Everything you need to know about 'Miracle' hitmaker Ellie Goulding
She's had so many hits!
Ellie Goulding won the Critics' Choice BRIT Award way back in 2010 and since then her songs have seen her enjoy astronomical success. She's had five albums including her most recent 'Higher Than Heaven', released in 2023. The singer is also known for her hits 'Lights', 'Burn', 'Your Song' and 'Still Falling For You', and her third collab with Calvin Harris called 'Miracle'.
Ellie released her latest song 'Destiny' on 12th November. This is her first solo music in two years, so we thought we'd get to know the singer a bit more...
What is Ellie Goulding's real name?
Ellie is short for Elena. Her full birth name is Elena Jane Goulding.
How old is she?
Ellie Goulding is 39-years-old, she was born on 30th December 1986, in Hereford, the county town of Herefordshire.
New music
In 2025, Ellie announced she would be releasing a new song called 'Destiny' on 12th November, it has now arrived. It is her first solo music since 2023.
'Destiny' is the follow-up to her song with Marshmello and Avaion called 'Save My Love', which was released in June 2025, also this year, Ellie released 'Hypnotized' with Anyma.
Ellie Goulding: Albums
To date, Ellie Goulding has released five studio albums, three of which went to Number 1 in the UK.
'Lights'
Ellie released her debut album 'Lights' in March 2010, featuring the hit songs 'Starry Eyed', 'Guns and Horses' and 'The Writer'. Three years after its release, the album was certified 2x Platinum selling more than 600k units.
'Halcyon'
The singer then dropped her second album 'Halcyon' in October 2010, with her massive hit singles 'Anything Could Happen', 'Figure 8', and 'Explosions'. After the success of 'Halcyon', Ellie released an extended version of the album called 'Halcyon Days', where she recorded 10 new songs with writers such as Ryan Tedder, Calvin Harris and Greg Kurstin.
'Delirium'
Ellie released her third album, 'Delirium', in November 2015, with it peaking at Number 3 in the UK charts. The album featured songs such as 'On My Mind' and the title track from the movie Fifty Shades Freed 'Love Me Like You Do'. A year after the album's release it was certified Platinum in the UK, selling 300k units.
'Brightest Blue'
Ellie's fourth studio album 'Brightest Blue' was released on 17th July 2020. It featured tracks including 'Close to Me', 'Flux', 'Hate Me', 'Worry About Me' and 'Power'. The record was the third album by the second to peak at Number 1 in the UK. After four years the album was certified Silver in the UK, meaning that it's sold 60k units.
'Higher Than Heaven'
'Higher Than Heaven' is Ellie's latest album and was released on 7th April 2023. Speaking about her album, Ellie revealed on the Jonathan Ross show: "It’s good to be back. I think we can all relate to the lockdown dip. It’s good to be back with new music.
"I released an album in lockdown and couldn’t tour and couldn’t do any shows so it feels good to perform and have new songs to sing to people."
There are 12 songs on the standard version Ellie's album, with an additional four in the deluxe edition.
Speaking to us at Hits Live, she said: "It's an album of dance/pop songs that I wrote during lockdown. Nobody was in the mood to write anything sad or write any ballads. It's quite ethereal, it's kind of like dance songs from some other planet, that's what people have told me it sounds like."
Ellie explained that the album is named after the lead track, saying: "I think it was a song on the album, it was the song that gives me the biggest feels, the one that makes me feel the most."
She added: "'Brightest Blue' was much more of a songwriter album for me, it was more personal. This one is much more collaborative with people that I love writing with, and just writing pop music which is my favourite thing in the world."
Is Ellie Goulding on tour?
Ellie Goulding is not currently on tour, her last tour was in 2023 in support of her 'Higher Than Heaven' album.
Ellie Goulding: Awards
It's no surprise that Ellie is a hugely decorated musician! After winning the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice Award (now known as the Rising Star Award) in 2010, she went on to win the Best Female Solo Artist gong at the ceremony the year after in 2011.
She was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2016 for 'Love Me Like You Do', which appeared on the soundtrack for 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey, and won Top Electronic/Dance Song at the Billboard Music Awards 2020 for 'Close To Me'.
In October 2022, Ellie won the President’s Award at the 2022 BMI London Awards saying: "I’ve never won anything like this before and it means so much to me. In the UK particularly, and as a woman, it’s sort of ingrained into you that ambition is a bad thing and it’s not very cool but it shouldn’t be."
In 2023, Ellie picked up the Brits Billion Award meaning her music has had over a billion streams in the UK. Her song with Calvin Harris 'Miracle' was also nominated for a Grammy and BRIT Award in 2024, but sadly didn't win.
What is her Instagram?
Ellie Goulding's Instagram account has nearly 14 million followers on her username @elliegoulding. The singer keeps her fans up to date with both her private life and her super glam celeb life.
Does Ellie Goulding have a sister?
Ellie is the second of four children - she has two sisters, Isabel and Jordan, and one brother, Alex. Although Ellie keeps her family life pretty private, Ellie attended the BRIT Awards 2017 with her younger sister Jordan - and they both look pretty chuffed to be there!
Has Ellie Goulding split from her husband?
Yes, Ellie announced her split from husband, Caspar Jopling, in January 2024 after five years married. In an Instagram Story, she wrote: 'In light of recent stories, I feel I have been left with no choice but to let you all know that Caspar and I privately separated some time ago.
'We remain the closest of friends and have been successfully co-parenting with our son's best interests at heart.
'We are committed to protecting our family privacy and thank people in advance for respecting our wishes - we won't be commenting further.'
Who was Ellie Goulding married to?
After 18 months of dating, Ellie announced her engagement to art dealer Caspar Jopling in August 2018. Caspar has Royal relations, being the son of The Honourable Nicholas Jopling, which could mean that his grandfather was an Earl.
Ellie and Caspar's engagement announcement was VERY low-key, with the former couple taking out an advert in national newspaper The Times to announce their engagement: 'Mr C.W.F. Jopling and Miss E.J. Goulding. The engagement is announced between Caspar, son of The Hon Nicholas Jopling of Yorkshire and Mrs Jayne Warde-Aldam of Yorkshire, and Elena, daughter of Mr Arthur Goulding of Hertfordshire and Mrs Tracey Sumner of West Midlands.'
On 31st August 2019, Ellie and Caspar got married at York Minster, with plenty of famous faces as guests. Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were all in attendance, as well as Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas, comedian Jimmy Carr, actress Sienna Miller and James Blunt. They had a wedding reception afterwards at Castle Howard.
Does she have any children?
Ellie announced her first pregnancy in February 2021 at 30 weeks pregnant in an interview with Vogue, explaining: "The thought of getting pregnant didn't seem like it could be a reality," adding that it wasn't the "plan" but that she and Caspar were over the moon to be expecting.
They then welcomed a baby in Spring 2021! At the time, the couple did not reveal any details about their little one, but Caspar confirmed the birth in an announcement on his Instagram Story over the bank holiday weekend in early May.
Just days later an announcement appeared in a newspaper - seems they like to do things the old-fashioned way - on Thursday 6th May, revealing they'd had a baby boy in April 2021 and decided to call him Arthur Ever Winter.
Then, in December 2025, Ellie revealed her baby bump on the red carpet of The Fashion Awards 2025, confirming she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Beau Minniear.
The singer has not commented publicly about her second pregnancy, so the gender and due date are currently unknown.
Ellie Goulding's past relationships
As well as her high-profile relationship with McFly's Dougie Poynter, which ended for good in March 2016, and her marriage to Caspar, Ellie has also reportedly dated Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran, Niall Horan, Skrillex and even Prince Harry.
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