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“Break My Soul” by Beyoncé
From the album RENAISSANCE (2022)
“Break My Soul” by Beyoncé appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the album RENAISSANCE. Its best result is #6 on the KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #273 alternative song of 2022.
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"Break My Soul" kicked the door open for Renaissance, Beyoncé's seventh album, arriving as the lead single in June 2022, and it's a full-body plunge into house music. It borrows from two dance-floor records, Big Freedia's 2014 bounce track "Explode", with Freedia herself hollering on it, and Robin S.'s "Show Me Love", and lets a choir swell up behind Beyoncé as she shakes off everything trying to wear her down. She wrote it with Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Jens Christian Isaksen and Jay-Z, and produced it with the first three.
Its message about refusing to let a dead-end job crush your spirit landed right in the middle of the Great Resignation, and the song became that movement's anthem. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, and at the 2023 Grammys it won Best Dance/Electronic Recording, with nominations for Record and Song of the Year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 89 |
| 2022 | 27 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 70 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 6 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022 | 92 |
| 2022 | 42 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 732 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 197 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 495 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 361 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
Also listed as: Break my Soul; BREAK MY SOUL.
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