The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2016
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Need Never Get Old | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 2 | Forever Mine | Andra Day | Soul |
| 3 | Rise Up | Andra Day | Soul |
| 4 | Soul Lover | Tad Robinson | Soul |
| 5 | Keep You in Mind | Guordan Banks | Soul |
| 6 | Holding on | Gregory Porter | Soul |
| 7 | Grown Folks Music (Work) | Vivian Green | Soul |
| 8 | Angel (Live) | Lalah Hathaway | Soul |
| 9 | Am I Wrong (feat. ScHoolboy Q) | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
| 10 | Woman's World | BJ The Chicago Kid | Soul |
| 11 | Wake Up Everybody | R. Kelly | Soul |
| 12 | I Do | Musiq Soulchild | Soul |
| 13 | Cheers to the Fall | Andra Day | Soul |
| 14 | Black Man in a White World | Michael Kiwanuka | Soul |
| 15 | Stay | The Suffers | Soul |
| 16 | Good Love | Keith Sweat | Soul |
| 17 | Godawful Things | Lake Street Dive | R&B |
| 18 | Unbreakable | Janet Jackson | Soul |
| 19 | Lake by the Ocean | Maxwell | Soul |
| 20 | Promise to Love | Kem | Soul |
| 21 | Uh Oh Feeling | Brian McKnight | Soul |
| 22 | Can't Wait | Jill Scott | Soul |
| 23 | 2 Bad Habits | Angie Stone | Soul |
| 24 | Struggle Love | Jaheim | Soul |
| 25 | Stop Where You Are | Corinne Bailey Rae | Soul |
| 26 | This One's for Me and You | Johnny Gill | Soul |
| 27 | In Common | Alicia Keys | Soul |
| 28 | If That Don't Tell You | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 29 | Sandcastles | Beyoncé | Soul |
| 30 | Prior to You (feat. Tank) | Tyrese | Soul |
| 31 | Crush (feat. Usher) | Yuna | Soul |
| 32 | Dammn Baby | Janet Jackson | Soul |
| 33 | Amen | Anthony Hamilton | Soul |
| 34 | Backyard Party | R. Kelly | Soul |
| 35 | No Time for It | Fantasia | Soul |
| 36 | Green Aphrodisiac | Corinne Bailey Rae | Soul |
| 37 | Gold | Andra Day | Soul |
| 38 | Sunshine | Eric Benét | Soul |
| 39 | Crash | Usher | Soul |
| 40 | Show Me | K.Avett | Soul |
| 41 | Green Light | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes | Soul |
| 42 | Hold Up | Beyoncé | Soul |
| 43 | Blessings | Chance The Rapper | Soul |
| 44 | Untitled 06 L 06.30.2014. | Kendrick Lamar | Soul |
| 45 | S.O.B. | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 46 | Sleeping with the One I Love | Fantasia | Soul |
| 47 | Zero | Chris Brown | Soul |
| 48 | This Could B Us | Prince | Soul |
| 49 | (Baby) Hold on | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 50 | Back Together | Jill Scott | Soul |
| 51 | Runnin' (Lose It All) | Naughty Boy | R&B |
| 52 | What's Going on | Marvin Gaye | R&B |
| 53 | Too Late | Bonnie Bishop | R&B |
| 54 | Hotline Bling | Drake | Soul |
| 55 | Tryin' | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Neo-Soul |
| 56 | The Good Times | Eric Lindell | Soul |
| 57 | Sign of the Times | Cee Lo Green | Soul |
| 58 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross | Soul |
| 59 | Coffee | Miguel | Soul |
| 60 | She Thinks I Still Care | Eric Lindell | Soul |
| 61 | Mercy | Bonnie Bishop | R&B |
| 62 | Asking for a Friend | The Foreign Exchange | Soul |
| 63 | The Fix (feat. Jeremih) | Nelly | Soul |
| 64 | So I Can Have You Back | Joe | Soul |
| 65 | Run | Bell Biv DeVoe | Soul |
| 66 | California | Eric Lindell | Soul |
| 67 | Love Star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & PJ) | Common | Soul |
| 68 | Vaporize | Amos Lee | R&B |
| 69 | Mr. Wonderful | Melanie Durrant | Soul |
| 70 | 1000 X's & O's | Prince | Soul |
| 71 | I Don't Care About You | Lake Street Dive | R&B |
| 72 | I'm Not Made That Way | Curtis Salgado | Soul |
| 73 | Back in My Arms | Jaheim | Soul |
| 74 | Something for Nothing | Rationale | Soul |
