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	Tiny Garden (feat. Duendita)	Jamila Woods	R&B
9	Digits (feat. Magna Carda)	Grace Sorensen	R&B
10	Hard to Be a Human	Bettye LaVette	R&B
11	Lord Have Mercy	Durand Jones	Soul
12	Congo Square	Sonny Landreth	R&B
13	Like, Maybe	Kalu & The Electric Joint	Soul
14	I Am	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
15	See It Through	Durand Jones	R&B
16	Muthaship	Danny Gatton	R&B
17	Elmira St. Boogie	Danny Gatton	R&B
18	Quiet Village	Danny Gatton	R&B
19	Fandingus	Danny Gatton	R&B
20	I'm Ready	Paul Reed Smith - Eightlock	R&B
21	Man on Fire	Earl St. Clair	R&B
22	Looking for a Love	The J. Geils Band	R&B
23	Crime	Kalu & The Electric Joint	Soul
24	Where I Go (feat. H.E.R.)	NxWorries	Neo-Soul
25	Maybe They'll Take Your Picture	Liv Warfield	Soul
26	Edge	Liv Warfield	Soul
27	That's Where It's at	The California Honeydrops	Soul
28	50 Foot Woman	Hannah Williams	Funk
29	Eleanor Rigby	Aretha Franklin	Soul
30	Two Jobs	Lee Fields	Soul
31	Friends (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)	Monica	Neo-Soul
32	Moon Rock	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
33	Why I Sing the Blues	Aretha Franklin	Soul
34	If You Don't Want My Love	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
35	One Tribe	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
36	Think	Aretha Franklin	Soul
37	Big Chief	Professor Longhair	R&B
38	I Can Fly	Laura Rain and the Caesars	Soul
39	Won't Be Long	Aretha Franklin	R&B
40	Raise Your Mind	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
41	Respect	Aretha Franklin	Soul
42	Without a Heart	Lee Fields	Soul
43	Butterfly	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
44	Video	India.Arie	Soul
45	Crazy Love	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
46	Another Day	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
47	Time is Tight	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
48	Sea Star	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
49	I Say a Little Prayer	Aretha Franklin	Soul
50	Shou Shou Do	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	R&B
51	Arizona to Georgia	Euforquestra	Funk
52	Best of My Love	The Emotions	R&B
53	I Should Have Let You Be	Lee Fields	Soul
54	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	Funk
55	Warm Me Up	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
56	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	Soul
57	Soul Sweet Song	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
58	Come Around and Love Me	Jalen Ngonda	R&B
59	Greatest Place on Earth	Ivan Neville	Disco
60	Try a Little Tenderness	Otis Redding	R&B
61	Chances	Monophonics	Soul
62	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying	Paul Carrack	Disco
63	Backseat Lover	The Commotions	Funk
64	At Last	Kaz Hawkins	Soul
65	Night Walker	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
66	My Heart's in Louisiana	Nelson Blanchard	R&B
67	Brownout	Ghost Funk Orchestra	R&B
68	Look It Here	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Soul
69	Crying Water	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
70	Yes We Will	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
71	Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)	The Temptations	Motown
72	Bring It on Home to Me	Sam Cooke	Soul
73	Baby I Need Your Loving	Four Tops	Motown
74	What's Going on	Marvin Gaye	R&B
75	100 Days, 100 Nights	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
76	Forever	Lee Fields	Soul
77	Shiny & New	Mayer Hawthorne	R&B
78	Inspiration Information	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
79	Don't Get Me Started (feat. Steve Winwood)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
80	I Can't Let This Slip Away	Hannah Williams	Funk
81	Move the Earth	Euforquestra	Funk
82	Stay Gone	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
83	Move on Baby	The Allergies	Soul
84	Last Night in the Rain	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
85	City of the Body Bag	Mestizo Beat	Funk
86	Show Me the Way	Euforquestra	Funk
87	Doesn't Make Sense	Cass Clayton Band	R&B
88	Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)	Otis Redding	Soul
89	Knock on Wood	Otis Redding	Soul
90	Respect	Otis Redding	Soul
91	It's My Time	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
92	My Peace (feat. Mr. Talkbox)	PJ Morton	Neo-Soul
93	On My Way (feat. El DeBarge)	PJ Morton	Neo-Soul
94	I Want You	Durand Jones	R&B
95	Ain't Too Proud to Beg	The Temptations	Motown
96	Runnin' (To Get to Your Love)	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	Soul
97	Let's Go Get Stoned	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
98	Lady Love	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
99	Mess About It (feat. Ray Parker Jr. & Jon Batiste)	Bettye LaVette	R&B
100	Somehow	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
101	CLOUDS	Prince	R&B
102	I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know	Marc Broussard	Soul
