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“Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” by Beyoncé
From the album I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008)
“Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” by Beyoncé appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2013 and 2025. It was first released in 2008 on the album I Am… Sasha Fierce. Its best result is #72 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,238 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" came off her 2008 album I Am... Sasha Fierce as one half of a double A-side with "If I Were a Boy", a deliberate face-off between Beyoncé herself and her aggressive stage alter ego, Sasha Fierce. Guess which one ran away with the year. She produced it with The-Dream and Christopher Stewart, who wrote it with her and Kuk Harrell, and it struts somewhere between dance-pop, contemporary R&B and bounce.
It's a kiss-off to a man who couldn't bring himself to commit, sung by a woman out at the club toasting her freedom. The black-and-white video, parodied and imitated everywhere, took Video of the Year at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the song won three Grammys with Song of the Year among them, and in 2026 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 194 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2018 | 889 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2022 | 87 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 364 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 72 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 140 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 146 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
Also listed as: Single Ladies; Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).
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