The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
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1 | Nick of Time | The James Hunter Six | Daptone | Soul |
2 | We Get by | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
3 | KIWANUKA | Michael Kiwanuka | Interscope | Soul |
4 | Hot Pink | Doja Cat | Kemosabe | Soul |
5 | Memories of | Kaz Hawkins | Self-Release | Soul |
6 | Bigger Love | John Legend | Columbia | Neo-Soul |
7 | After Hours | The Weeknd | UMG | Soul |
8 | Oxnard | Anderson .Paak | Aftermath Entertainment | Soul |
9 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch | Soul |
10 | Work to Do | Marc Cohn | BMG | Soul |
11 | Blackbirds | Bettye LaVette | Verve | Soul |
12 | Worthy | India.Arie | BMG | Soul |
13 | Masterpeace | JamesDavis | Motown | Neo-Soul |
14 | Play Nice | Cass Clayton | Self-Release | R&B |
15 | Homecoming: the Live Album | Beyoncé | Parkwood | Soul |
16 | Over It | Summer Walker | Interscope | Soul |
17 | S.O.L.A.R. | Inayah | Inayahlator | Soul |
18 | The Wild Card | Ledisi | Listen Back | Soul |
19 | Soul Food: Cooking with Maceo | Maceo Parker | Mascot | Soul |
20 | Kairos | Nicole Bus | Roc Nation | R&B |
21 | REAL LIFE | Emeli Sandé | Virgin | Soul |
22 | Chilombo | Jhené Aiko | Def Jam | Soul |
23 | Ella Mai | Ella Mai | 10 Summers | R&B |
24 | U Kin B the Sun | Frazey Ford | Arts & Crafts | R&B |
25 | CASE STUDY 01 | Daniel Caesar | Golden Child | Soul |
26 | All Love Everything | Aloe Blacc | BMG | Soul |
27 | Rouge | Yuna | Verve | R&B |
28 | A Muse in Her Feelings | dvsn | OVO Sound | Soul |
29 | West Coast Grooves | Guthrie Govan | Self-Release | Soul |
30 | Full Circle | Angie Stone | Cleopatra | Soul |
31 | Avalanche | Julian Taylor Band | Gypsy Soul | Soul |
32 | Dotted Line | Alex Lucero & Live Again | Self-Release | Soul |
33 | Dinah Jane 1 | Dinah Jane | Hitco | Soul |
34 | Poetry in Motion | The Soul Rebels | Mack Avenue | Soul |
35 | Into the Purple Valley | Ry Cooder | Reprise | Soul |
36 | Good Thing | Leon Bridges | Sony | Soul |
37 | South of I-10 | Sonny Landreth | BMG | R&B |
38 | Athena | Sudan Archives | Stones Throw | R&B |
39 | The Album | Teyana Taylor | Def Jam | Soul |
40 | B7 | Brandy | eOne | Soul |
41 | Back Home | Trey Songz | Atlantic | Soul |
42 | Steel Hearts | Season Ammons | Cobalt Blue | R&B |
43 | Caution | Mariah Carey | Epic | Soul |
44 | Jimmy Lee | Raphael Saadiq | Columbia | Soul |
45 | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Bottleneck | Soul |
46 | Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone | Soul |
47 | Love & Conflict | Martha Wash | Purple Rose | Funk |
48 | Love Always Wins | Kem | Motown | Soul |
49 | The Devonns | The Devonns | Record Kicks | Motown |
50 | - Ugh, Those Feels Again | Snoh Aalegra | Epic | R&B |
51 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Columbia | Soul |
52 | Missunderstood: the Diaries | Queen Naija | Capitol | Soul |
53 | Step Up | Tower of Power | Artistry Music | R&B |
54 | Rise Above | Tomar and the Fcs | Splice | Soul |
55 | The One Percent | Bryan Andrew Wilson | CE Music | Soul |
56 | Ready | Ella Mai | 10 Summers | Neo-Soul |
57 | What's Going on | Devon Gilfillian | Capitol | R&B |
58 | Guitar Gumbo | Tom Principato | Powerhouse | R&B |
59 | Whatever It Takes | The James Hunter Six | Daptone | Soul |
60 | Say the Word | The Allergies | Jalapeno | Soul |
61 | It is What It is | Thundercat | Brainfeeder | Soul |
62 | Introspection | Angela Munoz | Linear Labs | R&B |
63 | Collapsed in Sunbeams | Arlo Parks | Transgressive | R&B |
64 | It's Only Us | Monophonics | Colemine | Soul |
65 | Night Time People | The Bamboos | BMG | R&B |
