Dynamite"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Tove Lo
  • Jakob Jerlström
  • Ludvig Söderberg
  • Lorde
  • Dukes
  • Harrell[b]
3:09
4."The Louvre"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
4:31
5."Liability"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:52
6."Hard Feelings/Loveless"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Dukes
  • Malay
6:07
7."Sober II (Melodrama)"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Dukes
  • S1[a]
  • Harrell[c]
2:58
8."Writer in the Dark"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
3:36
9."Supercut"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
4:37
10."Liability (Reprise)"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:16
11."Perfect Places"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
3:41
Total length:40:58
Japanese bonus track[132]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Green Light" (Chromeo remix)
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Little
Chromeo4:09
Total length:45:07
Spotify bonus track[d][133]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Homemade Dynamite" (Remix) (featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA)
  • Dukes
  • Lorde
  • Harrell[b]
3:34
Total length:44:32

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • ^[b] signifies a vocal producer
  • ^[c] signifies an additional vocal producer
  • ^[d] added to the album after the single's release

Sample credits[12]

  • "Loveless" contains a sample of "In the Air Tonight", written and performed by Phil Collins and an audio recording from Paul Simon that appears on the 2012 documentary film, Under African Skies: Paul Simon's Graceland Journey.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Jaxsta and the liner notes of Melodrama.[134][135]

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[83] Platinum 70,000 
Canada (Music Canada)[80] Platinum 80,000 
China — 164,000[170]
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[171] Gold 10,000 
New Zealand (RMNZ)[84] 2× Platinum 30,000 
United Kingdom (BPI)[173] Gold 169,000[note 1]
United States (RIAA)[78] Gold 248,000[note 2]
Summaries
Worldwide — 400,000[175]

  Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format Label Catalogue no. Ref.
Worldwide 16 June 2017
— [176]
CD B0026615-02 [177]
6 April 2018 Vinyl LP — [178]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Kuk Harrell is credited with vocal production on the first verse of "Green Light" only.

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  1. ^ UK sales figures for Melodrama as of August 2021[172]
  2. ^ US sales figures for Melodrama as of June 2021[174]

External links

  • Official website
  • Melodrama at Discogs (list of releases)

January 09, 2023
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Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer songwriter Lorde It was released on 16 June 2017 by Lava and Republic Records and distributed through Universal Following the breakthrough success of her debut album Pure Heroine 2013 Lorde retreated from the spotlight and travelled between New Zealand and the United States Initially inspired by her disillusionment with fame she wrote Melodrama to capture heartbreak and solitude after her first breakup MelodramaStudio album by LordeReleased16 June 2017 2017 06 16 Recorded2015 2017StudioElectric Lady New York Rough Customer Brooklyn Heights Westlake Los Angeles Conway Los Angeles Jungle City New York GenrePop electropop art popLength40 58LabelUniversal Lava RepublicProducerLorde Jack Antonoff Frank Dukes Malay Joel Little Andrew WyattLorde chronologyPure Heroine 2013 Melodrama 2017 Solar Power 2021 Singles from Melodrama Green Light Released 2 March 2017 Perfect Places Released 1 June 2017 Homemade Dynamite Released 16 September 2017Lorde chose Jack Antonoff as the main collaborator because she felt the need to expand her artistry from the Joel Little produced Pure Heroine The final product is an electropop record incorporating piano based melodies pulsing synthesisers and dense electronic beats Critics viewed the album as a maximalist departure from the minimalist hip hop influenced production of its predecessor and considered it a loose concept album chronicling the emotions ensued from a house party The songs Green Light Perfect Places and Homemade Dynamite were released as singles Lorde promoted the album through several music festivals she headlined and the Melodrama World Tour in 2017 and 2018 The album was Lorde s first number one in the United States and Canada and also peaked atop the charts in Australia and New Zealand It received gold or platinum certifications in the said countries and the United Kingdom Melodrama received widespread acclaim from