{"id":2338274,"date":"2026-03-20T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2338274"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:35:16","slug":"a-decade-later-lordes-breakout-hit-royals-hits-1-billion-youtube-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-decade-later-lordes-breakout-hit-royals-hits-1-billion-youtube-views\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decade Later, Lorde\u2019s Breakout Hit \u2018Royals\u2019 Hits 1 Billion YouTube Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><b>Lorde <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has reached a new career milestone as the video for <\/span><b>Royals <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">officially <\/span><b>passed 1 billion views on YouTube.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The achievement gives her first entry into the platform\u2019s Billion Views Club and marks another major moment for the song that first introduced her to a global audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 set it apart from much of mainstream pop at the time. The song became a defining release from her debut era and helped launch her career on an international scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Royals went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed at No. 1 for nine weeks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Its success turned Lorde into one of the most talked-about new artists of that year and gave her a breakout hit that has continued to resonate with listeners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With 1 billion YouTube views now attached to the video, Royals has added another lasting mark to its legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.1039waynefm.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2338275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/A-Decade-Later-Lordes-Breakout-Hit-\u2018Royals-Hits-1-Billion.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338276,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338274\/revisions\/2338276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}