The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2020
Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | Soul |
2 | In Your Eyes | The Weeknd | Soul |
3 | Till I Hear It from You | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
4 | Say So | Doja Cat | Soul |
5 | Say Soc | Doja Cat | Soul |
6 | Know Your Worth | Khalid | R&B |
7 | Heartless | The Weeknd | Soul |
8 | Me + You | Monica | Soul |
9 | Rolling | Michael Kiwanuka | Soul |
10 | Perfect | Johnny Gill | R&B |
11 | Something to Talk About | JamesDavis | Neo-Soul |
12 | Before I Let Go (Homecoming Live Bonus Track) | Beyoncé | Soul |
13 | Change | Mavis Staples | Soul |
14 | Best Thing | Inayah | Soul |
15 | Anything for You | Ledisi | Soul |
16 | Steady Love | India.Arie | Neo-Soul |
17 | Commitment | Monica | Soul |
18 | Can't Fight | Lianne La Havas | Soul |
19 | Soul of a Woman | Johnny Gill | R&B |
20 | Over Now | Calvin Harris | R&B |
21 | Talk | Khalid | Soul |
22 | Sleep on It | Gallant | R&B |
23 | Enough | Fantasia | R&B |
24 | Time Machine | Alicia Keys | Soul |
25 | Crazy Kind of Love (From "True to the Game 2") | Tamar Braxton | Soul |
26 | Up All Night | Khalid | Soul |
27 | You Are Not Alone | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
28 | Like That (feat. Gucci Mane) | Doja Cat | Soul |
29 | You | Nicole Bus | Soul |
30 | Work to Do | Marc Cohn | Soul |
31 | That Magic | India.Arie | Soul |
32 | SPIRIT (From Disney's "The Lion King") | Beyoncé | Soul |
33 | None for You | Lola Young | Soul |
34 | LOVE AGAIN | Daniel Caesar | Soul |
35 | Come Thru | Summer Walker | Soul |
36 | Prince | Prince | Soul |
37 | Sweeter (feat. Terrace Martin) | Leon Bridges | Soul |
38 | Triggered (freestyle) | Jhené Aiko | Soul |
39 | Temperature Rising | Tory Lanez | Soul |
40 | Between Us (feat. Snoh Aalegra) | dvsn | Soul |
41 | Hard Place | H.E.R. | R&B |
42 | Dinosaur | Angie Stone | Soul |
43 | Make It Better | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
44 | Tripc | Ella Mai | R&B |
45 | Back Together (feat. Rick James) | Anthony Hamilton | R&B |
46 | Come Home | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
47 | Castaway | Yuna | R&B |
48 | Shade | Alex Lucero & Live Again | Soul |
49 | Heard It All Before | Dinah Jane | Soul |
50 | Vigilante Man | Ry Cooder | R&B |
51 | One I Got | Charlie Wilson | Soul |
52 | Strong Womxn (Stripped) | Poppy Ajudha | Soul |
53 | I Need Never Get Old | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
54 | Hero | Michael Kiwanuka | Soul |
55 | Congo Square | Sonny Landreth | R&B |
56 | If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be) | Leon Bridges | Soul |
57 | Cabin Fever | Jaden | Soul |
58 | Wake Up Love (feat. Iman) | Teyana Taylor | Soul |
59 | Playing Games | Summer Walker | Soul |
60 | Turntables (from the Amazon Original Movie "All In: the Fight for Democracy") | Janelle Monae | Soul |
61 | U 2 Luv | Ne-Yo | Soul |
62 | My Way | Aloe Blacc | Soul |
63 | Greatest Love | Ciara | Soul |
64 | Take Care of You (feat. Syd) | Charlotte Day Wilson | Soul |
65 | Baby Mama (feat. Chance the Rapper) | Brandy | Soul |
66 | Back Home (feat. Summer Walker) | Trey Songz | Soul |
67 | Show Me Your Love | Season Ammons | R&B |
68 | With You | Mariah Carey | Soul |
69 | B.S. (feat. H.E.R.) | Jhené Aiko | Soul |
70 | Sparrow | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
71 | Who Sang It First | Benny Turner | R&B |
72 | Invisible | Yuna | Soul |
