{"id":21917,"date":"2025-10-29T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:48:15","slug":"lana-del-reys-brooklyn-baby-joins-spotifys-billions-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21917\/","title":{"rendered":"Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u2018Brooklyn Baby\u2019 Joins Spotify\u2019s Billions Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lana Del Rey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBrooklyn Baby,\u201d featured on her wildly popular 2014 LP Ultraviolence, has become the latest track from the singer to join Spotify\u2019s exclusive Billions Club.<\/p>\n

\"Tears<\/a>\"Tears<\/a>\"Tears<\/a><\/p>\n

The track which was co-written by Lana and Barrie O\u2019Neill, featured production from industry veteran Dan Auerbach, celebrated for his work in The Black Keys and for his label, Easy Eye Sound. The song, according to Del Rey, was written for Lou Reed. A Guardian story from that era explained: \u201cHe\u2019d [Lou Reed] wanted to work with Del Rey and so she\u2019d flown over to New York to meet him. \u2018I took the red eye, touched down at 7am \u2026 and two minutes later he died,\u2019 she says.\u201d The track features a touching tribute to the singer, as Lana sings: \u201cAnd my boyfriend\u2019s in a band\/ He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a cover story with The Fader, she reflected on another line that was directed at the man she was dating at the time. She sings, \u201cYeah, my boyfriend\u2019s really cool\/ But he\u2019s not as cool as me.\u201d During her conversation with the magazine, she explained about the refrain: \u201cThat wasn\u2019t even supposed to be there, and I kind of sang it with a smile, and Dan [Auerbach] was looking at me and laughing. I\u2019m just kind of f_____g around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since its release, the track has been certified Platinum and topped Billboard\u2019s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn Baby\u201d isn\u2019t the only recent Lana Del Rey track to achieve a significant landmark on Spotify, nor is it the only Ultraviolence cut to do so. Back in May, another song from that LP, \u201cWest Coast,\u201d joined the Club. At the time, it became the fifth song to earn the status with Spotify, following \u201cYoung And Beautiful,\u201d \u201cVideo Games,\u201d \u201cSummertime Sadness,\u201d and \u201cStargirl Interlude\u201d with The Weeknd. \u201cBrooklyn Baby\u201d is now the sixth. Additionally, back in August, \u201cSummertime Sadness\u201d reached the two billion stream plateau.<\/p>\n

New music is on the way from Del Rey, too, who has been teasing tracks from her 10th album, Stove. In August, she spoke with W and confirmed the new album title (previously to be called The Right Person Will Stay), while noting that it \u201cwill likely be released at the end of January.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shop for Lana Del Rey\u2019s music on vinyl or CD now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u201cBrooklyn Baby,\u201d featured on her wildly popular 2014 LP Ultraviolence, has become the latest track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14639,14640,9,24,63,600,14641],"class_list":{"0":"post-21917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-brookyln-baby","12":"tag-lana-del-rey","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-pop","17":"tag-spotify-billions-club"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}