| 75 | Redbone | Childish Gambino | Soul |
| 76 | Freedom (feat. Kendrick Lamar) | Beyoncé | Soul |
| 77 | Good Woman | La'Porsha Renae | Soul |
| 78 | Can't Feel My Face | The Weeknd | Soul |
| 79 | No Sleeep | Janet Jackson | Soul |
| 80 | Hurts | Emeli Sandé | Soul |
| 81 | Bones | Rebecca Ferguson | Soul |
| 82 | Wrong Too Long | Eric Lindell | Soul |
| 83 | You Wonder Why? | Stacy Barthe | Soul |
| 84 | Candyman | Zedd | Soul |
| 85 | I Made It (feat. Tye Tribbett) | Fantasia | Soul |
| 86 | Day Dreams | Raphael Saadiq | Soul |
| 87 | Stone Rollin' | Raphael Saadiq | Soul |
| 88 | Run Like the River | Vintage Trouble | Soul |
| 89 | All Night (ft. Knox Fortune) | Chance The Rapper | Soul |
| 90 | Special | Avant | Soul |
| 91 | My Favorite Part of You | Charlie Wilson | Soul |
| 92 | Katchi (feat. Leon Bridges) | Nick Waterhouse | Soul |
| 93 | The Man | Aloe Blacc | Soul |
| 94 | Morning Sun | Robin Thicke | Soul |
| 95 | The Truth | The Motet | Funk |
| 96 | Hey Brother | Aloe Blacc | Funk |
| 97 | If I Don't Have You | Tamar Braxton | Soul |
| 98 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 99 | Love Me Back | Kenny Lattimore | Soul |
| 100 | Blended Family (What You Do for Love) | Alicia Keys | Soul |
| 101 | Classic | Vedo | Soul |
| 102 | Fool's Gold | Jill Scott | Soul |
| 103 | Shame | Tyrese | Soul |
| 104 | Spectacular Failure | Lake Street Dive | R&B |
| 105 | Been to the Moon | Corinne Bailey Rae | Soul |
| 106 | Faith (feat. Ariana Grande) [From "Sing"] | Stevie Wonder | Soul |
| 107 | Brother, What Happened? | Muddy Magnolias | Soul |
| 108 | Keep You in Mind (Platinum Edition) | Guordan Banks | Soul |
| 109 | Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers) | Laura Mvula | Soul |
| 110 | Still and Always Will | Vintage Trouble | Neo-Soul |
| 111 | Moonbeam Levels | Prince | Soul |
| 112 | Don't Want You Back | Leela James | Soul |
| 113 | Come Down | Anderson .Paak | Soul |
| 114 | Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers) [MXXWLL Remix] | Laura Mvula | Soul |
| 115 | Them Changes | Thundercat | Soul |
| 116 | Satisfy Me | Anderson East | Soul |
| 117 | Runnin' (Lose It All) [feat. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin] | Naughty Boy | R&B |
| 118 | Light of My Life | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 119 | Call off Your Dogs | Lake Street Dive | R&B |
| 120 | This One's for Me and You (feat. New Edition) | Johnny Gill | Soul |
| 121 | A Truer Heart | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 122 | Professor Longhair Blues | Professor Longhair | R&B |
| 123 | Can You Do This | Aloe Blacc | Soul |
| 124 | #WHERESTHELOVE (feat. the World) | The Black Eyed Peas | Soul |
| 125 | No Sleeep (feat. J. Cole) | Janet Jackson | Soul |
| 126 | Looking for You | Bonnie Bishop | R&B |
| 127 | I Try | Macy Gray | Soul |
| 128 | In the Dark | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 129 | Better Man | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 130 | Flowers | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 131 | Givin' It Up for Your Love (Live) | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | R&B |
| 132 | How Do I Let a Good Man Down? | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
| 133 | Morning Sun | Melody Gardot | Soul |
| 134 | Broken | Bonnie Bishop | R&B |
| 135 | Part of Me | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Soul |
| 136 | French African Queen | Gregory Porter | Soul |
| 137 | It Gonna Come | Melody Gardot | Soul |
| 138 | Preacherman | Melody Gardot | Soul |
| 139 | Slow Turn | The Red Dirt Revelators | Soul |
| 140 | This Time | The California Honeydrops | Soul |