73 | Testify | Robin Thicke | Soul |
74 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Soul |
75 | Bad Habits | Usher | Soul |
76 | Where is Our Love Song (feat. Gary Clark Jr.) | Stevie Wonder | Soul |
77 | Butterflies Pt. 2 | Queen Naija | Soul |
78 | Losers Weepers | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
79 | Lie to Me | Kem | Neo-Soul |
80 | Something Keeps Calling (feat. Rob Bacon) | Raphael Saadiq | Soul |
81 | Bittersweet | Lianne La Havas | Soul |
82 | Tell Me | The Devonns | Motown |
83 | Secret Garden (feat. Sisqó, Shawn Stockman & Raheem DeVaughn) | Omar Wilson | Soul |
84 | Boo'd Up | Ella Mai | Neo-Soul |
85 | Miss Pitiful | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
86 | I Don't Wanna Be Without You | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
87 | Something's Got a Hold on Me | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
88 | 21 | H.E.R. | R&B |
89 | Live out Your Love | Kem | Soul |
90 | Whoa | Snoh Aalegra | Soul |
91 | Damage | H.E.R. | Soul |
92 | Tell Mama | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
93 | 50 Foot Woman | Hannah Williams | Funk |
94 | Rebellious Destroyer (feat. Branford Marsalis & Brandee Younger) | The Soul Rebels | Soul |
95 | Hurt | Arlo Parks | R&B |
96 | Strange Fruit | Bettye LaVette | Soul |
97 | I Can't Let This Slip Away | Hannah Williams | Funk |
98 | Blank Marquee (feat. G-Eazy) | Yuna | R&B |
99 | Missing in Action | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
100 | I Just Wanna Make Love to You | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
101 | Agreeable | Cautious Clay | Soul |
102 | St Louis Blues | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
103 | So Done | Alicia Keys | Soul |
104 | I Hold No Grudge | Bettye LaVette | Soul |
105 | Pony Up | The Bamboos | R&B |
106 | Cross the Track | Maceo Parker | Soul |
107 | I Can Change Your Mind | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
108 | For What It's Worth | Billy Porter | Soul |
109 | EX | Kiana Ledé | Soul |
110 | Can't You See | Tomar and the Fcs | Soul |
111 | B Side | Cass Clayton | R&B |
112 | Rolling | Michael Kiwanuka | Soul |
113 | Spoonful | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
114 | Apology | Ne-Yo | R&B |
115 | Whoa (feat. Pharrell Williams) [Remix] | Snoh Aalegra | Soul |
116 | Flowers at My Feet | Cass Clayton | R&B |
117 | Shame | Maxwell | R&B |
118 | Hold on Tight | Aloe Blacc | Soul |
119 | Phunk Jam | Plunky & Oneness | R&B |
120 | Security | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
121 | How Will I Feel | Louis York | R&B |
122 | Blind Girl | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
123 | Elmira St. Boogie | Danny Gatton | R&B |
124 | Show Me Love (feat. Miguel) | Alicia Keys | R&B |
125 | Never Enough Money | Martha Wash | Funk |
126 | Slide (feat. YG) | H.E.R. | R&B |
127 | Save Your Tears | The Weeknd | Soul |
128 | At Last | Kaz Hawkins | Soul |
129 | Blues for the Weepers | Bettye LaVette | Soul |
130 | Black Dog | Arlo Parks | R&B |
131 | This is America | Childish Gambino | Soul |
132 | In the Rain (feat. Chantae Cann) | Ashleigh Smith | Neo-Soul |
133 | Get out and Get It | Devon Gilfillian | Soul |
134 | The Real Thing | SuCh | Soul |
135 | Talk (feat. Kyle Hippy) | J. Howell | R&B |
136 | Things I Should've Said (Live in Nashville) | Louis York | Soul |
137 | Doesn't Make Sense | Cass Clayton | R&B |
