So Damn Happy is the thirty-eighth studio album by Aretha Franklin, released on September 23, 2003, by Arista Records. It was her first studio album in five years, following A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998).
The album includes a mix of original songs and covers, notably a collaboration with Burt Bacharach on the track 'The Only Thing Missin''. The title track, 'So Damn Happy', was written by Gordon Chambers and won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 2004.
So Damn Happy peaked at number 33 on the Billboard 200 chart and number 11 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It received generally positive reviews, praising Franklin's vocals and the quality of the songwriting, though some critics noted that the album did not significantly innovate.