Delirium (Ellie Goulding album)

Delirium is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Ellie Goulding, released on 6 November 2015 by Polydor Records. Music critics were generally impressed by the overall production of the record, although they were ambivalent in regards to its originality. It debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, earning Goulding her highest-charting record in the latter country and her highest first-week sales figures in both territories. The album spawned three singles: "On My Mind", "Army" and "Something in the Way You Move".

Delirium
Standard edition artwork;[1] deluxe pressings feature a golden typeface colour.[2] The digital edition uses a different typeface.[3]
Studio album by Ellie Goulding
Released	6 November 2015 (2015-11-06)
Recorded	2014–2015
Studio	Various British Grove (London, England)[lower-alpha 1] Abbey Road (London, England)[lower-alpha 2] Echo (Los Angeles, California)[lower-alpha 3] RAK (London, England)[lower-alpha 4] Westlake (Los Angeles, California)[lower-alpha 4] MXM (Los Angeles, California)[lower-alpha 5] Wolf Cousins (Stockholm, Sweden)[lower-alpha 6] SMV (London, England)[lower-alpha 7] The RedRoom (Gothenburg, Sweden)[lower-alpha 8] MXM (Stockholm, Sweden)[lower-alpha 9] P.S. (Stockholm, Sweden)[lower-alpha 10] Metropolis (London, England)[lower-alpha 11] Studio at the Palms (Las Vegas, Nevada)[lower-alpha 12] Kinglet (Stockholm, Sweden)[lower-alpha 13] Apmamman (Stockholm, Sweden)[lower-alpha 14] Splendido (Hereford, England)[lower-alpha 15] Little Kingdom (Los Angeles, California)[lower-alpha 16] Golden Age (Auckland, New Zealand)[lower-alpha 17] Sarm Music Village (London, England)[lower-alpha 18] Musicbox (London, England)[lower-alpha 19] Fly Eye (London, England)[lower-alpha 20]
Genre	Synth-pop[4] dance[5]
Length	56:31
Label	Polydor
Producer	Various Klas Åhlund Jim Eliot Carl Falk Fred Calvin Harris Joe Kearns Chris Ketley Anders Kjær Greg Kurstin Guy Lawrence Joel Little Kristian Lundin Major Lazer Max Martin Jimmy Napes Ali Payami Picard Brothers Laleh Pourkarim Ilya Salmanzadeh The Struts Peter Svensson Synthomania Ryan Tedder Gustaf Thörn Noel Zancanella
Ellie Goulding chronology
Halcyon Days (2013) Delirium (2015) Brightest Blue (2020)
Alternative cover
Japanese cover
Singles from Delirium
"On My Mind" Released: 17 September 2015 "Army" Released: 9 January 2016 "Something in the Way You Move" Released: 19 January 2016

Background

Goulding has stated that the sound of the album is more pop-oriented than her previous releases. Speaking in an interview, she said: "A part of me views this album as an experiment, to make a big pop album; I made a conscious decision that I wanted it to be on another level".[6]

Singles

"On My Mind" was released as the album's lead single on 17 September 2015. The song received positive reviews and performed well commercially, reaching the top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Army" was sent to contemporary hit radio in the UK on 9 January 2016 as the album's second single.[7] The song was released to contemporary hit radio in the United States on 19 April 2016.[8]

The third and final single from the album, "Something in the Way You Move", impacted contemporary hit radio in the United States on 19 January 2016.[9]

Other songs

"Lost and Found" was released on 23 October 2015 as a promotional single from Delirium.[10] During the week before the album's release, several radio stations premiered different tracks from the album. "Don't Panic" premiered on Graham Norton's BBC Radio 2 show on 31 October 2015,[11] while "Keep On Dancin'" debuted on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 2 November 2015.[12]

