Song · Chic
“Good Times” by Chic
From the album Americuba (2017)
“Good Times” by Chic appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2020 and 2022. It was first released in 2017 on the album Americuba. Its best result is #95 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,613 indie & aaa song of all time and #95 of the '70s.
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Chic's "Good Times" arrived in June 1979 on Atlantic, the lead single from the band's third album, Risqué, and it's disco soul at its most unbothered. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers wrote and produced it, and it paid off in a big way: it sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 on August 18, 1979, and went to number five in the UK.
Its real afterlife came inside other people's records. "Good Times" ranks among the most sampled songs ever made, above all in hip-hop, and Rolling Stone slotted it at 68th among the 500 greatest songs of all time. A 2004 reissue, with "I Want Your Love" on the flip, went Silver in the UK.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 871 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 95 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
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