Always Remember Us This Way
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{{Infobox song
| name = Always Remember Us This Way
| artist = Lady Gaga
| album = A Star Is Born
| cover =
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| released = {{start date|2019|1|4}}
| type = single
| recorded = 2017
| studio = EastWest (Los Angeles)
| venue = Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
| genre =
| length = {{duration|m=3|s=30}}
{{duration|m=3|s=26}} (radio edit)
| label = Interscope
| writer =
- Lady Gaga
- Natalie Hemby
- Hillary Lindsey
- Lori McKenna
| producer =
- Dave Cobb
- Lady Gaga
| prev_title = Shallow
| prev_year = 2018
| title =
| next_title = I'll Never Love Again
| next_year = 2019
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|5vheNbQlsyU|"Always Remember Us This Way"}}}}
}}
"Always Remember Us This Way" is a song from the 2018 film A Star Is Born and its soundtrack of the same name, performed by the film's star Lady Gaga. It was released as soundtrack's second single in Italy and France in January 2019. The song was written by Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, and Lori McKenna, and produced by Dave Cobb and Lady Gaga.
The song has received widespread critical acclaim and has reached the top of the record chart in Iceland and the top ten in Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia), Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland, the digital charts of Luxembourg, Slovakia and the combined European chart. The track has also reached the top twenty in Denmark, Estonia, France, Malaysia, and on the digital chart of Czech Republic. It reached the top twenty of the Australian and New Zealand charts, while achieving triple platinum certification from the former governing body.
"Always Remember Us This Way" received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 62nd Grammy Awards, the second nomination from the album in this category after "Shallow", which was nominated for the year before. Gaga performed the song live during her 2022 stadium tour, The Chromatica Ball.
Background and release
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"Always Remember Us This Way" was written by Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, and Lori McKenna, and produced by Dave Cobb and Gaga.{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/2018/09/watch-lady-gaga-bradley-coopers-video-shallow-star-born/|title=Watch Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's Video for "Shallow" from a Star is Born|last=O'Rear|first=Caine|date=September 27, 2018|website=American Songwriter|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-date=October 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007025356/http://americansongwriter.com/2018/09/watch-lady-gaga-bradley-coopers-video-shallow-star-born|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/08/star-is-born-some-nashvilles-most-powerful-voices-helped-shape-soundtrack/|title='A Star is Born': Some of Nashville's most powerful voices helped shape the soundtrack|last=Yahr|first=Emily|date=October 8, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-date=October 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019064605/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/08/star-is-born-some-nashvilles-most-powerful-voices-helped-shape-soundtrack/|url-status=live}} It also features background vocals from Hemby, Lindsey and McKenna. Bradley Cooper had approached Cobb for crafting the sound of the album, after listening to the latter's work. Cobb flew out to Los Angeles and met Gaga and Cooper for a writing session. He played the track "Maybe It's Time" (written by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell), which impressed Gaga and Cooper and set the tone for the soundtrack. They asked Hemby, Lindsey and McKenna to come down to Los Angeles and start composing tracks.