103	Ooh Carla, Ooh Otis	Otis Redding	Soul
104	Shelter	The Brand New Heavies	Neo-Soul
105	Rumors	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Neo-Soul
106	What More Can I Say	NxWorries	Neo-Soul
107	Welcome 2 America	Prince	Soul
108	Runnin' Away (Single Version)	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
109	Spaced Cowboy	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
110	South Carolina	The Poets Of Rhythm	Funk
111	Your Face Before My Eyes	Lee Fields	R&B
112	Focus on Me (Unplugged)	Adiel Mitchell	Soul
113	Knockin' at My Door	Jacob Larson Band	Funk
114	Border Song (Holy Moses)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
115	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Kyle Hollingsworth	Funk
116	Save Your Tears for Someone New	Lee Fields	R&B
117	Jelly Bread	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
118	What Did I Do	Lee Fields	Disco
119	Use Me	Bill Withers	Soul
120	My Girl	The Temptations	Motown
121	Sadie	Durand Jones	Soul
122	The Thrill is Gone (From Yesterday's Kiss)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
123	Part of Me	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
124	Chain of Fools	Aretha Franklin	Soul
125	Get Ready	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
126	Failed Christian	Nick Lowe	R&B
127	Man That I've Become	Nick Lowe	R&B
128	Frim Fram Sauce	Paul Carrack	Disco
129	The Weight	Aretha Franklin	Soul
130	Higher	Euforquestra	Funk
131	Save Me	Aretha Franklin	Soul
132	Morrison	Lauren Frihauf & Ben Suyat	Soul
133	Take Me As I Am	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Soul
134	Party for One	Mamas Gun	R&B
135	How Do I Get There?	Don Bryant	Soul
136	Innocence	Tomar and the Fcs	Soul
137	Papa Was a Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	R&B
138	Maybe Your Baby	Stevie Wonder	R&B
139	Uptight (Everything's Alright)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
140	I Was Made to Love Her	Stevie Wonder	R&B
141	You Haven't Done Nothin'	Stevie Wonder	R&B
142	Boogie on Reggae Woman	Stevie Wonder	R&B
143	Let's Go Get Stoned	Ray Charles	R&B
144	Worth It	Amber Mark	R&B
145	Nobody's Baby	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
146	You Gotta Move	Sam Cooke	Soul
147	Harmony	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	Soul
148	The Payback	James Brown	Funk
149	Lovers of Valdaro	Turkuaz	Funk
150	I'm Gonna Give You Respect	Marvin Gaye	Motown
151	What It Takes (feat. Lauren Daigle)	Trombone Shorty	Neo-Soul
152	Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand	Professor Longhair	R&B
153	Mercy	Bonnie Bishop	R&B
154	Groovin'	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
155	What I Owe	Teddy Grossman	R&B
156	Jet Black Cadillac	Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds	R&B
157	Don't Play That Song (Live at Fillmore West)	Aretha Franklin	R&B
158	Dr. Feelgood (Love is Serious Business)	Aretha Franklin	Soul
159	Talk Back Mic	Marc Cohn	Soul
160	Reach out	Durand Jones & The Indications	Soul
161	Working on Me	The Allergies	Soul
162	The Last Dance	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	Soul
163	Sage Motel	Monophonics	Soul
164	Make It After All	Dumpstaphunk	Funk
165	Hip Hug Her	Booker T. & The M.G.'s	R&B
166	Just Give Me Your Time	Lee Fields	Soul
167	Rock Steady	Aretha Franklin	Soul
168	(What A) Wonderful World	Sam Cooke	Soul
169	Satisfied	Euforquestra	Funk
170	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)	Marvin Gaye	R&B
171	Into the Mystic	Van Morrison	R&B
172	Big Chief	Dr. John	R&B
173	Funky Mama	Danny Gatton	R&B
174	Nothing at All	The California Honeydrops	R&B
175	Heat Lightning	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	R&B
176	Feels So Good	Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints	R&B
177	Lovely Day	Bill Withers	Soul
178	Here with Me (feat. Anderson .Paak)	Mary J. Blige	Soul
179	See Through Me (feat. Pedrito Martinez)	Bettye LaVette	Soul
180	He Said / She Said	Acantha Lang	R&B
181	I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
182	Stranger to My Happiness	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
183	Hello Stranger	Barbara Lewis	Soul
184	When You Love Somebody	Leela James	Soul
185	Celebration	Kool & The Gang	Soul
186	TELL the TRUTH	Jon Batiste	Soul
187	Get 2 Know	Liv Warfield	Soul
188	If You Want Me to Stay	Sly & The Family Stone	Funk
189	Future Lover	Thee Sacred Souls	Neo-Soul
190	I'll Be Around	The Spinners	Soul
191	Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away	Stevie Wonder	R&B
192	The Ever Watchful Eye	Turkuaz	Funk
193	Movin'	Write Minded	R&B
194	It Ain't Fair	Aretha Franklin	Soul
195	Shine a Light (Live)	Hazel Miller	Soul
196	Lookin' for Another Pure Love	Stevie Wonder	R&B
197	The Unicorn	The California Honeydrops	R&B
198	How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	Soul
199	Twistin' the Night Away	Sam Cooke	Soul
200	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	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