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“Video Games” by Lana Del Rey
From the EP Lana Del Rey EP (2012)
“Video Games” by Lana Del Rey appears on 24 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2011 and 2025. It was first released in 2012 on the EP Lana Del Rey EP. Its best result is #2 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #168 alternative song of 2011 and #493 of the '10s.
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"Video Games" was Lana Del Rey's debut single, first posted online in May 2011 and then reissued on Interscope as the lead single from her second album, Born to Die; it also turns up on her Lana Del Rey EP. She wrote it with Justin Parker and Robopop produced, and it's a slow, gorgeous ballad draped in baroque-pop grandeur and dream-pop haze, her voice low and unhurried as if she has all night.
Critics swooned over that voice and the song's movie-screen scale, and it became her breakthrough, topping the charts in Germany, Iceland and Luxembourg and reaching the UK top ten. She directed and cut the video herself, pairing webcam footage of her singing with found archive clips. It won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song in 2012, and Pitchfork later ranked it ninth among the 100 best songs of the 2010s.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 41 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck in 2011 | 10 |
| 2011 | 84 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 | 89 |
| 2011 | 33 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2011 | 40 |
| 2011 | 18 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2011 | 107 |
| 2011 | 33 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 | 100 |
| 2011 | 28 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011 | 104 |
| 2011 | 6 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 | 100 |
| 2012 | 48 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 26 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 18 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
| 2012 | 2 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2012 | 131 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 24 | BBC Radio 6 Music | BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years | 100 |
| 2013 | 146 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2013 | 99 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
| 2016 | 445 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2018 | 427 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2020 | 29 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) | 100 |
| 2020 | 1983 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 872 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 520 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 113 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 162 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 104 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 73 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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