Lorde's Royals scores third week at No. 1

Herald online

16 Oct, 2013 06:10 PMQuick Read

Lorde took home her first official music award last night, as she won coveted songwriters trophy, the APRA Silver Scroll, along with her co-writer and producer Joel Little for their international hit song Royals. The annual award, which was presented at an impressive ceremony at Vector Arena in Auckland, is voted for by 10,000 New Zealand songwriters who are members of the Australasian Performing Rights Association, and is particularly prized by songwriters as a vote of confidence, and an indication of artistic integrity, from their peers.

Lorde has celebrated her third week at No. 1 on top of the US singles charts.

Her hit song Royals, which scored her the Apra Silver Scroll songwriting award on Tuesday night, sits above Katy Perry's Roar at No. 2 and Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball at No. 3 on the Billboard charts, released today.

Billboard reported Royals also sat at No. 3 on the Streaming Songs chart, topped the Digital Songs chart wtih 293,000 downloads sold, and sat at No. 2 on the Radio Songs charts.

- nzherald.co.nz