The Roots Music Report's
Top Soul Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Need Never Get Old | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 2 | Forever Mine | Andra Day |
| 3 | Rise Up | Andra Day |
| 4 | Soul Lover | Tad Robinson |
| 5 | Keep You in Mind | Guordan Banks |
| 6 | Holding on | Gregory Porter |
| 7 | Grown Folks Music (Work) | Vivian Green |
| 8 | Angel (Live) | Lalah Hathaway |
| 9 | Am I Wrong (feat. ScHoolboy Q) | Anderson .Paak |
| 10 | Woman's World | BJ The Chicago Kid |
| 11 | Wake Up Everybody | R. Kelly |
| 12 | I Do | Musiq Soulchild |
| 13 | Cheers to the Fall | Andra Day |
| 14 | Black Man in a White World | Michael Kiwanuka |
| 15 | Stay | The Suffers |
| 16 | Good Love | Keith Sweat |
| 17 | Unbreakable | Janet Jackson |
| 18 | Lake by the Ocean | Maxwell |
| 19 | Promise to Love | Kem |
| 20 | Uh Oh Feeling | Brian McKnight |
| 21 | Can't Wait | Jill Scott |
| 22 | 2 Bad Habits | Angie Stone |
| 23 | Struggle Love | Jaheim |
| 24 | Stop Where You Are | Corinne Bailey Rae |
| 25 | This One's for Me and You | Johnny Gill |
| 26 | In Common | Alicia Keys |
| 27 | If That Don't Tell You | The James Hunter Six |
| 28 | Sandcastles | Beyoncé |
| 29 | Prior to You (feat. Tank) | Tyrese |
| 30 | Crush (feat. Usher) | Yuna |
| 31 | Dammn Baby | Janet Jackson |
| 32 | Amen | Anthony Hamilton |
| 33 | Backyard Party | R. Kelly |
| 34 | No Time for It | Fantasia |
| 35 | Green Aphrodisiac | Corinne Bailey Rae |
| 36 | Gold | Andra Day |
| 37 | Sunshine | Eric Benét |
| 38 | Crash | Usher |
| 39 | Show Me | K.Avett |
| 40 | Green Light | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes |
| 41 | Hold Up | Beyoncé |
| 42 | Blessings | Chance The Rapper |
| 43 | Untitled 06 L 06.30.2014. | Kendrick Lamar |
| 44 | S.O.B. | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 45 | Sleeping with the One I Love | Fantasia |
| 46 | Zero | Chris Brown |
| 47 | This Could B Us | Prince |
| 48 | (Baby) Hold on | The James Hunter Six |
| 49 | Back Together | Jill Scott |
| 50 | Hotline Bling | Drake |
| 51 | The Good Times | Eric Lindell |
| 52 | Sign of the Times | Cee Lo Green |
| 53 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross |
| 54 | Coffee | Miguel |
| 55 | She Thinks I Still Care | Eric Lindell |
| 56 | Asking for a Friend | The Foreign Exchange |
| 57 | The Fix (feat. Jeremih) | Nelly |
| 58 | So I Can Have You Back | Joe |
| 59 | Run | Bell Biv DeVoe |
| 60 | California | Eric Lindell |
| 61 | Love Star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ) | Common |
| 62 | Mr. Wonderful | Melanie Durrant |
| 63 | 1000 X's & O's | Prince |
| 64 | I'm Not Made That Way | Curtis Salgado |
| 65 | Back in My Arms | Jaheim |
| 66 | Something for Nothing | Rationale |
| 67 | Redbone | Childish Gambino |
| 68 | Freedom (feat. Kendrick Lamar) | Beyoncé |
| 69 | Good Woman | La'Porsha Renae |
| 70 | Can't Feel My Face | The Weeknd |
| 71 | No Sleeep | Janet Jackson |
| 72 | Hurts | Emeli Sandé |
| 73 | Bones | Rebecca Ferguson |
| 74 | Wrong Too Long | Eric Lindell |
| 75 | You Wonder Why? | Stacy Barthe |
| 76 | Candyman | Zedd |
| 77 | I Made It (feat. Tye Tribbett) | Fantasia |
| 78 | Day Dreams | Raphael Saadiq |
| 79 | Stone Rollin' | Raphael Saadiq |
| 80 | Run Like the River | Vintage Trouble |
| 81 | All Night (ft. Knox Fortune) | Chance The Rapper |
| 82 | Special | Avant |
| 83 | My Favorite Part of You | Charlie Wilson |
| 84 | Katchi (feat. Leon Bridges) | Nick Waterhouse |
| 85 | The Man | Aloe Blacc |
| 86 | Morning Sun | Robin Thicke |
| 87 | If I Don't Have You | Tamar Braxton |
| 88 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges |
| 89 | Love Me Back | Kenny Lattimore |
| 90 | Blended Family (What You Do for Love) | Alicia Keys |
| 91 | Classic | Vedo |
| 92 | Fool's Gold | Jill Scott |
| 93 | Shame | Tyrese |
| 94 | Been to the Moon | Corinne Bailey Rae |
| 95 | Faith (feat. Ariana Grande) [From "Sing"] | Stevie Wonder |
| 96 | Brother, What Happened? | Muddy Magnolias |
| 97 | Keep You in Mind (Platinum Edition) | Guordan Banks |
| 98 | Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers) | Laura Mvula |
| 99 | Moonbeam Levels | Prince |
| 100 | Don't Want You Back | Leela James |
| 101 | Come Down | Anderson .Paak |
| 102 | Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers) [MXXWLL Remix] | Laura Mvula |
| 103 | Them Changes | Thundercat |
| 104 | Satisfy Me | Anderson East |
| 105 | Light of My Life | The James Hunter Six |
| 106 | This One's for Me and You (feat. New Edition) | Johnny Gill |
| 107 | A Truer Heart | The James Hunter Six |
| 108 | Can You Do This | Aloe Blacc |
| 109 | #WHERESTHELOVE (feat. the World) | The Black Eyed Peas |
| 110 | No Sleeep (feat. J. Cole) | Janet Jackson |
| 111 | I Try | Macy Gray |
| 112 | In the Dark | The James Hunter Six |
| 113 | Better Man | Leon Bridges |