"Always Remember Us This Way" was released to Italian radio on January 4, 2019, followed by release to French radio two weeks later. A music video for the song was released previously, showing the sequence from the film when Gaga sings the track after being introduced by Jackson onstage, who sweetly tells her, "I love you, I'll always remember us this way". A vertical-shaped version of the clip was released to Spotify.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8482946/lady-gaga-vertical-video-always-remember-us-this-way|title=Lady Gaga Shares Spotify Vertical Video For 'A Star Is Born' Track 'Always Remember Us This Way'|last=Pedrosa|first=Marina|access-date=November 12, 2018|magazine=Billboard|date=November 2, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103125102/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8482946/lady-gaga-vertical-video-always-remember-us-this-way|url-status=live}} Brooke Bajgrowicz from Billboard explained that the "reflective video" showed Ally and Jackson "falling in love with each other", while interspersed with scenes of the couple going on a motorbike ride, kissing in a parking lot and performing music together. The clip ends with the crowd chanting Ally's name, and Jackson walks over to embrace her.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8484164/lady-gaga-video-always-remember-us-this-way|title=Lady Gaga Releases Emotional 'Always Remember Us This Way' Video From A Star Is Born': Watch|last=Bajgrowicz|first=Brooke|access-date=November 9, 2018|magazine=Billboard|date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=November 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114000638/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8484164/lady-gaga-video-always-remember-us-this-way|url-status=live}}
Recording and composition
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"Always Remember Us This Way" was recorded immediately after the songwriters finished composing it. They also provided backing vocals as Gaga recorded her vocals in the studio. Cobb said, "It was pure magic when that went down and you can hear it in the film—the energy and the excitement that was happening. It's amazing to hear that kind of voice come through headphones." Lindsey, who had previously collaborated with Gaga on her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), recalled that the singer had imbibed in the character of Ally she was playing in the film completely. "She was living in the hurt and ache of Ally losing the love of her life. We all just wanted to hug her. She was so broken up and in so much raw pain," Lindsey added.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a24088658/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-songwriters-interview/|title=For Lady Gaga, The A Star Is Born Soundtrack Is a Family Affair and Sonic Journey Down Memory Lane|last=Williams|first=Nick|date=October 30, 2018|access-date=October 31, 2018|magazine=Harper's Bazaar|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031005707/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a24088658/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-songwriters-interview/|url-status=live}} McKenna described the songwriting as a powerful moment because the lyrics made them all tearful, and they decided that if "Maybe It's Time" was Cooper's character Jackson's song, then "Always Remember Us This Way" belonged with Ally.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23570117/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-lady-gaga-jason-isbell-lukas-nelson-interview/|title=Addiction, Tears, and Neil Young: Inside the Making of the A Star Is Born Soundtrack|last=Vain|first=Madison|date=October 4, 2018|magazine=Esquire|access-date=November 19, 2018|archive-date=October 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011072200/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23570117/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-lady-gaga-jason-isbell-lukas-nelson-interview/|url-status=live}}
According to Cobb it was magical when "[Gaga] got in the vocal booth on the microphone and the writers were in the control room. I was playing with the band, and it just happened. Her voice was as big as the house. All of us had goosebumps. That happens very seldomly." The song is a piano-driven country ballad,{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/10/05/star-born-soundtrack-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-not-fluke/1532534002/|title=Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper's stunning 'A Star is Born' soundtrack proves 'Shallow' was no fluke|last=Ryan|first=Patrick|date=October 5, 2018|website=USA Today|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-date=October 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006135341/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/10/05/star-born-soundtrack-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-not-fluke/1532534002/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/4/review-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-is-a-five-star-ma/|title=Review: 'A Star is Born' soundtrack is a five-star marvel|last=Kennedy|first=Mark|date=October 4, 2018|website=The Washington Times|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-date=November 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110040425/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/4/review-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-is-a-five-star-ma/|url-status=live}} which is "pushed along" by Gaga's raw, powerful vocals. Following the first verse being on piano, the guitars and drums kick in from the second verse and Gaga's vocals build up to the final chorus uttering the lines, "When the sun goes down/ And the band won't play/ I'll always remember us this way".