Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100

Lizzo‘s “About Damn Time” clocks in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, rising from No. 2. The track becomes Lizzo’s second Hot 100 leader, after “Truth Hurts” dominated for seven weeks beginning in September 2019.

“Time” is from Lizzo’s new LP, Special, which concurrently debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” hits a new high, lifting 4-3; Bad Bunny and Chencho Corleone‘s “Me Porto Bonito,” at its No. 6 best, takes over as the most-streamed song in the U.S. – and becomes the first all-Spanish-language No. 1 in the history of the Streaming Songs chart; and Harry Styles‘ “Late Night Talking,” boosted by its new official video, returns to the Hot 100’s top 10, jumping 11-9, after it originally reached No. 4 upon its debut in June.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data. All charts (dated July 30, 2022) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (July 26). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

“About Damn Time,” released on Nice Life/Atlantic Records and the 1,139th Hot 100 No. 1 in the chart’s nearly 64-year history, completes a 14-week ascent to the summit, after it debuted at No. 50 on the April 30-dated chart, with 88.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 3%), 14.3 million streams (up 18%) and 14,000 downloads sold (up 29%, aided by discount-pricing in the iTunes Store, as it wins top Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100) in the July 15-21 tracking week, according to Luminate.

The track adds a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and a second frame atop Digital Song Sales, while rebounding to its No. 8 best, from No. 10, on Streaming Songs.

As previously reported, “Time” parent album Special, released July 15, launches at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 69,000 equivalent album units. With her fourth LP, Lizzo lands new career bests in both rank on the chart and weekly consumption for an album.

Lizzo previously led the Hot 100 with her breakthrough hit “Truth Hurts” for seven weeks beginning in September 2019. She has also hit the top 10 with “Good as Hell” (No. 3 peak, November 2019) and “Rumors,” featuring Cardi B (No. 4, August 2021).

Chart-watcher Jesper Tan, of Subang Jaya, Malaysia, whose thorough research one can swear by, wrote in, anticipating Lizzo’s latest Hot 100 coronation, noting that her new No. 1 brings the word “damn” to the summit for the first time. Previously, YoungBloodz, featuring Lil Jon, reached a No. 4 best with “Damn!” in 2003. Honorable mention to rock group Damn Yankees, which hit No. 3 with “High Enough” 1991. Lizzo scores the first No. 1 with “about” in its title since … just March, when the ensemble Encanto hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” spent its fifth and final week on top. Much more time passed between No. 1s with “time” in their titles: Lizzo achieves the first such leader since Ja Rule’s “Always on Time,” featuring Ashanti, ruled for two weeks in 2002.

Also notably, “Time” interpolates “Hey! DJ,” which the World’s Famous Supreme Team took to No. 15 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 1984 and has now been reimagined in two Hot 100 No. 1s: prior to “Time,” Mariah Carey’s “Honey,” which samples “Hey! DJ,” notched three weeks in the lead in September 1997.

“Time” concurrently crowns the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and multi-metric Hot R&B Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100, for a third and 10th week, respectively.

“Time” claims the Hot 100’s top spot from Harry Styles’ “As It Was,” which drops to No. 2 after 10 weeks at No. 1, with 73 million in airplay audience (down 2%), 17.4 million streams (down 4%) and 5,000 sold (up 6%). Still, “As It Was” tops the Songs of the Summer chart for an eighth week, as it has led the seasonal ranking, which tracks the top titles between Memorial Day and Labor Day, each week this year.