Top R&B Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2023

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Playing with My Emotions	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
2	Hear My Dear	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
3	Medal	Emily King	Soul
4	Contact	Kelela	Soul
5	That's All I Wanted from You	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
6	Come Back	Trombone Shorty	Neo-Soul
7	Not Gonna Get Me	Alex Lucero and The Live Again Band	Soul
8	Tiny Garden (feat. Duendita)	Jamila Woods	R&B
9	Digits (feat. Magna Carda)	Grace Sorensen	R&B
10	Hard to Be a Human	Bettye LaVette	R&B
11	Lord Have Mercy	Durand Jones	Soul
12	Congo Square	Sonny Landreth	R&B
13	Like, Maybe	Kalu & The Electric Joint	Soul
14	I Am	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
15	See It Through	Durand Jones	R&B
16	Muthaship	Danny Gatton	R&B
17	Elmira St. Boogie	Danny Gatton	R&B
18	Quiet Village	Danny Gatton	R&B
19	Fandingus	Danny Gatton	R&B
20	I'm Ready	Paul Reed Smith - Eightlock	R&B
21	Man on Fire	Earl St. Clair	R&B
22	Looking for a Love	The J. Geils Band	R&B
23	Crime	Kalu & The Electric Joint	Soul
24	Maybe They'll Take Your Picture	Liv Warfield	Soul
25	Edge	Liv Warfield	Soul
26	That's Where It's at	The California Honeydrops	Soul
27	50 Foot Woman	Hannah Williams	Funk
28	Eleanor Rigby	Aretha Franklin	Soul
29	Two Jobs	Lee Fields	Soul
30	Friends (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)	Monica	Neo-Soul
31	Moon Rock	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
32	Why I Sing the Blues	Aretha Franklin	Soul
33	If You Don't Want My Love	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
34	One Tribe	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
35	Think	Aretha Franklin	Soul
36	Big Chief	Professor Longhair	R&B
37	I Can Fly	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
38	Won't Be Long	Aretha Franklin	R&B
39	Raise Your Mind	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
40	Respect	Aretha Franklin	Soul
41	Without a Heart	Lee Fields	Soul
42	Butterfly	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
43	Video	India.Arie	Soul
44	Crazy Love	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
45	Another Day	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
46	Time is Tight	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
47	Sea Star	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
48	I Say a Little Prayer	Aretha Franklin	Soul
49	Shou Shou Do	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
50	Arizona to Georgia	Euforquestra	Funk
51	Best of My Love	The Emotions	R&B
52	I Should Have Let You Be	Lee Fields	Soul
53	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	Funk
54	Warm Me Up	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
55	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	Soul
56	Soul Sweet Song	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
57	Come Around and Love Me	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
58	Greatest Place on Earth	Ivan Neville	Disco
59	Try a Little Tenderness	Otis Redding	R&B
60	Chances	Monophonics	Soul
61	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying	Paul Carrack	Disco
62	Backseat Lover	The Commotions	Funk
63	At Last	Kaz Hawkins	Soul
64	Night Walker	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
65	My Heart's in Louisiana	Nelson Blanchard	R&B
66	Brownout	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
67	Look It Here	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Soul
68	Crying Water	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
69	Yes We Will	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
70	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	The Temptations	Motown
71	Bring It on Home to Me	Sam Cooke	Soul
72	Baby I Need Your Loving	Four Tops	Motown
73	What's Going on	Marvin Gaye	R&B
74	100 Days, 100 Nights	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
75	Forever	Lee Fields	Soul
76	Shiny & New	Mayer Hawthorne	R&B
77	Inspiration Information	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
78	Don't Get Me Started (feat. Steve Winwood)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
79	I Can't Let This Slip Away	Hannah Williams	Funk
80	Move the Earth	Euforquestra	Funk
81	Stay Gone	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
82	Move on Baby	The Allergies	Soul
83	Last Night in the Rain	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
84	City of the Body Bag	Mestizo Beat	Funk
85	Show Me the Way	Euforquestra	Funk
86	Doesn't Make Sense	Cass Clayton	R&B
87	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)	Otis Redding	Soul
88	Knock on Wood	Otis Redding	Soul
89	Respect	Otis Redding	Soul
90	It's My Time	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
91	My Peace (feat. Mr. Talkbox)	PJ Morton	Neo-Soul
92	On My Way (feat. El DeBarge)	PJ Morton	Neo-Soul
93	I Want You	Durand Jones	R&B
94	Ain't Too Proud to Beg	The Temptations	Motown
95	Runnin' (To Get to Your Love)	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
96	Let's Go Get Stoned	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
97	Lady Love	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
98	Mess About It (feat. Ray Parker Jr. & Jon Batiste)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