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/lyrics/8481948/lady-gaga-always-remember-us-this-way-lyrics-a-star-is-born|title=Here Are the Lyrics to Lady Gaga's 'Always Remember Us This Way' From 'A Star Is Born'|last=Lenniger|first=Shea|access-date=October 26, 2018|magazine=Billboard|date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113194626/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/lyrics/8481948/lady-gaga-always-remember-us-this-way-lyrics-a-star-is-born|url-status=live}} The song is composed in the time signature of common time and is performed in the key of A minor with a slow tempo of 65 beats per minute. It follows a chord progression of Am–F–C–G, and the vocals span from G3 to E5.{{cite web|url=https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0190017|title=Lady Gaga 'Always Remember Us This Way' Sheet Music in A minor|first=Stefani|last=Germanotta|publisher=Musicnotes.com|year=2018|access-date=November 13, 2018|archive-date=November 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113210330/https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0190017|url-status=live}}
Critical reception
The song received widespread critical acclaim upon release. Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the song as a "hushed-to-heroic", Elton John-inspired "showstopper".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/arts/music/lady-gaga-star-is-born-authenticity-pop.html|title=In 'A Star is Born,' Lady Gaga Pits Pop Against Authenticity|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 2018|access-date=November 26, 2018|last1=Pareles|first1=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|archive-date=October 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031012900/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/arts/music/lady-gaga-star-is-born-authenticity-pop.html|url-status=live}} Rolling Stone{{'s}} Brittany Spanos and The Washington Post{{'s}} Emily Yahr called the song "explosive" and "haunting", respectively.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-lady-gaga-and-bradley-cooper-shine-bright-on-the-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-733184/|title=Review: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Shine Bright on the 'A Star is Born' Soundtrack|last=Spanos|first=Brittany|date=October 5, 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=November 26, 2018|archive-date=November 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102004836/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-lady-gaga-and-bradley-cooper-shine-bright-on-the-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-733184/|url-status=live}} USA Today{{'s}} Patrick Ryan said the song "ranks up there with 2009's "Speechless" and 2013's "Dope" as one of Gaga's best ballads". Natalie Walker of Vulture thought that "this song really illuminates what a virtuosic vocal chameleon Gaga is", and compared aspects of the track to Lorde's "Liability" and the songs of Adele.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html|title=A Person Who Has Not Seen A Star Is Born Ranks Its Entire Soundtrack|last=Walker|first=Natalie|date=October 12, 2018|access-date=August 18, 2022|work=Vulture|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817230031/https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-a-star-is-born-soundtrack-ranked-from-worst-to-best.html|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-date=August 17, 2022}} Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly picked "Always Remember Us This Way" as the best track of the soundtrack. She opined that the song is "a poem in its own right, evocative and elegiac" with its lyrics, while also serving as a "showcase for Gaga's powerhouse voice, as it moves from the whisperings of its opening lines, soft and invoking love as an act of prayer, to the heroic belt of the chorus."{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/music/lady-gaga-best-song-every-album/|title=The best song from every Lady Gaga album|last=Lenker|first=Maureen Lee|date=September 17, 2021|access-date=August 16, 2022|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816132536/https://ew.com/music/lady-gaga-best-song-every-album/|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-date=August 16, 2022}}
Maeve McDermott of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that "Always Remember Us This Way" was the soundtrack's "most intriguing entry".{{cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-star-is-born-soundtrack-shallow-always-remember-us-this-way-music-review-movies/|title=Lady Gaga needed redemption after last album and finds it with 'A Star is Born'|last=McDermott|first=Maeve|date=October 5, 2018|access-date=October 25, 2018|work=Chicago Sun-Times|archive-date=October 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012214656/https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-star-is-born-soundtrack-shallow-always-remember-us-this-way-music-review-movies/|url-status=live}} Carl Wilson of Slate praised Gaga's performance in the track, thinking that "this is the song she was searching for on Joanne ", and writing that "like a fearless vocal assassin, she annihilates anyone who remembers only the meat dress and puts herself about as close to Streisand’s plane (though not Garland's, sorry) as any current pop singer could."{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-review-lady-gaga-album.html|title=On the A Star Is Born Soundtrack, It's Lady Gaga Who Shines|last=Wilson|first=Carl|date=October 9, 2018|access-date=August 18, 2022|work=Slate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415135221/https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/a-star-is-born-soundtrack-review-lady-gaga-album.html|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-date=April 15, 2022}} Jeremy Winogard of Slant Magazine thought that the song "allow[s] Gaga to flex her pipes."