The album includes Goulding's song "Love Me like You Do", which was originally released as a single from the soundtrack to the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey and became a commercial success worldwide. The deluxe edition also includes Goulding's collaboration with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, "Outside", released as a single from his 2014 album Motion. The North American deluxe edition contains Goulding’s collaboration with American electronic music trio Major Lazer (also featuring American-Jamaican singer Tarrus Riley), Powerful, released as a single from their 2015 album Peace is the Mission.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100[13]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[14]
Clash	2/10[15]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[16]
NME	3/5[17]
The Observer	[18]
Pitchfork	7.2/10[5]
PopMatters	[4]
Q	[19]
Rolling Stone	[20]
Spin	7/10[21]

Delirium received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[13] Peter Robinson of Q remarked that the album "seems to enjoy pushing pop's boundaries, and six years into her career feels like Goulding's first true superstar moment", while noting that her "nuanced lyrics steer Delirium away from homogeneity".[19] Michael Cragg of The Observer wrote that the album "goes straight for the pop jugular, unleashing a relentless barrage of bangers that almost always hit the spot."[18] Matt Collar of AllMusic opined that "it's the unexpectedly appealing combination of Goulding's distinctive voice and the melismatic R&B bent of the songs on Delirium that makes for such an ecstatic listen."[14] Eve Barlow of Spin commented, "Finally, [Goulding is] embracing the responsibility to provide stone-cold tunes without pretense", adding, "Perhaps she's finally come to terms with playing in the major leagues because she's sussed out the sweet spot between pop homogeneity and experimentation."[21] Despite criticising Goulding for copying pop trends and stating the "darker, deeper tones" may have been "a better fit for Meghan Trainor than Goulding", Pitchfork's Hazel Cills commended the singer for her "evocative storytelling and ability to craft great dance music".[5]

Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone compared Goulding's change in musical direction to "the country-to-pop transformation her pal Taylor Swift pulled off with 1989", stating that "[t]he songwriting on Delirium doesn't always feel worthy of her ambitions, but Goulding is technically peerless and versatile, maintaining her power and flare throughout and crushing every glassy jam she's put in front of."[20] Similarly, Mark Allister of PopMatters pointed out the album's "rather limited scope of lyric subjects" and concluded, "Goulding's sound has gained an even greater sheen and expectations have grown, and we'll see, in the coming months, whether Delirium is the big album that Goulding is aiming for."[4] Entertainment Weekly's Kyle Anderson viewed Delirium as "too well-constructed and honestly ambitious, and the tracks that land in Goulding's comfort zone [...] rank among her best work. But the album also fails to elevate Goulding to her desired plateau, ultimately making it a narrow and sometimes frustrating miss."[16] Matthew Horton of NME felt that "[t]here's something disappointing about [the album], however undeniable the quality of material."[17] In a negative review for Clash, Joe Rivers expressed that Goulding's voice is "too wispy to hold its own versus the maximalist rave-pop of the day. Throughout Delirium, her vocals are often double-tracked in an attempt to circumvent this, but it largely fails, and the singing is forever fighting for attention amid a swamp of crashing beats and over-zealous synths."[15]

Commercial performance

Delirium debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart and at number one on the UK Album Downloads Chart, with 38,429 copies sold in its first week, marking the biggest first-week sales of Goulding's career so far.[22] In Australia, Delirium charted at number three, becoming her second album to land within the top 10 and her highest-charting album in the country.[23]

In the United States, the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 album-equivalent units (42,000 in pure album sales), earning Goulding her highest-charting album yet.[24] As of February 2016, the album had sold 117,000 copies in the US.[25]

