A massive part of Lorde‘s success — reiterated in Rolling Stone‘s cover story on the singer — has to do with what every teenager is known to do: ignore the rules. After getting signed by Universal Music at age 13, Lorde took her time working on debut record Pure Heroine, putting her Love Club EP up on SoundCloud for free at the end of 2012 after she was told that “Royals” would never get radio play.We saw how that turned out. Not only is Lorde the youngest solo artist to top the chart since Tiffany and “Could’ve Been” in 1988, “Royals” now holds the record for the longest reign on the Alternative Songs chart by a lead female, usurping Alanis Morissette and her 1995 hit, “You Oughta Know.”
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