contemporary critics and featured on various year end and decade end lists It won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 In 2020 Melodrama ranked at number 460 on Rolling Stone s revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list Contents 1 Background and recording 2 Writing and production 3 Artwork 4 Music and lyrics 5 Songs 5 1 Tracks 1 5 5 2 Tracks 6 11 6 Release and promotion 7 Commercial performance 8 Reception 8 1 Critical response 8 2 Accolades 9 Track listing 10 Personnel 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 12 Certifications and sales 13 Release history 14 See also 15 Notes 16 References 17 External linksBackground and recording Edit Jack Antonoff pictured co wrote and co produced the majority of the album with Lorde In December 2013 Lorde announced that she had begun writing material for an upcoming second studio album 1 The following year she said it was in its early stages and that it was totally different from her debut album released earlier that year she also said the shift in sound was due to the change in circumstances and settings of her life 2 Later in 2014 Lionsgate announced that Lorde would curate the soundtrack for the third installment of The Hunger Games franchise which would be followed by the release of the film s lead single Yellow Flicker Beat to critical acclaim 3 In an interview with Australia s Triple J radio network in February 2015 Joel Little who produced Pure Heroine said he was scheduled to join Lorde for a writing session in a recording studio the following month 4 although a definite plan was not yet established More than a year later he reported that even though he had written a few songs for the album he would not serve as an executive producer attributing this to Lorde trying to do something different 5 Lorde was eventually featured on Disclosure s track Magnets which appears on the duo s 2015 album Caracal 6 In January 2016 The New Zealand Herald reported that Lorde and James Lowe her boyfriend had ended their three year relationship 7 The singer confirmed the break up during interviews following the release of Green Light 2017 8 leading to her indulging in heavy drinking and noticing there was an element of escapism and exploration in doing so 9 Lorde eventually replied to a comment on her Instagram account in late August 2016 that she completed the writing process of Melodrama still untitled at the time and that she was in the production stages 10 The singer went on to announce the album s title on 2 March 2017 11 She also began posting pictures of herself at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with Jack Antonoff on social media taken in and after December 2015 Further recording sessions took place at Antonoff s home studio in Brooklyn Heights dubbed Rough Customer Studio and Jungle City in New York City as well as Westlake and Conway in Los Angeles 12 The duo recorded for 18 months 13 Melodrama was released through Universal Lava and Republic Records on 16 June 2017 14 Writing and production Edit Lorde s tendency to draw parallels to Greek tragedies Medea pictured was a source of inspiration for the album s title Lorde said that during the early stages of writing content for Melodrama she imagined writing the album from the perspective of aliens stepping outside a hermetically sealed environment for the first time citing the 1950 science fiction short story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury as an inspiration This was a reflection of her disengagement with her early fame She scrapped the aliens idea and decided to write about her own struggles with the early stages of adulthood 15 Lorde also took notes from conversations with her friends and would fly multiple times between the United States and New Zealand to examine the world around her 15 The singer also travelled by helicopter to a rental house on Waiheke Island where she could write without distractions 16 would continue working through false starts fruitless detours and stretches of inactivity as she retreated from the public spotlight 16 According to The New York Times Melodrama is about a grapple with emotions in the aftermath of a break up 16 Interviewed by the publication Lorde says Melodrama is not simply a breakup album but is rather a record about being alone featuring both the favourable and unfavourable aspects associated with heartbreak and solitude 16 She did however call Green Light a traditional break up song 17 In an interview with Vanity Fair Lorde said the title of the album is a nod to the types of emotions you experience when you re 19 or 20 17 She cites her love of theater and drawing parallels to Greek tragedies as inspiration for the album s title 17 According to Lorde she had to deal with