graham4anything

the #1 song of 2017 and the single most important cultural and news oriented song since the 60s (or perhaps "Where were you when the world stopped" by Alan Jackson after 9/11.

Lost on you
seems to be a hit worldwide but not yet in USA
gives me a 1960s Cher, 1980s Laura Branigan vibe 
 
(still can't cut/paste- tried to post youtube official video, also check the live youtube)

as for post 2547
Lana will be around in five years, will be remembered in 5 years, and wear as a badge of honor that the haters in the media, record companies, jealous suitors
jealous record company people hate her.
 
Record companies themselves are from another time and place and are dinasaurs (maybe some of the haters realize that the days of record companies are coming to an end and at that point, their job will be gone like people who used to work at Tower Records.)
 
Obviously, the head of the conglomerate likes Lana enough to have had her and Kanye West surround him when he was on the cover of Billboard Magazine.
(and Billboard itself prints less and less issues each week and is now attempting to cultivate record people themselves in each issue so they and their families
buy a dozen copies each).
 
Now that Lana is producing, and she has a friend who has a studio, she could do something any second she wants to  and release it whenever.
 
Meanwhile every time someone sees Gatsby or Maleficent or Big Eyes someone hears Lana.
Everyone who watched American Horror Freak Show saw Jessica Lange sing Gods and Monsters (5 to 6 million saw it the first week, and who knows how many million more have seen it since).
 
A person as artistic as Lana never will not release something new.
 
etc.

Lana is for freaks like us all over the world. Our voice so to say and as my signature says, Lana is our Edith Piaf.  Edith more than anyone was not in any way the typical looking or sounding star and the odds of her doing what she did...yet when she died, they say traffic in Paris stopped and tens of thousands or more lined the streets.)
Though some here are referencing the 90s,(and nothing wrong with it, as many are from that time), it goes so much further back than that.
 
Kate Bush (and I think among other reasons, Lana brought back the creative spark to Kate,a it would be hard to think otherwise, with her two albums and almost 50 concerts first in 40 years
all in the same place last fall/winter in England. Almost as if Kate is saying, remember me? remember 40 years ago? (and to those not in the US, Kate was a niche artist, with almost no sales
and no chart action in the USA.)
 
but before Kate, there was Edith and there was Marlene Dietrich. Unique all 3, unique like Lana.
 
But, the one difference between Lana and everyone else today is, Lana is coming from it as one of the boys, and doing something no current person is doing, which freaks out the critics
but has the record companies wanting Lana Like but with new artists who will do everything they tell them to do and once those artists don't, will find another copy cutter (nothing wrong with that,
that is what record companies and movies want (which is why historically when an actress reached 30 there were no more roles and they found another 19 year old they could mold into a star for a year or two before finding another.
Lana is doing it "her way" and she should one day 40 years from now, as a lark sing "My way". It is the perfect song cover she could do.

strangeweather-
no I disagree. It means she cannot put into words how she is feeling that, she feels it so much.
It is clever and unique way to write and I put it in the same (oh no he is going to go back to the 60s for a reference here)
with Petula Clark's Charlie Chaplin written "My song"
where Chaplin wrote the phrase in a way that most would have written different
 
"I care not what the world may say, without you there is no day" 
 
that wording anyone else would have written, I don't care what anyone may say, but it is so beautiful romantic written "I care not what the world may say"
 
Lana is saying that in "I don't really know what I'm saying" in saying it such a feeling that words cannot describe. It is poetic. It is beauty itself. It is love. It is timeless love
 
at least in my opinion.
(note- Petula Clark was always my favorite female singer prior to Lana,and its been 50 years now, though Pet never wrote nor had anything to do with the arrangements or producing of her own records, just singing.)

