The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talk | Khalid | Soul |
| 2 | Change | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 3 | Beyond | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 4 | That Magic | India.Arie | Soul |
| 5 | I Don't Wanna Be Without You | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 6 | Lost in the Fire | Gesaffelstein | Soul |
| 7 | With You | Mariah Carey | Soul |
| 8 | You | Nicole Bus | Soul |
| 9 | If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be) | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 10 | Hard Place | H.E.R. | R&B |
| 11 | Boo'd Up | Ella Mai | Neo-Soul |
| 12 | Commitment | Monica | Soul |
| 13 | Dinosaur | Angie Stone | Soul |
| 14 | Trip | Ella Mai | R&B |
| 15 | Work to Do | Marc Cohn | Soul |
| 16 | Build (feat. Arin Ray) | Justine Skye | Soul |
| 17 | Shame | Maxwell | R&B |
| 18 | Testify | Robin Thicke | Soul |
| 19 | Summertime Magic | Childish Gambino | Soul |
| 20 | Greatest Love | Ciara | Soul |
| 21 | Sparrow | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
| 22 | EX | Kiana Ledé | Soul |
| 23 | Foh | Toni Braxton | Soul |
| 24 | Focus (DJ Envy Remix) [feat. Chris Brown] | H.E.R. | R&B |
| 25 | Dose | Ciara | Soul |
| 26 | Vigilante Man | Ry Cooder | R&B |
| 27 | LOVE AGAIN | Daniel Caesar | Soul |
| 28 | Heard It All Before | Dinah Jane | Soul |
| 29 | SPIRIT (From Disney's "The Lion King") | Beyoncé | Soul |
| 30 | Enough | Fantasia | R&B |
| 31 | Something Keeps Calling (feat. Rob Bacon) | Raphael Saadiq | Soul |
| 32 | Blank Marquee (feat. G-Eazy) | Yuna | R&B |
| 33 | Triggered (freestyle) | Jhené Aiko | Soul |
| 34 | One Last Time (44 Remix) | Christopher Jackson, Barack Obama & BeBe Winans | Soul |
| 35 | Unshaken | D'Angelo And The Vanguard | Soul |
| 36 | Confidence | Candi Staton | Soul |
| 37 | Apology | Ne-Yo | R&B |
| 38 | Don't Come Easy | Raheem DeVaughn | Neo-Soul |
| 39 | Get out and Get It | Devon Gilfillian | Soul |
| 40 | Undecided | Chris Brown | R&B |
| 41 | Best Part (feat. H.E.R.) | Daniel Caesar | Soul |
| 42 | Ocean (feat. Khalid) | Martin Garrix | Soul |
| 43 | I Need Never Get Old | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 44 | Before I Let Go (Homecoming Live Bonus Track) | Beyoncé | Soul |
| 45 | Tints (feat. Kendrick Lamar) | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
| 46 | Without You | Freddie Jackson | Soul |
| 47 | Soul of a Woman | Johnny Gill | R&B |
| 48 | How Many Ways (feat. K-Ci) | Keith Sweat | Soul |
| 49 | Brooklyn in the Summer | Aloe Blacc | Soul |
| 50 | Something to Talk About | JamesDavis | Neo-Soul |
| 51 | GOOD MAN | Ne-Yo | Soul |
| 52 | GTFO | Mariah Carey | Soul |
| 53 | Me + You | Monica | Soul |
| 54 | Another Love Song | Ne-Yo | Soul |
| 55 | Tryin' | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Neo-Soul |
| 56 | Bet Ain't Worth the Hand | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 57 | Sleep on It | Gallant | R&B |
| 58 | Monsters | Los Coast | Soul |
| 59 | 'Til It's over | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
| 60 | Congo Square | Sonny Landreth | R&B |
| 61 | Long As I Live | Toni Braxton | Soul |
| 62 | Come Thru | Summer Walker | Soul |
| 63 | You Are Not Alone | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
| 64 | Confessions | Sudan Archives | R&B |
| 65 | Strong Black Woman | Chrisette Michele | Soul |
| 66 | Nothing Compares 2 U | Prince | R&B |
| 67 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 68 | Up All Night | Khalid | Soul |
| 69 | Show Me Your Love | Season Ammons | R&B |
| 70 | Time Machine | Alicia Keys | Soul |
| 71 | Man on Fire | Earl St. Clair | R&B |
| 72 | Best Thing | Inayah | Soul |
| 73 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Soul |
