Jack Antonoff ( pictured) co-wrote and co-produced the majority of the album with Lorde. In 2020, Melodrama ranked at number 460 on Rolling Stone 's revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. It won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year, and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. Melodrama received widespread acclaim from contemporary critics and featured on various year-end and decade-end lists.
It received gold or platinum certifications in the said countries and the United Kingdom.
The album was Lorde's first number one in the United States and Canada, and also peaked atop the charts in Australia and New Zealand. Lorde promoted the album through several music festivals she headlined, and the Melodrama World Tour in 20. The songs " Green Light", " Perfect Places", and " Homemade Dynamite" were released as singles. Critics viewed the album as a maximalist departure from the minimalist hip hop-influenced production of its predecessor, and considered it a loose concept album chronicling the emotions ensued from a house party. The final product is an electropop record incorporating piano-based melodies, pulsing synthesisers and dense electronic beats. Lorde chose Jack Antonoff as the main collaborator because she felt the need to expand her artistry from the Joel Little-produced Pure Heroine. Initially inspired by her disillusionment with fame, she wrote Melodrama to capture heartbreak and solitude after her first breakup. Following the breakthrough success of her debut album Pure Heroine (2013), Lorde retreated from the spotlight, and travelled between New Zealand and the United States to examine the world around her. It was released on 16 June 2017 by Lava and Republic Records and distributed through Universal. Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde.
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