Lana and Gaga are the two most important artists 2005-current, male or female following Britney Spears in the 90s and Madonna/Prince/Michael Jackson/Pet Shop boys in the 1980s, and Elton John in the 70s/80/90, David Bowie, Queen, Lou Reed and continuing, going back to Beatles and Roy Orbison, S&G,Dylan, Leonard Cohen in 60s, Elvis in the 50s,60s,70s, Sinatra in the 40s,50s,60s,Edith Piaf, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington.
 
(note- not talking about commercial, but important)

Symetrical 
 
What we know now, what was not known then
 
I find it amazing that Lana was documenting the horrors of fame from Day 1
 
A quartet of songs some needing to see the video, some inherent in their lyrics 
Video Games
Gods & Monsters
High By the Beach
13 Beaches
 
 
and how fame rapes and abuses young women, aspiring entertainers and rears its ugly head to ruin ones life in a never ending cycle
where one cannot get away 
and where the paparazzi is the devil in disguise and how they abuse and manipulate so that a point of view making the person they
are shooting look the worst they possibly can
 
The video of "Video Games" which to all extent and purpose it is know that Lana herself created and edited herself long prior to her
later success (and the surprise to her that anyone would actually see it) where paparazzi footage of Ms. de la Huerta was used, and in perfect symmetry the trial of the (for legal purposes) alleged perv power serial abuser H.W. just yesterday leading to the arrest and the being booked of Harv. (entering the court room
with the paparazzi in full force showing the image HW tried to show (the old man routine carrying what appeared to be a bible
and some books??? that is laughable being that Cosby attempted at one point to  do the exact same thing)
 
Being that Lana herself made the video way at the start, when she had zero way of knowing anyone would see it shows a keen
sense of a historical documentary creator. Observing, using what is observed, and not exploiting, but showing how the paparazzi are the ones using and exploiting to show a person at their worst, solely to take a picture that they instantly hawk
 
Which aligns her once again with the late singer songwriter Harry Chapin, who started out his career making documentaries one of which was nominated for an Academy Award.
 
One can imagine in both cases that had they not ventured into poems, lyrics, music, and the record industry, that they both could have
risen in the ranks of movie documentary and feature film creations.(which it appears more and more Chuck is aiming to do and doing it well,
as so important was Chuck's Honeymoon cover & shots, and the shot of the boat and deck coming into play in High By the Beach
(where Lana at the start of the song (that we later know is a helicopter) almost appears to be drowing and breathing underwater 
and how in concert, the perfect usage of the camera and really needing to watch the screens and get oneself away from their phone
and watch the creation of 13 Beaches come to life through the screenwork, which was to me totally innovative. (and only working seeing it live over and over and over again on tour (where it was much easier to see from the seats and away from that dreaded first row).
 
and being that Coachella uses much of the same (including the drum) of Video games, and being that Coachella is the song that directly shatters what came before to what comes next...
 
tbc
may 26, 2018 745am edt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

#1  Strangers on a Train- Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Pat Hitchcock, Marion Lorne-Alfred Hitchcock directed
#2 Mulholland Drive David Lynch's best
#3 Show Boat- Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, etc.
#4 Obsession- Brian DePalma's homage/copy of Vertigo Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, legendary very early performance by John Lithgow
#5 Downfall- Bruno Ganz as Hitler in the bunker the last days (how about a sequel with Bruno as DT(Indiv.1)
#6 Wuthering Heights- Laurence Olivier, David Niven
#7 12 Angry Men- Henry Fonda
#8 Grapes of Wrath- Henry Fonda
#9 Double Indemnity-Barbara Stanwyck & Fred McMurray
#10 Gran Torino- Eastwood
#11 White Christmas- Bing, Danny, Rosemary, Vera-Ellen
#12 Cape Fear- Robert Mitchum, first version
#13 Big Sleep- Robert Mitchum
#14 Maltese Falcon- Bogart
#15 Apocolypse Now Brando and Martin Sheen
#16 Duel- early Steven Spielberg
#17 Berlin Alexanderplatz  Fassbinder
#18 Rope- Alfred Hitchcock  Farley Granger
#19 Marathon Man- Laurence Olivier  Is it safe?
#20 Blue Velvet David Lynch
edit to add-
#20B Bridges of Madison Country- Meryl, Clint  (if one asked me, this goes well with the new "Mule" and Bridges is perhaps my
favorite love story tearjerker, and perhaps the only one that thinks about what about tomorrow (and as we know- tomorrow never comes)
or does it?