| 74 | Play Nice | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 75 | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | Soul |
| 76 | Bad Bad News | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 77 | B Side | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 78 | Rocket | En Vogue | Soul |
| 79 | Dawes County | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 80 | The Walk | Mayer Hawthorne | Soul |
| 81 | Flowers at My Feet | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 82 | Make It Better (feat. Smokey Robinson) | Anderson .Paak | R&B |
| 83 | Pray | Sam Smith | Soul |
| 84 | Long Way Home | Durand Jones & The Indications | Soul |
| 85 | I Had Some Money (But I Spent It) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
| 86 | Show Me Love (feat. Miguel) | Alicia Keys | R&B |
| 87 | Cold War | Cautious Clay | Soul |
| 88 | If They Only Knew (feat. Gregoire Maret) | Vivian Sessoms | Soul |
| 89 | Come Down | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
| 90 | Deadwood | Toni Braxton | Soul |
| 91 | Katchi (feat. Leon Bridges) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
| 92 | You'll See | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 93 | Rebellious Destroyer (feat. Branford Marsalis & Brandee Younger) | The Soul Rebels | Soul |
| 94 | If I | After 7 | R&B |
| 95 | I'm in Love Again | Davell Crawford | Soul |
| 96 | El Passo | Cameo | Funk |
| 97 | Loving U Blind | Elle Varner | R&B |
| 98 | When I'm Gone | Brian McKnight | R&B |
| 99 | Shea Butter Baby | Ari Lennox | Neo-Soul |
| 100 | Dance with You | Chris Jasper | R&B |
| 101 | Hey Brother (Do Unto Others) [feat. Antibalas, the Frightnrs, Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, the James Hunter Six, Lee Fields & Saun & Starr] | The Family Daptone | Soul |
| 102 | Strange Conversation | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 103 | Morning in America | Durand Jones & The Indications | Soul |
| 104 | BROWN SKIN GIRL | Beyoncé | R&B |
| 105 | Focus | H.E.R. | R&B |
| 106 | Doesn't Make Sense | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 107 | Try a Little Tenderness | Otis Redding | R&B |
| 108 | We Get by (feat. Ben Harper) | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 109 | Stronger (feat. D-Train) | Cool Million | Neo-Soul |
| 110 | Hot Rod Helen | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
| 111 | Hello Happiness | Chaka Khan | R&B |
| 112 | Love by Design | Glenn Jones and Regina Belle | R&B |
| 113 | Til I Found You (feat. Ann Nesby, "Big Jim" Wright & Lauren Evans) | Jam & Lewis | Neo-Soul |
| 114 | Satisfy Me | Anderson East | Soul |
| 115 | That Feelin' | Cornell C.C. Carter | R&B |
| 116 | Stronger | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 117 | One Thing Leads to Another | Vivian Sessoms | Soul |
| 118 | Sent from Heaven | Rahsaan Patterson | Neo-Soul |
| 119 | Working Day and Night (feat. Kayleigh O’Neill) | Lasperanza | Neo-Soul |
| 120 | BALDWIN (feat. Nico Segal) | Jamila Woods | R&B |
| 121 | Can't Keep Runnin’ | Guordan Banks | R&B |
| 122 | Do Right Woman, Do Right Man | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
| 123 | All I Know (feat. Kes) | DaniLeigh | Soul |
| 124 | Leave It in | Eric Roberson | Neo-Soul |
| 125 | Karma | Queen Naija | R&B |
| 126 | We Had Searched for Heaven (feat. Maysa) | Tony Momrelle | R&B |
| 127 | Just Right | Raheem DeVaughn | Neo-Soul |
| 128 | Tonight (feat. Slim & Mike) | 112 | R&B |
| 129 | Like Sugar | Chaka Khan | R&B |
| 130 | Back Again | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
| 131 | Sometime | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 132 | Getaway (feat. N'Dea Davenport) | The Brand New Heavies | Neo-Soul |
| 133 | Remember U | Melanie Fiona | Soul |
| 134 | Hearts Ain't Gonna Lie | Arlissa | Soul |
| 135 | U R the One | Howard Hewett | R&B |
