Lorde Pure Heroine Is Spotify's Most Streamed Debut Album - Noise11.com
Lorde, Ian Laidlaw, Photo

Lorde, Photo By Ian Laidlaw

Lorde Pure Heroine Is Spotify’s Most Streamed Debut Album

by Paul Cashmere on October 10, 2013

in News,Noise Pro

‘Pure Heroine’ by Lorde is the most streamed debut album ever for Spotify.

Lorde’s album was streamed nearly 6 million times in the debut week making it the biggest ever first week for an artist’s debut in the USA.

Globally, there were over 10 million Lorde ‘Pure Heroine’ streams detected.

The song ‘Royals’ was added the Spotify on March 19 and made it to the Hipster playlist with over 900,000 followers on April 2. On April 8, ‘Royals’ debuted in the Spotify Viral Chart and by May was the number one song on the chart.

‘Royals’ has now become the 3rd most shared song in the USA behind Daft Punk ‘Get Lucky’ and Robin Thicke ‘Blurred Lines’.

Based on streams and shares, Lorde ‘Royals’ is now the most viral artist in the USA.

Lorde ‘Pure Heroine’ debuted at no 1 in Australia this week with 20,153 sales on the ARIA chart and came in at number 3 in the USA with 127,226 sales, according to Hitsdailydouble.com

Stay updated with your free Noise11 daily music newsletter. Subscribe to Noise11 Music News here

Related Posts

Daryl Braithwaite One Electric Sunday 26 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Daryl Braithwaite Turns 75. Happy Birthday Daryl

Happy birthday to Australian music legend Daryl Braithwaite, who turns 75 today (January 11, 2024).

January 11, 2024
Daft Punk Random Access Memories drumless edition
Not a Joke – Sony To Release Drumless Version of Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’

More proof that the music business is descending into utter ridiculousness comes news that there is a drumless version of the Daft Punk classic ‘Random Access Memories’ on the way.

September 29, 2023
Daft Punk photo by Tim Cashmere, Noise11, photo
Daft Punk To Debut New Song With The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas

Daft Punk are set to debut a previously unheard song featuring The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas.

May 11, 2023
Daft Punk photo by Tim Cashmere, Noise11, photo
Daft Punk Split At 28 Years

After 28 years Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have decided to split up as Daft Punk.

February 23, 2021
Daft Punk photo by Tim Cashmere, Noise11, photo
Daft Punk Release Remix Album

Daft Punk has finally released their album Human After All (Remixes) worldwide after it only being a Japanese release for the last eight years.

August 14, 2014
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
The Vinyl Sales Illusion, LPs Really Don’t Sell

“Vinyl sales are the saving the music business. Hallelujah!” How many times have we heard that in the past year?

January 8, 2014
Daft Punk photo by Tim Cashmere, Noise11, photo
Daft Punk Release Instant Crush Video

Daft Punk have released the video for their new single 'Instant Crush' featuring The Strokes' Julian Casablancas.

December 11, 2013