very serious vivid feelings she needed to express after experiencing her first heartbreak and moving out of her parents home as a result she spent time isolated in her own house 17 While writing content for the album Lorde took influence from a number of settings and tested new material by listening to demos through earphones at a diner near Columbus Circle which she did for about four months to understand how the music would sound in everyday life 16 The diner usually played Top 40 radio which she said would occasionally distract her from writing although she sometimes removed her headphones to let the songs wash over her She also took inspiration from strangers conversations often hearing certain phrases that she would think about for hours These phrases also illustrated a tableau in her thoughts 16 In her home in New Zealand Lorde had a wall of notes for her songs which she used to skim the whole album it allowed her to find connections to each track and fill in their blanks Each song was colour coded due to her sound to colour synesthesia Lorde arranged the colours according to its theme and emotion 16 Artwork EditThe cover artwork for Melodrama was painted by American abstract painter Sam McKinniss with whom Lorde had communicated by email The pair agreed to meet and started discussing a collaboration Lorde later visited McKinniss studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn where she took a liking to a full figure portrait of the cover photograph of Prince s 1984 album Purple Rain and a painting of Lil Kim Lorde asked McKinniss to create a painting with a kind of colorful teenage restlessness and excitement and energy and potential 18 McKinniss and Lorde met in November 2016 at his friend s studio on the 42nd floor of Frank Gehry s 8 Spruce Street skyscraper 19 which consisted of coloured bulbs on a lighting rig and a space with several windows For the album shoot Lorde wore a vintage negligee and posed for two hours According to McKinniss the album art is the converging of two like minds and simpatico spirits 20 The pair considered making the photography session operatic and pre Raphaelite inspired but scrapped the idea because they were satisfied with Lorde s facial expressions on the resulting images McKinniss made two paintings from his photographs one featured a blue glow with a warm flush on Lorde s cheek and the other has different lighting with paler sweeter colours 19 The unused painting was later revealed in an interview with McKinniss for Dazed 21 NME placed the cover on their list of the best album artworks of the 21st century so far 22 Paste ranked it at number 11 in their year end list for album covers 23 and it also appeared on Billboard s unranked list Tatiano Cirisano writing for the latter publication said McKinniss perfectly communicates the intimacy and coming of age storyline of the record with its hazy twilight hues and bedside setting 24 Fuse also ranked the cover in their year end list 25 Music and lyrics Edit Among the album s inspirations were the deaths of David Bowie left and Prince right 26 27 Lorde s vocals on Melodrama have been noted for her emotional and multitrack delivery She cites the emotional vocals of Kate Bush and Sinead O Connor as well as Laurie Anderson s use of vocoder as inspiration for her vocal delivery on the album 27 The Daily Telegraph writer Neil McCormick noted that Lorde s vocals locate different levels of intimacy in different vocal timbres multi tracking her voice so that it often sounds like songs are being delivered by competing versions of herself 28 According to NME different personae of Lorde ranging from the strong composed young woman to the hidden psycho are showcased through her vocal performances on the album 29 Melodrama is built around Antonoff s signature production which incorporates drums synths layered vocals and straightforward hooks 30 Lorde and Antonoff met in early 2014 at a Grammy after party and later had several exploratory writing sessions before Lorde hired him as the main co writer on the album Lorde worked on Melodrama in Antonoff s Rough Customer Studios in New York City and at her home in New Zealand 16 The song structures on the record are traditional in construction with piano based melodies in contrast with the hip hop influences on Lorde s first album 31 The singer took a classicist approach usually composing a melody and then trying different vocal falsettos Lorde said that because of this the whole album can be played in acoustic form 16 She also cited her desire to explore a cathartic mode for the album Several publications noted its maximalist pop production a departure from the singer s signature minimalist style 32 Melodrama has been described by critics as a pop 33 electropop 