Top R&B Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2023

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Playing with My Emotions	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
2	Hear My Dear	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
3	Medal	Emily King	Soul
4	Contact	Kelela	Soul
5	That's All I Wanted from You	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
6	Come Back	Trombone Shorty	Neo-Soul
7	Not Gonna Get Me	Alex Lucero and The Live Again Band	Soul
8	Hard to Be a Human	Bettye LaVette	R&B
9	Lord Have Mercy	Durand Jones & The Indications	Soul
10	Congo Square	Sonny Landreth	R&B
11	I Am	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
12	See It Through	Durand Jones & The Indications	R&B
13	Muthaship	Danny Gatton	R&B
14	Elmira St. Boogie	Danny Gatton	R&B
15	Quiet Village	Danny Gatton	R&B
16	Fandingus	Danny Gatton	R&B
17	I'm Ready	Paul Reed Smith - Eightlock	R&B
18	Man on Fire	Earl St. Clair	R&B
19	Looking for a Love	The J. Geils Band	R&B
20	Crime	Kalu & The Electric Joint	Soul
21	Maybe They'll Take Your Picture	Liv Warfield	Soul
22	Edge	Liv Warfield	Soul
23	That's Where It's at	The California Honeydrops	Soul
24	50 Foot Woman	Hannah Williams	Funk
25	Eleanor Rigby	Aretha Franklin	Soul
26	Two Jobs	Lee Fields	Soul
27	Friends (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)	Monica	Neo-Soul
28	Why I Sing the Blues	Aretha Franklin	Soul
29	Moon Rock	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
30	If You Don't Want My Love	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
31	One Tribe	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
32	Think	Aretha Franklin	Soul
33	Big Chief	Professor Longhair	R&B
34	I Can Fly	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
35	Frim Fram Sauce	Paul Carrack	Disco
36	Won't Be Long	Aretha Franklin	R&B
37	Raise Your Mind	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
38	Respect	Aretha Franklin	Soul
39	Without a Heart	Lee Fields	Soul
40	Butterfly	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
41	Video	India.Arie	Soul
42	Crazy Love	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
43	Another Day	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
44	Time is Tight	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
45	I Say a Little Prayer	Aretha Franklin	Soul
46	Sea Star	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
47	Shou Shou Do	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
48	Best of My Love	The Emotions	R&B
49	Arizona to Georgia	Euforquestra	Funk
50	I Should Have Let You Be	Lee Fields	Soul
51	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	Funk
52	Warm Me Up	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
53	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	Soul
54	Soul Sweet Song	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
55	Greatest Place on Earth	Ivan Neville	Disco
56	At Last	Kaz Hawkins	Soul
57	Try a Little Tenderness	Otis Redding	R&B
58	Chances	Monophonics	Soul
59	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying	Paul Carrack	Disco
60	Night Walker	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
61	My Heart's in Louisiana	Nelson Blanchard	R&B
62	Look It Here	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Soul
63	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	The Temptations	Motown
64	Brownout	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
65	Bring It on Home to Me	Sam Cooke	Soul
66	Yes We Will	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
67	Crying Water	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
68	Baby I Need Your Loving	Four Tops	Motown
69	What's Going on	Marvin Gaye	R&B
70	100 Days, 100 Nights	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
71	Forever	Lee Fields	Soul
72	Show Me the Way	Euforquestra	Funk
73	Shiny & New	Mayer Hawthorne	R&B
74	Inspiration Information	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
75	Don't Get Me Started (feat. Steve Winwood)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
76	I Can't Let This Slip Away	Hannah Williams	Funk
77	Move the Earth	Euforquestra	Funk
78	Stay Gone	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
79	Move on Baby	The Allergies	Soul
80	Last Night in the Rain	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
81	City of the Body Bag	Mestizo Beat	Funk
82	Ain't Too Proud to Beg	The Temptations	Motown
83	Respect	Otis Redding	Soul
84	Knock on Wood	Otis Redding	Soul
85	It's My Time	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
86	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)	Otis Redding	Soul
87	Doesn't Make Sense	Cass Clayton Band	R&B
88	I Want You	Durand Jones & The Indications	R&B
89	Runnin' (To Get to Your Love)	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
90	Let's Go Get Stoned	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
91	Lady Love	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
92	Mess About It (feat. Ray Parker Jr. & Jon Batiste)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
93	Your Face Before My Eyes	Lee Fields	R&B
94	Shelter	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
