Song · Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Burning” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
From the album Cool It Down (2022)
“Burning” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs appears on 18 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the album Cool It Down. Its best result is #1 on the WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 alternative song of 2022 and #112 of the '20s.
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"Burning" comes from Cool It Down, the 2022 album that ended a long recording silence for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, their fifth, and it's a dance and soul song with a scorched heart. Karen O drew on a fire that took most of what she owned when she was nineteen, and she turns it into a plea for some relief from the heat, a signal sent up from somewhere deep inside.
The band wrote it and Andrew Wyatt produced, and Secretly Canadian put it out in August 2022 as the album's second single, following "Spitting Off the Edge of the World". The band had wanted to get back to work as early as 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic stopped them, and it sounds like a group making up for lost time, Karen O's voice swooping and soaring as the song builds to a slow boil.
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 | 22 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2022 | 91 |
| 2022 | 2 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 4 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 6 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2022 | 107 |
| 2022 | 5 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 41 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022 | 100 |
| 2022 | 42 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
| 2022 | 54 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2022 | 200 |
| 2022 | 20 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022 | 92 |
| 2022 | 11 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 89 |
| 2022 | 13 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 1 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022 | 88 |
| 2023 | 2 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2023 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 770 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 829 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 606 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 580 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 80 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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