@ultraHeroine
 
Lana​ is fibbing, throwing a red herring as does any GREAT songwriter and poet who wants the dear reader dear listener to interpret as they see it.
 
​I do believe recently Lana threw in 2 red herrings and one big MacGuffin and an outright lie to a couple of her statements to the press
​and in concert
like in Salvatore, one step ahead while those behind never catch up and never can be caught
 
​and BTW, 
 
​13 beaches may just be the single best song about the aftermath of rape ever.

anyone who listened to Brian Wilson's Last song realizes that he himself needed to be the only one to release it
It is so personal and so about him that it makes no sense for him to even have thought about having someone else sing it at this time
 
In fact, possibly Last Song is how Lana thought about Swan Song or perhaps Brian heard Swan Song and thought of Last Song
 
btw, I would love to see any of Lana's Honeymoon songs deconstructed like they showed in the Brian Wilson movie this year (with Paul Dano and John Cusack both as Brian).
All from sounds in Brian's head, much like Lana gets her song out of her head and onto the actual song

yet another person(s) name dropping Lana for their own selfish needs
as if they are placing an advert and want Lana fans to rush out and spend money (oops sorry, haven't in the past, won't know, interests me not)
 
btw,  is Jamie xx, is that like Magic Mike Bloomberg XXL

It is obvious it is about the Byrds not birds. In particular Gram Parsons "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" Gram was part of the Byrds for a short period in their coolest years
 
One is driving at in the night hours, what birds are there? NONE.
 
however, the Byrds have a famous song (actually many) about driving but one in particular is a Gram Parsons driven song "Truck driving man" deals with radio and listening specifically about a famous DJ that hated them because they did not have the sound required for radio play.
 
Gram Parsons is one of the all time legends, though most people don't know him
 
Gram should be and one day will be in both the Rock and Roll and the Country music hall of fame (why he wasn't in as a specific member of the Byrds is a big oversight on the Hall's part
 
Gram was also the founder/leader of the legendary Flying Burrito Brothers
 
Gram is rated #9 on the site "should be but is not in the hall of fame" online
He should be given one of the "other" entry ways (Lifetime, etc.)
As NWA will enter this year and they are #11, Gram should also be put in.
www.halloffame.com/rock-and-roll
 
Heaven would have been a duet between Gram Parsons and Lana Del Rey
(listen to Gram and Emmylou Harris)

Drug Store Truck Driving Man was about specifically mega-nighttime DJ  Ralph Emery who hated the Byrds and Rock and roll and long haired hippies for that matter (and later had a long running tv talk show on the Nashville network).
Ralph was the overnite DJ on WSM which was a clear channel and heard in many USA states, especially by truck drivers and those who took rides across country. He was one of a handful then who could make or break a song in the country market in the 1960s/1970s
 
Ride was a catharsis after Video Games didn't become the hit it should have ("trying so hard, with one pretty song")
 
I would say the two songs have a very similar meaning
 
and what is Lana if not immersed in musical and poetic references throughout (not to mention a major lover of science)

Lana has taken this song, that was written specifc for (but not by) Nina Simone, and was a hit for the Animals and Santa Esemeralda
 
somewhat taking the first two versions, and making the song her own.
 
He phrasing and her meaning is specific to her.
 
She is directly describing herself in these lyrics.
 
And it is alternatively heart breaking but redeeming, and affirmative, and asking those who are listening not to listen to any negativity and keep moving wherever she takes us
 
Which is pretty cool if you ask me.