{{cite web|title=A Star Is Born Original Soundtrack|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/a-star-is-born-original-soundtrack|last=Winograd|first=Jeremy|date=October 10, 2018|access-date=October 11, 2018|work=Slant Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011013624/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/a-star-is-born-original-soundtrack|archive-date=October 11, 2018|url-status=live}} Writing for Pitchfork, Larry Fitzmaurice listed "Always Remember Us This Way" as one of the album's best, and called it "unabashedly sentimental".{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-a-star-is-born-soundtrack/|title=Lady Gaga / Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|last=Fitzmaurice|first=Larry|date=October 8, 2018|website=Pitchfork|access-date=October 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009093834/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-a-star-is-born-soundtrack/|archive-date=October 9, 2018|url-status=live}} The Plain Dealer{{'s}} Joey Morona wrote, "Her considerable vocal prowess and control are ... on full display on the heartfelt slow jam".{{cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/10/a_star_is_born_soundtrack_is_m.html|title='A Star is Born' soundtrack is more than an excuse to listen to 'Shallow' on repeat|last=Morona|first=Joey|date=October 5, 2018|access-date=November 26, 2018|work=The Plain Dealer|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014400/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/10/a_star_is_born_soundtrack_is_m.html|url-status=live}} Adam White of The Independent felt that due to its "gorgeous melodies" it is a song which is "easy to return to over and over again".{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/lady-gaga-best-songs-ranked-list-chromatica-rain-on-me-bad-romance-lyrics-a9536916.html|title=Lady Gaga: Every song ranked, from Born This Way to Rain on Me|first=Adam|last=White|date=May 28, 2020|access-date=December 6, 2022|work=The Independent|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20221206181810/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/lady-gaga-best-songs-ranked-list-chromatica-rain-on-me-bad-romance-lyrics-a9536916.html|archive-date=December 6, 2022}} The Daily Telegraph{{'s}} Neil McCormick picked "I'll Never Love Again" and "Always Remember Us This Way" Gaga's best solo tracks from the album, saying: "They may be clichéd, sentimental and old-fashioned, but they are powered by enough conviction and vocal drama to suggest that Lady Gaga has the star power to go supernova in any musical era."{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-star-born-soundtrack-review-enjoyable/|title=Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper: A Star Is Born soundtrack, review: an enjoyable but very peculiar album|last=McCormick|first=Neil|author-link=Neil McCormick|date=October 5, 2018|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=February 17, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230217162207/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-star-born-soundtrack-review-enjoyable/|archive-date=February 17, 2023|url-status=live}}
Chart performance
Following the soundtrack's release, "Always Remember Us This Way" debuted at number-two on the US Digital Songs chart.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lady-gaga/chart-history/hds/|title=Lady Gaga – Chart History (Digital Songs)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 26, 2018|archive-date=March 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322222612/https://www.billboard.com/music/lady-gaga/chart-history/digital-song-sales|url-status=live}} The song consecutively debuted at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 along with four other tracks from the album charting.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8479947/five-a-star-is-born-songs-hit-hot-100|title=Five 'A Star Is Born' Songs Hit Hot 100, Led by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper's 'Shallow'|last=Zellner|first=Xander|date=2018-10-15|access-date=2019-02-01|magazine=Billboard|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103080743/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8479947/five-a-star-is-born-songs-hit-hot-100|url-status=live}} It was present on the chart for a total of nine weeks. As of February 2019, the track has sold 248,000 copies in the United States and accumulated 71 million streams.{{cite magazine|title=Ask Billboard: Lady Gaga's Career Sales & Streams; Ariana Grande Takes '7' to 1|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8497475/lady-gaga-sales-streams-ariana-grande-ask-billboard|date=February 10, 2019|access-date=February 10, 2019|magazine=Billboard|last=Trust|first=Gary|archive-date=February 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210184426/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8497475/lady-gaga-sales-streams-ariana-grande-ask-billboard|url-status=live}} The track debuted at number 32 on the Canadian Hot 100 while entering their Digital Songs chart at number-two.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lady-gaga/chart-history/cns/|title=Lady Gaga – Chart History (Hot Canada Digital Songs)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=January 31, 2019|archive-date=October 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028141954/https://www.billboard.com/music/lady-gaga/chart-history/CNS|url-status=live}} In Australia, the song entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number 18, and by next week reached a peak of number 12. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) certified it septuple platinum for selling over 490,000 units in the country. Similarly in New Zealand, the song entered the singles chart at number 39, and after a few weeks reached a peak of number 14. The Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) certified it quintuple platinum for selling over 150,000 units in the country.
