Goulding scored a surprise No.1 single in late 2019 with her cover of Joni Mitchell's River (212,291 sales), despite the track only being available on Amazon Music. I have so much respect for First Access and I’ve got so much respect for Sarah Stennett. And it was so amicable – my lawyer said it was the most amicable he’d ever seen between an artist and management. "There were so many other factors – stuff in my private life – and then Jamie, who had managed me for a long time and was one of my closest friends, moved to LA, so it felt like a natural end. But our music relationship was so solid and impenetrable that, when she left, it was quite hard for me to continue that commitment. It had been a dream for her to run a creative thing and I was so supportive of it, and still am. “I’d split with my previous management, not because we had differences, but because one of my best friends in the world, Cassandra Gracey, wanted to work at Sony," explained Goulding. Goulding spent a decade with Sarah Stennett’s First Access Entertainment before linking up with recent Music Week cover stars Tap Music in 2018. "He was a very sweet person, very talented and God, it is always so sad when somebody dies just as their career is taking off," said Goulding. The late rapper duetted with Goulding on the 2019 hit Hate Me, which appears on Brightest Blue. My fans have waited long enough!"īrightest Blue has not only become Goulding's third No.1 LP, but Polydor's fourth chart-topping album in as many weeks after deposing Juice Wrld's Legends Never Die at the summit. I am not going to hold it back because it's not going to be a good time for me. "People just want to hear new music and at this point you just have to allow yourself to release something entirely for them and not think about how it can benefit you. "I think it's good to release an album in a time like this," remarked Goulding. Originally scheduled to be released in early June, the record was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. People want to hear new music and at this point you just have to allow yourself to release something entirely for them That's how the album came and that's how I was able to finally focus on myself and my personal life and sort myself out a bit." I was like, 'This is my life now', and then suddenly it wasn't my life anymore.
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"I was doing the same thing over and over again for a long, long time - touring, the same TV shows, the same performances and I just thought that would last forever. But it's been a really strange few years, there's been a lot of change. Maybe it just wasn't supposed to be released any earlier and maybe it's going to be a good album for this time, I don't know. "I definitely haven't released it as soon as I wanted to, but circumstances have dictated otherwise and I try as much as I can to blame things on being meant to be. I'm married now, but the album was so focused on this feeling of independence and strength in finding that kind of love for myself, so it still means a lot to me. For me, it hasn't really lost its meaning. "But I feel it still has that magic there. I still listen to it and feel like it hasn't dated. "It's been a long time coming because I wrote it a couple of years ago," said Goulding. Released via Polydor, the superstar singer's fourth studio LP is her first since 2015's platinum-selling Delirium (358,612 sales, OCC). Ellie Goulding has told Music Week her new album Brightest Blue has been a "long time coming" as it debuts at No.1 on today's UK albums chart.īrightest Blue landed at the summit after seeing off Bob Dylan’s Rough And Rowdy Ways by 14,820 sales to 11,814, according to the Official Charts Company.