‘Then, after living in lockdown, walking around in my husband’s big coats to hide my bump and living in different places in Oxfordshire and London, we moved into a new house. ‘Last year I released an album and I’d finished writing a book. Why did she wait so long? ‘I needed time to get my head around it,’ she says. The first the world knew about the Grammy- and Golden Globe- nominated singer’s news was in February, when photographs of her looking glowing and Madonna-like at home, wearing white Alberta Ferretti, appeared in Vogue, alongside her announcement that she was 30 weeks pregnant. ‘But it was only two!’) She told family and friends, including fellow mums-to-be Princess Eugenie and the singer Katy Perry, ‘who gave me excellent advice like where to find the best pregnancy pillows to get a good night’s sleep’. (‘I know!’ laughs the health fanatic, who has long extolled the benefits of spinach, blueberries and all things organic and clean. She kept to herself her penchant for tinned sardines and Weetabix Minis (‘Not eaten at the same time,’ she laughs), her newly developed boobs (‘A revelation: I’ve always had a runner’s body and now I have a bigger ass and these rather nice boobs’) and her two visits to McDonald’s. She refrained from posting about it to the 14 million fans who follow her on Instagram. ‘And then I will be a mum.’ She pauses and says, half to herself, ‘It still feels strange to say those words out loud.’Įllie’s pregnancy – the baby is due next month – was one of lockdown’s best kept secrets.
‘Just a few more weeks to go,’ she says, stroking her neat rounded belly under her black hoodie. That honor goes to Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” which was streamed 17.1 million times, a figure that beat a record previously held by Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings.Ellie Goulding is half-standing, half-crouching in front of her computer so as to best position herself to show me her ‘fully cooked’ baby bump down a Zoom camera from her home in Gloucestershire. In pure streaming numbers, neither the Goulding nor Carey songs were on top in the UK for the week. “River” is Goulding’s third song to top the UK chart, following “Burn” in 2013 and “Love Me Like You Do” in 2015. But it gained popularity as a carol starting around the turn of the century, and has become Mitchell’s second most covered song, with interpretations by James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Barry Manilow, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, the “Glee” cast and dozens of others. For decades, it was rarely thought of as a Christmas song, despite having the opening line “It’s coming on Christmas,” perhaps because of its melancholy theme or the lack of a holiday reference in the title. “River” first appeared on Mitchell’s classic album “Blue” in 1971, and was never released as a single at the time. We wanted to show something different and to incorporate a different type of Christmas message while creating something reusable and beautiful.” Goulding reminded fans that “every single piece of plastic ever made is still on this planet. It’s a material that will last for hundreds of years, so we need to have a plan. The “River” video carries an ecological theme, with Goulding and friends picking up discarded plastic on the beaches of Dungeness and using the litter to make a zero-waste Christmas tree. 1 of the decade.” (Goulding’s birthday is Dec. It’s been a rollercoaster of a year, but can’t think of a better birthday present than being the last No. In a statement published by OfficialCharts, Goulding said, “I’m so over the moon that I got the chance to sing such a beautiful song so close to my heart by one of the best songwriters of all time – someone who inspired me greatly for the next album - and it makes me so happy that people have also become new Joni fans as a result. 27 chart was perhaps more remarkable in that it wasn’t available on Spotify or most of the usual digital services, being an Amazon Music exclusive, although the video could also be viewed on YouTube.
Goulding’s “River” was the only newly recorded song to land in that top quartet.
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