"Always Remember Us This Way" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 39 with sales of 11,029 units on the chart dated October 12, 2018.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-it-s-a-funky-friday-for-dave-fredo/074113|title=Charts analysis: It's a Funky Friday for Dave & Fredo|last=Jones|first=Alan|date=October 12, 2018|access-date=October 15, 2018|magazine=Music Week|url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014408/http://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-it-s-a-funky-friday-for-dave-fredo/074113|archive-date=October 13, 2018|url-status=live}} By its third week on the chart, the track had moved up to reach a peak of number 25 while selling 16,815 units, being present within the top 100 for eleven weeks.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-star-power-from-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper/074250|title=Charts analysis: Star power from Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper|last=Jones|first=Alan|date=October 26, 2018|access-date=October 27, 2018|magazine=Music Week|url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027021648/http://www.musicweek.com/analysis/read/charts-analysis-star-power-from-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper/074250|archive-date=October 27, 2018|url-status=live}} As of February 2025, the song has sold 1.6 million copies in the UK with 189 million streams{{cite web |author1=George Griffiths |title=Lady Gaga's Official Top 40 biggest songs in the UK |website=Official Charts |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gagas-top-40-biggest-songs-on-the-official-uk-chart__29864/ |access-date=7 February 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Lady Gaga's Official Top 40 biggest songs in the UK |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gagas-top-40-biggest-songs-on-the-official-uk-chart__29864/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.officialcharts.com |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529145041/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gagas-top-40-biggest-songs-on-the-official-uk-chart__29864/ |url-status=live }} and is certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
In Ireland the song reached number three on the chart in its third week. That same week first single "Shallow" held the top-spot on the Irish Singles Chart while album track "I'll Never Love Again" also reached the top-ten.{{cite web|last1=White|first1=Jack|title=Lady Gaga claims three songs in this week's Official Irish Singles Chart Top 10, including Shallow at Number 1|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gaga-claims-three-songs-in-this-week-s-official-irish-singles-chart-top-10-including-shallow-at-number-1__24564/|publisher=Official Charts Company|date=October 27, 2018|access-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026222745/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/lady-gaga-claims-three-songs-in-this-week-s-official-irish-singles-chart-top-10-including-shallow-at-number-1__24564/|archive-date=October 26, 2018|url-status=live}} "Always Remember Us This Way" also reached the top-ten of the charts in Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland (number-one in the French-speaking part of Romandie), in the latter two in the same week,
but also in Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia), Hungary, Ireland, Norway and Portugal the digital charts of Luxembourg, Slovakia and the combined European chart, the top twenty in Denmark, Estonia, France, Malaysia, and on the digital chart of Czech Republic, top thirty in Austria, Singapore and the Netherlands and top forty in Italy.
Live performances
File:Lady Gaga performing "Always Remember Us This Way" (GelreDome, July 26, 2022) (cropped).jpg tour]]
In 2022, Gaga performed "Always Remember Us This Way" at The Chromatica Ball stadium tour while playing on the piano, which was set inside a sculpture of thorns.{{cite web|last=Kurchak|first=Sarah|title=Lady Gaga Finally Kicks Off 'Chromatica Ball' After Years of Delays: 'This Bitch Has Been to the Grave and Back!'|website=Consequence|url=https://consequence.net/2022/08/lady-gaga-2022-concert-review-tour-setlist/|date=August 7, 2022|access-date=August 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808074242/https://consequence.net/2022/08/lady-gaga-2022-concert-review-tour-setlist/amp/|archive-date=August 8, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}}{{cite web|first=Anna Lazarus|last=Caplan|url=https://people.com/music/lady-gaga-kicks-off-chromatica-ball-tour/|title=Lady Gaga Kicks Off Her Chromatica Ball Summer Stadium Tour! See Her Dramatic Performance Looks|date=July 18, 2022|access-date=July 18, 2022|website=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718132111/https://people.com/music/lady-gaga-kicks-off-chromatica-ball-tour/|archive-date=July 18, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}} The performance was called "beautiful" and "gorgeus" by Lauren O'Neill from i and The Guardian{{'}}s Michael Cragg, respectively.