| 114 | Flowers | Leon Bridges |
| 115 | How Do I Let a Good Man Down? | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 116 | Morning Sun | Melody Gardot |
| 117 | Part of Me | Tedeschi Trucks Band |
| 118 | French African Queen | Gregory Porter |
| 119 | It Gonna Come | Melody Gardot |
| 120 | Preacherman | Melody Gardot |
| 121 | Slow Turn | The Red Dirt Revelators |
| 122 | This Time | The California Honeydrops |
| 123 | Take Me to the River | Al Green |
| 124 | Thank You | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 125 | Trying So Hard Not to Know | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 126 | More Than I Knew | Deborah Cox |
| 127 | Eastside | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes |
| 128 | Stuck with Me | Tamia |
| 129 | Loving Names | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes |
| 130 | Sweet Little Messages | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes |
| 131 | California Roll (feat. Stevie Wonder) | Snoop Dogg |
| 132 | Black Mattie (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt) | The Ragpicker String Band |
| 133 | Long Way | The California Honeydrops |
| 134 | Strike Your Light (feat. Kamilah Marshall) | Vintage Trouble |
| 135 | Flow with It (You Got Me Feeling Like) | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 136 | Stranded | The James Hunter Six |
| 137 | Retreat! | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 138 | Look It Here | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 139 | Nobody's Baby | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 140 | Blue Light Boogie | King Biscuit Boy |
| 141 | This is Where We Came in | The James Hunter Six |
| 142 | Trimmed and Burning (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt) | The Ragpicker String Band |
| 143 | Beautiful Day | The Soul of John Black |
| 144 | Soul Seranade | Aretha Franklin |
| 145 | Who Am I to Judge You (Live) | Andrea Marr |
| 146 | Let Them Knock | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 147 | She Put the Hurt on Me | Otis Redding |
| 148 | Upside | Allen Stone |
| 149 | Shake | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 150 | Sweet Afternoon | Avery Sunshine |
| 151 | Free Your Mind (While You Still Got Time) | The James Hunter Six |
| 152 | Respect | Otis Redding |
| 153 | Let It Burn | Jazmine Sullivan |
| 154 | Howling at Nothing | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 155 | Prepare | Brooklyn Funk Essentials |
| 156 | Stranger to My Happiness | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 157 | Smooth Sailin' | Leon Bridges |
| 158 | Tobacco Road | Lou Rawls |
| 159 | Religious | Ne-Yo |
| 160 | Doubt | Mary J. Blige |
| 161 | Rock Steady | Aretha Franklin |
| 162 | Li'l Liza Jane | Cha Wa |
| 163 | Isn't It Wonderful | Ray Charles |
| 164 | Southern Nights | Allen Toussaint |
| 165 | The Wire | Allen Stone |
| 166 | My Love Has Gone | Jack de Keyzer |
| 167 | Tell Me | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 168 | It's Time | Nick Waterhouse |
| 169 | Crazy | Bettye LaVette |
| 170 | Dancing in the Street | Martha Reeves & the Vandellas |
| 171 | I Learned the Hard Way | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 172 | When It Was Wrong | The California Honeydrops |
| 173 | Fan the Flames | Gregory Porter |
| 174 | Inside I'm All Blue | Bob Walsh |
| 175 | Clean Up at Home (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt) | The Ragpicker String Band |
| 176 | Part of My Life | India.Arie |
| 177 | Broken People | Muddy Magnolias |
| 178 | Love and Happiness | Al Green |
| 179 | Mama Don't Like My Man | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 180 | Lil' Mama's in the Kitchen | The Soul of John Black |
| 181 | You'll Be Lonely | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 182 | Stranded in Your Love (feat. Lee Fields) | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 183 | How Long Do I Have to Wait for You? | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 184 | Just Enuff Rope | Theo Huff |
| 185 | 100 Days, 100 Nights | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 186 | Brickyard Blues | Allen Toussaint |
| 187 | Hot Shot | Saun and Starr |
| 188 | Freedom | Allen Stone |
| 189 | Love | Allen Stone |
| 190 | Symmetrical | Allen Stone |
| 191 | You Send Me | Sam Cooke |
| 192 | Lost and Lookin' | Sam Cooke |
| 193 | Injuns, Here They Come | Cha Wa |
| 194 | All on a Mardi Gras Day | Cha Wa |
| 195 | Cha Wa Got Fiya | Cha Wa |
| 196 | Just Call Me (I'll Be Sure to Let You Down Again) | Josh Hoyer and the Shadowboxers |
| 197 | Sweet Little Nothings | Roland Johnson |
| 198 | Burning Rome | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 199 | I Still Got It | Lee Fields |
| 200 | Baltimore | Prince |
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