The video has just been released (I say just, it’s had 8 million views so we might be working a little behind) and it reinforces this hot summer feeling. My God, I’ve been swayed to the pop side. Even for one as cynical as I, it raised a little smile, and what was that involuntary twitch in my body when she said raise your arms. It ebbs and flows and features a killer singalong chorus.

It’s perfect summer pop, with this almost (at times, deep) house vibe underneath Goulding’s impeccable vocal. Her new track, Burn is out on August 18th.

I can’t begin to imagine what her royalties are, but I imagine they keep her in gold-plated grand pianos and new socks everyday and whatever else pop stars these days hanker after. In fact she has sold in excess of ten million singles and three million albums. On a different level, Ellie Goulding, the pop superstar whose back catalogue already includes top ten hits (including a number one with her cover of Elton John’s Your Song) both sides of the atlantic, and albums with similar success.

However, our singer and songwriter and only constant in the hundred or so years since we/they/he started the group does get royalties, even for so minor a song or two. As I didn’t either write any of the songs, or play on most of them, my total royalties are, to this date, nil. In my pop career, as bassist to (the name doesn’t matter) a band that peaked by scraping into the indie top twenty towards the end of the 1980’s/early 1990’s, but still making rare appearances and even the odd recording, royalties don’t come easy to us. Major Lazer feat.Me and royalties are not very close partners.

Ellie goulding albums 2013