66 | 100 Days, 100 Nights | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone | Soul |
67 | Fever | Thomas Dybdahl | V2 | Soul |
68 | Star Time | James Brown | Polydor | Funk |
69 | Live at Sun Studio | The Movers & Shakers | Self-Release | R&B |
70 | Starts Again | Tawiah | First Word | Soul |
71 | How the Mighty Fall | Izo Fitzroy | Jalapeno | Soul |
72 | Stay Good | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Dorado | Soul |
73 | Land of the Living | Eleanor Underhill | Self-Release | Soul |
74 | Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 | The California Honeydrops | Tubtune | Soul |
75 | Crossover | Emma Donovan & The Putbacks | Hopestreet | Soul |
76 | Afroclectic | Plunky & Oneness | Self-Release | R&B |
77 | Totem | The Motet | Self-Release | Funk |
78 | Sis. | KIRBY | Self-Release | R&B |
79 | American Griots | Louis York | Weirdo Workshop | Soul |
80 | Never Twice | Nick Waterhouse | Innovative Leisure | Soul |
81 | Live from Austin, Tx | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | New West | R&B |
82 | 88 Elmira St. | Danny Gatton | Elektra | R&B |
83 | Step into It | Funktion | Self-Release | Funk |
84 | Death or Devotion | The Motet | The Motet | Funk |
85 | The Hang | Redtenbacher's Funkestra | RSB | Funk |
86 | PAUL | PJ Morton | Morton | R&B |
87 | The Lion King: the Gift | Beyoncé | Sony | R&B |
88 | Samsara | Los Coast | New West | Soul |
89 | 3.15.20 | Childish Gambino | RCA | Soul |
90 | The Best of the Tru Thoughts Years | The Bamboos | Tru Thoughts | R&B |
91 | Wide Nose Full Lips | SuCh | Arc Sai | Soul |
92 | RESONANCE | Cautious Clay | Self-Release | Soul |
93 | I Learned the Hard Way | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone Records | Soul |
94 | RedRoom | J. Howell | JT Productions | R&B |
95 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Thirty Tigers | Soul |
96 | Indigo | Chris Brown | RCA | Soul |
97 | Soul Side of Town | Tower of Power | Artistry Music | R&B |
98 | Exodus | Brian McKnight | The SoNo Recording Group | R&B |
99 | Hear from Here | Eric Roberson | Blue Erro Soul | Neo-Soul |
100 | Live in London | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
101 | KIKI | Kiana Ledé | Republic | Neo-Soul |
102 | Genesis | The Shindellas | Weirdo Workshop | R&B |
103 | Surfacing | R.Lum.R | Island | R&B |
104 | Timeless | Day Kornegay | 45 Riots | R&B |
105 | Heroes & Gods | Rahsaan Patterson | Shanachie | Neo-Soul |
106 | The Fun Ones | RJD2 | Self-Release | R&B |
107 | Love and Compromise | Mahalia | Warner | R&B |
108 | Forever Yours | J. Brown | MoCha Music | R&B |
109 | CeeLo Green is Thomas Callaway | Cee Lo Green | BMG | Disco |
110 | Romantique, Pt. 2 | Will Downing | Sophisticated Soul | Disco |
111 | Smoke & Mirrors | Bassel & the Supernaturals | Bassel Music | Soul |
112 | Chasing Summer | SiR | Top Dawg | R&B |
113 | The Right Time | Ural Thomas & the Pain | Tender Loving Empire | Soul |
114 | Tubman. | Avery R. Young | FPE | R&B |
115 | GREY Area | Little Simz | Age 101 | R&B |
116 | That Rock 'n' Roll Rhythm! | Tammi Savoy & The Chris Casello Combo | Swelltune | R&B |
117 | Ventura | Anderson .Paak | Aftermath | R&B |
118 | Audacity Complete | Kevin Ross | Art Society Music Group | R&B |
119 | World Wide Funk | Bootsy Collins | Mascot | Funk |
120 | Acoustic Soul | India.Arie | UMG | Soul |
121 | Neville Jacobs | Neville Jacobs | Harmonized | Funk |
122 | I'm Still Looking | Hazel Miller | Hazel Miller | Soul |
123 | Pieces of Mind | Write Minded | Self-Release | R&B |
124 | Timeless | After 7 | eOne Music | R&B |
125 | The Road from Memphis | Booker T. Jones | Anti | Soul |
126 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Childish Gambino | Glassnote | Soul |