Track listing

Standard edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro (Delirium)"	Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Chris Ketley	Kearns Ketley	1:54
2.	"Aftertaste"	Goulding Greg Kurstin	Kurstin	3:46
3.	"Something in the Way You Move"	Goulding Kurstin	Kurstin	3:47
4.	"Keep On Dancin'"	Goulding Ryan Tedder Nicole Morier Noel Zancanella	Tedder Zancanella Anders Kjær^[a] Synthomania^[a]	3:46
5.	"On My Mind"	Goulding Max Martin Savan Kotecha Ilya Salmanzadeh	Martin Ilya	3:33
6.	"Around U"	Goulding Fred Gibson Tristan Landymore Joe Janiak	Kurstin Fred^[a] Kearns^[b]	3:17
7.	"Codes"	Goulding Martin Kotecha Salmanzadeh	Ilya	3:16
8.	"Holding On for Life"	Kurstin Goulding Maureen "Mozella" McDonald	Kurstin	4:15
9.	"Love Me like You Do"	Martin Kotecha Salmanzadeh Ali Payami Tove Nilsson	Martin Payami	4:12
10.	"Don't Need Nobody"	Goulding Kotecha Peter Svensson Ludvig Söderberg Jakob Jerlström Martin	Svensson The Struts	3:33
11.	"Don't Panic"	Goulding Kurstin McDonald	Kurstin	3:16
12.	"We Can't Move to This"	Goulding Fred Gibson Alex Gibson Kurstin McDonald	Fred Kurstin^[a]^[b]	3:28
13.	"Army"	Goulding Martin Kotecha Payami	Martin Payami	3:57
14.	"Lost and Found"	Goulding Carl Falk Martin Laleh Pourkarim Joakim Berg	Falk Martin Kristian Lundin^[a]^[b]	3:36
15.	"Devotion"	Goulding Klas Åhlund Payami Stephen Wrabel	Åhlund Payami	3:46
16.	"Scream It Out"	Goulding Jim Eliot	Kurstin Eliot^[b] Kearns^[b]	3:09
Total length:				56:31

Deluxe edition bonus tracks[2]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"The Greatest"	Joel Little Goulding	Little	3:31
18.	"I Do What I Love"	Goulding Pourkarim	Pourkarim	2:51
19.	"Paradise"	Goulding Little	Kurstin Little^[a]	3:44
20.	"Winner"	Goulding Pourkarim	Pourkarim Gustaf Thörn^[c]	3:20
21.	"Heal"	Goulding Guy Lawrence James Napier	Lawrence Jimmy Napes	4:52
22.	"Outside" (Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding)	Calvin Harris Goulding	Harris	3:47
Total length:				78:36

North American deluxe edition bonus tracks[26][27]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
23.	"Powerful" (Major Lazer featuring Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley)	Thomas Pentz Maxime Picard Clément Picard Omar Riley Ilsey Juber Fransisca Hall	Major Lazer Picard Brothers Sonny Moore^[a] David Taylor^[a]	3:25
Total length:				82:01

Target exclusive edition bonus disc[28]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"The Greatest"	Joel Little Goulding	Little	3:31
2.	"I Do What I Love"	Goulding Pourkarim	Pourkarim	2:51
3.	"Paradise"	Goulding Little	Kurstin Little^[a]	3:44
4.	"Winner"	Goulding Pourkarim	Pourkarim Gustaf Thörn^[c]	3:20
5.	"Heal"	Goulding Lawrence Napier	Lawrence Jimmy Napes	4:52
6.	"Outside" (Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding)	Calvin Harris Goulding	Harris	3:47
7.	"Powerful" (Major Lazer featuring Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley)	Pentz M. Picard C. Picard Riley Juber Hall	Major Lazer Picard Brothers Moore^[a] Taylor^[a]	3:26
8.	"Let It Die"	Goulding	Kearns	3:31
9.	"Two Years Ago"	Goulding Eliot	Eliot	5:01
Total length:				34:03

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an additional producer
• ^{^[b]} signifies a vocal producer
• ^{^[c]} signifies an assistant producer

Sample credits

• "We Can't Move to This" contains elements from "It's Over Now", as written and performed by 112, which itself samples "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)", as written by Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Delirium.[29]

