Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Nearly three years after her monster hit single, “Truth Hurts,” topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts — Lizzo has another hit on her hands with “About Damn Time.”
The high-powered empowerment anthem is the first single from Lizzo’s new LP, Special, which debuted at the number two slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart, according to the music publication.
“About Damn Time,” was released via Nice Life/Atlantic Records and won top Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100 last week. Special dropped on July 15 and pulled 69,000 equivalent album units.
PItchfork gave Special a rating of 6.5 noting that the singer-songwriter continues “her mission to promote empowerment and positivity, to ensure that her fans never feel alone, has manifested itself in making sure they never go a day without forgetting she exists.”
The star stays present on the minds and timelines of her fans with her new shapewear line with Fabletics—Yitty, a TV production deal with Amazon, and her own active social media platforms.
The star recently changed lyrics to the song, “Grrrls” which, many said, had an “ableist slur.”
“It’s been brought to my attention that there is a harmful word in my new song ‘GRRRLS,’” Lizzo wrote in a statement shared to social media last month. She added, “Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language,” she continued. “As a fat Black woman in America, I’ve had many hurtful words used against me, so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally, or in my case, unintentionally).”
“I'm proud to say there's a new version of ‘Grrrls’ with a lyric change,” Lizzo wrote in her statement when she debuting the change. "This is the result of me listening and taking action."
“As an influential artist, I'm dedicated to being part of the change I've been waiting to see in the world,” she signed the missive, "Xoxo, Lizzo."