Sorry, I'm not sure you are aware but there's a big thing that exists outside your border. It's called the World and looks like this:

1-Lana isn't from the UK, she's from the US
2-Who's Ellie Goulding?
3-Lana is very popular in most parts of the world.

Where I live she was.

Really? She seems so British to me. So she couldn't break her own market, which is the most important one.

Oh dear. You tried. You failed. Next!

So I'm addicted to music and know practically every new song the day it comes out and I don't even know who she is. How is the general public supposed to know who she is.

You clearly are not "addicted to music", then. You're saying that because you don't know who someone is, the general public won't? You sound so stupid. What kind of flawed logic is that? Seriously...

2013 as well.
The muse of the designers, Jimmy Choo including.

Yes.

Not Lana's global impact CONFUSING the gorls.

It's true though, Ellie Goulding is more known to the general public than Lana Del Rey.

Where would that be the case, exactly?

Charts

Lights

Chart (2010–12) Peak
position
Australian Hitseekers Albums Chart 4
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) 54
Canadian Albums Chart 66
European Top 100 Albums 8
German Albums Chart 42
Greek Foreign Albums Chart 38
Irish Albums Chart 6
New Zealand Albums Chart 28
Norwegian Albums Chart 35
Scottish Album Chart 6
Swiss Albums Chart 90
UK Albums Chart 1
US Billboard 200 21


Halcyon

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart 61
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) 41
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia) 53
Canadian Albums Chart 8
Danish Albums Char] 37
Dutch Albums Chart[ 100
German Albums Chart 22
Irish Albums Chart 8
Norwegian Albums Chart 29
Scottish Albums Chart] 2
Swiss Albums Chart 23
UK Albums Chart 2
US Billboard 200 9


Chart (2012) Peak
position
Born To Die

Australian Albums Chart 1
Austrian Albums Chart 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) 2
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia) 1
Canadian Albums Chart 3
Croatian Albums Chart 3
Czech Republic Albums Chart ] 5
Danish Albums Chart 3
Dutch Albums Chart 2
Finnish Albums Chart 5
French Albums Chart 1
German Albums Chart 1
Greek Albums Chart] 1
Hungarian Albums Chart 23
Irish Albums Chart] 1
Italian Albums Chart 5
New Zealand Albums Chart 2
Mexican Albums Chart 34
Norwegian Albums Chart ] 1
Polish Albums Chart 2
Portuguese Albums Chart 2
Russian Albums Chart 4
Scottish Albums Chart 1
Slovenian Albums Chart[ 2
Spanish Albums Chart 7
Swedish Albums Chart 2
Swiss Albums Chart ] 1
UK Albums Chart 1
US Billboard 200 2
US Billboard Rock Albums 1
US Billboard Alternative Albums 1

I don't think the numbers matter. Lana obviously has some quality to her like Adele, she can sell albums, and build herself a really big devoted fanbase that actually buys her album. Ellie Goulding has no where near a fanbase as big as Lana's, yet I believe more people actually know the name "Ellie Goulding" than Lana. I may be mistaken, I am just basing it off where I live. Lana's album was #3 here in Canada, and Ellie's only #8. But everyone knows Ellie Goulding because of her song (doesn't mean they like her), and I only know one person who knows Lana.

So yeah, I'd say Ellie is more well known, but Lana is obviously a big seller, and she has the potential to became really really famous.

One of them

at some Lana fans on here.