Chappell Roan has celebrated the fact that her song ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify.
The single was first released in April this year, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It became Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Number Two in the UK and Number Four in the US, and has been nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the Grammys.
Roan has reacted the news that it has crossed the milestone, writing on Instagram: “Good Luck Babe hitting a billion streams on Spotify is cuckoo loco. All I have to say is thank you.”
Other recent songs to reach the one billion streams mark on Spotify include Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ and Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds Of A Feather’.
The news comes just days after Franz Ferdinand covered the song on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 show. “It’s just an amazing song by an incredible artist,” said frontman Alex Kapranos. “It’s funny, you get some artists that have a moment, often it’s kind of divisive.”
“Some people absolutely love them and some people hate them. But I’ve not come across anybody I know, none of my friends, nobody I know, who doesn’t like this artist. They’re just so good. This song’s incredible 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 Year at the Grammys. In a four-star review of the record, NME wrote that it is “a display of Roan’s bold and brazen pen, where she places searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses.”
Roan has been outspoken about how experience of sudden fame this year, comparing it to “an abusive ex-husband”. In an interview with The Face, the former NME Cover star vented about the normalisation of extreme fan behaviour including “stalking, talking shit online, [people who] won’t leave you alone, yelling at you in public.” She added: “I didn’t know it would feel this bad.”
Prior to that, she had taken to TikTok to share her thoughts on “weird” and “creepy” followers, calling out the “predatory behaviour” of so-called “superfans” that includes “nonconsensual physical and social interactions”.
