Chappell Roan celebrates ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ reaching one billion Spotify streams
Chappell Roan has celebrated the truth that her tune ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify.
The only was first launched in April this yr, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It grew to become Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Quantity Two within the UK and Quantity 4 within the US, and has been nominated for Music of the Yr and Report of the Yr on the Grammys.
Roan has reacted the information that it has crossed the milestone, writing on Instagram: “Good Luck Babe hitting a billion streams on Spotify is cuckoo loco. All I’ve to say is thanks.”
Different latest songs to succeed in the one billion streams mark on Spotify embrace Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ and Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds Of A Feather’.
The information comes simply days after Franz Ferdinand coated the tune on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 present. “It’s simply an incredible tune by an unbelievable artist,” mentioned frontman Alex Kapranos. “It’s humorous, you get some artists which have a second, typically it’s form of divisive.”
“Some folks completely love them and a few folks hate them. However I’ve not come throughout anyone I do know, none of my buddies, no person I do know, who doesn’t like this artist. They’re simply so good. This tune’s unbelievable so we’re going to play it.”
‘Good Luck, Babe!’ was not included on Roan’s debut album ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, which is up for Album of the Yr on the Grammys. In a four-star evaluate of the document, NME wrote that it’s “a show of Roan’s daring and brazen pen, the place she locations searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses.”
Roan has been outspoken about how expertise of sudden fame this yr, evaluating it to “an abusive ex-husband”. In an interview with The Face, the previous NME Cowl star vented in regards to the normalisation of utmost fan behaviour together with “stalking, speaking shit on-line, [people who] received’t depart you alone, yelling at you in public.” She added: “I didn’t know it will really feel this dangerous.”
Previous to that, she had taken to TikTok to share her ideas on “bizarre” and “creepy” followers, calling out the “predatory behaviour” of so-called “superfans” that features “nonconsensual bodily and social interactions”.