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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter born on 7 November 1996. She gained recognition as a teenager after a talent show performance. She signed with Universal Music Group in 2009 and began collaborating with producer Joel Little in 2011. Their first release was the EP The Love Club EP, self-released in 2012 and later commercially in 2013. The single "Royals" from the EP topped charts in multiple regions and spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, selling 10 million units worldwide. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, was released in 2013 and received critical and commercial success. In 2014, Lorde curated the soundtrack for the film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. She collaborated with producer Jack Antonoff on her 2017 album Melodrama, which debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and was included in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."