Ferdy Unger-Hamilton, the president of Polydor, said to Music Week that Lana has 60 songs written, enough to record more 3 albums. You can read the entire article below.
Polydor is celebrating a fortnight of runaway success with Lana Del Rey’s album Born To Die – as it reveals that the artist had 60 songs written when she was signed last year.
Speaking in today’s issue of Music Week – with subscribers now – Polydor president Ferdy Unger-Hamilton discussed Del Rey’s famous public profile.
The singer is one of the most talked about celebs on Twitter and other social media, but the exec said Polydor isn’t “so clever as to be completely driving that”.
He added: “This all started because of the power of a song. As we speak, Video Games has [spent] eight or nine weeks in the UK Top 20. This project would have undoubtedly been a disaster with that much attention if she didn’t have 60 or so songs written when we signed her.
“She had three CDs-worth of songs written, with loads of brilliant tracks – enough for us to do the album and a deluxe [edition] and still have stuff left for later records. She’s a really talented writer and a remarkable lyricist.
“She’d secured a lot of her writing and production relationships [before being signed] – the most prominent being Justin Parker, the co-writer on Born To Die and Video Games.”
Polydor shipped 900,000 units of the Born To Die album worldwide in its first week on sale.
The LP has topped the iTunes chart in 18 countries, and has become the fastest-selling digital album ever in France. It has spent two weeks at the top of the Official UK Album Chart.
Meanwhile, YouTube views of single Video Games have topped 28 million.
Here is also a Kassidy cover of Lana’s “Video Games”!
Jimmy Iovine, Intercope Record’s president, was the guest of honor at the Recording Academy’s fifth annual producers and engineers wing fete on Wednesday night. The Hollywood Reporter asked him about Lana Del Rey and he said:
“Lana haunts me the way that Stevie’s voice haunted me and I just love her album so much, but I can’t compare anybody to Stevie Nicks because Stevie has the greatest tone of any female rock singer that I’ve ever heard.”
When asked about the critics, Iovine stated:
“Lana made a record that is incredible at a time when people aren’t making albums. People should support her like crazy because she’s done what people like Adele are doing — incredible music.”
Daniel Radcliffe, best known as Harry Potter, gave a recent interview to GQ magazine and he talked about Lana Del Rey.
GQ.com: Given that you were hosting Saturday Night Live when she performed, have you listened to the Lana Del Rey album yet?
DR: I haven’t had a chance to yet but I’m sure it’s very good. It took me a while to get into “Video Games” but it has really grown on me. I just felt awful for her. I didn’t actually see the performance – and I still haven’t. I saw the rehearsal and I know what I’m going to see: a girl frightened. She only played her first big gig in America maybe a couple of months before. She’s a sweet girl who has got a great voice and I think there’s a lot there, provided people give her a chance. It’s kind of sad when you have to arrive on the scene fully fledged, where there is no time for growth in front of an audience. How old is she, 25? If I showed half the journalists that wrote bad things about Lana Del Rey what they had written when they were her age or younger, they would be mortified. There is a pressure now to be the finished article as soon as people see you.
In a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld gave his oppinion about Lana Del Rey. You can read it below.
I prefer Adele and Florence Welch. But as a modern singer she is not bad.The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice. Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She’s not alone with implants.
Singer Marky used Lana Del Rey‘s “Blue Jeans” and made a complete new song with it. You can listen to this amazing cover below.
The portuguese program Telejornal made a little report about Lana Del Rey on January 27th. With exclusivity, you are able to watch this below.
