Cain Okeeffe

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The music-review site Pitchfork gave Lana Del Rey's debut album a 5.5 out of 10 in 2012. By the end of 2025, that same album had spent more time on the Billboard 200 than any album by a woman in history: 618 weeks, almost twelve years.

She got there by surviving one of the roughest welcomes in modern pop. When Born to Die came out, critics called her voice fake and her whole image a marketing stunt. Tabloids ran stories saying the record label had manufactured her. The album sold anyway, and finished 2012 as the fifth best-selling record in the world.

Then the same critics turned around. Her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell! scored a 9.4 on Pitchfork, the highest grade they gave any album that year, and the review called her one of America's greatest living songwriters. It was the most-cited album in critics' end-of-year lists for 2019 and earned a nomination for Album of the Year. Rolling Stone now ranks it among the 500 greatest albums ever made.

The fans were there the whole time. "Summertime Sadness," a single off that panned debut, crossed 2 billion Spotify streams in 2025. Born to Die has been somewhere on the chart for almost twelve straight years.

Her mark is all over the artists who came after. Billboard credits her with pulling pop away from loud club music toward the slower, moodier sound that defined the 2010s, and names Lorde, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift among the artists she shaped. The Washington Post put her on its list of people who defined the decade. She was the only musician on it. NYU teaches a course on her music.

She has been nominated for 11 Grammys. She has won zero.

[MTV @MTV]

Never was there ever a birthday girl so pretty 💜 Happy birthday Lana!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 41st birthday to the iconic Lana Del Rey.

The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter holds one of the most acclaimed discographies in music today with albums like ‘Born To Die’ ‘Norman Rockwell’ ‘Ultraviolence’ and more. She is regarded as one of the most influential and impactful figures in music — often cited as an influence by numerous of her peers.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

12 years ago today, Lana Del Rey released ‘Ultraviolence.’

[Pop Base @PopBase]

12 years ago today, Lana Del Rey released ‘Ultraviolence.’

[Cain Okeeffe @CainOkeeffe]

I am selling 2 verified tickets for Harry Styles: Together, Together on 19 June 2026 at Wembley Stadium, London via Ticketmaster. Interested?

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[Pop Base @PopBase]

Lana Del Rey has surprise released a new ‘James Bond’ song titled ‘First Light.’

[Lana Core @Ianacore]

🎥 Lana Del Rey about her upcoming single!

[tumblr @tumblr]

and we would never be the same

[Pop Base @PopBase]

14 years ago today, Lana Del Rey released ‘Born To Die.’

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Born to Die’ by Lana Del Rey becomes the longest charting album by a female artist on the Billboard 200 chart. (618 weeks)

It surpasses ‘21’ by Adele.

[Eros @December_and_me]

Idgaf ab Kanye but he was so real for this 😭😭

[Lana Core @Ianacore]

🏟️ Billboard for Lana Del Rey’s UK and Ireland stadium tour, next week.

[george griffiths @georgegriffiths]

the demon twinks not letting actual frankie from the saturdays sing ego…i am feeling violent

[Liverpool FC Retail @LFCRetail]

Anfield, are you ready for Lana Del Rey? ✨🔴

[The Weeknd @theweeknd]

where is Lana on that billboard’s greatest pop star list ?

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Weeknd questions Billboard’s ‘greatest pop stars’ list, particularly their failure to include Lana Del Rey:

“where is Lana on that billboard’s greatest pop star list ?”

[IndiMoo @CultOfIndia]

@PopBase Sarah Hadland dancing to proud is for all the 20 something girls who grew up on miranda #strictly