Song · Lana Del Rey
“Say Yes to Heaven” by Lana Del Rey
Released 2023
“Say Yes to Heaven” by Lana Del Rey appears on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations in 2023. It was first released in 2023. Its best result is #5 on the WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2023. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #38 alternative song of 2023 and #278 of the '20s.
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"Say Yes to Heaven" spent over a decade as Lana Del Rey's great lost song. She wrote it with producer Rick Nowels in 2012 with Ultraviolence in mind, then took another run at it for Honeymoon and again for Lust for Life, and each time it got left off. Then it leaked, blew up on TikTok, and in May 2023 she simply let it out as a single with no promotion at all.
It's a hushed, ambient, downcast ballad about a woman trying to slip away with the one she loves, with Dean Reid mixing it into a slow-motion haze. Critics singled out both the production and the writing. It climbed to 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 18 on the Global 200, went gold in the US, and broke into the top 10 in several countries.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2023 | 90 |
| 2023 | 24 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2023 | 98 |
| 2023 | 24 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2023 | 103 |
| 2023 | 16 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2023 | 88 |
| 2023 | 39 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2023 | 89 |
| 2023 | 39 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2023 | 107 |
| 2023 | 5 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2023 | 91 |
| 2023 | 29 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2023 | 100 |
Also listed as: Say Yes To Heaven.
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