Her real name is what?!

Lorde is one of the few artists - alongside the likes of Madonna, Shakira, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Adele - who is known to the world by one name and that is Lorde.

Her real name is actually Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor.

Born on 7 November, 1996 in Takapuna, New Zealand, to a poet and a civil engineer, she later explained her choice of stage name came about because she is fascinated by aristocracy.

She said: "When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought ‘Lord’ was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an ‘e’ on the end! Some people think it’s religious, but it’s not."