95	Somehow	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
96	Rumors	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Neo-Soul
97	CLOUDS	Prince	R&B
98	I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know	Marc Broussard	Soul
99	Ooh Carla, Ooh Otis	Otis Redding	Soul
100	Welcome 2 America	Prince	Soul
101	Runnin' Away (Single Version)	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
102	Spaced Cowboy	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
103	South Carolina	The Poets Of Rhythm	Funk
104	Focus on Me (Unplugged)	Adiel Mitchell	Soul
105	Knockin' at My Door	Jacob Larson Band	Funk
106	Border Song (Holy Moses)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
107	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Kyle Hollingsworth	Funk
108	Save Your Tears for Someone New	Lee Fields	R&B
109	Use Me	Bill Withers	Soul
110	My Girl	The Temptations	Motown
111	What Did I Do	Lee Fields	Disco
112	Jelly Bread	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
113	Sadie	Durand Jones & The Indications	Soul
114	Part of Me	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
115	Chain of Fools	Aretha Franklin	Soul
116	The Thrill is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
117	The Weight	Aretha Franklin	Soul
118	Save Me	Aretha Franklin	Soul
119	Maybe Your Baby	Stevie Wonder	R&B
120	Harmony	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	Soul
121	Take Me As I Am	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
122	Higher	Euforquestra	Funk
123	Boogie on Reggae Woman	Stevie Wonder	R&B
124	Papa Was a Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	R&B
125	Party for One	Mamas Gun	R&B
126	The Payback	James Brown	Funk
127	You Haven't Done Nothin'	Stevie Wonder	R&B
128	Nobody's Baby	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
129	Morrison	Lauren Frihauf & Ben Suyat	Soul
130	You Gotta Move	Sam Cooke	Soul
131	Uptight (Everything's Alright)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
132	I'm Gonna Give You Respect	Marvin Gaye	Motown
133	How Do I Get There?	Don Bryant	Soul
134	Innocence	Tomar and the Fcs	Soul
135	I Was Made to Love Her	Stevie Wonder	R&B
136	Let's Go Get Stoned	Ray Charles	R&B
137	Worth It	Amber Mark	R&B
138	Lovers of Valdaro	Turkuaz	Funk
139	What It Takes (feat. Lauren Daigle)	Trombone Shorty	Neo-Soul
140	Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand	Professor Longhair	R&B
141	Mercy	Bonnie Bishop	R&B
142	What I Owe	Teddy Grossman	R&B
143	Jet Black Cadillac	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
144	Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
145	Talk Back Mic	Marc Cohn	Soul
146	Reach out	Durand Jones & The Indications	Soul
147	Working on Me	The Allergies	Soul
148	The Last Dance	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
149	Sage Motel	Monophonics	Soul
150	Make It After All	Dumpstaphunk	Funk
151	Funky Mama	Danny Gatton	R&B
152	Rock Steady	Aretha Franklin	Soul
153	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Marvin Gaye	R&B
154	Lovely Day	Bill Withers	Soul
155	Here with Me (feat. Anderson .Paak)	Mary J. Blige	Soul
156	Into the Mystic	Van Morrison	R&B
157	(What A) Wonderful World	Sam Cooke	Soul
158	Satisfied	Euforquestra	Funk
159	Nothing at All	The California Honeydrops	R&B
160	Feels So Good	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
161	Just Give Me Your Time	Lee Fields	Soul
162	Big Chief	Dr. John	R&B
163	Heat Lightning	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	R&B
164	See Through Me (feat. Pedrito Martinez)	Bettye LaVette	Soul
165	Hip Hug Her	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
166	Stranger to My Happiness	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
167	When You Love Somebody	Leela James	Soul
168	I'll Be Around	The Spinners	Soul
169	He Said / She Said	Acantha Lang	R&B
170	If You Want Me to Stay	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
171	Hello Stranger	Barbara Lewis	Soul
172	TELL the TRUTH	Jon Batiste	Soul
173	I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
174	Celebration	Kool & The Gang	Soul
175	Get 2 Know	Liv Warfield	Soul
176	Future Lover	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
177	Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away	Stevie Wonder	R&B
178	The Ever Watchful Eye	Turkuaz	Funk
179	Movin'	Write Minded	R&B
180	Don't Need No Monkey on My Back	Howard Tate	Soul
181	Shine a Light (Live)	Hazel Miller	Soul
182	Lookin' for Another Pure Love	Stevie Wonder	R&B
183	How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
184	Rainy Day	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
185	Twistin' the Night Away	Sam Cooke	Soul
186	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	Soul
187	The Unicorn	The California Honeydrops	R&B
188	Still Got Time	Euforquestra	Funk
189	You Send Me	Sam Cooke	Soul
190	Heaven's Calling	Robert Randolph & The Family Band	Soul
191	Nothing I Wanna Know About	The Bamboos	Soul
192	I Need Never Get Old	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Soul

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The Roots Music Report's Top R&B Song Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top R&B Song Chart
for the Year of 2023