| 1 |
record label: Columbia 79949
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #1, US dance #1
written by: Beyoncé, Rich Harrison, Jay Z and Eugene Record
album: Dangerously in Love
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| 2 |
record label: Downtown 70002
chart position: RandB 53, US #2, UK #1, US AC #7, US dance #23, US alt. #7
written by: Danger Mouse, Cee Lo Green, Gian Franco Reverberi and Gian Piero Reverberi
album: St. Elsewhere
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| 3 |
record label: MCA 53483
chart position: RandB #54, US #1, UK #5, US dance #1, US alt.# 5
written by: Roland Gift, David Steele & Andy Cox
album: The Raw & the Cooked
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| 4 |
record label: Uni 55066
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, US AC #15
written by: Philemon Hou
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
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| 5 |
record label: Motown 1609
chart position: RandB #1, US #5, US dance #2
written by: Reggie Andrews & Leon
album: Keep It Live
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 6 |
record label: EMI 63
chart position: RandB #1, UK #2, US #7, US AC #1
written by: Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser & Preston Glass
album: Good to Be Back
comments: [ballad]
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| 7 |
record label: LaFace 24223
chart position: RandB #20, US #8, UK #7, US AC #14
written by: Peter Cetera and David Foster
album: Az Yet
comments: [slow jam]
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| 8 |
record label: Jive 1442
chart position: RandB #1, UK #8, US #4, US dance #41
written by: Lamar Hula Mahone, Craig Simpkins and Will Smith
album: Homebase
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 9 |
record label: Warner 29216
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, US dance #1, US rock #19
written by: Prince
album: Purple Rain
|
| 10 |
record label: Jive 335
chart position: RandB #21, US #13, UK #1, US dance #36
written by: Will Smith
album: Code Red
|
| 11 |
record label: Bang 727
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, US dance #7
written by: Eddie Irons, Ray Ransom & Regi Hargis
album: Good High
comments: [disco funk]
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| 12 |
record label: RCA Victor 74 0107
chart position: RandB #5, US #3
written by: Philemon Hou & Harry Elston
album: Grazin' / The Best of Friends
comments: [pop soul]
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| 13 |
record label: LaFace 24181
chart position: RandB #1, US #9, UK #21
written by: Babyface (as Kenny Edmonds) and Keith Andes
album: Az Yet
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 14 |
record label: ZTT 73154
chart position: US #7, UK #2, US alt. #5
written by: Seal and Guy Sigsworth
album: Seal [1991 album]
|
| 15 |
record label: 20th Century 2218
chart position: RandB #13, US #11, UK #41, US AC #5, US dance #1
written by: Ary Barroso
album: Brazil
comments: [disco]
|
| 16 |
record label: Cash Money 1588
chart position: RandB #5, US #19
written by: D.P.