Musicians

• Ellie Goulding – lead vocals (all tracks); backing vocals (tracks 10, 18, 20); live percussion (tracks 18, 20)
• Joe Kearns – keyboards, programming (track 1)
• Chris Ketley – string arrangements (tracks 1, 16, 19); choir arrangements (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Everton Nelson – violin (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Emil Chakalov – violin (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Richard George – violin (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Jenny Sacha – violin (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Sarah Tuke – violin (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Max Baillie – viola (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Emma Owens – viola (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Ian Burdge – cello (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Chris Worsey – cello (tracks 1, 16, 19)
• Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, guitar, piano, keyboards (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 16, 19)
• Ryan Tedder – backing vocals, guitar, instrumentation, programming (track 4)
• Noel Zancanella – instrumentation, programming (track 4)
• Ilya – backing vocals (tracks 5, 9); guitar, bass, keyboards, programming (tracks 5, 7)
• Max Martin – keyboards (tracks 5, 9); programming (tracks 5, 9, 13); drums, percussion, bass (track 9); backing vocals (tracks 9, 13, 15)
• Fred – instrument arrangements (track 6); programming, synths, percussion, drums, keyboards, backing vocals (track 12)
• Jenny Schwartz – backing vocals (tracks 7, 13)
• Jeremy Lertola – backing vocals (track 7)
• Sam Holland – backing vocals (tracks 7, 13)
• Savan Kotecha – backing vocals (tracks 7, 9, 13)
• Annabel Williams – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Bobbie Gordon – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Hayley Sanderson – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Lloyds Wade – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Joshua Hayes – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Simone Daly-Richards – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Janet Ramus – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Dawn Joseph – choir (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Ali Payami – programming (tracks 9, 13, 15); drums, keyboards, bass (tracks 9, 15); percussion (track 9); backing vocals (tracks 9, 13); guitar (track 13); synths (track 15)
• Mattias Bylund – strings, string arrangements (track 9)
• Mattias Johansson – violin (track 9)
• David Bukovinszky – cello (track 9)
• Peter Carlsson – backing vocals (tracks 9, 13)
• Oscar Holter – backing vocals (track 9)
• Robin Fredriksson – backing vocals (track 9)
• Mattias Larsson – backing vocals (track 9)
• Oscar Görres – backing vocals (track 9)
• Ludvig Söderberg – backing vocals (track 9)
• The Struts – programming, drums, bass, keyboards (track 10)
• Peter Svensson – programming, drums, bass, keyboards, additional backing vocals (track 10)
• The Wolf Cousins Royal Choir – gang vocals (track 10)
• Benjy Gibson – drums (track 12)
• Emmanuel Franklyn Adalebu – drums (track 12)
• Doris Sandberg – backing vocals (track 13)
• Cory Bice – backing vocals (track 13)
• Silke Lorenzen – backing vocals (track 13)
• Rickard Göransson – backing vocals (track 13)
• Carl Falk – guitar, programming, keyboards, backing vocals (track 14)
• Joakim Berg – acoustic guitar (track 14)
• Martin Sköld – bass guitar (track 14)
• Kristoffer Fogelmark – backing vocals (track 14)
• Laleh Pourkarim – backing vocals (tracks 14, 18); bass (track 18); drum programming, synths, live percussion (tracks 18, 20)
• Gustaf Thörn – backing vocals (tracks 14, 20); piano, organ, guitar, bass, string arrangements (track 20)
• Klas Åhlund – synths, bass, keyboards, programming (track 15)
• Jim Eliot – additional synths, guitar (track 16)
• Oli Langford – violin (tracks 16, 19)
• Reiad Chibah – viola (tracks 16, 19)
• Richard Pryce – double bass (tracks 16, 19)
• Joel Little – bass, drums, piano, keyboards (track 17); programming (track 19)
• Erik Arvinder – strings (track 20)
• Calvin Harris – all instruments (track 22)

