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A Change Is Gonna Come is een in 1963 door singer-songwriter Sam Cooke geschreven en gezongen nummer dat kort na diens dood in 1964 als single uitgebracht werd. Alhoewel het destijds een bescheiden hit was, heeft het lied door de jaren heen aan waardering gewonnen. In Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time staat het als nummer 12 genoteerd.

Cooke schreef de eerste versie van wat uiteindelijk A Change Is Gonna Come zou worden na een optreden in mei 1963. Het nummer beschrijft Cookes innerlijke strijd met racisme.

"A Change Is Gonna Come" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. It initially appeared on Cooke's album Ain't That Good News, released mid-February 1964 by RCA Victor; a slightly edited version of the recording was released as a single on December 22, 1964. Produced by Hugo & Luigi and arranged and conducted by René Hall, the song was the B-side to "Shake".

The song was inspired by various events in Cooke's life, most prominently when he and his entourage were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana. Cooke felt compelled to write a song that spoke to his struggle and of those around him, and that pertained to the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans.

Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, "A Change Is Gonna Come" is widely considered one of Cooke's greatest and most influential compositions and has been voted among the greatest songs ever recorded by various publications. In 2007, the song was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Recording Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2021, Rolling Stone magazine placed it at number 3 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and in 2025, the magazine placed it at number 1 on its list of "The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time."