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Brightest Blue
Image of a female with wet hair and negative blue hue effect.
Digital album cover;[1] physical editions feature artist name,[2] while Target edition features alternate colours[3]
Studio album by
Ellie Goulding
Released17 July 2020 (2020-07-17)
Recorded2017–2020
LabelPolydor
Producer
Ellie Goulding chronology
Delirium
(2015) 		Brightest Blue
(2020)
Singles from Brightest Blue
  1. "Worry About Me"
    Released: 13 March 2020
  2. "Power"
    Released: 21 May 2020

Brightest Blue is the upcoming fourth studio album by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding is scheduled to be released on 17 July 2020 through Polydor Records. The album is preceded by two singles: "Worry About Me" and "Power".

Background

In January 2017, Goulding announced that work on new music had begun.[4] In April of the same year, producer BloodPop revealed on social media he was in the studio with Goulding.[5] That same month, Goulding released a collaboration with Kygo entitled "First Time".[6] On 24 October 2018, she released "Close to Me" with Diplo and Swae Lee.[7] She told The Guardian in early 2019, "It's very much written by me." She further discussed three new songs: "Flux", "Love I'm Given" and "Electricity".[8]

In July 2019, Goulding stated that her next material to be released would be the songs "Woman I Am" and "Start".[9] In November, she released her rendition of Joni Mitchell's Christmas song "River", which topped the UK Singles Chart, becoming her third UK number-one single and the last UK number one song of the 2010s.[10] On 13 March 2020, Goulding released the new single "Worry About Me" which was created in collaboration with Blackbear.[11] In a radio interview with Heart the same month, she revealed that the album "kind of comes in two parts," adding that she plays the guitar, bass and piano on the project.[12] During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Goulding described the album as having two sides, revealing that the first side will features songs written entirely by her, while the second is described as being "like an alter ego" and contains the majority of singles released from 2018 to 2020.[13] On 21 May, "Power" was released as the album's second single.[14] In May 2020, the album's artwork, release date and track listing were unveiled.[15][16]

Track listing

Credits adapted from Apple Music metadata.[1]

Brightest Blue track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Start" (featuring serpentwithfeet)
  
2."Power"
  • Scott
  • Coffer
 
3."How Deep is Too Deep"
  
4."Cyan"
  
5."Love I'm Given"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  • Eliot
  
6."New Heights"
  
7."Ode to Myself"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  
8."Woman"
  
9."Tides"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  • Dow-Smith
  
10."Wine Drunk"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  
11."Bleach"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  
12."Flux"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  • Eliot
  • Kearns
  • Cooke
 
13."Brightest Blue"
  • Goulding
  • Kearns
  • Eliot
  
EG.0 track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Overture"James Wyatt  
2."Worry About Me" (featuring Blackbear)
Ilya 
3."Slow Grenade" (featuring Lauv)
  
4."Close to Me" (with Diplo featuring Swae Lee)
 
5."Hate Me" (with Juice Wrld)
 

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • ^[b] signifies a vocal producer

Release history

Release dates and formats for Brightest Blue
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various 17 July 2020
Polydor [1][2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Brightest Blue by Ellie Goulding". Apple Music. United States. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Ellie Goulding Store". Official Website. United States. 27 May 2020. Archived from the original on 27 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Ellie Goulding – Brightest Blue (Target Exclusive, CD)". Target Corporation. United States. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Ellie Goulding plans to drop new music when she gets the urge". MnNews. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Summer 17 @elliegoulding". Bloodpop. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2020 – via Instagram.
  6. ^ Meadow, Matthew (27 April 2017). "Listen to Kygo and Ellie Goulding's New Collaboration, "First Time"". Your EDM. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  7. ^ Bein, Kat (23 October 2018). "Ellie Goulding Teases 'Close To Me' Collaboration With Diplo and Swae Lee". Billboard. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  8. ^ Beamont, Ben (1 January 2019). "Interview Ellie Goulding: 'I'm finally myself again'". Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  9. ^ Gannon, Louise (20 July 2019). "Ellie Goulding on swearing off men – and then finding The One". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Ellie Goulding scores third UK Number 1 single". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  11. ^ Claire Shaffer (13 March 2020). "Ellie Goulding Hunts Down Blackbear's Clones in 'Worry About Me' Video". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Ellie Goulding's new album will be split between classical and her 'alter ego' pop". Official Charts Company. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  13. ^ "Ellie Goulding: Worry About Me". YouTube. United States. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020. The album, there's two sides to it, and the first side is entirely written by me and I play most of the instruments, and I produced it and did everything. And then, the second half is kind of like — the best way to describe it is like an alter ego where I'm putting the songs on it that I've released, basically, all the songs that have ended up on the radio and the songs that I've written with other people, and perhaps not quite as serious and not quite as heartfelt, but still my songs. So, I had to separate them because it's just not the same.
  14. ^ Wass, Mike (20 May 2020). "Ellie Goulding Announces New Single 'Power'". Idolator. United States: Hive Media. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  15. ^ Copsey, Rob (27 May 2020). "Ellie Goulding unveils details of new double album". Official Charts Company. United Kingdom. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  16. ^ Monroe, Jazz (27 May 2020). "Ellie Goulding Details New Album Brightest Blue". Pitchfork. United States: Condé Nast. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

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