English singe Ellie Goulding has recorded songs for five studio albums and guest features. After signing a contract with record label Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding began to work on her debut studio album, Lights, which was ultimately released in February 2010.[1] The first single released from the album was "Under the Sheets", which Goulding wrote in collaboration with Starsmith. Starsmith co-wrote four other songs and served as the album's primary producer. Goulding also collaborated with Jonny Lattimer on the singles "Starry Eyed" and "The Writer", and shared writing credits with Fraser T. Smith on "Your Biggest Mistake". In November 2010, the singer re-released Lights as Bright Lights, which included the standard version of the album and several new songs. She collaborated with Richard Stannard and Ash Howes on "Lights" and recorded a cover version of Elton John's "Your Song". At this time, Goulding also contributed guest vocals on the song "Wonderman" for Tinie Tempah's debut studio album Disc-Overy (2010).
Goulding released her second studio album, Halcyon, in October 2012. In addition to reuniting with writers with whom she had previously worked, the singer collaborated with several new writers and producers. The album's lead single, "Anything Could Happen", was co-written by Goulding and Jim Eliot. They also wrote six other songs for the album. Goulding collaborated with Lattimer on the single "Figure 8"; she co-wrote "Explosions" with John Fortis and with Starsmith on "Dead in the Water". She also appeared as a featured artist on "I Need Your Love" by Calvin Harris from his third studio album 18 Months (2012). In August 2013, Halcyon was reissued as Halcyon Days. It was preceded by the single "Burn", which Goulding co-wrote with Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle, Noel Zancanella and Greg Kurstin.
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| Song | Artist(s) | Writer(s) | Album(s) | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | "Aftertaste" | Greg Kurstin Ellie Goulding | Delirium | 2015 | [2] | ||
| scope=row | "All By Myself" | Ellie Goulding Alok Andrew Wells Anthony Rossomando Martin Gore OHYES Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | [3] | ||
| scope=row | "Animal" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Bright Lights | 2010 | [4] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Anything Could Happen" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | [5] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Army" | Ellie Goulding Max Martin Savan Kotecha Ali Payami | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Around U" | Ellie Goulding Joe Janiak Fred Gibson Tristan Landymore | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Atlantis" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Baby" | Four Tet featuring Ellie Goulding | Sixteen Oceans | 2020 | [6] | ||
| scope=row | "Bad Love" | Sean Paul Henriques Zacharie Raymond Ben Ebele Malcolm Olangundoye Yannick Rastogi Fred Ebele Carla Marie Williams Asia Whiteacre | Mad Love the Prequel | 2018 | [7] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Beating Heart" | Ellie Goulding Joe Janiak | 2014 | [8] | |||
| scope=row | "Believe Me" | Ellie Goulding Crispin Hunt Rob Blake | Bright Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Better Man" | Ellie Goulding Jack Patterson Jussifer Tayla Parx | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Bittersweet" | Sonny Moore Ellie Goulding | 2012 | [9] | |||
| scope=row | "Bleach" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns | Brightest Blue | 2020 | [10] | ||
| scope=row | "Brightest Blue" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Jim Eliot | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Burn" | Ryan Tedder Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin Noel Zancanella Brent Kutzle | Halcyon Days | 2013 | [11] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "By the End of the Night" | Ellie Goulding Trey Campbell Stephen Kozmeniuk | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Capture the Flag" | Junkie XL featuring Ellie Goulding | Junkie XL | Divergent: Original Motion Picture Score | 2014 | [12] | |
| scope=row | "Choosing Dauntless" | Junkie XL featuring Ellie Goulding | Junkie XL | Divergent: Original Motion Picture Score | 2014 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Close to Me" | and Diplo featuring Swae Lee | Ellie Goulding Ilya Salmanzadeh K Brown Peter Svensson Savan Kotecha Thomas Wesley Pentz | Brightest Blue | 2018 | ||
| scope=row | "Codes" | Ellie Goulding Max Martin Savan Kotecha Ilya | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Cure for Love" | Ellie Goulding Andrew Wells Anthony Rossomando Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Cyan" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Jim Eliot Starsmith | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row | "" | Matthew Herbert | Life in a Day | 2011 | [13] | ||
