Song · Lizzo
“About Damn Time” by Lizzo
From the album Special (2022)
“About Damn Time” by Lizzo appears on 15 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the album Special. Its best result is #1 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #46 alternative song of 2022 and #262 of the '20s.
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"About Damn Time" landed on April 14, 2022 as the lead single from Lizzo's fourth album, Special, and it was the last song written for the record. She felt the album still lacked a lift like "Good as Hell", so Blake Slatkin and Ricky Reed started one that January from four piano chords, Reed turned them into a bassline, and the instrumental got Lizzo straight into the studio.
The result is a strutting disco-funk pep talk, Reed's bass bouncing, horns from Jesse McGinty and Mike Cordone flashing, Terrace Martin on vocoder, and Lizzo herself breaking out the flute. Manny Marroquin mixed it. It became her second number one in the United States and won the Grammy for Record 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 | 5 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 2 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 5 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022 | 92 |
| 2022 | 8 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 40 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022 | 109 |
| 2022 | 1 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 89 |
| 2022 | 10 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022 | 100 |
| 2022 | 7 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 600 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 680 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 612 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 561 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 151 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2025 | 759 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 855 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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