34 and art pop record 35 The album s lyrics are about heartbreak and solitude 36 Though it has been denied by Lorde 16 music critics have described Melodrama as a loose concept album 37 Lorde has stated that the record has only a loose narrative 38 it follows the framework of a single house party and the events and moods that ensue 39 According to the singer the album s shift in narrative focuses on I in contrast with Pure Heroine s inclusion of we and us Lorde wanted to showcase contrast going from big and grand to really tiny and intimate as well as desired to reference personal events headlines and themes associated with the World Wide Web 16 She drew inspiration from Paul Simon s 1986 album Graceland describing it as enlightenment after love lost 40 Lorde uses numerous metaphors on Melodrama such as the teeth of great white sharks continuing her incorporation of teeth in her lyrics 41 The singer also cites Fleetwood Mac Leonard Cohen Don Henley Tom Petty Phil Collins and Joni Mitchell as inspirations for Melodrama 27 Songs EditTracks 1 5 Edit The Louvre source source track The Louvre is an acoustic guitar driven electropop song with elements of indie rock and ambient music Influenced by Frank Ocean s 2016 album Blonde the song omits a chorus defying the traditional song structure 27 Problems playing this file See media help The album s opening track Green Light features titular metaphors reviewers interpreted the green light as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move into the future 42 It was described by critics as an electropop 43 dance pop 44 and post disco song 45 Lorde was inspired to write the track after attending a Florence and the Machine concert with Antonoff the writing process took her 18 months to complete 46 Sober which was formed using a bongo drum was written after Lorde played a show at Coachella The track s instrumentation also includes a tenor and baritone saxophone a trumpet 47 as well as the sound of a tiger s roar which was added when Antonoff looked through samples on his computer 48 Lorde co wrote Homemade Dynamite with Tove Lo 49 It is the only song on which Antonoff is not credited as a songwriter or producer 12 Lorde was inspired to write The Louvre after listening to Frank Ocean s 2016 album Blonde She stated in a podcast interview with The Spinoff that she could have made a big easy single but refrained from doing so because she felt it would not mean much to simplify the journey or force a big chorus 50 She said that the production process was exciting stating I can use guitars and I can get a big gnarly Flume beat and throw it under water 51 According to Newsweek the singer s cadence in some lines almost turns into rapping which was compared with cross genre music 27 Liability is the first piano ballad on the album in a profile with The Spinoff Lorde said was inspired by the track Higher from Rihanna s 2016 album Anti which she listened to when she took a taxi home from a hike 46 Tracks 6 11 Edit Lorde often listened to Paul Simon s pictured left 1986 album Graceland on taxis she took on her way home from parties 27 Critics also noted Phil Collins pictured right signature instrumentation on the album 27 The first part of the medley song Hard Feelings Loveless uses a distorted synthesizer and elements of industrial 52 noise 53 and electronica genres 54 Antonoff said one of his proudest moments while producing the album was the placing of a synth at the end of the song that sounds like metal bending 55 The first two lines of Loveless were sampled from a documentary about Paul Simon s album Graceland Lorde watched The drum solo used as the transition instrument linking Hard Feelings to Loveless was sampled from Phil Collins 1981 song In the Air Tonight 46 She often listened to the soft rock music of Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon while riding the subways in New York City and taking cab rides home from parties in Auckland 27 The following track Sober II Melodrama a continuation of Sober details the emotions and sense of loneliness after a party is over 56 The song was originally titled Sober Interlude before its release 57 Lorde wrote down the main theme of Writer in the Dark after waking up in the middle of the night in a stranger s bed feeling naughty and empowered while doing so To her it was a cool painful moment on the record 40 The singer was inspired to write Supercut after driving through Ponsonby Road in Auckland in a taxi listening to Simon s album Graceland 46 Most of the song was constructed using drums whereas blanks were later filled with piano sequences 46 It features an interpolation of a piano riff used in Green Light She considered turning Liability Reprise into an a cappella track before deciding