| scope=row | "Dead in the Water" | Ellie Goulding Fin Dow-Smith | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Devotion" | Ellie Goulding Klas Åhlund Ali Payami Stephen Wrabel | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Do You Remember" | Ellie Goulding Jim Elliott Joe Kearns | Fighting with My Family: The Original Soundtrack | 2019 | [14] | ||
| scope=row | "Don't Leave" | Seven Lions featuring Ellie Goulding | Jeffrey A. Montalvo Ellie Goulding | Worlds Apart | 2014 | [15] | |
| scope=row | "Don't Need Nobody" | Ellie Goulding Savan Kotecha Peter Svensson Ludvig Söderberg Jakob Jerlström Max Martin | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Don't Panic" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin Maureen "Mozella" McDonald | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Don't Say a Word" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Easy Lover" | Ellie Goulding featuring Big Sean | Ellie Goulding Sean Anderson Greg Kurstin Julia Michaels | Higher Than Heaven | 2022 | ||
| scope=row | "" | Ellie Goulding Mathieu Jomphe | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Every Time You Go" | Ellie Goulding John Fortis Starsmith | Lights | 2010 | [16] | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Explosions" | Ellie Goulding John Fortis | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#ffff00" | "Fall into the Sky" | Zedd and Lucky Date featuring Ellie Goulding | Anton Zaslavski Ellie Goulding Loria Atkins | Clarity | 2012 | [17] | |
| scope=row | "Fighter Plane" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | 2009 | [18] | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Figure 8" | Ellie Goulding Jonny Lattimer | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "First Time" | Kygo and Ellie Goulding | Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll Henrik Meinke Jonas Kalsch Alexsej Vlasenko Jeremy Chacon | Stargazing | 2017 | [19] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Flashlight" | and DJ Fresh | Daniel Stein The Invisible Men Ellie Goulding | Halcyon Days | 2013 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Flux" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot Joe Kearns | Brightest Blue | 2019 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Goodness Gracious" | Greg Kurstin Ellie Goulding Nate Ruess | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row | "" | Joel Little Ellie Goulding | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Guns and Horses" | Ellie Goulding John Fortis | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Halcyon" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Hanging On" | Patrick James Grossi Ariel Rechtshaid | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#ffff00" | "Hanging On" | featuring Tinie Tempah | Patrick James Grossi Ariel Rechtshaid Patrick Okogwu | Halcyon | 2012 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Hate Me" | and Juice Wrld | Ellie Goulding Jarad Higgins Jason Evigan Jordan Johnson Marcus Lomax Stefan Johnson Andrew Wotman Brittany Hazzard | Brightest Blue | 2019 | ||
| scope=row | "Heal" | Ellie Goulding Guy Lawrence James Napier | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Hearts Without Chains" | Ellie Goulding Fraser T. Smith | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row | "Heavy Crown" | Iggy Azalea Ellie Goulding The Invisible Men Salt Wives Jon Turner | Reclassified | 2014 | [20] | ||
| scope=row | "Here's to Us" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin Joe Kearns | Girls Vol. 3: Music from the HBO Original Series | 2016 | [21] | ||
| scope=row | "High for This" | Abel Tesfaye Henry Walter Adrien Gough | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Higher Than Heaven" | Ellie Goulding Trey Campbell Glen Garth Phil Garth Stephen Kozmeniuk | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Holding on for Life" | Greg Kurstin Ellie Goulding Maureen "Mozella" McDonald | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Hollow Crown" | Ramin Djawadi S Harris Eric Frederic Zach Cooper Victor Dimotsis | 2019 | ||||
| scope=row | "Home" | Ellie Goulding Fred Falke | Bright Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "How Deep Is Too Deep" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Starsmith | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row | "How Long" | Ali Temposi Andrew Watt Brian Lee Nathan Perez | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "How Long Will I Love You" | Mike Scott | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row | "Human" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Bright Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "I Do What I Love" | Ellie Goulding Laleh Pourkarim | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "I Know You Care" | Justin Parker Ellie Goulding | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "I Need Your Love" | Calvin Harris Ellie Goulding | 18 Months Halcyon | 2012 | [22] | ||
