As the storyline progresses, both characters commit suicide by jumping from perilous heights. The song's accompanying music video depicts Del Rey and actress Jaime King as a couple. Gervais' remixed version won a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. It joined BBC Radio 1's and BBC Radio 2's playlists.

The record also reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart. Switzerland and Austria gave 'Summertime Sadness' a Gold certification it reached platinum status in Germany and became a top 40 year-end hit. In the summer of 2013, a remixed version of the track by Cedric Gervais was released to American contemporary hit radio and helped the single become a sleeper hit, debuting at 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming the highest-charting single of her career in the U.S. On the accompanied Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, the single gave Del Rey her first US number-one single in August 2013. That chart is where Del Rey's song became a modest hit and marked her first foray into the chart. Trap and house remixes of 'Summertime Sadness' helped Del Rey break into the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart. Charting across Europe, the single reached the top ten in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. In the spring of 2013, 'Summertime Sadness' reached number one in Poland, Ukraine and Armenia.

The pop ballad was released on June 22, 2012, by Interscope Records as the fourth single of the album. ' Summertime Sadness' is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey from her second studio album, Born to Die (2012).

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