99	Somehow	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
100	CLOUDS	Prince	R&B
101	I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know	Marc Broussard	Soul
102	Ooh Carla, Ooh Otis	Otis Redding	Soul
103	Shelter	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
104	Rumors	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Neo-Soul
105	Welcome 2 America	Prince	Soul
106	Runnin' Away (Single Version)	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
107	Spaced Cowboy	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
108	South Carolina	The Poets Of Rhythm	Funk
109	Your Face Before My Eyes	Lee Fields	R&B
110	Focus on Me (Unplugged)	Adiel Mitchell	Soul
111	Knockin' at My Door	Jacob Larson Band	Funk
112	Border Song (Holy Moses)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
113	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Kyle Hollingsworth	Funk
114	Save Your Tears for Someone New	Lee Fields	R&B
115	Jelly Bread	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
116	What Did I Do	Lee Fields	Disco
117	Use Me	Bill Withers	Soul
118	My Girl	The Temptations	Motown
119	Sadie	Durand Jones	Soul
120	The Thrill is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
121	Part of Me	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
122	Chain of Fools	Aretha Franklin	Soul
123	Get Ready	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
124	Failed Christian	Nick Lowe	R&B
125	Man That I've Become	Nick Lowe	R&B
126	Frim Fram Sauce	Paul Carrack	Disco
127	The Weight	Aretha Franklin	Soul
128	Higher	Euforquestra	Funk
129	Save Me	Aretha Franklin	Soul
130	Morrison	Lauren Frihauf & Ben Suyat	Soul
131	Take Me As I Am	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
132	Party for One	Mamas Gun	R&B
133	How Do I Get There?	Don Bryant	Soul
134	Innocence	Tomar and the Fcs	Soul
135	Papa Was a Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	R&B
136	Maybe Your Baby	Stevie Wonder	R&B
137	Uptight (Everything's Alright)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
138	I Was Made to Love Her	Stevie Wonder	R&B
139	You Haven't Done Nothin'	Stevie Wonder	R&B
140	Boogie on Reggae Woman	Stevie Wonder	R&B
141	Let's Go Get Stoned	Ray Charles	R&B
142	Worth It	Amber Mark	R&B
143	Nobody's Baby	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
144	You Gotta Move	Sam Cooke	Soul
145	Harmony	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	Soul
146	The Payback	James Brown	Funk
147	Lovers of Valdaro	Turkuaz	Funk
148	I'm Gonna Give You Respect	Marvin Gaye	Motown
149	What It Takes (feat. Lauren Daigle)	Trombone Shorty	Neo-Soul
150	Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand	Professor Longhair	R&B
151	Mercy	Bonnie Bishop	R&B
152	Groovin'	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
153	What I Owe	Teddy Grossman	R&B
154	Jet Black Cadillac	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
155	Don't Play That Song (Live at Fillmore West)	Aretha Franklin	R&B
156	Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
157	Talk Back Mic	Marc Cohn	Soul
158	Reach out	Durand Jones & The Indications	Soul
159	Working on Me	The Allergies	Soul
160	The Last Dance	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
161	Sage Motel	Monophonics	Soul
162	Make It After All	Dumpstaphunk	Funk
163	Hip Hug Her	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
164	Just Give Me Your Time	Lee Fields	Soul
165	Rock Steady	Aretha Franklin	Soul
166	(What A) Wonderful World	Sam Cooke	Soul
167	Satisfied	Euforquestra	Funk
168	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Marvin Gaye	R&B
169	Into the Mystic	Van Morrison	R&B
170	Big Chief	Dr. John	R&B
171	Funky Mama	Danny Gatton	R&B
172	Nothing at All	The California Honeydrops	R&B
173	Heat Lightning	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	R&B
174	Feels So Good	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
175	Lovely Day	Bill Withers	Soul
176	Here with Me (feat. Anderson .Paak)	Mary J. Blige	Soul
177	See Through Me (feat. Pedrito Martinez)	Bettye LaVette	Soul
178	He Said / She Said	Acantha Lang	R&B
179	I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
180	Stranger to My Happiness	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
181	Hello Stranger	Barbara Lewis	Soul
182	When You Love Somebody	Leela James	Soul
183	Celebration	Kool & The Gang	Soul
184	TELL the TRUTH	Jon Batiste	Soul
185	Get 2 Know	Liv Warfield	Soul
186	If You Want Me to Stay	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
187	Future Lover	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
188	I'll Be Around	The Spinners	Soul
189	Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away	Stevie Wonder	R&B
190	The Ever Watchful Eye	Turkuaz	Funk
191	Movin'	Write Minded	R&B
192	It Ain't Fair	Aretha Franklin	Soul
193	Shine a Light (Live)	Hazel Miller	Soul
194	Lookin' for Another Pure Love	Stevie Wonder	R&B
195	The Unicorn	The California Honeydrops	R&B
196	How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
197	Twistin' the Night Away	Sam Cooke	Soul
198	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	Soul
199	Rainy Day	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
200	Still Got Time	Euforquestra	Funk

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The Roots Music Report's Top R&B Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2023