@@YUNGATA- re #5   People in NY and California most certainly don't want people to think they are in one of the shitty red states that take civilization back to before Lincoln  lol

all stats updated including the current Feb. 16, 2019 dated Billboard 
 
UPDATED CHART DATE- JAN. 26, 2019  BORN TO DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 AND NOW HAS 316 WEEKS ON THE CHART
see post #198 for further updated chart info for this chart.
 
updated chart Jan. 12, 2019- Born to DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 and scores it's 315th week on the chart
 
updated Dec. 22, 2018- BORN TO DIE is #32 on the year-end  TOP !00 Rock albums of the year. almost 7 years after release.
 
Stats updated including the Feb.16, 2019 chart.  For assorted trivia notes, see my additional responses as warranted, in date order on the posts that follow this OP.
=================================================================
 
History was made July 21, 2018 chart, when  Lana's Born to Die  has spent 312 weeks on the chart- SIX FULL YEARS
This thread started back the week of May 27, 2017 Billboard magazine chart issue,when Lana hit 275 weeks
on the Billboard 200 Album charts (this is the every genre, all album, old and new from the first charts to the current chart, best selling)
 
ON JAN. 16, 2018, FOR THE CHART DATED JANUARY 20, 2018, LANA ACHIEVED HER 300TH WEEK ON BILLBOARD 200 ALBUM CHART.
ON JULY 21, 2018 CHART- LANA NOTCHED THE 312TH WEEK, 6 FULL YEARS ON THE CHART.
 
background-
Lana Del Rey now proudly is in the Top 25 Albums of all time based on weeks on the chart, six full years
Only 24 albums in history have been on the chart for 300 or more weeks (it doesn't have to be consecutive)
Only 21 albums In history have been on the chart for 312 weeks or more (six full years)
And is now #3 for all female artists, all genres.
 
 
This achievement cannot be taken away, each week on the chart adds to the length of time,
and though like in baseball, others may reach the level, each person on the list has achieved history very few have.
 
The Top Albums by chart week of all time- (updated weekly)
©billboard magazine
 
#1 942 WEEKS  Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
#2 560 weeks    Bob Marley- Legend (ACTIVE)
#3 550 WEEKS Journey-Greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#4 521 weeks  Metallica- Metalllica (Active)
#5 490 weeks   Johnny Mathis- Greatest Hits 
#6 480 WEEKS My Fair Lady- Original Soundtrack
#7  456 weeks   Guns'n'roses- greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#8 431 weeks   Eminem- Curtain Call - the hits (ACTIVE)
#9 411weeks Nirvana-Nevermind  (ACTIVE)
#10 408  weeks Bruno Mars Doo-wops & Hooligans
#11 405 weeks  Creedence Clearwater Revival-Chronical the 20 greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#12 401 weeks  Adele 21 (ACTIVE)
#13 356 weeks Eminem- the Eminem show
#14 354 weeks Beatles #1 (ACTIVE)
#15 353 weeks  Michael Jackson-Thriller(ACTIVE)
#16 345 weeks  AC/DC Back in black (ACTIVE)
#17 331 weeks Phantom of the Opera soundtrack
#18 332 weeks Imagine Dragons- debut album (ACTIVE)
#19 328 weeks Kendrick Lamar (Active)
#20 325 weeks Queen Greatest Hits (Active)
#21 320 weeks Eminem-Recovery
#22 318 weeks Carole King- Tapestry
#23 316 weeks  LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE  SIX FULL YEARS JULY 21 CHART (ACTIVE on January 26, 2019 chart)
==========================================================================
notes-
 
BORN TO DIE HIT 300 WEEKS ON THE  JAN. 20, 2018 CHART
312 WEEKS, SIX FULL YEAR JULY 21, 2018
- LANA NOW HAS 316 WEEKS
 
​Born to Die is still on the Alternative Album chart, where it hit #1, and is in its 225th week on the Alt Top Album list (active)
and Born to Die charting its 229 weeks on the Rock Album charts (active)
and Lana on the Social 50 chart hit the highest ever for her, highest #12 on the Oct. 20, 2018 chart.
Video Games song has over 200 million views on you tube
 
Born to Die- 2018   Billboard Rock Album  of the year chart #32 (almost 7 years after release).
 
