A billion views for Royals: Lorde celebrates major YouTube milestone

A billion views for Royals: Lorde celebrates major YouTube milestone

The 2013 lead single from Pure Heroine is the New Zealand artist’s first song to reach the milestone.

A Decade Later, Lorde’s Breakout Hit ‘Royals’ Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views

Lorde has reached a new career milestone as the video for Royals officially passed 1 billion views on YouTube. The achievement gives her first entry into the platform’s Billion Views Club and marks another major moment for the song that first introduced her to a global audience. The video hit the milestone more than a decade after Royals was released in 2013. Lorde was still a teenager when the track arrived, and its stripped-back sound quickly …