| 136 | Soul Jam | Kinsman Dazz Band Allstars | R&B |
| 137 | Butterflies | The Undisputed Truth | R&B |
| 138 | Steady Love | India.Arie | Neo-Soul |
| 139 | MASTERPEACE | JamesDavis | Neo-Soul |
| 140 | No Use in Crying | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 141 | Anytime | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 142 | Do You Like That? | Tower of Power | R&B |
| 143 | Big Chief | Professor Longhair | R&B |
| 144 | Gone | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
| 145 | Slippery People (Live) | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 146 | If You Keep Leaving Me | Anderson East | Soul |
| 147 | Upside | Judith Hill | R&B |
| 148 | Thriving (feat. Nas) | Mary J. Blige | R&B |
| 149 | Get You (feat. Kali Uchis) | Daniel Caesar | Soul |
| 150 | All I Want to Do | The Suffers | Soul |
| 151 | Whacha Gonna Bring | The Motet | Funk |
| 152 | Impressions of You | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
| 153 | Build a Bridge | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 154 | Little Things | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 155 | Carolina Blues | Blues Traveler | R&B |
| 156 | Stay | Little Queenie | Disco |
| 157 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | Soul |
| 158 | I'm Out!! | Leela James | Soul |
| 159 | 99 Cent Dreams | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Neo-Soul |
| 160 | Old Times | Marsha Ambrosius | R&B |
| 161 | Respect | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
| 162 | Time is Tight | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | R&B |
| 163 | Dance to the Music | Sly & The Family Stone | Funk |
| 164 | Just Gets Better with Time | Personal Touch | Soul |
| 165 | Take What You Need | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
| 166 | Brothers and Sisters | Mavis Staples | Soul |
| 167 | Avalanche | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
| 168 | Make Me Feel | Janelle Monae | Soul |
| 169 | Cold Baby | Liz Brasher | Soul |
| 170 | Mr. Pitiful | Otis Redding | R&B |
| 171 | On the Soul Side of Town | Tower of Power | R&B |
| 172 | Wasted | Neville Jacobs | Funk |
| 173 | So Amazing | Bashiri Asad | Neo-Soul |
| 174 | Freedom (feat. Iyanla Vanzant) | Regina Belle | R&B |
| 175 | This is America | Childish Gambino | Soul |
| 176 | Slingshots and Boomerangs | Little Queenie | Soul |
| 177 | Miss Mess | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Funk |
| 178 | What's Going on | Marvin Gaye | R&B |
| 179 | Bad Luck Soul | King Biscuit Boy | Soul |
| 180 | Automatic | The BonFyre | Neo-Soul |
| 181 | Hit, Git, Quit, Split | Jon Cleary | Soul |
| 182 | Tattered and Torn | Cass Clayton Band | R&B |
| 183 | Fire | Ohio Players | R&B |
| 184 | Every Time It Rains | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
| 185 | Golden Wings | Mike Farris | Soul |
| 186 | Smoking & Drinking | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
| 187 | Born with the Blues | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
| 188 | Tennessee Girl | Mike Farris | Soul |
| 189 | But Anyway | Blues Traveler | R&B |
| 190 | The Only One | Calvin Richardson | R&B |
| 191 | Medicine | Queen Naija | R&B |
| 192 | So Much Life | Ready for the World | R&B |
| 193 | 2 Bad Habits | Angie Stone | Soul |
| 194 | Ballet of the Unhatched Twins I | Sudan Archives | R&B |
| 195 | Rock with You (feat. J. Red (The Nephew)) | Shay Denise | Soul |
| 196 | Bakabana | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Soul |
| 197 | So Pretti (feat. Oh No) | G&D | Soul |
| 198 | Elvira | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
| 199 | Why I Sing the Blues | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
| 200 | Tipitina | Professor Longhair | R&B |
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