The Roots Music Report's
Top Soul Song Chart
for the Year of 2017
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Redbone | Childish Gambino |
| 2 | 1-800-273-8255 (feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid) | Logic |
| 3 | Too Good at Goodbyes | Sam Smith |
| 4 | I Need Never Get Old | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 5 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross |
| 6 | Don't Want You Back | Leela James |
| 7 | Deliverance | Prince |
| 8 | Soul Lover | Tad Robinson |
| 9 | The Matter (What Are We Here For?) | K.Avett |
| 10 | Start over | Musiq Soulchild |
| 11 | Real One | Chanté Moore |
| 12 | Weight in Gold (feat. Seal) | Gallant |
| 13 | Permission | Ro James |
| 14 | One Night | Freddie Jackson |
| 15 | Love Do What It Do (feat. Darius Rucker) | Robert Randolph & The Family Band |
| 16 | Insane | Eric Benét |
| 17 | My Man | Tamar Braxton |
| 18 | So I Can Have You Back | Joe |
| 19 | Bones | Rebecca Ferguson |
| 20 | Pot Hole on Main Street | Randall Bramblett |
| 21 | 1990X | Maxwell |
| 22 | Thick of It | Mary J. Blige |
| 23 | Missin U | Usher |
| 24 | Until the Pain is Gone (feat. Jill Scott) | Daley |
| 25 | Twistin' & Groovin' | Leon Bridges |
| 26 | Hard for Me | Leela James |
| 27 | Forever Mine | Andra Day |
| 28 | We Can Always Come Back to This | Brian Tyree Henry |
| 29 | My Romance | Billy Porter |
| 30 | Good Woman | La'Porsha Renae |
| 31 | Carefully Taught | Billy Porter |
| 32 | U + Me (Love Lesson) | Mary J. Blige |
| 33 | Gods | Maxwell |
| 34 | Green Light | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes |
| 35 | Run | Bell Biv DeVoe |
| 36 | WayBack | TLC |
| 37 | Best Love | Yuna |
| 38 | 5000 Miles | Johnny Gill |
| 39 | Blessings | Chance The Rapper |
| 40 | Sleeping with the One I Love | Fantasia |
| 41 | Distance | Omarion |
| 42 | Come Do Nothing | Avery Sunshine |
| 43 | Crash | Usher |
| 44 | Wait for It | Usher |
| 45 | Blended Family (What You Do for Love) | Alicia Keys |
| 46 | While We're Young | Jhené Aiko |
| 47 | Hurts | Emeli Sandé |
| 48 | Sunshine | Eric Benét |
| 49 | Brother, What Happened? | Muddy Magnolias |
| 50 | Another Love Song | Ne-Yo |
| 51 | Get You (feat. Kali Uchis) | Daniel Caesar |
| 52 | Love Star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ) | Common |
| 53 | Rise Up | Andra Day |
| 54 | The Real Thing Don't Change | Porcelan |
| 55 | Struggle Love | Jaheim |
| 56 | Hold Up | Beyoncé |
| 57 | Cranes in the Sky | Solange |
| 58 | In Common | Alicia Keys |
| 59 | Why I Love You | MAJOR. |
| 60 | Lake by the Ocean | Maxwell |
| 61 | I Do | Musiq Soulchild |
| 62 | Moonbeam Levels | Prince |
| 63 | All Night | Beyoncé |
| 64 | Faith | Stevie Wonder |
| 65 | Stop Where You Are | Corinne Bailey Rae |
| 66 | Diamond | Izzy Bizu |
| 67 | No Time for It | Fantasia |
| 68 | Deadwood | Toni Braxton |
| 69 | Pray | Sam Smith |
| 70 | Strong Black Woman | Chrisette Michele |
| 71 | Remember U | Melanie Fiona |
| 72 | Blind | Tamar Braxton |
| 73 | Crush (feat. Usher) | Yuna |
| 74 | Real One | Chanté Moore |
| 75 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross |
| 76 | Distance | Omarion |
| 77 | Stand Up for Something | Andra Day |
| 78 | Respect | Aretha Franklin |
| 79 | Woman's World | BJ The Chicago Kid |
| 80 | Leaving These Days | Mike Biggar |
| 81 | Burning Rome | St. Paul & The Broken Bones |
| 82 | Another Love Song | Ne-Yo |
| 83 | Deliverance | Prince |
| 84 | Redbone | Childish Gambino |
| 85 | Work | Vivian Green |
| 86 | My Romance | Billy Porter |
| 87 | Run | Bell Biv DeVoe |
| 88 | Best Love | Yuna |
| 89 | Holding on | Gregory Porter |
| 90 | Gods | Maxwell |
| 91 | Bones | Rebecca Ferguson |
| 92 | U + Me (Love Lesson) | Mary J. Blige |
| 93 | Good Woman | La'Porsha Renae |
| 94 | Insane | Eric Benét |
| 95 | So I Can Have You Back | Joe |
| 96 | Carefully Taught | Billy Porter |
| 97 | Sleeping with the One I Love | Fantasia |
| 98 | 1990X | Maxwell |
| 99 | Stone Rollin' | Raphael Saadiq |
| 100 | Missin U | Usher |
| 101 | Thick of It | Mary J. Blige |
| 102 | I Made It (feat. Tye Tribbett) | Fantasia |
