Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” is the fastest song to reach a billion streams on Spotify. The collaborative ballad was released as a standalone single in August and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Gaga and Mars debuted the track live at the latter’s show celebrating the opening of Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome. They later performed the song during Mars’ concert residency at Las Vegas’ Park MGM.
The pair released a “Live in Las Vegas” version of the song as well as an acoustic rendition. “Die With A Smile” was recently nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
It was recently revealed that Lady Gaga will headline the Friday night slot of Coachella 2025. Last month, she released “Disease,” the lead single off her upcoming seventh album. Gaga said that “Disease” is “facing myself and my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me.” This year, Gaga starred as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie A Deux, a sequel to the award-winning 2019 film Joker. She released a companion album, Harlequin, a collection of standards from the Great American Songbook as well as two original songs.
Mars recently appeared on Rosé’s “APT.,” which garnered over 100 million Spotify streams within its first week of release back in October. The lead single off Rosie hit No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, making it the first song by a Western act to top the chart in more than 11 years. Mars and Rosé performed the collaboration for the first time at the MAMA Awards. Later in the evening, the duo accepted the global sensation award.