to be sensible and adding a backing beat 46 Perfect Places was inspired after the deaths of David Bowie and Prince occurred two musicians Lorde states were the most influential for the recording of Melodrama 27 Release and promotion EditSee also Melodrama World Tour Lorde performing at the Osheaga Festival in 2017 Lorde first promoted the album by posting a link to a website called imwaitingforit com to her Twitter account on 27 February 2017 58 The website featured a short clip of Lorde sitting in a car eating and drinking while a piano backed track played in the background this was followed with the dates 3 2 17 NYC and 3 3 17 NZ appearing onscreen The video was titled M followed by seven asterisks and ending with A which would later be revealed as the album s name 59 According to Fact magazine the clip was also broadcast on New Zealand s major television channels 60 The album was leaked online one day prior to release 61 On 2 March 2017 Lorde released Green Light as the lead single from the album 62 The single was universally praised by critics with many publications placing it in their year end lists 63 and was recognized as NME s Single of the Year 64 It was commercially successful earning platinum in the United States and a triple platinum certification in Australia 65 The following week Lorde released Liability as Melodrama s first promotional single 66 She performed it alongside Green Light for the first time on 12 March 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live This was her first performance in over two years 67 and gained positive reviews from critics 68 Lorde released Perfect Places as the second single from Melodrama on 1 June 2017 69 The following week Sober was announced as the album s second promotional single 70 At the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards Lorde performed an interpretive dance to Homemade Dynamite which was met with mixed reviews from critics some of whom called it bizarre 71 Her decision not to sing came after she was diagnosed with influenza 72 Following her performance Lorde released a remix of Homemade Dynamite that featured guest vocals by Khalid Post Malone and SZA as the third single from the album on 16 September 2017 73 To further promote the album Lorde embarked on a world tour with several opening acts she announced the tour in June 2017 The tour began at the O2 Apollo Manchester in England on 26 September 2017 and ended on 19 October 2017 in Trondheim Norway 74 The Oceania leg consisted of 13 dates Lorde played an additional 30 shows in North America which commenced in Milwaukee on 1 March 2018 and concluded in Nashville on 15 April 2018 75 Commercial performance EditOn the US Billboard 200 Melodrama debuted at number one with first week sales of 109 000 album equivalent units of which 82 000 were pure sales becoming Lorde s first number one in the United States 76 The album dropped to number 13 the following week 77 The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA awarded the album a gold certification which denotes 500 000 units in consumption 78 Melodrama was also her first number one album in Canada 79 where it received a platinum certification 80 It also debuted atop the charts in Australia 81 and New Zealand 82 receiving platinum 83 and double platinum certifications in respective countries 84 It entered the UK Albums Chart at number five 85 and was certified gold in the United Kingdom 86 Reception EditCritical response Edit Professional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingAnyDecentMusic 8 7 10 87 Metacritic91 100 88 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 89 The A V ClubA 90 The Daily Telegraph 28 Entertainment WeeklyA 91 The Guardian 92 The Independent 93 NME 29 Pitchfork8 8 10 53 Rolling Stone 52 ViceB 94 Upon release Melodrama received widespread acclaim from music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album has an average score of 91 based on 32 critical reviews indicating universal acclaim 88 Alexis Petridis of The Guardian suggested that the record was a cocky challenge being issued to her musical contemporaries 92 In a perfect five star review NME reviewer Dan Stubbs described Melodrama as a rudely excellent album praising its introspection honesty and cleverness 29 In contrast Carl Wilson of Slate conceded that the record was kind of a detour in comparison to 1970s artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen 95 Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly awarded the album an A and commended her songwriting skills describing the album as a puzzle that ll keep you busy long after the party is over 91 Pitchfork writer Stacey Anderson concluded that it was a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism crafted with the utmost care and wisdom 53 Sal Cinquemani of Slant echoed Anderson s judgment describing it as cathartic dramatic and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be 96 Rolling Stone s Will Hermes lauded its production labeling it a tour de force 52 The A V Club writer Meagan Fredette dubbed the record as rich and cohesive 90 while Drowned in Sound s Joe Goggins concluded that Lorde operates at the highest artistic level yet puts it across as easy access modern mainstream pop 97 Writing for Spin Anna Gaca quipped that Melodrama embodies a strange studious undoneness the blacklight black and blue of a perfectionist trying to capture imperfect feelings 98 However the Los Angeles Times critic Mikael Wood was less positive he critiqued the album s storyline theme but acknowledged Lorde s potency when owning her newfound authority 99 Accolades Edit Melodrama placed second on Metacritic s list of the best received albums of 2017 based on inclusions in mainstream publications year end lists 100 The album ranked at number four on The Village Voice s annual Pazz amp Jop mass critics poll for 2017 63 Metacritic ranked it the tenth album with most appearances on critics top 10 best of the decade lists with 11 points 101 Regarding reception from music audiences Rolling Stone readers voted Melodrama the second most popular album of 2017 102 while Pitchfork readers voted it the tenth greatest album of the 2010s the highest position for a female artist s album on the list 103 The album won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year 104 and received nominations at the ARIA Music Awards 105 and the NME Awards 106 At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 it was nominated for Album of the Year which went to Bruno Mars 24K Magic 2016 107 A day before the event Variety reported that Lorde had declined to perform at the ceremony after the Recording Academy asked her to sing with other artists in a tribute to Tom Petty Her decision came after other nominees who were all male were given the opportunity to perform by themselves 108 Critical rankings for Melodrama Critic Organization Time span Rank PublishedyearThe A V Club Year end 17 2017 109 BBC 3 2017 110 Billboard 3 2017 111 Jon Caramanica The New York Times 7 2017 112 Jon Pareles The New York Times 7 2017 112 Consequence of Sound 1 2017 113 Decade end 4 2019 114 Decade end Pop music 1 2019 115 Entertainment Weekly Year end 1 2017 116 1990 2019 2020 117 Genius Year end 6 2017 118 Insider Decade end 8 2019 119 NME Year end 1 2017 120 Decade end 2 2019 121 NPR Year end 5 2017 122 Pazz amp Jop The Village Voice 4 2018 63 Pitchfork 5 2017 123 Decade end 14 2019 124 Rolling Stone Year end 2 2017 125 Year end Pop music 1 2017 126 Decade end 7 2019 127 All Time 460 2020 128 Stereogum Year end 1 2017 129 Decade end 17 2019 130 Time Year end 5 2017 131 Track listing EditMelodrama Standard version 12 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 Green Light Ella Yelich O ConnorJack AntonoffJoel LittleLorde Antonoff Frank Dukes Kuk Harrell b a 3 542 Sober Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Malay Harrell b 3 173 Homemade Dynamite Yelich O ConnorTove LoJakob JerlstromLudvig SoderbergLorde Dukes Harrell b 3 094 The Louvre Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Flume a S1 a Dukes a 4 315 Liability Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff2 526 Hard Feelings Loveless Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Dukes Malay6 077 Sober II Melodrama Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Dukes S1 a Harrell c 2 588 Writer in the Dark Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff3 369 Supercut Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Little Dukes a Jean Benoit Dunckel a 4 3710 Liability Reprise Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff2 1611 Perfect Places Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLorde Antonoff Andrew Wyatt Dukes T Minus a Malay a 3 41Total length 40 58 Japanese bonus track 132 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length12 Green Light Chromeo remix Yelich O ConnorAntonoffLittleChromeo4 09Total length 45 07 Spotify bonus track d 133 No TitleWriter s Producer s Length12 Homemade Dynamite Remix featuring Khalid Post Malone and SZA Ella Yelich O ConnorKhalid RobinsonAustin PostSolana RoweTove LoJakob JerlstromLudvig SoderbergDukes Lorde Harrell b 3 34Total length 44 32 Notes a signifies an additional producer b signifies a vocal producer c signifies an additional vocal producer d added to the album after the single s releaseSample credits 12 Loveless contains a sample of In the Air Tonight written and performed by Phil Collins and an audio recording from Paul Simon that appears on the 2012 