 
Born to Die hit its 6th full year on the charts on the July 21, 2018 chart, with its 312 chart week. 6 full years.
 
 
and never forget-
LANA DEL REY IS THE #1 FEMALE ALBUM ARTIST OF ALL TIME
(MEANING NOT GOING FOR SINGLES, BUT WANTING PEOPLE TO LISTEN AND SAVOR THE ENTIRE ALBUM FROM CUT ONE TO THE END)
 
 
====================================================================
 
nice to see Rick Newells agrees with me
from the above interview-
 
Where do you feel this album fits into Lana’s catalog overall?
Lana is a career artist, a defining artist of her generation. I see her as a link on the chain along with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, and all the great once in a lifetime singer/songwriters. She’s created her own language and her own genre. She’s always inspired and actively creating her body of work. This album is her next offering.
​

all stats updated including the current Feb. 16, 2019 dated Billboard 
 
UPDATED CHART DATE- JAN. 26, 2019  BORN TO DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 AND NOW HAS 316 WEEKS ON THE CHART
see post #198 for further updated chart info for this chart.
 
updated chart Jan. 12, 2019- Born to DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 and scores it's 315th week on the chart
 
updated Dec. 22, 2018- BORN TO DIE is #32 on the year-end  TOP !00 Rock albums of the year. almost 7 years after release.
 
Stats updated including the Feb.16, 2019 chart.  For assorted trivia notes, see my additional responses as warranted, in date order on the posts that follow this OP.
=================================================================
 
History was made July 21, 2018 chart, when  Lana's Born to Die  has spent 312 weeks on the chart- SIX FULL YEARS
This thread started back the week of May 27, 2017 Billboard magazine chart issue,when Lana hit 275 weeks
on the Billboard 200 Album charts (this is the every genre, all album, old and new from the first charts to the current chart, best selling)
 
ON JAN. 16, 2018, FOR THE CHART DATED JANUARY 20, 2018, LANA ACHIEVED HER 300TH WEEK ON BILLBOARD 200 ALBUM CHART.
ON JULY 21, 2018 CHART- LANA NOTCHED THE 312TH WEEK, 6 FULL YEARS ON THE CHART.
 
background-
Lana Del Rey now proudly is in the Top 25 Albums of all time based on weeks on the chart, six full years
Only 24 albums in history have been on the chart for 300 or more weeks (it doesn't have to be consecutive)
Only 21 albums In history have been on the chart for 312 weeks or more (six full years)
And is now #3 for all female artists, all genres.
 
 
This achievement cannot be taken away, each week on the chart adds to the length of time,
and though like in baseball, others may reach the level, each person on the list has achieved history very few have.
 
The Top Albums by chart week of all time- (updated weekly)
©billboard magazine
 
#1 942 WEEKS  Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
#2 560 weeks    Bob Marley- Legend (ACTIVE)
#3 550 WEEKS Journey-Greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#4 521 weeks  Metallica- Metalllica (Active)
#5 490 weeks   Johnny Mathis- Greatest Hits 
#6 480 WEEKS My Fair Lady- Original Soundtrack
#7  456 weeks   Guns'n'roses- greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#8 431 weeks   Eminem- Curtain Call - the hits (ACTIVE)
#9 411weeks Nirvana-Nevermind  (ACTIVE)
#10 408  weeks Bruno Mars Doo-wops & Hooligans
#11 405 weeks  Creedence Clearwater Revival-Chronical the 20 greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#12 401 weeks  Adele 21 (ACTIVE)
#13 356 weeks Eminem- the Eminem show
#14 354 weeks Beatles #1 (ACTIVE)
#15 353 weeks  Michael Jackson-Thriller(ACTIVE)
#16 345 weeks  AC/DC Back in black (ACTIVE)
#17 331 weeks Phantom of the Opera soundtrack
#18 332 weeks Imagine Dragons- debut album (ACTIVE)
#19 328 weeks Kendrick Lamar (Active)
#20 325 weeks Queen Greatest Hits (Active)
#21 320 weeks Eminem-Recovery
#22 318 weeks Carole King- Tapestry
#23 316 weeks  LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE  SIX FULL YEARS JULY 21 CHART (ACTIVE on January 26, 2019 chart)
==========================================================================
notes-
 
