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Romantic Homicide
| "Romantic Homicide" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial 2022 release cover | |||
| "Here with Me" | |||
| July 20, 2022 | |||
| July 13, 2022 | |||
| 2:12 | |||
| Darkroom | |||
| Interscope | |||
| David Burke (D4vd) | |||
| Dan Darmawan | |||
| "D.T.N" (2022) |
"Romantic Homicide" (2022)
"Here with Me" (2022) | "D.T.N" (2022) | "Romantic Homicide" (2022) | "Here with Me" (2022) | | "D.T.N" (2022) | "Romantic Homicide" (2022) | "Here with Me" (2022) | | | | | | | | "Romantic Homicide" on YouTube | | | | | | | | |
"Romantic Homicide" is a song by American singer-songwriter D4vd. It was released on July 20, 2022, through DistroKid and later included as the second single from his debut EP, Petals to Thorns. The song gained popularity on the social media platform TikTok in September 2022 and was re-released by Darkroom and Interscope, leading to commercial success. In 2025, the song re-entered the charts following the discovery of Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body in a Tesla registered to D4vd.
D4vd recorded the song in his sister's closet and initially released it in July 2022. By early September, it had been featured in over 245,000 TikTok clips.
The song features "heavy guitars" and "sentimental percussions", exploring themes of unrequited love and breakups and is characterized by its short lyrics, described as having a "more profound meaning".
After gaining popularity on TikTok, it was released on July 20, 2022, through DistroKid, and later included as the second single from D4vd's debut EP, Petals to Thorns, released in 2023.
A live version of the song, along with a visualizer, was released on December 8, 2023, by Darkroom and Interscope.
The music video for the song was released on September 7, 2022. Inspired by film noir and anime, it features an alter ego named Itami, meaning "pain" in Japanese. Directed by Tommy Kiljoy, the video depicts the character mourning and moving on from a relationship.
After faring well in the charts on its first release, in 2025, the song re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 38 following the discovery of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body in a Tesla registered to D4vd. It also climbed 102 places to number 42 on Spotify's Global Top 50, and was number 13 in US Spotify by September 20, 2025.
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2× Platinum | 140,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 40,000‡ | |
| 4× Platinum | 320,000‡ | |
| Gold | 45,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 200,000‡ | |
| Gold | 50,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 140,000‡ | |
| 2× Platinum | 60,000‡ | |
| Gold | 30,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 50,000‡ | |
| Gold | 5,000‡ | |
| Gold | 30,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 600,000‡ | |
| 3× Platinum | 3,000,000‡ | |
| Platinum | 7,000,000† | |
| Gold | 1,000,000† | |
| ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone. |
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