MTV VMAs: Winners, Highlights and Memorable Moments

Lorde performs Royals on the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. "Royals" was released as a single from the EP on 3 June 2013. In August 2013, with "Royals" became the first song by a female lead artist in 17 years to top the US Alternative Songs chart since Tracy Bonham's "Mother Mother" in 1996.