BORN TO DIE HIT 300 WEEKS ON THE  JAN. 20, 2018 CHART
312 WEEKS, SIX FULL YEAR JULY 21, 2018
- LANA NOW HAS 316 WEEKS
 
​Born to Die is still on the Alternative Album chart, where it hit #1, and is in its 225th week on the Alt Top Album list (active)
and Born to Die charting its 229 weeks on the Rock Album charts (active)
and Lana on the Social 50 chart hit the highest ever for her, highest #12 on the Oct. 20, 2018 chart.
Video Games song has over 200 million views on you tube
 
Born to Die- 2018   Billboard Rock Album  of the year chart #32 (almost 7 years after release).
 
 
Born to Die hit its 6th full year on the charts on the July 21, 2018 chart, with its 312 chart week. 6 full years.
 
 
and never forget-
LANA DEL REY IS THE #1 FEMALE ALBUM ARTIST OF ALL TIME
(MEANING NOT GOING FOR SINGLES, BUT WANTING PEOPLE TO LISTEN AND SAVOR THE ENTIRE ALBUM FROM CUT ONE TO THE END)
 
 
====================================================================
 
nice to see Rick Newells agrees with me
from the above interview-
 
Where do you feel this album fits into Lana’s catalog overall?
Lana is a career artist, a defining artist of her generation. I see her as a link on the chain along with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, and all the great once in a lifetime singer/songwriters. She’s created her own language and her own genre. She’s always inspired and actively creating her body of work. This album is her next offering.
​

Lana has taken this song, that was written specifc for (but not by) Nina Simone, and was a hit for the Animals and Santa Esemeralda
 
somewhat taking the first two versions, and making the song her own.
 
He phrasing and her meaning is specific to her.
 
She is directly describing herself in these lyrics.
 
And it is alternatively heart breaking but redeeming, and affirmative, and asking those who are listening not to listen to any negativity and keep moving wherever she takes us
 
Which is pretty cool if you ask me.

all stats updated including the current Feb. 16, 2019 dated Billboard 
 
UPDATED CHART DATE- JAN. 26, 2019  BORN TO DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 AND NOW HAS 316 WEEKS ON THE CHART
see post #198 for further updated chart info for this chart.
 
updated chart Jan. 12, 2019- Born to DIE RE-ENTERS THE TOP 200 and scores it's 315th week on the chart
 
updated Dec. 22, 2018- BORN TO DIE is #32 on the year-end  TOP !00 Rock albums of the year. almost 7 years after release.
 
Stats updated including the Feb.16, 2019 chart.  For assorted trivia notes, see my additional responses as warranted, in date order on the posts that follow this OP.
=================================================================
 
History was made July 21, 2018 chart, when  Lana's Born to Die  has spent 312 weeks on the chart- SIX FULL YEARS
This thread started back the week of May 27, 2017 Billboard magazine chart issue,when Lana hit 275 weeks
on the Billboard 200 Album charts (this is the every genre, all album, old and new from the first charts to the current chart, best selling)
 
ON JAN. 16, 2018, FOR THE CHART DATED JANUARY 20, 2018, LANA ACHIEVED HER 300TH WEEK ON BILLBOARD 200 ALBUM CHART.
ON JULY 21, 2018 CHART- LANA NOTCHED THE 312TH WEEK, 6 FULL YEARS ON THE CHART.
 
background-
Lana Del Rey now proudly is in the Top 25 Albums of all time based on weeks on the chart, six full years
Only 24 albums in history have been on the chart for 300 or more weeks (it doesn't have to be consecutive)
Only 21 albums In history have been on the chart for 312 weeks or more (six full years)
And is now #3 for all female artists, all genres.
 