album: 400 Degreez
comments: [rap]
|
| 17 |
record label: AandM 2334
chart position: UK #11, RandB #17, US dance #3
written by: Rod Temperton
album: The Dude
comments: [jazz funk]
|
| 18 |
record label: MCA 25304
chart position: RandB #63, US #11, UK #35
written by: Lincoln Border, Darrell Delite, K Ci and Jo Jo
album: X
|
| 19 |
record label: AandM 1666
chart position: RandB #29, US #10, UK #28
written by: Tony Camillo
comments: [funk instrumental]
|
| 20 |
record label: TMR 3089
chart position: RandB #19, US #12
written by: Duice
album: Dazzey Duks
comments: [rap]
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| 21 |
record label: Def Soul 15530 2
chart position: RandB #2, US #16
written by: Ivan Barias, Carvin Haggins, Francis Lai and Musiq Soulchild
album: Juslisen
comments: [slow jam]
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| 22 |
record label: Warner 28583
chart position: UK #4
written by: Randy Crawford
album: Abstract Emotions
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 23 |
record label: Def Jam 009296
chart position: RandB #4, US #15
written by: Earl Conyers, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne and Joshua Banks
album: Supply and Demand
|
| 24 |
record label: J Records 32718
chart position: RandB #1, US #37
written by: Jazmine Sullivan, Missy Elliott, Cainon Lamb, Nicholas Taylor Stanton and David Sinclair
album: Fearless
|
| 25 |
record label: J Digital
chart position: RandB #5, US #60
written by: Missy Elliott, Cainon Lamb, Jazmine Sullivan, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Roy C and Dave Atkinson
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| 26 |
record label: Jive 1099
chart position: RandB #10, US #12, UK #87
written by: Will Smith, Jeff Townes & Peter Harris
album: He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 27 |
record label: J Digital
chart position: RandB #4, US #31
written by: Jazmine Sullivan, Salaam Remi and Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
album: Fearless
|
| 28 |
record label: Jive 42023
chart position: RandB #22, US #20, UK #53, US dance #22
written by: Frederick Knight
album: Homebase
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 29 |
record label: Federal 12369
chart position: RandB #15, US #15
weeksinr&bchart: 11
written by: James Brown
album: Think!
|
| 30 |
record label: High Rise 2001
chart position: RandB #2, US #40
written by: Sonny Charles & Bobby Paris
album: The Sun Still Shines
|
| 31 |
record label: Jive 1124
chart position: RandB #9, US #15
written by: Will Smith, Jeff Townes & Peter Harris
album: He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 32 |
record label: Shotty
chart position: RandB #63, US #68
written by: Legacy, Ben J, Matt Squire and Damon Sharpe
album: Too Cool to Care
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 33 |
record label: EMI 58478
chart position: RandB #12, US #25, UK #67
written by: Jerry Barnes, Katreese Barnes and AZ
album: Doe or Die
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 34 |
record label: Capitol 353
chart position: RandB #1, UK #79, US #88, US Dance #34
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Can't Stop The Love
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 35 |
record label: Interscope 11914 2
chart position: RandB #67, US #21
written by: Jazze Pha and Young Buck
album: Buck the World
|
| 36 |
record label: Columbia 75327
chart position: RandB #13, US #23, UK #41
written by: Jermaine Dupri and LRoc
album: Wanted
|
| 37 |
record label: Motown 1760
chart position: RandB #9, UK #12, US dance #3, US #84
written by: Bobby Harris & Keith Harrison
album: Jukebox
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 38 |
record label: Sire 29953
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #31, US #73
written by: Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet
album: Upstairs at Eric's
|
| 39 |
record label: Motown 44037
chart position: RandB #1, US #29, UK #57
written by: Hakim Abdulsamad and Khiry Abdulsamad
album: The Boys
|
| 40 |
record label: AandM 2878
chart position: RandB #2, US #53, US dance #12
weeksinr&bchart: 18
written by: Jesse Johnson
album: Shockadelica
|
| 41 |
record label: Original Sound 89
chart position: RandB #4, US #36
written by: Arlester Christian
comments: [funk]
|
| 42 |
record label: Original Sound 86
chart position: RandB #7, US #35
written by: Arlester Christian
comments: [funk]
|
| 43 |
record label: J Digital
chart position: RandB #10, US #74
written by: Jazmine Sullivan and Salaam Remi
album: Fearless
|
| 44 |
record label: Columbia 08073
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #24, UK #28
written by: Vaughan Mason
album: Album 88
comments: [disco dance]
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| 45 |
record label: Epic 662816
chart position: RandB #30, US #45, UK #30
written by: Eazy E
album: Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 46 |
record label: Warner 22895
chart position: RandB #1, UK #89
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Silky Soul
|
| 47 |
record label: Grand Hustle 88366
chart position: RandB #17, US #35
written by: Jazze Pha, Aretha Franklin and T.I.
