Red Roses (song)

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"Red Roses"
Single by Lil Skies featuring Landon Cube
from the album Life of a Dark Rose
ReleasedJune 25, 2017 (2017-06-25)
Recorded2017
Studio DreamLabs
Genre Trap
Length4:23
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Menoh Beats
Lil Skies singles chronology
"Red Roses"
(2017)
"Off The Goop"
(2017)
Music video
"Red Roses" on YouTube

"Red Roses" is the debut single by American rapper and singer Lil Skies featuring fellow American singer Landon Cube. It was released for digital download on June 25, 2017, as the lead single from the former's mixtape Life of a Dark Rose . [1] The song is one of the two first Lil Skies songs (alongside "Nowadays", another collaboration with Landon Cube) to reach the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number 98 [2] and peaking at number 69. The song is a global hit, racking up over 300 million streams on each streaming service it was released through.

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Music video

On October 18, 2017, Cole Bennett uploaded the music video for "Red Roses" on his YouTube account. The music video currently has over 251 million views as of October 2022. [3]

The visual shows the artists seated in front of an RV. A woman walks past them and they follow her. [4]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [9] Platinum80,000
Poland (ZPAV) [10] Gold25,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [11] Silver200,000
United States (RIAA) [12] 2× Platinum2,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousJune 25, 2017 Digital download All We Got [1]
United StatesApril 17, 2018 Urban contemporary radio Atlantic [13]

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