Song · SZA
“I Hate U” by SZA
From the album SOS (2022)
“I Hate U” by SZA appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2021. It was first released in 2022 on the album SOS. Its best result is #78 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #392 alternative song of 2021.
"I Hate U" slipped onto SoundCloud in August 2021, hit the streaming services that December, and ended up as the second single from SZA's second album, SOS, a year before the record itself arrived in 2022. She wrote it with Rob Bisel, Carter Lang, Sir Dylan and ThankGod4Cody, and Punch and Anthony Tiffith executive-produced it for release on Top Dawg Entertainment.
It's electro-R&B with a crunchy but feather-light track, a yacht-rock keyboard floating under a laid-back, dreamy chorus, and verses with hip-hop in their bones. A break-up song, it has SZA picking over what went wrong, resentful of the ex and still missing them anyway. It entered the Hot 100 at number 7, her fifth top-10, and went top 40 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 78 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021 | 100 |
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