Song · Lizzo
“Truth Hurts” by Lizzo
Released 2016
“Truth Hurts” by Lizzo appears on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2017 and 2025. It was first released in 2016. Its best result is #3 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #135 indie & aaa song of 2019 and #1,901 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Lizzo put "Truth Hurts" out in September 2017 on Nice Life and Atlantic, and for a while it went nowhere. Then, two years on, it caught fire on TikTok and in the Netflix film Someone Great, got a second push as a radio single, and became the sleeper hit of 2019: her first number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a seven-week run at the top that earned her a Guinness World Record, and a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.
Ricky Reed produced it, with Tele co-producing, and the pair wrote it with Lizzo and Jesse Saint John: a brash, strutting track that rides a trap beat and leaves plenty of room for Lizzo to take over. In the video she plays a bride who marries herself. By 2021 it had a place on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 21 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017 | 89 |
| 2019 | 3 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 349 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs | 892 |
| 2023 | 725 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 572 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 284 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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