Song · Leon Bridges
“Bad Bad News” by Leon Bridges
From the album Good Thing (2018)
“Bad Bad News” by Leon Bridges appears on 20 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2018 and 2026. It was first released in 2018 on the album Good Thing. Its best result is #1 on the Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #1 indie & aaa song of 2018, #420 indie & aaa song of all time and #29 of the '10s.
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"Bad Bad News" struts onto Good Thing, the Leon Bridges album it arrived with in May 2018, and it swings like a late-night club set. Ricky Reed and Nate Mercereau produced it, and Mercereau is practically a band unto himself here: bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, trumpet, French horn and some of the drums, with Joshua Block also behind the kit and Jeff Dazey blowing saxophone.
Six writers share the credit, Bridges, Reed, Mercereau, Block, Austin Jenkins and Wayne Hector, and Block, Jenkins and Reed stack the backing vocals. Manny Marroquin and Chris Galland mixed it so the bass walks right up front and Bridges glides over the top, cool and unbothered, a smooth voice riding a restless groove.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018 | 50 |
| 2018 | 21 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 8 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 1 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2018 | 200 |
| 2018 | 27 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2018 | 90 |
| 2018 | 9 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2018 | 97 |
| 2018 | 4 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2018 | 89 |
| 2018 | 3 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2018 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 7 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 127 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 560 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 650 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 225 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 152 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 463 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 502 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2025 | 711 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 284 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 233 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
Also listed as: Bad, Bad News.
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