{{cite news|first=Lauren|last=O'Neill|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-stockholm-review-pop-performer-european-return-onstage-persona-uk-dates-1753362|title=Lady Gaga, The Chromatica Ball, Stockholm, review: one of pop's great performers continues her European return|date=July 21, 2022|access-date=July 21, 2022|newspaper=i|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722004331/https://inews.co.uk/culture/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-stockholm-review-pop-performer-european-return-onstage-persona-uk-dates-1753362|archive-date=July 22, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}}{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Cragg|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/22/lady-gaga-the-chromatica-ball-review-a-spectacular-show-of-high-camp-and-insect-cosplay|title=Lady Gaga: The Chromatica Ball review – a spectacular show of high camp and insect cosplay|date=July 21, 2022|access-date=July 21, 2022|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722102219/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/22/lady-gaga-the-chromatica-ball-review-a-spectacular-show-of-high-camp-and-insect-cosplay|archive-date=July 22, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}} While reviewing the concert, Bob Gendron of the Chicago Tribune opined that the "balladic renditions of 'Always Remember Us This Way' and 'The Edge of Glory' exposed another facet of Gaga: that of a gospel singer in hiding".{{cite magazine|last=Gendron|first=Bob|title=Review: In Lady Gaga's sold-out show at Wrigley Field, every song was a larger-than-life experience|magazine=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-lady-gaga-wrigley-field-chicago-review-20220816-a5wydgomvbblvagexoqvewjsgq-story.html|date=August 16, 2022|access-date=August 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235003/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-lady-gaga-wrigley-field-chicago-review-20220816-a5wydgomvbblvagexoqvewjsgq-story.html|archive-date=August 17, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}} During the tour's stop at East Rutherford, New Jersey, Gaga dedicated "Always Remember Us This Way" to friend/frequent collaborator Tony Bennett, and also interjected a reminder to be "kind to those dealing with mental health" toward the end of the song.{{cite magazine|last=Sherer|first=Devon|title=Lady Gaga Performs Emotional Tribute to Tony Bennett During New York Concert|magazine=Parade|url=https://parade.com/news/lady-gaga-emotional-tribute-tony-bennett-chromatica-ball-concert-new-jersey-2022|date=August 12, 2022|access-date=August 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813201133/https://parade.com/news/lady-gaga-emotional-tribute-tony-bennett-chromatica-ball-concert-new-jersey-2022|archive-date=August 13, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}} In Houston's Minute Maid Park, she dedicated the song to her Houston-born friend Sonja Durham, who passed away years earlier due to cancer.{{cite news|last=Guerra|first=Joey|date=September 14, 2022|title=Review: Lady Gaga urges Houston fans to 'protect each other' at stellar Minute Maid Park showe|url=https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/lady-gaga-urges-houston-fans-to-protect-each-17440403|website=Houston Chronicle|access-date=September 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914082746/https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/lady-gaga-urges-houston-fans-to-protect-each-17440403|archive-date=September 14, 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}}
Gaga performed "Always Remember Us This Way" on January 30, 2025, at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California for FireAid to help with relief efforts for the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.{{cite news|first=Emily|last=Zemler|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-fireaid-performance-1235251792/|title=Lady Gaga Closes FireAid With 'Shallow' and Shares Hopeful Song Written for Concert|date=January 31, 2025|access-date=January 31, 2025|magazine=Rolling Stone}} The same year, the song was performed at select dates of her Lion City Mayhem concerts in Singapore.{{cite magazine |last1=Wang |first1=Mel |title=Lady Gaga Gave Singapore a Show: But Did the Crowds Show Up? |url=https://rollingstonephilippines.com/culture/lady-gaga-singapore-concerts/|magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 27, 2025|date=May 27, 2025 }}
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of A Star Is Born.{{cite AV media notes|others=Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper|title=A Star Is Born|year=2018|type=Credits from Liner notes|publisher=Interscope Records|id=B0028726-01|url=http://lyrics.astarisbornmusic.com/|access-date=October 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009034602/http://lyrics.astarisbornmusic.com/|archive-date=October 9, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}
=Management=
- Published by Sony/ATV Songs LLC / Happygowrucke/Creative Pulse Music/These Are Pulse Songs (BMI). All rights administered by These Are Pulse Songs, BIRB Music (ASCAP).
