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