 
This achievement cannot be taken away, each week on the chart adds to the length of time,
and though like in baseball, others may reach the level, each person on the list has achieved history very few have.
 
The Top Albums by chart week of all time- (updated weekly)
©billboard magazine
 
#1 942 WEEKS  Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
#2 560 weeks    Bob Marley- Legend (ACTIVE)
#3 550 WEEKS Journey-Greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#4 521 weeks  Metallica- Metalllica (Active)
#5 490 weeks   Johnny Mathis- Greatest Hits 
#6 480 WEEKS My Fair Lady- Original Soundtrack
#7  456 weeks   Guns'n'roses- greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#8 431 weeks   Eminem- Curtain Call - the hits (ACTIVE)
#9 411weeks Nirvana-Nevermind  (ACTIVE)
#10 408  weeks Bruno Mars Doo-wops & Hooligans
#11 405 weeks  Creedence Clearwater Revival-Chronical the 20 greatest hits (ACTIVE)
#12 401 weeks  Adele 21 (ACTIVE)
#13 356 weeks Eminem- the Eminem show
#14 354 weeks Beatles #1 (ACTIVE)
#15 353 weeks  Michael Jackson-Thriller(ACTIVE)
#16 345 weeks  AC/DC Back in black (ACTIVE)
#17 331 weeks Phantom of the Opera soundtrack
#18 332 weeks Imagine Dragons- debut album (ACTIVE)
#19 328 weeks Kendrick Lamar (Active)
#20 325 weeks Queen Greatest Hits (Active)
#21 320 weeks Eminem-Recovery
#22 318 weeks Carole King- Tapestry
#23 316 weeks  LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE  SIX FULL YEARS JULY 21 CHART (ACTIVE on January 26, 2019 chart)
==========================================================================
notes-
 
BORN TO DIE HIT 300 WEEKS ON THE  JAN. 20, 2018 CHART
312 WEEKS, SIX FULL YEAR JULY 21, 2018
- LANA NOW HAS 316 WEEKS
 
​Born to Die is still on the Alternative Album chart, where it hit #1, and is in its 225th week on the Alt Top Album list (active)
and Born to Die charting its 229 weeks on the Rock Album charts (active)
and Lana on the Social 50 chart hit the highest ever for her, highest #12 on the Oct. 20, 2018 chart.
Video Games song has over 200 million views on you tube
 
Born to Die- 2018   Billboard Rock Album  of the year chart #32 (almost 7 years after release).
 
 
Born to Die hit its 6th full year on the charts on the July 21, 2018 chart, with its 312 chart week. 6 full years.
 
 
and never forget-
LANA DEL REY IS THE #1 FEMALE ALBUM ARTIST OF ALL TIME
(MEANING NOT GOING FOR SINGLES, BUT WANTING PEOPLE TO LISTEN AND SAVOR THE ENTIRE ALBUM FROM CUT ONE TO THE END)
 
 
====================================================================
 
nice to see Rick Newells agrees with me
from the above interview-
 
Where do you feel this album fits into Lana’s catalog overall?
Lana is a career artist, a defining artist of her generation. I see her as a link on the chain along with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, and all the great once in a lifetime singer/songwriters. She’s created her own language and her own genre. She’s always inspired and actively creating her body of work. This album is her next offering.
​

Kate Bush and Nina Simone both for the first time, have been nominated for the Rock Hall of Fame
 
and while the official voting is private by industry folks (almost all male), fans can vote on who they would like to see entered (one vote a day) and that vote is then seen by
the official industry voters
 
