Die with a Smile

"Die with a Smile"
Single by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
Written	2024
Released	August 16, 2024 (2024-08-16)
Recorded	2024
Studio	Glenwood Place Studios (Burbank, CA)[1]
Genre	Pop-soul soft rock
Length	4:11
Label	Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Bruno Mars Lady Gaga Dernst Emile II James Fauntleroy Andrew Watt
Producer(s)	Bruno Mars D'Mile Lady Gaga Andrew Watt
Lady Gaga singles chronology
"Sweet Sounds of Heaven" (2023) "Die with a Smile" (2024) "Disease" (2024)
Bruno Mars singles chronology
"After Last Night" (2022) "Die with a Smile" (2024) "Apt." (2024)
Music video
"Die with a Smile" on YouTube

"Die with a Smile" is a song by American singer-songwriters Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. It was released on August 16, 2024, through Interscope Records and was later included on Gaga's album Mayhem (2025). Gaga and Mars wrote and produced the track alongside Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II and Andrew Watt while James Fauntleroy provided additional songwriting. The collaboration was a result of Mars inviting Gaga to his studio where he had been working on new music. He presented the track in progress to her and the duo finished writing and recording the song the same day. In the song, Gaga and Mars express a powerful longing to be with a loved one, highlighting the urgency and depth of their love in the face of uncertainty and potential endings.

Musically, the soft rock-leaning track has been compared to Gaga's 2016 album Joanne and her 2018 release, "Shallow" from the A Star Is Born soundtrack, and Mars's work with Anderson .Paak as part of the Silk Sonic project. An accompanying music video directed by Mars and Daniel Ramos showing both singers performing the song on a retro stage set was released simultaneously alongside the track. Music critics lauded both singers' vocals and chemistry.

The song saw substantial commercial success, becoming the longest-reigning daily number-one song in Spotify history, as well as one of the longest-reigning number-one songs in Billboard Global 200 chart history with sixteen weeks on top. It also became the fastest song to reach one and two billion streams on Spotify. By the start of 2025, it had topped the official charts in more than 25 countries, and peaked at the top ten in over 20 additional countries. It earned multiple diamond and platinum certifications in France and fourteen additional countries. "Die with a Smile" was nominated for Song of the Year and won for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.