Song · Frank Ocean
“Solo” by Frank Ocean
From the album Blonde (2016)
“Solo” by Frank Ocean appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2016. It was first released in 2016 on the album Blonde. Its best result is #59 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #301 alternative song of 2016.
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"Solo" drifts through Blonde, the album Frank Ocean put out in August 2016, and it's a hymn for a congregation of one. Ocean wrote it with his frequent collaborator Malay and produced it with the English musician James Blake, who lays down the church organ the whole song leans on, with Lamar "Mars" Edwards also on keys. Jazmine Sullivan, already a presence on Ocean's visual album Endless, adds extra vocals, and Jeff Ellis recorded it.
Ocean sings in falsetto, circling the title word again and again, and the title cuts both ways: solo as in alone, so low as in down. It's a coming-of-age song about the ache of going it alone that refuses to sulk, keeping its chin up the whole way. It was never a single, yet it still slipped onto the Billboard Hot 100 at number 96.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 59 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2016 | 100 |
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