138 | U Say (feat. 6LACK) | The BonFyre | R&B |
139 | SULA (Paperback) | Jamila Woods | R&B |
140 | Part of Me | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Soul |
141 | Rain | Nicole Bus | R&B |
142 | Forever Valentine | Charlie Wilson | R&B |
143 | When You Love Somebody | Robin Thicke | R&B |
144 | Off the Grid (Neo Soul Mix) [feat. Cornell Cc Carter] | J.D's Time Machine | R&B |
145 | Nobody | Brian McKnight | R&B |
146 | Memories (feat. John Legend) | Buju Banton | Disco |
147 | Already Knew You | Eric Roberson | Neo-Soul |
148 | Givin' It Up for Your Love (Live) | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | R&B |
149 | Mad at Me. | Kiana Ledé | Neo-Soul |
150 | It Wasn't Really Love | The Shindellas | R&B |
151 | 53.49 | Childish Gambino | Neo-Soul |
152 | Love by Design | Glenn Jones and Regina Belle | R&B |
153 | How This Feels | R.Lum.R | R&B |
154 | Automatic | Day Kornegay | R&B |
155 | I Want You Around | Snoh Aalegra | R&B |
156 | Don't You Know That | Rahsaan Patterson | Neo-Soul |
157 | Whacha Gonna Bring | The Motet | Funk |
158 | High to Low | Brent Cowles | Soul |
159 | What's Going on | Marvin Gaye | R&B |
160 | Dance the Night Away | Ashley Scott | R&B |
161 | Celebrate Your Body | J.D's Time Machine | R&B |
162 | Leave Em Alone (feat. PnB Rock) | Layton Greene, Lil Baby & City Girls | R&B |
163 | Don't Waste My Time (feat. Ella Mai) | Usher | R&B |
164 | Do It | Toni Braxton | Disco |
165 | One in a Million | Will Downing | Disco |
166 | Lead Me | Cee Lo Green | Disco |
167 | YEARNING for YOUR LOVE | PJ Morton | Neo-Soul |
168 | Take Me with U | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
169 | Just Kissed My Baby | Maceo Parker | Soul |
170 | Rolling | Michael Kiwanuka | Soul |
171 | She... | Stokley | R&B |
172 | What You Did (feat. Ella Mai) | Mahalia | R&B |
173 | Hair Down (feat. Kendrick Lamar) | SiR | R&B |
174 | Confessions | Sudan Archives | R&B |
175 | Different State of Mind | Laura Rain and the Caesars | Soul |
176 | Mr. Big Shot | Nicole Bus | R&B |
177 | No Guidance (feat. Drake) | Chris Brown | Soul |
178 | Some Things Are Not Known | Euforquestra | Funk |
179 | You'll See | Cass Clayton | R&B |
180 | Little Things | Cass Clayton | R&B |
181 | Make It Better (feat. Smokey Robinson) | Anderson .Paak | R&B |
182 | Gone | Alex Isley | R&B |
183 | Thing Called Love | Kevin Ross | R&B |
184 | Respect | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
185 | 45 | Thomas Dybdahl | Soul |
186 | Lovely Day | Bill Withers | Soul |
187 | BROWN SKIN GIRL | Beyoncé | R&B |
188 | She Treats Me Right | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
189 | Black Qualls (feat. Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington & Childish Gambino) | Thundercat | Soul |
190 | Church (feat. EARTHGANG) | Samm Henshaw | R&B |
191 | I Had Some Money (But I Spent It) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
192 | The Weight | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
193 | Don't Leave Your Girl | KIRBY | R&B |
194 | You Are Not Alone | Maysa | Neo-Soul |
195 | Just Right | Raheem DeVaughn | Neo-Soul |
196 | Enough is Enough | Tomar and the Fcs | Soul |
197 | Know | Mary J. Blige | R&B |
198 | Slide Back (feat. PJ Morton & Julian Gosin) | The Soul Rebels | Soul |
199 | Look It Here | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
200 | No Use in Crying | Cass Clayton | R&B |
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