NAME:
Ellie Goulding
ABOUT
Multiplatinum-selling singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding’s career to date includes two GRAMMY Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination and two BRIT Awards. Her impact is reflected with incredible sales of 22 million albums, over 165 million singles, and 30 billion streams worldwide. Ellie has earned 4 consective RIAA certified albums and 20 RIAA certified singles (Gold & Platinum). With over 50 million followers combined on her social platforms, she also earned YouTube’s Diamond Award with 10 million subscribers on her YouTube channel and over 5 billion views globally.
Making memorable appearances in 2021, Ellie performed at the esteemed Kennedy Center Honors honoring her hero Joni Mitchell, and earlier in the year also performed an electrifying live set at the celebrated Governor’s Ball festival in New York City. Her UK 2021 tour put the climate crisis centre stage breaking new ground in greening the live music industry. As a UN environment ambassador and official COP26 advocate, Ellie is known for speaking up for the planet. Her tour tackled the industry’s notoriously large carbon footprint and high impact and scaling down to levels compatible with the Paris Treaty.
Ellie’s fourth and highly anticipated new album Brightest Blue was lauded by critics across the globe with Variety raving the album is her “best and most complete work, a lovelorn mess of emotions atop a mass of vibrant soundscapes,” while The Guardian stated it’s “a triumph of heart and ambition” and “her best yet.” The album is presented in two parts, the first 13 tracks are the thoughtful contemplations that make up “Brightest Blue” (executively produced by Ellie Goulding & Joe Kearns) and the second part, “EG.0” consists of huge pop bangers with collaborators including Lauv, Swae Lee/Diplo, blackbear and the late JUICE WRLD. Across the two halves Ellie enlisted a number of writers and producers to help create the finished product, including the likes of Tobias Jesso Jr., Starsmith, ILYA, serpentwithfeet, Patrick Wimberly (of Chairlift) and Jim Eliot among others. October 2020 saw her win Billboard’s Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Song for her smash, “Close To Me” featured on the album.
Speaking about the two-sided album Ellie explains “the first half reflects my vulnerability… it acknowledges a complex world where relationships still dictate our happiness and heartbreak and can still be the most painful thing in the world, no matter how enlightened you are. The tracks also symbolise growing up and becoming a woman.” About the second half she says it “encapsulates my confident, brave and fearless side and features all my recent collaborations.” Ellie adds, “I often find myself writing about my thoughts and emotions in a way that I know will be catchy and memorable. I will always seek to use my voice in ways that no one would ever expect and look to collaborate with the least likely, exciting and eclectic group of other artists.”
Ellie gave fans around the world a spellbinding performance from the iconic V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum) in London during her one-off exclusive pay-per-view live streamed gig, presented by LIVENow, for “The Brightest Blue Experience.” She performed a number of tracks from her new album as well as other fan favorites, and was joined by friends and collaborators Diplo, Lauv and blackbear via video link. The stream was also broadcast via three additional time zones to cater to audiences across the globe from North, South and America as well as Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Outside of music, Ellie is a long-standing activist and philanthropist and has long used her platform to engage young people with global issues. In November 2017 she was awarded the United Nation’s New Voices Award by the UN Foundation in recognition of her activism and became a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment. Goulding now works with the UN as a Global Environmental Ambassador and uses her platform to drive a number of other philanthropic ventures including being a patron of women’s shelter The Marylebone Project. At this critical time in society, Ellie campaigns at the highest level, working year-round to amplify the voices of young people in particular. She is passionate that political discussions on climate must match the ambitions of young people across the world.
During 2018 Ellie addressed 85 heads of state in London at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, spoke to the fashion industry on the necessity of climate goals at the UN’s Fashion for Development showcase in Paris and delivered a speech at the UK’s home of science, The Royal Institution, in the final round of Talanoa talks on the eve of COP24. In April 2019 she teamed up with Netflix and Oscar winning composer Steven Price to perform an original song for Sir David Attenborough’s latest series ‘Our Planet’. In October 2019, Ellie took part in One Young World – the global forum for 2,000 young leaders from 190 countries – which aims to accelerate social impact and address urgent global issues such as climate change, gender equality, refugees, and many more. She has addressed the United Nations Foundation in New York and joined with climate scientists to petition world leaders alongside Greta Thunberg at the Arctic Basecamp in Davos, Switzerland among her other notable efforts.
Ellie’s pioneering Pass the Mic series has seen her leveraging her huge popularity on social media platforms to give space to the critical activists and earth defenders of our time, including Patrisse Cullours, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, the environmental justice NGO Global Witness and Dr Philip Atiba Goff from Policing Equity.
