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“Rise Up” by Andra Day
From the album Cheers to the Fall (2015)
“Rise Up” by Andra Day appears on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2016 and 2026. It was first released in 2015 on the album Cheers to the Fall. Its best result is #2 on the Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #112 indie & aaa song of 2016 and #1,168 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Rise Up" was the second single from Cheers to the Fall, Andra Day's 2015 debut album, released through Warner Music Group in August 2015. Day wrote it with Jennifer Decilveo after a close friend was diagnosed with cancer, and she has called it a sort of prayer, cut in a loose, freestyle session and full of lines she would normally dismiss as clichés but that fit a hopeless moment exactly. Decilveo produced it with Adrian Gurvitz.
It went quadruple platinum in the US, drew a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance and won the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at the Soul Train Music Awards. Day sang it at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, and her performance on The View earned her a Daytime Emmy nomination.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2016 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 458 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 458 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 1155 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 1033 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 735 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 752 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2026 | 776 | WYEP | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time | 1180 |
| 2026 | 447 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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