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Born to Die

Her major-label debut, a UK number 1 that spent hundreds of weeks on the Billboard 200.
Lana Del Rey, 2012

The release date is January 27 on the infobox and January 31 in the body for the US. It debuted at 1 in the UK with 116,745 first-week copies and at 2 in the US with about 77,000, and had reached 618 weeks on the Billboard 200 by December 2025, according to Wikipedia. The deluxe edition adds "Lucky Ones", and a Target edition "Without You" and "Lolita". Reception was divided: Metacritic scores it 62, Alexis Petridis wrote that it is beautifully turned pop music which is more than enough, Pitchfork's Lindsay Zoladz gave 5.5 and called it a collection of torch songs with no fire, and NME's Alex Denney gave 8 of 10; retrospectively Meaghan Garvey called it thrillingly rich, and NME's 2010s list put it tenth. These quotes were relayed through summaries and should be checked against the originals.

Track listing

  1. Born to Die4:46
  2. Off to the Races5:00
  3. Blue Jeans3:30
  4. Video Games4:42
  5. Diet Mountain Dew3:43
  6. National Anthem3:51
  7. Dark Paradise4:03
  8. Radio3:34
  9. Carmen4:08
  10. Million Dollar Man3:51
  11. Summertime Sadness4:25
  12. This Is What Makes Us Girls3:58

More from Lana Del Rey

Sirens - The Lost 2006 Album (2011), Paradise (2012), Ultraviolence (2014), Unreleased (2015), Honeymoon (2015), Lust For Life (2017), Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (2020), Love & Sadness (2020), Pacific Blue (2020), The Norman Fucking Rockwell! Tour (2021), Chemtrails Over The Country Club (2021), Blue Banisters (2021), From The End (2023), Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023), Acoustic Tracks And Ballads (2024), Tracks From The Vaults (2024), My Back Pages (2024), Feeling Electric! (2024), A Streetcar Named Desire (2025), Splendour In The Park (2025), Your Girl Rare & Unreleased (2025)

Sources

  1. Born to Die (album), Wikipedia
  2. Lana Del Rey albums discography, Wikipedia