| 141 | Take Me to the River | Al Green | Soul |
| 142 | Luv Jones | Charles Bradley | Funk |
| 143 | Cosmic Love | Mayer Hawthorne | R&B |
| 144 | Back Water Blues | Irma Thomas | R&B |
| 145 | Thank You | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 146 | Trying So Hard Not to Know | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 147 | Dance to the Music | Sly & The Family Stone | Funk |
| 148 | More Than I Knew | Deborah Cox | Soul |
| 149 | Eastside | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes | Soul |
| 150 | Emergency | The Maxx | Funk |
| 151 | Stuck with Me | Tamia | Soul |
| 152 | Loving Names | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes | Soul |
| 153 | Sweet Little Messages | Charlie Faye And The Fayettes | Soul |
| 154 | Purple Rain | Prince | R&B |
| 155 | California Roll (feat. Stevie Wonder) | Snoop Dogg | Soul |
| 156 | Black Mattie (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt) | The Ragpicker String Band | Soul |
| 157 | Long Way | The California Honeydrops | Soul |
| 158 | Strike Your Light (feat. Kamilah Marshall) | Vintage Trouble | Soul |
| 159 | Flow with It (You Got Me Feeling Like) | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Soul |
| 160 | Stranded | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 161 | Retreat! | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
| 162 | Look It Here | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 163 | Highways and Clouds | Amos Lee | R&B |
| 164 | Family Affair (Single Version) | Sly & The Family Stone | Funk |
| 165 | Nobody's Baby | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
| 166 | I Wanna Thank You Baby (Live) | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | R&B |
| 167 | Blue Light Boogie | King Biscuit Boy | Soul |
| 168 | Im Not a Doctor | Jeff Turmes | R&B |
| 169 | This is Where We Came in | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 170 | Rippin Herb | The Motet | Funk |
| 171 | Trimmed and Burning (Feat. Mary Flower, Rich Delgrosso, Martin Grosswendt) | The Ragpicker String Band | Soul |
| 172 | Beautiful Day | The Soul of John Black | Soul |
| 173 | Damn! | The Motet | Funk |
| 174 | Soul Seranade | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
| 175 | When Doves Cry | Prince | R&B |
| 176 | Who Am I to Judge You (Live) | Andrea Marr | Soul |
| 177 | Let Them Knock | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
| 178 | Get Greasy | Lettuce | Funk |
| 179 | I Can't Stand the Rain | Ann Peebles | R&B |
| 180 | Have I | Mingo Fishtrap | Funk |
| 181 | She Put the Hurt on Me | Otis Redding | Soul |
| 182 | Upside | Allen Stone | Soul |
| 183 | I Know | The Maxx | Funk |
| 184 | Shake | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 185 | Sweet Afternoon | Avery Sunshine | Soul |
| 186 | Free Your Mind (While You Still Got Time) | The James Hunter Six | Soul |
| 187 | Respect | Otis Redding | Soul |
| 188 | I'll Be Doggone | Marvin Gaye | R&B |
| 189 | Cold Sweat | James Brown | Funk |
| 190 | Let It Burn | Jazmine Sullivan | Soul |
| 191 | Howling at Nothing | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Soul |
| 192 | What You Laid on Me | Ann Peebles | R&B |
| 193 | Prepare | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Soul |
| 194 | Stranger to My Happiness | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul |
| 195 | Smooth Sailin' | Leon Bridges | Soul |
| 196 | Tobacco Road | Lou Rawls | Soul |
| 197 | Looking for a Love | The J. Geils Band | R&B |
| 198 | Religious | Ne-Yo | Soul |
| 199 | Doubt | Mary J. Blige | Soul |
| 200 | Rock Steady | Aretha Franklin | Soul |
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