album: Trap Muzik
|
| 48 |
record label: Virgin 96517
chart position: RandB #6, US dance #3
written by: Jazzie B (as Beresford Romeo) & Nellee Hooper
album: Club Classics, Volume One
|
| 49 |
record label: Gordy 1798
chart position: US dance #3, RandB #10, US #42
written by: Kenny Hawkins & Rick James
album: Only Four You
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 50 |
record label: Capitol 5474
chart position: RandB #5, UK #36, US #103
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Can't Stop the Love
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 51 |
record label: Columbia 03939
chart position: RandB #4, UK #63, US #72
written by: Skip Anderson, Stephen Horton & Steve Williams [Steven Richard Williams]
album: Forever by Your Side
|
| 52 |
record label: Prelude 8034
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #35
written by: Andy Gierus & Nicholas Bailey
album: The Nick Straker Band
|
| 53 |
record label: Avatar 00356
chart position: RandB #25, US #64, UK #25
written by: Peter Lord, Jeff Smith, Louie De Louie and Kenneth Borland
album: Goodfellaz
|
| 54 |
record label: WEA 1814
chart position: UK #6
written by: Mark Morrison and Mykaell S. Riley
album: Return of the Mack
|
| 55 |
record label: Warner Bros.
chart position: US dance #1, UK #74
written by: Seal
album: System
|
| 56 |
record label: RCA 42596 (UK)
chart position: UK #7
written by: Robert Howard
|
| 57 |
record label: Capitol 5221
chart position: RandB #5, US #80, UK #88
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: We Are One
|
| 58 |
record label: Reprise 5190
chart position: RandB #7, US #75
written by: David Lewis and Wayne Lewis
album: Love Crazy
comments: [new jack swing]
|
| 59 |
record label: Arista 74321 20903(UK)
chart position: UK #13
written by: Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts
|
| 60 |
record label: Atlantic 0227
chart position: UK #12
written by: Jason
album: The Trinity
comments: [reggae dancehall]
|
| 61 |
record label: Capitol 4686
chart position: RandB #7, US #67
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Inspiration
|
| 62 |
record label: Warner 22738
chart position: RandB #4
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Silky Soul
|
| 63 |
record label: EMI 364(UK)
chart position: UK #15
written by: BeBe Winans
album: Always and Forever
|
| 64 |
record label: Arista 74321
chart position: US #97, UK #27
written by: Kym Mazelle, Charlie Mallozzi and Marco Sobiu
comments: [dance, house]
|
| 65 |
record label: Milestone Records 101
chart position: UK #19
written by: Jose Roberto Bertrami, Ivan Conte and Alex Malheiros
album: Light as a Feather
comments: [jazz funk] [instrumental]
|
| 66 |
record label: Music Line
chart position: RandB #12, US #62
written by: Alviticus Bryant, Michael Gordon Jr., Sedarius Spearman and Jared Rice
album: Jamboree
|
| 67 |
record label: Chrysalis 58267
chart position: RandB #54, US #36, UK #63
written by: Rappin' 4 Tay (as Anthony Forté)
album: Don't Fight the Feeling
|
| 68 |
record label: Capitol 421
chart position: RandB #12, UK #55
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Live in Los Angeles
|
| 69 |
record label: Champion 12 23 (UK)
chart position: UK #20
written by: Stephon Johnson and Varryl Vano
|
| 70 |
record label: Capitol 11332
chart position: UK #20
written by: Dave Crawford
album: Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture
comments: [disco, dance]
|
| 71 |
record label: Ahead Of Our Time 4
chart position: UK #21, US #32
written by: Jonathan More, Matt Black and Reid
album: What's That Noise?
