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 | Bet Ain't Worth the Hand | Leon Bridges | Soul |
56 | Tryin' | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Neo-Soul |
57 | Sleep on It | Gallant | R&B |
58 | Monsters | Los Coast | Soul |
59 | 'Til It's over | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
60 | I Like That | Janelle Monae | Neo-Soul |
61 | Congo Square | Sonny Landreth | R&B |
62 | Long As I Live | Toni Braxton | Soul |
63 | Come Thru | Summer Walker | Soul |
64 | Heartless | The Weeknd | Soul |
65 | You Are Not Alone | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
66 | A No No | Mariah Carey | Soul |
67 | 21 | H.E.R. | R&B |
68 | Confessions | Sudan Archives | R&B |
69 | Strong Black Woman | Chrisette Michele | Soul |
70 | Nothing Compares 2 U | Prince | R&B |
71 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Soul |
72 | Up All Night | Khalid | Soul |
73 | Show Me Your Love | Season Ammons | R&B |
74 | Time Machine | Alicia Keys | Soul |
75 | Man on Fire | Earl St. Clair | R&B |
76 | Best Thing | Inayah | Soul |
77 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Soul |
78 | Play Nice | Cass Clayton | R&B |
79 | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | Soul |
80 | Bad Bad News | Leon Bridges | Soul |
81 | Rocket | En Vogue | Soul |
82 | B Side | Cass Clayton | R&B |
83 | The Walk | Mayer Hawthorne | Soul |
84 | Dawes County | Cass Clayton | R&B |
85 | Make It Better (feat. Smokey Robinson) | Anderson .Paak | R&B |
86 | Flowers at My Feet | Cass Clayton | R&B |
87 | Pray | Sam Smith | Soul |
88 | Long Way Home | Durand Jones & The Indications | Soul |
89 | I Had Some Money (But I Spent It) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
90 | Show Me Love (feat. Miguel) | Alicia Keys | R&B |
91 | Cold War | Cautious Clay | Soul |
92 | If They Only Knew (feat. Gregoire Maret) | Vivian Sessoms | Soul |
93 | Come Down | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
94 | Katchi (feat. Leon Bridges) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
95 | Deadwood | Toni Braxton | Soul |
96 | Rebellious Destroyer (feat. Branford Marsalis & Brandee Younger) | The Soul Rebels | Soul |
97 | You'll See | Cass Clayton | R&B |
98 | If I | After 7 | R&B |
99 | I'm in Love Again | Davell Crawford | Soul |
100 | El Passo | Cameo | Funk |
101 | Loving U Blind | Elle Varner | R&B |
102 | When I'm Gone | Brian McKnight | R&B |
103 | Shea Butter Baby | Ari Lennox | Neo-Soul |
104 | Dance with You | Chris Jasper | R&B |
105 | Love Do What It Do (feat. Darius Rucker) | Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Soul |
106 | 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 |
107 | BROWN SKIN GIRL | Beyoncé | R&B |
108 | Focus | H.E.R. | R&B |
109 | Morning in America | Durand Jones & The Indications | Soul |
110 | Mine All Mine | Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue | Soul |
111 | Shake It off | Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Soul |
112 | Try a Little Tenderness | Otis Redding | R&B |
113 | Stronger (feat. D-Train) | Cool Million | Neo-Soul |
114 | Hot Rod Helen | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
115 | Love by Design | Glenn Jones and Regina Belle | R&B |
116 | Strange Conversation | Cass Clayton | R&B |
117 | Til I Found You (feat. Ann Nesby, "Big Jim" Wright & Lauren Evans) | Jam & Lewis | Neo-Soul |
118 | That Feelin' | Cornell C.C. Carter | R&B |
119 | Satisfy Me | Anderson East | Soul |
120 | I Used to Love You | Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue | Soul |
121 | Stronger | Mavis Staples | Soul |
122 | One Thing Leads to Another | Vivian Sessoms | Soul |
123 | Sent from Heaven | Rahsaan Patterson | Neo-Soul |
124 | Working Day and Night (feat. Kayleigh O’Neill) | Lasperanza | Neo-Soul |
125 | Doesn't Make Sense | Cass Clayton | R&B |
126 | We Get by (feat. Ben Harper) | Mavis Staples | Soul |
