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“Good as Hell” by Lizzo
From the EP Coconut Oil (2016)
“Good as Hell” by Lizzo appears on 8 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2016 and 2025. It was first released in 2016 on the EP Coconut Oil. Its best result is #1 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #110 indie & aaa song of 2016 and #1,136 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Good as Hell" is Lizzo at full strut, the lead single from Coconut Oil, her first EP, released on Atlantic and Nice Life in 2016. She wrote it with Ricky Reed, who produced and played on it, and it's a strutting, hand-clapping blast of soul and pop built to get you off the couch and out the door, with Manny Marroquin mixing it to a high shine.
It had a long second act. The song named her 2017 tour, and when it went back to radio in 2019 it became a sleeper hit like "Truth Hurts" before it: after she performed it at the MTV Video Music Awards it entered the Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to number three that November, went top ten in the UK, Canada, Australia, Belgium and New Zealand, and has since gone 5× Platinum. The first video was set in a hair salon; the second put her in Southern University's marching band for homecoming week.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2016 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 129 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2022 | 347 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2024 | 433 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 311 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 175 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 78 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2025 | 297 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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