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Stove is Del Rey’s 10th studio album, retitled twice (from Lasso and The Right Person Will Stay) and slated for release in January 2026. She delayed Stove to add six autobiographical songs, shifting the project’s focus to an intimate self-portrait.
61,200,000
Her career album-equivalent units surpass 61.2 million globally.
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She has more than five known names, nicknames and aliases in her life and early career, including Lizzy Grant, May Jailer, Sparkle Jump Rope Queen, Lana Del Ray and Lana Rey Del Mar.
2008
The year Del Rey graduated with a degree in philosophy and metaphysics from Fordham University, through special arrangement while the artist
was recording her debut studio album, Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzie Grant, for 5 Points Records. In 2012, with the release on Interscope and Polydor
of Born to Die, which sold 3.6 million copies, the singer bought back the rights to her first album. It has never been reissued.
20,000,000
“Video Games,” the first song she released as Lana Del Rey in 2012, went viral, scoring over 20 million views on YouTube within a few months. It garnered an Ivor Novello award for best single, and was also named Song of the Decade at the Q Awards in London.
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She is the eldest of three—her sister, Caroline, and brother, Charlie, are also creatives. Caroline is a photographer; Charlie, a filmmaker.
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Her eclectic blend of literary influences include beat poet Allen Ginsberg, whose masterpiece “Howl” she stumbled upon at age 15.
350,000
Del Rey’s debut poetry book, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (2020), spans 128 pages and features 19 poems, 10 haikus and her original photography. In 2020, following an advance payment from Simon & Schuster for the book, the singer donated $350,000 to DigDeep to help provide clean water for the Navajo community.
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Del Rey has received 11 Grammy nominations across major categories—Album and Song of the Year—for her works like Norman F***ing Rockwell! and Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.