127 | A Change is Gonna Come | Leela James | Warner Bros | Soul |
128 | Romantique, Pt. 1 | Will Downing | Sophisticated Soul | R&B |
129 | Third Wall Chronicles | The Pimps Of Joytime | Sugar Road | Funk |
130 | Stone Rollin' | Raphael Saadiq | Sony | Soul |
131 | Every Great Motown Hit of Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Motown | Motown |
132 | Interpretations: the British Rock Songbook | Bettye LaVette | ANTI | Soul |
133 | Are You Ready | Leela James | Entertainment One | Soul |
134 | Nyla | Marsha Ambrosius | eOne Music | R&B |
135 | How Do You Do | Mayer Hawthorne | Universal | Soul |
136 | Let Love | Common | Loma Vista | Soul |
137 | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You | Aretha Franklin | Atlantic | Soul |
138 | Listen | Kyshona Armstrong | Tone Tree | Soul |
139 | Higher! | Sly & The Family Stone | Sony | Funk |
140 | The Art of Love & War | Angie Stone | Stax | Soul |
141 | This Joy | Resistance Revival Chorus | Righteous Babe | Neo-Soul |
142 | Funky Mother | Analog Son | Color Red | R&B |
143 | ICONOLOGY - EP | Missy Elliott | Atlantic | R&B |
144 | All or Nothing | Calvin Richardson | Shanachie | R&B |
145 | Call Me | Al Green | Hi Under Exclusive | Soul |
146 | The Very Best of the Spinners | The Spinners | Rhino | Soul |
147 | A Strange Arrangement | Mayer Hawthorne | Stones Throw | R&B |
148 | Green Onions | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Warner | R&B |
149 | The ArchAndroid | Janelle Monae | Atlantic | Soul |
150 | If All I Was Was Black | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
151 | Shelby Lynne | Shelby Lynne | Everso | Soul |
152 | Manifestation | Maurice White | Soulmusic | R&B |
153 | Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition) | Otis Redding | Warner Music | Soul |
154 | Lovin' on You | Jeffrey Dennis | eOne Music | R&B |
155 | Love, Sex, & Religion | Johnta Austin | Austin Ent. | Neo-Soul |
156 | Masterpeace | Montell Jordan | Masterpeace | Neo-Soul |
157 | Family Affair | Tamika Scott | Brolic Ent. | Neo-Soul |
158 | Sides (Acoustic) | Emily King | ATO | Soul |
159 | Gold | Ohio Players | Mercury | R&B |
160 | I've Got My Own Hell to Raise | Bettye LaVette | Anti | Soul |
161 | Small Change | Tom Waits | Asylum | R&B |
162 | Miss Sharon Jones! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone | Soul |
163 | Can I Tell You Something? | Mo Moshiri | URBNET | R&B |
164 | Atmosphere | New Orleans Nightcrawlers | Self-Release | Soul |
165 | Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | Otis Redding | Atco | Soul |
166 | H.E.R. | H.E.R. | RCA | R&B |
167 | Dance with You | Chris Jasper | Gold City | R&B |
168 | In Black & White | Fifty Dollar Friend | Self-Release | Soul |
169 | Dance to the Music | Sly & The Family Stone | One Media | Funk |
170 | 50th Anniversary Collection | James Brown | Universal | Funk |
171 | Where Do We Go from Here | Dumpstaphunk | Mascot | Funk |
172 | Talking Book | Stevie Wonder | Universal Motown Records | R&B |
173 | Fire | Euforquestra | Euforquestra | Funk |
174 | ELDORADO | Ro James | ByStorm | Soul |
175 | Pure Southern Soul | Otis Redding | Rhino | Soul |
176 | Soul with a Capital "S" - the Best of Tower of Power | Tower of Power | Sony | Funk |
177 | Junco Partner: Very Best of James Wayne 1950-1955 | James Wayne | Jasmine | R&B |
178 | The Queen of Soul | Aretha Franklin | Rhino | Soul |
179 | What Have You Done, My Brother? | Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens | Daptone | Soul |
180 | Electric Café | En Vogue | En Vogue | Soul |
181 | Queen Naija | Queen Naija | Capitol | R&B |
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