On this day in 2013 Lorde became the youngest solo artist to write and record a song to top the Billboard Hot 100 when her single “Royals” topped the chart.
The New Zealand-born singer/songwriter, whose paperwork says Ella Yelich-O’Connor, was just 16 when the sparse tune off The Love Club EP (and later Pure Heroine) became a sensation, staying on the chart for 44 weeks.
Before you say, wait a tick, didn’t Little Stevie Wonder have a #1 at 13 years-old? What kind of Rock Math is this?
True, “Fingerprints Pt. 2” did top the charts in 1963, and even though it sounds like Stevie is just jamming on his tiny harmonica, the instrumental was actually written by Henry Cosby and Clarence Paul.
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