| scope=row | "I'll Hold My Breath" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "I'll Smile" | Chris Read | Crush Hour (Original Cast Recording) | 2022 | [23] | ||
| scope=row | "In My City" | Ellie Goulding Mathieu Jomphe | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "In This Together" | featuring Steven Price | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot Joe Kearns Steven Price | Our Planet: Music from the Netflix Original Series | 2019 | [24] | |
| scope=row | "Intro (Delirium)" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Chris Ketley | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Intuition" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Jolene" | Dolly Parton | Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions | 2010 | [25] | ||
| scope=row | "Journey In" | Chris Read | Crush Hour (Original Cast Recording) | 2022 | |||
| scope=row | "Joy" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Just for You" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin Julia Michaels | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Keep on Dancin'" | Ellie Goulding Ryan Tedder Nicole Morier Noel Zancanella | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "King's Cross Station" | Chris Read | Crush Hour (Original Cast Recording) | 2022 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Let It Die" | Ellie Goulding Peter Rycroft Andrea Rocha Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2022 | |||
| scope=row | "Like a Saviour" | Ellie Goulding Andrew Wells Anthony Rossomando Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Lights" | Ellie Goulding Richard Stannard Ash Howes | Lights Bright Lights | 2010 | [26] | ||
| scope=row | "Little Dreams" | Ellie Goulding Liam Howe | Bright Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#ffff00" | "Lost and Found" | Ellie Goulding Carl Falk Max Martin Laleh Pourkarim Joakim Berg | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Love Goes On" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Love I'm Given" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Jim Eliot | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Love Me like You Do" | Max Martin Savan Kotecha Ilya Salmanzadeh Ali Payami Tove Nilsson | Delirium | 2015 | [27] | ||
| scope=row | "Mama" | Clean Bandit featuring Ellie Goulding | Jack Patterson Grace Chatto Jason Evigan Caroline Ailin Elena Goulding | What Is Love? | 2018 | [28] | |
| scope=row | "Midas Touch" | and Burns | Boaz Watson June Watson | Halcyon Days | 2013 | ||
| scope=row | "Midnight Dreams" | Ellie Goulding Trey Campbell Glen Garth Phil Garth Stephen Kozmeniuk | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Mirror" | Ellie Goulding Mathieu Jomphe | 2013 | [29] | |||
| scope=row | "Mirrors" | Justin Timberlake Timothy Mosley Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon James Fauntleroy | BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2013 | 2013 | [30] | ||
| scope=row | "My Blood" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot Mima Stilwell | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "New Heights" | Ellie Goulding Patrick Wimberly Joe Kearns Maxwell Cooke | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "New Love" | Silk City featuring Ellie Goulding | Clément Picard Ellie Goulding Mark Ronson Maxime Picard Steve McCutcheon Thomas Wesley Pentz | Non-album single | 2021 | ||
| scope=row | "Ode to Myself" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "O Holy Night" | Adolphe Adam Placide Cappeau | Non-album single | 2017 | [31] | ||
| scope=row | "Only Girl (in the World)" | Crystal Johnson Mikkel S. Eriksen Tor Erik Hermansen Sandy Wilhelm | Radio 1's Live Lounge – Volume 6 | 2011 | |||
| scope=row | "Only You" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "On My Mind" | Ellie Goulding Max Martin Savan Kotecha Ilya | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Outside" | Calvin Harris Ellie Goulding | Motion Delirium | 2014 | [32] | ||
| scope=row | "Overture" | James Wyatt | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row | "Paradise" | Ellie Goulding Joel Little | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Power" | Ellie Goulding Jamie Scott Jonny Coffer David Paich Lucy Taylor Digital Farm Animals Jack Tarrant | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Powerful" | Major Lazer featuring Ellie Goulding and Tarrus Riley | Thomas Pentz Maxime Picard Clement Picard Omar Riley Ilsey Juber Fran Hall | Peace Is the Mission Delirium | 2015 | [33] | |
| scope=row | "Ritual" | Ellie Goulding Richard Stannard Ash Howes | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "River" | Joni Mitchell | Non-album single | 2019 | [34] | ||
| scope=row | "Roscoe" | Tim Smith Paul Alexander Eric Nichelson Eric Pulido John Smith | 2009 | [35] [36] | |||
| scope=row | "Sacrifice" | Junkie XL featuring Ellie Goulding | Junkie XL | Divergent: Original Motion Picture Score | 2014 | ||