Technical

• Joe Kearns – production, mixing (track 1); engineering (tracks 1, 6); string production (tracks 1, 16, 19); vocal production, vocal recording (track 6); choir production (tracks 8, 16, 17); additional vocals production, additional vocals recording (track 16); additional vocal engineering (track 20)
• Chris Ketley – string production (tracks 1, 16, 19); choir production (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Jason Elliott – string engineering (tracks 1, 16, 19); choir engineering (tracks 8, 16, 17)
• Bob Knight – string supply (tracks 1, 16, 19); choir supply (tracks 8, 17)
• Greg Kurstin – production (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 16, 19); engineering (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 12, 16, 19); vocal production (tracks 6, 12); recording (track 11); additional production, vocal recording (track 12)
• Alex Pasco – engineering (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 16, 19); recording (track 11)
• Julian Burg – engineering (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 16, 19); recording (track 11)
• Ryan Tedder – production (track 4)
• Noel Zancanella – production (track 4)
• Anders Kjær – additional production (track 4)
• Synthomania – additional production (track 4)
• Rich Rich – engineering (track 4)
• Rob Cohen – engineering assistance (track 4)
• Max Martin – production (tracks 5, 9, 13, 14)
• Ilya – production (tracks 5, 7)
• Sam Holland – engineering (tracks 5, 7, 9, 10, 13–15)
• Fred – additional production, vocal recording (track 6); vocal production, engineering (tracks 6, 12); production (track 12)
• Laleh Pourkarim – additional vocals recording (track 7); vocal recording (track 14); production (tracks 18, 20); engineering, vocal production (track 20)
• Ali Payami – production (tracks 9, 13, 15)
• Peter Carlsson – vocal editing (track 9)
• Mattias Bylund – string recording, string editing
• Peter Svensson – production (track 10)
• The Struts – production (track 10)
• Noah "Mailbox" Passovoy – engineering (track 10)
• Cory Bice – engineering assistance (tracks 10, 13–15)
• Jeremy Lertola – engineering assistance (tracks 10, 13, 14)
• Liam Nolan – vocal recording (track 12)
• Rob Katz – engineering (tracks 13, 14)
• Kristian Lundin – additional vocals recording (track 13); additional production, vocal recording, vocal production, vocal editing (track 14)
• Carl Falk – production (track 14)
• Klas Åhlund – production (track 15)
• Jim Eliot – vocal production (track 16)
• Joel Little – production (track 17); engineering (tracks 17, 19); vocal production, additional production (track 19)
• Gustaf Thörn – engineering assistance (tracks 18, 20); production assistance (track 20)
• Guy Lawrence – production (track 21)
• Jimmy Napes – production (track 21)
• Calvin Harris – production, mixing (track 22)
• Cameron Gower Poole – vocal engineering (track 22)
• Tom Campbell – engineering assistance (track 22)
• Simon Davey – mastering (track 22)
• Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 2–21)
• John Hanes – engineering for mix
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Randy Merrill – mastering assistance

Artwork

• Ellie Goulding – creative direction
• Cassandra Gracey – creative direction
• David Roemer – photography
• Richard Andrews – design

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2015–16) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[30] 3 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[31] 5 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[33] 16 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[34] 2 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[35] 9 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[36] 12 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[37] 11 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[38] 24 French Albums (SNEP)[39] 34 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[40] 5 Greek Albums (IFPI)[41] 24 Irish Albums (IRMA)[42] 2 Italian Albums (FIMI)[43] 22 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[44] 90 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[45] 4 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[46] 9 Polish Albums (ZPAV)[47] 30 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[48] 19 Scottish Albums (OCC)[49] 5 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[50] 25 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 7 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[52] 5 UK Albums (OCC)[53] 3 US Billboard 200[54] 3

Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[55] 79 UK Albums (OCC)[56] 34 Chart (2016) Position New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[57] 42 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[58] 85 UK Albums (OCC)[59] 38 US Billboard 200[60] 89

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria)[61]	Platinum	15,000^*
Mexico (AMPROFON)[62]	Platinum+Gold	90,000^^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[63]	2× Platinum	40,000^*
Poland (ZPAV)[64]	2× Platinum	40,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)[65]	Platinum	357,000[66]
United States (RIAA)[67]	Platinum	1,000,000
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Notes

1. Track 1
2. Track 1; vocals on tracks 6 and 8; choir on tracks 8, 16 and 17; strings on track 16
3. Tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 16 and 19
4. Track 4
5. Tracks 5, 7, 9, 10, 13–15, 18 and 20
6. Tracks 5, 7, 9, 10, 13 and 15
7. Vocals on track 6
8. Strings on track 9
9. Track 9
10. Track 10
11. Tracks 12 and 17
12. Track 14; vocals on track 13
13. Track 14
14. Track 15
15. Vocals on track 16
16. Tracks 17 and 19
17. Track 17
18. Tracks 18, 20 and 22
19. Track 21
20. Track 22

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