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14.04.2023 - 23:11 / officialcharts.com
She’s Higher Than Heaven – Ellie Goulding scores the coveted Official Chart Double for the first time in her career today.
Ellie tops both the Official Singles and the Official Albums Chart this week, securing a second week at Number 1 with Calvin Harris collab Miracle, while her fifth album, dance opus Higher Than Heaven becomes her fourth chart-topping LP.
Higher Than Heaven joins Ellie’s other Number 1 records, debut Lights (2010), dark pop delight Halcyon (2012) and the introspective Brightest Blue (2020). Her maximalist pop epic Delirium also reached Number 3 in 2015. See Ellie Goulding’s Official Charts history in full here.
With this newest chart-topper, Ellie now joins Adele as the British female solo artists with the most Number 1 albums to their name, with four apiece. Higher Than Heaven also ends the week as the biggest seller across independent record shops in the UK, topping the Official Record Store Chart.
And joining in on the fun is trance banger Miracle, Ellie’s high-octane trilogy-completing track with frequent collaborator Calvin Harris retains Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart for a second week, once more the most-streamed track in the country of the last 7 days.
Watch Ellie Goulding accept her awards for the Official Chart Double belowSpeaking exclusively to while accepting her Number 1 Awards for the Official Chart Double, says:
"Guys, I am so, so happy to be holding these two awards for Number 1 album and Number 1 single. I’m speechless. This has made me so happy.
"Thank you so much to everyone for supporting my album, buying it and streaming it, and for supporting Miracle. It’s such a lovely surprise. It’s been such a good day. Thank you so much, everybody!"
Martin Talbot, Chief
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Ellie Goulding has spoken to NME about new album ‘Higher Than Heaven’, her Calvin Harris-collab ‘Miracle’ riding high in the charts and the possibility of representing the United Kingdom in Eurovision.Goulding’s fifth album ‘Higher Than Heaven’ was released on Friday (April 7) – and was written intentionally as purely escapist pop.“My new thing is acknowledging the things I’m good at, and I’m good at writing pop songs,” Goulding told NME. “I’ve made a classical album, I’ve made electronic music and I regularly give my vocal away to producers like Four Tet.