documentary film Under African Skies Paul Simon s Graceland Journey Personnel EditCredits adapted from Jaxsta and the liner notes of Melodrama 134 135 Production Lorde executive production production Jack Antonoff executive production production tracks 1 2 4 11 Frank Dukes production tracks 1 3 6 7 11 additional production tracks 4 9 programming tracks 3 6 7 9 11 Malay production track 2 6 additional production tracks 11 programming tracks 2 4 6 9 11 Joel Little production track 9 Andrew Wyatt production track 11 Flume additional production track 4 S1 additional production track 4 7 Jean Benoit Dunckel additional production track 9 Kuk Harrell vocal production tracks 1 3 additional vocal production track 7 T Minus additional production track 11 Artwork Sam McKinniss cover artwork Theo Wenner photography World of McIntosh Townhouse pool shots 12 01 office of Hassan Rahim art direction design Technical Laura Sisk engineering Barry McCready engineering assistance tracks 1 2 4 11 Greg Eliason engineering assistance tracks 1 4 6 9 11 Brendan Morawski engineering assistance tracks 1 3 5 7 11 Seth Paris engineering assistance tracks 2 8 10 11 Eric Eylands engineering assistance tracks 3 7 10 11 Ben Sedano engineering assistance tracks 7 9 11 Serban Ghenea mixing tracks 1 4 6A 9 11 Tom Elmhirst mixing tracks 5 7 8 10 Jack Antonoff mixing track 6B John Hanes engineering for mix tracks 1 4 6A 9 11 Joe Visciano mixing assistance track 5 Brandon Bost mixing assistance tracks 5 7 8 10 Tom Coyne mastering tracks 1 5 Randy Merrill mastering tracks 2 4 6 11 Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2017 Peak positionAustralian Albums ARIA 136 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 137 8Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 138 12Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 139 12Canadian Albums Billboard 140 1Czech Albums CNS IFPI 141 3Danish Albums Hitlisten 142 6Dutch Albums Album Top 100 143 6Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 144 15French Albums SNEP 145 29German Albums Offizielle Top 100 146 11Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 147 33Irish Albums IRMA 148 3Italian Albums FIMI 149 8Japanese Albums Oricon 150 87New Zealand Albums RMNZ 82 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 151 4Polish Albums ZPAV 152 13Portuguese Albums AFP 153 10Scottish Albums OCC 154 7South Korean International Albums Circle 155 6Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 156 9Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 157 10Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 158 7UK Albums OCC 159 5US Billboard 200 160 1US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 161 1 Year end charts Edit Chart 2017 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 162 13Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 163 116New Zealand Albums RMNZ 164 5US Billboard 200 165 114US Alternative Albums Billboard 166 8Chart 2018 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 167 67New Zealand Albums RMNZ 168 32US Alternative Albums Billboard 169 25Certifications and sales EditRegion Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 83 Platinum 70 000 Canada Music Canada 80 Platinum 80 000 China 164 000 170 Denmark IFPI Danmark 171 Gold 10 000 New Zealand RMNZ 84 2 Platinum 30 000 United Kingdom BPI 173 Gold 169 000 note 1 United States RIAA 78 Gold 248 000 note 2 SummariesWorldwide 400 000 175 Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history EditRegion Date Format Label Catalogue no Ref Worldwide 16 June 2017 Digital downloadstreaming UniversalLavaRepublic 176 CD B0026615 02 177 6 April 2018 Vinyl LP 178 See also EditList of Billboard 200 number one albums of 2017 List of number one albums from the 2010s New Zealand List of number one albums in New Zealand by New Zealand artists List of number one albums of 2017 Australia List of number one albums of 2017 Canada Notes Edit Kuk Harrell is credited with vocal production on the first verse of Green Light only References Edit Lorde Working on New Material Australian Tour Being Planned Billboard 13 December 2013 Archived from the original on 4 July 2014 Retrieved 22 May 2014 Lorde My next album will sound totally different Digital Spy 5 June 2014 Archived from the original on 29 August 2014 Retrieved 27 August 2014 Carley Brennan 29 September 2014 Lorde Bares Her Fangs on Hunger Games Single Yellow Flicker Beat Spin Archived from the original on 21 August 2015 Retrieved 30 September 2014 Strecker Erin 31 July 2014 Lorde to Curate Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 Soundtrack and Contribute Single Billboard Archived from the original on 19 March 2018 Retrieved 14 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