Lana Del Rey — Summertime Sadness

The arrival of late June has returned Lana Del Rey's signature ballad to broad circulation, appearing across 119 country and platform charts today after a month-long absence. The track operates as a seasonal evergreen — its title alone makes it a fixture every year as summer begins, the cinematic gloom of its red-dress imagery and Cedric Gervais's club remix both still in rotation. Originally the fourth single from Born to Die, it became Del Rey's first American top-ten hit when the Gervais remix reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013 and topped charts in Poland and Ukraine. Thirteen summers on, its melodrama has hardened into catalog permanence. Watch whether the climb holds through the season's peak weeks.