Chappell Roan has celebrated the truth that her music ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify.
The one was first launched in April this 12 months, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It turned Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Quantity Two within the UK and Quantity 4 within the US, and has been nominated for Tune of the 12 months and Document of the 12 months 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 achieve 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 music on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 present. “It’s simply an incredible music by an unbelievable artist,” mentioned frontman Alex Kapranos. “It’s humorous, you get some artists which have a second, usually it’s type of divisive.”
“Some individuals completely love them and a few individuals hate them. However I’ve not come throughout anyone I do know, none of my pals, no one I do know, who doesn’t like this artist. They’re simply so good. This music’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 12 months on the Grammys. In a four-star evaluate of the report, 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 12 months, 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 maximum 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 might really feel this unhealthy.”
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”.