| 103 | If That Don't Tell You | The James Hunter Six |
| 104 | Blended Family (What You Do for Love) | Alicia Keys |
| 105 | 5000 Miles | Johnny Gill |
| 106 | Day Dreams | Raphael Saadiq |
| 107 | Flowers | Leon Bridges |
| 108 | (Baby) Hold on | The James Hunter Six |
| 109 | The Game | Gabriel Garzon-Montano |
| 110 | Better Man | Leon Bridges |
| 111 | Mama Got It Wrong Sometimes Too | Andrea Marr |
| 112 | S.O.B. | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 113 | Blessings | Chance The Rapper |
| 114 | Billy Porter | Sony |
| 115 | The Good Times | Eric Lindell |
| 116 | She Thinks I Still Care | Eric Lindell |
| 117 | Way Back (feat. Snoop Dogg) | TLC |
| 118 | Call on God | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings |
| 119 | Mary J. Blige | Capitol |
| 120 | Maxwell | John Legend |
| 121 | Crash | Usher |
| 122 | Not My Man | Tamar Braxton |
| 123 | What Makes a Man | Amy Black |
| 124 | Little Mac | Brock Zeman |
| 125 | All Night (ft. Knox Fortune) | Chance The Rapper |
| 126 | Show You the Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins) | Thundercat |
| 127 | Remember You Used to Love Me | Gregg Martinez |
| 128 | I Try | Macy Gray |
| 129 | How Do I Get There? | Don Bryant |
| 130 | You Wouldn't Want to Know | John McNamara |
| 131 | Stand Up Like a Man | Lauren Mitchell |
| 132 | Devil's Haircut | Randall Bramblett |
| 133 | On and on | Curtis Harding |
| 134 | Sandcastles | Beyoncé |
| 135 | Force of Nature | Andrea Marr |
| 136 | Feel Like a Stranger | Michael Pickett |
| 137 | Jack O Diamond | Yvonne Moore |
| 138 | Rollin' | Martin Goyette |
| 139 | River | Leon Bridges |
| 140 | Speed Racer | Melat |
| 141 | Mole Hill Mountain Blues | Al Wood & The Woodsmen |
| 142 | Little Bit | Mavis Staples |
| 143 | Dancing in the Street | Martha Reeves & the Vandellas |
| 144 | Tell Mama | Etta James |
| 145 | Mac Daddy | Gregg Martinez |
| 146 | Show You Way | Thundercat |
| 147 | Credit | Andrea Marr |
| 148 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross |
| 149 | Brian Tyree Henry | Brian Tyree Henry |
| 150 | Omarion | Atlantic |
| 151 | Jump into the Fire | Lauren Mitchell |
| 152 | Redbone | Childish Gambino |
| 153 | Chanté Moore | CM7 |
| 154 | Gallant | Mind Of A Genius |
| 155 | Kevin Ross | Motown |
| 156 | Save Me | Aretha Franklin |
| 157 | I'm Movin' on (Single Version) | Ray Charles |
| 158 | She Got Soul (feat. Anthony Hamilton) | Robert Randolph & The Family Band |
| 159 | A Nickel and a Nail | Don Bryant |
| 160 | Broken People | Muddy Magnolias |
| 161 | Freddie Jackson | Climax |
| 162 | Musiq Soulchild | eOne |
| 163 | TLC | 852 Musiq |
| 164 | Black Man in a White World | Michael Kiwanuka |
| 165 | Real One | Chanté Moore |
| 166 | Love Yourself (feat. Kanye West) | Mary J. Blige |
| 167 | Run Like the River | Vintage Trouble |
| 168 | Jhené Aiko | Def Jam |
| 169 | You're a Hit | Williams, Wayne & Isaak |
| 170 | Real Good Man | Andrea Marr |
| 171 | Carefully Taught | Billy Porter |
| 172 | My Romance | Billy Porter |
| 173 | Gold | Andra Day |
| 174 | Insane | Eric Benét |
| 175 | Gods | Maxwell |
| 176 | Distance | Omarion |
| 177 | Deliverance | Prince |
| 178 | Leela James | Leela James |
| 179 | Ne-Yo | Motown |
| 180 | Ro James | ByStorm |
| 181 | Let's Take It to the Bedroom | Andrea Marr |
| 182 | #WHERESTHELOVE | The Black Eyed Peas |
| 183 | Dammn Baby | Janet Jackson |
| 184 | Angel (Live) | Lalah Hathaway |
| 185 | Run | Bell Biv DeVoe |
| 186 | Good Woman | La'Porsha Renae |
| 187 | U + Me (Love Lesson) | Mary J. Blige |
| 188 | Another Love Song | Ne-Yo |
| 189 | Bones | Rebecca Ferguson |
| 190 | Childish Gambino | Glassnote |
| 191 | Prince | Rouge Music Alliance |
| 192 | Yuna | The Verve |
| 193 | I've Been Failing | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| 194 | Keep You in Mind | Guordan Banks |
| 195 | Amen | Anthony Hamilton |
| 196 | Blessings | Chance The Rapper |
| 197 | Sleeping with the One I Love | Fantasia |
| 198 | 1990X | Maxwell |
| 199 | Best Love | Yuna |
| 200 | Bell Biv DeVoe | eOne |
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