The father of singer-songwriter Lorde says the teenager is extremely humbled by her four Grammy Award nominations.
Lorde has been nominated for four Grammys. Photo: RNZ
The 17-year-old, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, has been nominated for record of the year, song of the year for Royals, best pop solo performance and best pop vocal album for Pure Heroine in America's premier music awards.
Hit single Royals was at the top spot of the US Billboard's Hot 100 chart for nine weeks.
Vic O'Connor says the four nominations are unexpected and beyond their wildest dreams. "She's extremely humbled to be nominated for those awards ... it's certainly something that we weren't expecting. To get that many is just amazing."
In the Record of the year category Lorde is up against Daft Punk and Williams' ubiquitous Get Lucky, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, Hawaiian crooner Bruno Mars' Locked Out Of Heaven and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.
Others shortlisted for song of the year - for songwriters, as opposed to performers - were Just Give Me A Reason sung by Pink Featuring Nate Ruess; Locked Out Of Heaven sung by Bruno Mars; Roar sung by Katy Perry and Same Love sung by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
Mr O'Connor says it is too early to know whether Lorde will still perform at Auckland's Laneway Festival, which clashes with the Grammy Awards ceremony on 26 January.