|
| 72 |
record label: Champion 18
chart position: RandB #81, UK #21, US #57
written by: Will Smith & Jeff Townes
album: Rock the House
|
| 73 |
record label: Motown 1775
chart position: RandB #12, UK #79
written by: Reggie Andrews and Bobby Harris
album: Wild and Free
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 74 |
record label: Virgin 96414
chart position: RandB #29, UK #22, US Dance #39
written by: Kym Mazelle, Jazzie B (as Beresford Romeo) and Simon Law
album: Vol. II: 1990: A New Decade
|
| 75 |
record label: Arista 74321 23131(UK)
chart position: UK #22
written by: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard
comments: [dance, house]
|
| 76 |
record label: Parkway 920
chart position: RandB #7, US #40
written by: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Roberta Harris
|
| 77 |
record label: Capitol 5000
chart position: RandB #7
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Live in New Orleans
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 78 |
record label: Syncopate 36
chart position: UK #53, US Dance #13
written by: Marshall Jefferson
album: Brilliant!
|
| 79 |
record label: Circa 128
chart position: UK #24
album: Blessed Burden
|
| 80 |
record label: Capitol 290
chart position: RandB #13, US #108
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
|
| 81 |
record label: Creole 109 (UK)
chart position: UK #26
written by: Ary Barruso
album: Funky Flavoured
|
| 82 |
record label: Motown 1659
chart position: RandB #9, US Dance #52
written by: Reggie Andrews and Leon
album: On the One
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 83 |
record label: Jive 131
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Millie Jackson and Timmy Allen
album: An Imitation of Love
|
| 84 |
record label: She 8700
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Clarence Satchell, Frederick Tyrone Crum (as Tyrone Crum), Keith Harrison, Ralph Aikens, Robert Neal
album: Riding High
|
| 85 |
record label: Motown 1701
chart position: RandB #9, US #61
written by: Bobby Harris and Eric Fearman
album: Joystick
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 86 |
record label: Capitol 4531
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Hurt So Good
|
| 87 |
record label: Capitol 4891
chart position: RandB #9
written by: Frankie Beverly
album: Joy and Pain
|
| 88 |
record label: Syncopate 25
chart position: UK #29
written by: Ce Ce Rogers
album: Brilliant!
|
| 89 |
record label: LMR 2790
chart position: US #73, US Dance #10
written by: Patrick De Meyer, Olivier Abbeloos, Daisy Dee, MC Bones and Tim Benjamin
album: Daisy Dee
comments: [dance, house, hip hop]
|
| 90 |
record label: Capitol 510
chart position: RandB #17, UK #41, US dance #38
written by: Barry Eastmond and Jolyon Skinner
album: Don't Let Love Slip Away
|
| 91 |
record label: Mercury 422 852 037
chart position: RandB #10, US #45
written by: Van Morrison
album: I Remember You
comments: [ballad]
|
| 92 |
record label: AandM 31458 8017
chart position: RandB #31, US #97, UK #44
written by: George Lyter, Michael O'Hara and Denise Rich
album: Finally
|
| 93 |
record label: Champion 228
chart position: UK #30
written by: Vaughan Mason
album: All 4 Love
comments: [garage house, hip hop]
|
| 94 |
record label: Epic 4
chart position: RandB #94, UK #33
written by: Luther Vandross
album: Give Me the Reason
comments: [ballad]
|
| 95 |
record label: Arista 0349
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Glenn Goins and Jerome Brailey
|
| 96 |
record label: Original Sound 64
chart position: RandB #17, US #65
written by: Arlester Christian
album: The Funky Broadway
|
| 97 |
record label: Jay Boy 101(UK)
chart position: UK #34
written by: Harry Casey (as Harry Wayne Casey), Richard Finch and Willie Clarke
album: KC and The Sunshine Band
|
| 98 |
record label: Syncopate 32
chart position: UK #33
written by: Jerry Butler, Linda Conlon and John Usry
album: Brilliant!
comments: [garage house]
|
| 99 |
record label: Jive 0518900(UK)
chart position: UK #37
album: Greatest Hits
|
| 100 |
record label: Motown 1725
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Reggie Andrews and Leon
album: Joystick
comments: [Motown Sound]
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