- All Rights Administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, Maps And Records Music/Creative Pulse Music (BMI).
- All rights administered by These Are Pulse Songs, Warner-Barham Music LLC (BMI) admin. by Songs of Universal (BMI) Warner-Olive Music LLC (ASCAP) admin. by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP).
- Recorded at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and EastWest Studios (Los Angeles, California)
- Mixed at Electric Lady Studios (New York City)
- Mastered at Sterling Sound Studios (New York City)
=Personnel=
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- Lady Gaga – primary vocals, songwriter, producer, piano
- Natalie Hemby – songwriter
- Hillary Lindsey – songwriter
- Lori McKenna – songwriter
- Dave Cobb – producer
- Gena Johnson – recording
- Eddie Spear – recording
- Benjamin Rice – additional recording
- Tom Elmhirst – mixing
- Brandon Bost – mixing engineer
- Randy Merrill – audio mastering
- Chris Powell – drums
- Brian Allen – bass
- Maestro Lightford – keyboards
- LeRoy Powell – steel pedal guitar
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Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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|+ 2025 weekly chart performance for "Always Remember Us This Way" ! scope="col"| Chart (2025) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| scope="row"| Global Excl. US (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lady-gaga/chart-history/glx/|title=Lady Gaga Chart History (Global Excl. US)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=May 13, 2025}}
| 176 |
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| scope="row"| Singapore (RIAS){{cite web|url=https://www.rias.org.sg/the-official-singapore-charts/|title=The Official Singapore Charts Week 22 (23 - 29 May 2025)|publisher=RIAS|access-date=June 3, 2025|archive-date=June 3, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250603065938/https://www.rias.org.sg/the-official-singapore-charts/}}
| 20 |
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=Year-end charts=
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| scope="row"| Hungary (Single Top 40){{cite web|url=http://zene.slagerlistak.hu/archivum/eves-osszesitett-listak/single_db/2018|title=Single Top 100 – eladási darabszám alapján – 2018|publisher=Mahasz|language=hu|access-date=January 16, 2019|archive-date=January 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116201149/http://zene.slagerlistak.hu/archivum/eves-osszesitett-listak/single_db/2018|url-status=live}}
| 36 |
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Certifications and sales
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Belgium|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2018|certyear=2019|accessdate=August 23, 2019}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|title=Always Remember Us This Way|artist=Lady Gaga|type=single|award=Diamond|number=4|relyear=2018|certyear=2024|access-date=July 2, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2022|id=11729|access-date=October 11, 2022}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=2018|certyear=2023|access-date=May 31, 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2023|accessdate=June 12, 2023|refname="fimi"|id=10986}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Norway|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=4|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2021|accessdate=November 19, 2021|refname="ifpi norge"}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Portugal|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2020|id=file_2021-01-06-12-17-34.pdf|accessdate=December 12, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=3|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2024|access-date=October 14, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2021|accessdate=February 28, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Lady Gaga|title=Always Remember Us This Way|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2018|certyear=2023|id=15489-2312-1|accessdate=July 28, 2023|refname="BPI"|salesamount=1,600,000|salesref=}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|relyear=2018|certyear=2020|title=Always Remember Us This Way|artist=Lady Gaga|type=single|award=Platinum|access-date=February 25, 2025|refname=RIAA}}
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Release history
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| scope="row"| Italy
| January 4, 2019 | rowspan="2"| Radio airplay | rowspan="2"| Universal |
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| scope="row"| France
| January 18, 2019 |
See also
References
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Category:Interscope Records singles
Category:Number-one singles in Iceland
Category:Song recordings produced by Dave Cobb
Category:Song recordings produced by Lady Gaga
Category:Songs written by Hillary Lindsey
Category:Songs written by Lady Gaga
Category:Songs written by Lori McKenna