| scope=row | "Salt Skin" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Scream It Out" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Silhouette" | Active Child featuring Ellie Goulding | Patrick James Grossi | Rapor | 2013 | [37] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Sixteen" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Rachel Keen Fred Gibson | Brightest Blue | 2019 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Slow Grenade" | featuring Lauv | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Lauv Leland Oscar Görres | Brightest Blue | 2020 | ||
| scope=row | "Soho Square" | Kirsty MacColl Mark E. Nevin | 2013 | [38] | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Somebody" | TSHA, and | Teisha Matthews Ellie Goulding Matthew Phelan | Non-album single | 2023 | [39] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Something in the Way You Move" | Ellie Goulding Greg Kurstin | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Starry Eyed" | Ellie Goulding Jonny Lattimer | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Start" | featuring serpentwithfeet | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Maxwell Cooke serpentwithfeet | Brightest Blue | 2020 | ||
| scope=row | "Stay Awake" | Ellie Goulding Makeba Riddick Hugo Pierre Leclercq | Halcyon Halcyon Days | 2012 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Still Falling for You" | Ellie Goulding Tove Nilsson Rickard Göransson Ilya Salmanzadeh Shellback | Bridget Jones's Baby: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2016 | [40] | ||
| scope=row | "Summit" | Skrillex featuring Ellie Goulding | Skrillex | Bangarang | 2011 | ||
| scope=row | "Take Me to Church" | Andrew Hozier-Byrne | Non-album single | 2015 | [41] | ||
| scope=row | "Tastes Like You" | Ellie Goulding Andrew Wells Anthony Rossomando Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Temptation" | Ellie Goulding Andrew Wells Anthony Rossomando Tom Mann | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "Tessellate" | Joe Newman Gus Unger-Hamilton Gwilym Sainsbury Thom Green Charlie Andrew | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row | "This Love (Will Be Your Downfall)" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Tides" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns Starsmith | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row | "Times Like These" | Live Lounge Allstars | Dave Grohl Taylor Hawkins Nate Mendel Chris Shiflett | Non-album Single | 2020 | ||
| scope=row | "Tris" | Junkie XL featuring Ellie Goulding | Junkie XL | Divergent: Original Motion Picture Score | 2014 | ||
| scope=row | "Two Years Ago" | Ellie Goulding Jim Eliot | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "Under Control" | Ellie Goulding Oliver Goldstein Bonnie McKee Cory Nitta | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Under the Sheets" | Ellie Goulding Starsmith | Lights | 2009 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Vincent" | Don McLean | Non-album single | 2018 | [42] | ||
| scope=row | "Waiting for It" | Ellie Goulding Jesse Shatkin Maureen "Mozilla" McDonald | Higher Than Heaven | 2023 | |||
| scope=row | "We Can't Move to This" | Ellie Goulding Fred Gibson Alex Gibson Greg Kurstin Maureen "Mozella" McDonald | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row | "When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground" | Gary Barlow Eliot Kennedy | Finding Neverland: The Album | 2015 | [43] | ||
| scope=row | "Wine Drunk" | Ellie Goulding Joe Kearns | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row | "Winner" | Ellie Goulding Laleh Pourkarim | Delirium | 2015 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#ffff00" | "Wish I Stayed" | Ellie Goulding | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "Without Your Love" | Ellie Goulding Fin Dow-Smith | Halcyon | 2012 | |||
| scope=row | "Woman" | Ellie Goulding Eli Teplin Tobias Jesso Jr. Christopher Stacey | Brightest Blue | 2020 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Wonderman" | Tinie Tempah featuring Ellie Goulding | Patrick Okogwu Timothy McKenzie Marc Williams | Disc-Overy | 2010 | [44] | |
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Worry About Me" | featuring Blackbear | Ellie Goulding Ilya Salmanzadeh Matthew Musto Peter Svensson Savan Kotecha | Brightest Blue | 2020 | ||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "" | Ellie Goulding Jonny Lattimer | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row | "You Don't Know" | Flinch featuring Ellie Goulding | Non-album single | 2013 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#ffff00" | "You My Everything" | Ellie Goulding Eg White | Halcyon Days | 2013 | |||
| scope=row | "Your Biggest Mistake" | Ellie Goulding Fraser T. Smith | Lights | 2010 | |||
| scope=row style="background-color:#D8BFD8" | "Your Song" | Elton John Bernie Taupin | Bright Lights | 2010 |