Both should have entered the hall years ago, but the Hall is quite anti-woman, and especially anti-unique artists.
 
www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2018-fan-vote

My take on Ride, changing the line "Just one hit song" is now 6 years after Born to Die, playing arenas bigger than ever, 2 #1 albums
​(along with 2 #2 albums)
​
​" riding the ride ...I had to decide, to play someone's game or live my own life"
(which like all great songwriters/poets before her could be taken two ways to let the listener decide, however sometimes one needs a nudge if one isn't seeing it, and her changing the word is that nudge 
 
​She did it HER way not THE way all prior girls were FORCED to do in a 100% misogynist music industry where she kept her vision,
​her ideas, thoughts, words, poems, sounds
 
(so in essence she could end Ride with the coda of "My Way"(changing the pronouns to female and using this as a musical reference) 
For what is a woman
What has she got
If not herself, then she has naught
To say the things she truly feels
and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
BUT I did it My Way
 
​
​because no female singer since perhaps Madonna, has before done what she did, breaking all the rules to come out on top bigger than ever.
​(and being that Sinatra and Elvis were the biggest acts of the 40s/50s and Lana is the best act of the 2000-2018 years and going
​and being that she herself has mentioned The  Sinatra family and Elvis prior)
​(and almost all the current female singers are still on the #1 hit merry-go-round or trying to be the next of them)
 
not to mention-
​I like her statement today about the women marches and the walls that are being broken.
 
 
 
 
​

President Obama is #1 on the ITUNES chart today  as part of Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton - ONE LAST TIME (44 REMIX) 
 
Friday, December 21 2018, 11:18 am pacific time (2:18pm NYC time)
 
How cool is that. President Obama has a #1 song.

"I Can Fly" is a song of affirmation
of rising above the abuse to soar on ones own
 
and once again tossing in several ways people can read it (from personal to spiritual).
 
I loved how SHE didn't go to the after the premiere party in NY nor did she show up at the official premiere, instead focusing on her solo press conference a few days earlier (in a museum she was no stranger too unlike some of the other rock stars)
 
Should have been nominated for a grammy, and probably I can Fly should have been the song as it was the end credit song

anyone who has read any of my posts over the years, knows how much I am crying.
 
So Long Marianne © Leonard Cohen  (note-  his muse and girlfriend in the 1960s, Marianne Ihlen died a few weeks ago. At the time a cryptic note he wrote that he it won't be too long before he would be joining her)
 
here are the lyrics to his song "So Long Marianne"
 
Come over to the window, my little darling
I'd like to try to read your palm
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
Before I let you take me home
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Well you know that I love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
For now I need your hidden love
I'm cold as a new razor blade
You left when I told you I was curious
I never said that I was brave
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
Oh, you are really such a pretty one
I see you've gone and changed your name again
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
To wash my eyelids in the rain
Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
Songwriters: LEONARD COHEN © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC   Lana sang Leonard's Chelsea Hotel

Looking back it was the first now of many cases of abuse that came from the stable of the Misogynist NBC
​and was totally bullying.
Like Lyin' Brian Williams who gave that simply horrendous abusive tweet (and to think he has his own daughter, did he ever once think what if someone had done that to Allison, how would he have felt.
 
​and what really tied it all together in regards to Misogynist is how a few weeks later Sam Smith (equally as unknown) went on the show
​and did 100% of the exact same thing Lana did (was Sam parodying Lana?) yet he got 100% adoration and love from SNL and
​the show's low-level 15 year old boys that watch it.
 
​SNL as a whole has a history of abusing women, perhaps the only two who made it were Tina and Amy, and both have their
​horror stories from the show and how they were not wanted nor welcome by the other writers much of the time.
 
​That said, without SNL, I don't believe Lana would have been  the trendsetter, iconic future Rock and Songwriters Hall of Famer
that she became and one thing is for sure, she was live.