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“Special” by Lizzo featuring SZA
From the album Special (2022) Featuring SZA
“Special” by Lizzo featuring SZA appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2023 and 2025. It was first released in 2022 on the album Special. Its best result is #173 on the 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,141 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Lizzo's 2022 album Special, her fourth, takes its name from this song, and the title track comes out of a crowded room: Max Martin, Ian Kirkpatrick, Daoud and Pop Wansel produced it and wrote it with her and Theron Thomas. Daoud is all over it on piano, Rhodes, guitar and saxophone, Ricky Reed plays bass, a trumpet, trombone and sax section fills out the horns, and Serban Ghenea mixed it.
She debuted it on Saturday Night Live that April, a full three months before the album landed, and sang it on Today the day it came out. Italian pop radio got it as the third single on January 13, 2023, a remix with SZA followed, and it became Lizzo's first Adult R&B Airplay chart-topper and SZA's second. At the 65th Grammys she performed it backed by a gospel choir.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 627 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2025 | 173 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: Special feat. SZA.
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