Released in August 2024, the track continues to be a hit
WORLDWIDE SMASHHIT! Singer Bruno Mars and singer Lady Gaga recently achieved a new milestone with the song “Die With A Smile” and are causing a stir. That’s right! That’s because the track has surpassed no less than 1 billion views on YouTube, and all this in less than a year since its release.
It’s also worth mentioning that, released in August 2024, the single was also considered the biggest hit of the decade on Spotify and took home the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group at this year’s awards. Seriously, that’s power!
It’s worth remembering that the partnership, which is part of Lady Gaga’s new album, entitled “Mayhem”, is a ballad and talks about the desire to be by someone special at the moment when, hypothetically, the world ends. The song also came with a music video, which shows Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars playing their respective instruments, she on the piano and he on the guitar, while singing the song.
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“Die with a Smile” is a song by American singer-songwriters Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. It was released on August 16, 2024, by Interscope Records and was later included on Gaga’s eighth studio album, Mayhem (2025). Gaga and Mars wrote and produced the track alongside Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II and Andrew Watt, while James Fauntleroy contributed additional songwriting. The collaboration came about when Mars invited Gaga to his studio, where he was working on new music. He played the in-progress track for her, and the duo finished writing and recording the song that same day. In the song, Gaga and Mars express a powerful longing to be with a loved one, highlighting the urgency and depth of their love in the face of uncertainty and possible endings.
Musically, the soft rock-oriented track has been compared to Gaga’s 2016 album Joanne and the song “Shallow” from the A Star Is Born soundtrack (2018), as well as Mars’ work with Anderson .Paak as part of the Silk Sonic project. An accompanying music video directed by Mars and Daniel Ramos, featuring the two singers performing the song in a retro stage setting, was released simultaneously with the track. Music critics praised both singers’ vocals and chemistry.
The song has enjoyed substantial commercial success, becoming the longest-running number one daily song in Spotify history and the fastest song to reach 1.2 billion streams on the streaming platform. In addition to being one of the longest-running number one songs in the history of the Billboard Global 200, with fourteen weeks at the top, as of early 2025, it topped the official charts in over twenty countries and reached the top ten in an additional 25 countries. It has received multiple diamond and platinum certifications in France and fourteen other countries. “Die with a Smile” was nominated for Song of the Year and won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
