Ellie Goulding - Bittersweet (2019)

As you will have seen if you've read the notes for the last two Ellie Goulding posts, right from the start of her career she was providing songs to be included in the soundtracks to films and TV series. Sometimes there were taken from her albums, but often they were written specifically for the film, and so I've collected them all here for an album that could be called 'Ellie Goulding At The Movies'. A couple of her tracks have appeared in US or UK TV shows, but the majority of the songs featured in films from 2010 to 2019, and many of them had never appeared on her albums until they were sometimes added to deluxe re-issues. 

Track listing

01 Starry Eyed (from the film 'Kick-Ass' 2010)
02 A Day At A Time (from the film 'Life In A Day' 2011)
03 I Know You Care (from the film 'Now Is Good' 2012)
04 Bittersweet (from the film 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2' 2012)
05 You My Everything (from the TV series 'Skins' 2013)
06 How Long Will I Love You (from the film 'About Time' 2013)
07 Hanging On (from the film 'The Host' 2013)
08 Mirror (from the film 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' 2013)
09 Beating Heart (from the film 'Divergent' 2014)
10 Heavy Crown (with Iggy Azalea) (from the film 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' 2014)
11 Love Me Like You Do (from the film 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' 2015)
12 When Your Feet Don't Touch The Ground (from the Broadway show 'Finding Neverland' 2015)
13 Still Falling For You (from the film 'Bridget Jones's Baby' 2016)
14 Do You Remember (from the film 'Fighting With My Family' 2019)

Ellie Goulding - Tainted Memories (2016)

In 2012, Ellie Goulding appeared on 'Fall Into The Sky' from Zedd's debut album 'Clarity', and on Calvin Harris's song 'I Need Your Love', as well as releasing a cover of Active Child's song 'Hanging On' as a free download on her SoundCloud page. In late July 2012, it was announced that her second album was to be titled 'Halcyon', and it would be released on 8 October 2012, preceded by the lead single 'Anything Could Happen' on 21 August. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented Goulding's more aggressive showcase of her voice and the album's bold production, and it debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart. In November she contributed a track titled 'Bittersweet' (produced by Skrillex) to the soundtrack of 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2', and in May 2013 she released a cover of Alt-J's song 'Tessellate' via her SoundCloud page. In July she premiered a song called 'You My Everything' in the first episode of the TV series 'Skins', and that same day she confirmed that 'Halcyon' would be re-released later that year as 'Halcyon Days', appearing on 23 August. The re-release featured ten additional tracks, and was preceded by the single 'Burn', which had been uploaded to her SoundCloud page the previous day. 

She also appeared on the soundtrack to the film 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' with the track 'Mirror', and on 15 October 2013, she confirmed on Fearne Cotton's radio show that 'How Long Will I Love You' would be the next single for BBC's Children in Need. On 22 January 2014, Goulding confirmed through her Facebook page that she had contributed the song 'Beating Heart' to the soundtrack for the film 'Divergent', and on 3 February she released a cover of the James Blake song 'Life Round Here' through her SoundCloud page. In November 2014 she announced that she was focusing on a third studio album, and in early 2015 she released the song 'Love Me Like You Do', which was featured on the soundtrack to the film 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'. Having finished recording new material on 27 July 2015, Goulding tweeted a link to an Instagram post of her leaving Abbey Road Studios captioned, "That's a wrap!", and 'Delerium' was released on 6 November 2015 by Polydor Records. Music critics were generally impressed by the overall production of the record, although they were ambivalent in regards to its originality, but it still debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart. Three singles were taken from the record, with 'On My Mind' as the lead single, followed by 'Army' and 'Something In The Way You Move', and on 19 August 2016 she released the song 'Still Falling For You' for the soundtrack to the film 'Bridget Jones's Baby'. As you can see by the number of songs that she gifted to movie soundtracks, Goulding was writing and recording way more than was needed for 'Delerium', and so once again there were demos and out-takes left over after the album was released, which are collected here for another companion album, this one from 2016. 

Track listing

01 Closed For Love
02 Kingdom
03 Mosaic
04 I've Done Chamber
05 President
06 You Don't Know
07 Tasting Colour
08 Over Me
09 Beautifully Numb
10 Electricity
11 Hush
12 Real Love
13 Tainted Memories

Ellie Goulding - You Changed Everything (2010)

Elena Jane Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford, and was brought up in the small village of Lyonshall, in Herefordshire. She began playing the clarinet at age nine and learning guitar at age 14, and a year later she was writing songs. After enrolling on a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent and remaining until her final year, she met Jamie Lillywhite, who became her manager, and introduced her to the producer Starsmith, who would become her chief collaborator. She signed to Polydor Records in July 2009, although her debut single, 'Under The Sheets', was released through the independent label Neon Gold Records, appearing digitally in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2009. Before the release of her debut album, she won the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, which showcases the music industry's top choices for rising stars, and she also won the Critics' Choice Award at the 2010 Brit Awards, making her only the second artist to win both in the same year. Her songs from this time were recorded by artists such as Gabriella Cilmi, Diana Vickers, and German singer Lena, and she was featured on rapper Tinie Tempah's single 'Wonderman' in 2010. Her debut album 'Lights' was released in March 2010, reaching No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, spawning three Top 30 singles, and in November 2010, it was re-released as 'Bright Lights', with six new tracks added. It was originally announced that the lead single from 'Bright Lights' would be a new edit of the title track, with a release scheduled for 1 November 2010, but this plan was ultimately scrapped when her cover of Elton John's 'Your Song' was released in conjunction with the John Lewis Christmas advert in the UK in 2010, reaching No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. As she had been writing songs for some years before recording her first album, it's no surprise that there were a number of demo's and out-takes from the sessions, and so here is another album's worth of music from 2010, showing just how prolific she was even in the early days of her career. 

Track listing

01 You Changed Everything 
02 Four Love Songs
03 Slow Down
04 Who'd Want To Find Love
05 We Were Friends
06 Are You Happy Now  
07 Too Much Love
08 Fly
09 It Must Be Me
10 Emergency 
11 Not Following You
12 You & Me
13 Nobody's Crying