127 | Hello Happiness | Chaka Khan | R&B |
128 | Can't Keep Runnin’ | Guordan Banks | R&B |
129 | Do Right Woman, Do Right Man | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
130 | Tonight (feat. Slim & Mike) | 112 | R&B |
131 | Karma | Queen Naija | R&B |
132 | BALDWIN (feat. Nico Segal) | Jamila Woods | R&B |
133 | We Had Searched for Heaven (feat. Maysa) | Tony Momrelle | R&B |
134 | I Feel It | Hannah Williams | Funk |
135 | Just Right | Raheem DeVaughn | Neo-Soul |
136 | Leave It in | Eric Roberson | Neo-Soul |
137 | All I Know (feat. Kes) | DaniLeigh | Soul |
138 | Like Sugar | Chaka Khan | R&B |
139 | Getaway (feat. N'Dea Davenport) | The Brand New Heavies | Neo-Soul |
140 | Sometime | Mavis Staples | Soul |
141 | U R the One | Howard Hewett | R&B |
142 | Soul Jam | Kinsman Dazz Band Allstars | R&B |
143 | Butterflies | The Undisputed Truth | R&B |
144 | Steady Love | India.Arie | Neo-Soul |
145 | MASTERPEACE | JamesDavis | Neo-Soul |
146 | Remember U | Melanie Fiona | Soul |
147 | Hearts Ain't Gonna Lie | Arlissa | Soul |
148 | Do You Like That? | Tower of Power | R&B |
149 | Slippery People (Live) | Mavis Staples | Soul |
150 | Upside | Judith Hill | R&B |
151 | Thriving (feat. Nas) | Mary J. Blige | R&B |
152 | Get You (feat. Kali Uchis) | Daniel Caesar | Soul |
153 | Back Home to Stay | Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue | Soul |
154 | Whacha Gonna Bring | The Motet | Funk |
155 | Build a Bridge | Mavis Staples | Soul |
156 | Impressions of You | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
157 | Mirage a Trois (feat. Jordan Linit & Jeff Franca) | Dragondeer | Funk |
158 | Anytime | Mavis Staples | Soul |
159 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | Soul |
160 | Stay | Little Queenie | Disco |
161 | Carolina Blues | Blues Traveler | R&B |
162 | Old Times | Marsha Ambrosius | R&B |
163 | 99 Cent Dreams | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Neo-Soul |
164 | Just Gets Better with Time | Personal Touch | Soul |
165 | No Use in Crying | Cass Clayton | R&B |
166 | Atlas | The Dip | Soul |
167 | Dance to the Music | Sly & The Family Stone | Funk |
168 | Big Chief | Professor Longhair | R&B |
169 | I'm Out!! | Leela James | Soul |
170 | Wasted | Neville Jacobs | Funk |
171 | So Amazing | Bashiri Asad | Neo-Soul |
172 | Freedom (feat. Iyanla Vanzant) | Regina Belle | R&B |
173 | This is America | Childish Gambino | Soul |
174 | Slingshots and Boomerangs | Little Queenie | Soul |
175 | Miss Mess | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Funk |
176 | Little Things | Cass Clayton | R&B |
177 | Back Again | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
178 | Mr. Pitiful | Otis Redding | R&B |
179 | Hit, Git, Quit, Split | Jon Cleary | Soul |
180 | On the Soul Side of Town | Tower of Power | R&B |
181 | Automatic | The BonFyre | Neo-Soul |
182 | Make Me Feel | Janelle Monae | Soul |
183 | Bad Luck Soul | King Biscuit Boy | Soul |
184 | Gone | Julian Taylor Band | Soul |
185 | Brothers and Sisters | Mavis Staples | Soul |
186 | What's Going on | Marvin Gaye | R&B |
187 | Fire | Ohio Players | R&B |
188 | Born with the Blues | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
189 | Golden Wings | Mike Farris | Soul |
190 | Every Time It Rains | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
191 | The Only One | Calvin Richardson | R&B |
192 | Medicine | Queen Naija | R&B |
193 | So Much Life | Ready for the World | R&B |
194 | Sunrise Sunset | J. Brown | Neo-Soul |
195 | Before Dark | SuCh | Soul |
196 | Elvira | The Movers & Shakers | R&B |
197 | Why I Sing the Blues | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
198 | Ballet of the Unhatched Twins I | Sudan Archives | R&B |
199 | Rock with You (feat. J. Red (The Nephew)) | Shay Denise | Soul |
200 | Smoking & Drinking | Kelly Finnigan | Soul |
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