“As someone who loves to engage with my fans on social media, it also makes sense to me to answer their questions and help with the job of explaining the challenges we face” Ellie explains. “If we’re going to reach a future on a healthy planet we also need to talk about what that looks like. I want the people who love my music to know they have a say in their future too.”
ExpandMaking memorable appearances in 2021, Ellie performed at the esteemed Kennedy Center Honors honoring her hero Joni Mitchell, and earlier in the year also performed an electrifying live set at the celebrated Governor’s Ball festival in New York City. Her UK 2021 tour put the climate crisis centre stage breaking new ground in greening the live music industry. As a UN environment ambassador and official COP26 advocate, Ellie is known for speaking up for the planet. Her tour tackled the industry’s notoriously large carbon footprint and high impact and scaling down to levels compatible with the Paris Treaty.
Ellie’s fourth and highly anticipated new album Brightest Blue was lauded by critics across the globe with Variety raving the album is her “best and most complete work, a lovelorn mess of emotions atop a mass of vibrant soundscapes,” while The Guardian stated it’s “a triumph of heart and ambition” and “her best yet.” The album is presented in two parts, the first 13 tracks are the thoughtful contemplations that make up “Brightest Blue” (executively produced by Ellie Goulding & Joe Kearns) and the second part, “EG.0” consists of huge pop bangers with collaborators including Lauv, Swae Lee/Diplo, blackbear and the late JUICE WRLD. Across the two halves Ellie enlisted a number of writers and producers to help create the finished product, including the likes of Tobias Jesso Jr., Starsmith, ILYA, serpentwithfeet, Patrick Wimberly (of Chairlift) and Jim Eliot among others. October 2020 saw her win Billboard’s Music Award for Top Dance/Electronic Song for her smash, “Close To Me” featured on the album.
Speaking about the two-sided album Ellie explains “the first half reflects my vulnerability… it acknowledges a complex world where relationships still dictate our happiness and heartbreak and can still be the most painful thing in the world, no matter how enlightened you are. The tracks also symbolise growing up and becoming a woman.” About the second half she says it “encapsulates my confident, brave and fearless side and features all my recent collaborations.” Ellie adds, “I often find myself writing about my thoughts and emotions in a way that I know will be catchy and memorable. I will always seek to use my voice in ways that no one would ever expect and look to collaborate with the least likely, exciting and eclectic group of other artists.”
Ellie gave fans around the world a spellbinding performance from the iconic V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum) in London during her one-off exclusive pay-per-view live streamed gig, presented by LIVENow, for “The Brightest Blue Experience.” She performed a number of tracks from her new album as well as other fan favorites, and was joined by friends and collaborators Diplo, Lauv and blackbear via video link. The stream was also broadcast via three additional time zones to cater to audiences across the globe from North, South and America as well as Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Outside of music, Ellie is a long-standing activist and philanthropist and has long used her platform to engage young people with global issues. In November 2017 she was awarded the United Nation’s New Voices Award by the UN Foundation in recognition of her activism and became a Goodwill Ambassador for UN Environment. Goulding now works with the UN as a Global Environmental Ambassador and uses her platform to drive a number of other philanthropic ventures including being a patron of women’s shelter The Marylebone Project. At this critical time in society, Ellie campaigns at the highest level, working year-round to amplify the voices of young people in particular. She is passionate that political discussions on climate must match the ambitions of young people across the world.
During 2018 Ellie addressed 85 heads of state in London at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, spoke to the fashion industry on the necessity of climate goals at the UN’s Fashion for Development showcase in Paris and delivered a speech at the UK’s home of science, The Royal Institution, in the final round of Talanoa talks on the eve of COP24. In April 2019 she teamed up with Netflix and Oscar winning composer Steven Price to perform an original song for Sir David Attenborough’s latest series ‘Our Planet’. In October 2019, Ellie took part in One Young World – the global forum for 2,000 young leaders from 190 countries – which aims to accelerate social impact and address urgent global issues such as climate change, gender equality, refugees, and many more. She has addressed the United Nations Foundation in New York and joined with climate scientists to petition world leaders alongside Greta Thunberg at the Arctic Basecamp in Davos, Switzerland among her other notable efforts.
Ellie’s pioneering Pass the Mic series has seen her leveraging her huge popularity on social media platforms to give space to the critical activists and earth defenders of our time, including Patrisse Cullours, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, the environmental justice NGO Global Witness and Dr Philip Atiba Goff from Policing Equity.
“As someone who loves to engage with my fans on social media, it also makes sense to me to answer their questions and help with the job of explaining the challenges we face” Ellie explains. “If we’re going to reach a future on a healthy planet we also need to talk about what that looks like. I want the people who love my music to know they have a say in their future too.”