| 1 |
record label: Epic 50225
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #7, US dance #12
written by: Robert Parissi
album: Wild Cherry
comments: [funk]
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| 2 |
record label: Warner Bros. 17119
chart position: US #1, UK #1 US dance #1
written by: Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennan, Paul Barry, Steven Torch, Matthew Gray and Timothy Powell
album: Believe
comments: [disco dance]
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| 3 |
record label: Tamla 54180
chart position: RandB #4, US #4, UK #4, US AC #3
written by: Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby (as Hank Cosby) & Sylvia Moy
album: My Cherie Amor / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 4 |
record label: De lite 880 869
chart position: RandB #1, UK #4, US #2, US AC #1
written by: Robert Bell
album: Emergency
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| 5 |
record label: Virgin 99231
chart position: RandB #30, UK #3, US #3, US dance #1
written by: Jamie J. Morgan, Cameron McVey (as Booga Bear), Neneh Cherry & Phillip Ramacon
album: Raw Like Sushi
comments: [hip hop]
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| 6 |
record label: Bad Boy 94423
chart position: RandB #13, US #9, UK #4
written by: Richard Frierson, Diddy, Mario Winans, Yakubu Izuagbe, Jacoby White and Nicole Scherzinger
album: Press Play
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| 7 |
record label: Venture 149
chart position: RandB #5, UK #13, US #39, US dance #1
written by: Geraldine Hunt & Daniel Joseph
album: Cheri
comments: [disco funk boogie]
|
| 8 |
record label: ABC 11094
chart position: RandB #6, US #5
written by: Ronald B. Killette & Wayne Pittman
album: Girl Watcher
|
| 9 |
record label: Casablanca 965
chart position: RandB #21, US #8, US dance #2, US AC #19
written by: Bob Esty & Michele Aller
album: Take Me Home
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 10 |
record label: Columbia 10808
chart position: RandB #1, US #12, US dance #11
written by: Cheryl Lynn, David Paich & David Foster
album: Cheryl Lynn
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| 11 |
record label: Sho'Nuff 56333
chart position: RandB #10, US #12, UK #30
written by: Sean P, Farrah King, Neosha King, Rodney Richard and John Williams
album: Unappreciated
|
| 12 |
record label: Orbitone 21 (UK)
chart position: UK #2
written by: Felix Da Silva
album: Can't Be With You Tonight
comments: [ballad]
|
| 13 |
record label: Tabu 05767
chart position: RandB #2, UK #6, US #26, US dance #13
written by: Jimmy Jam (as James Harris III) & Terry Lewis
album: High Priority
|
| 14 |
record label: Elektra 127
chart position: RandB #1, US #11, US AC #16
written by: Narada Michael Walden and Lisa Fischer
album: So Intense
comments: [ballad]
|
| 15 |
record label: Philips 1730
chart position: US #10, UK #9
written by: John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins
album: Dusty in Memphis
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 16 |
record label: Columbia 02102
chart position: RandB #5, US dance #5, UK #76, US #70
written by: Mike Sutton & Brenda Sutton
album: In the Night
|
| 17 |
record label: Tabu 07646
chart position: RandB #2, UK #26, US #28
written by: Jimmy Jam (as James Harris III) & Terry Lewis
album: Hearsay
|
| 18 |
record label: Source 40967
chart position: RandB #1, US #34
written by: Chuck Brown
album: Bustin' Loose
comments: [funk]
|
| 19 |
record label: Columbia 07996
chart position: RandB #1, US #32
written by: Curtis Bedeau, Gerard Charles, Hugh Clarke, Brian George, Lucien George & Paul George
album: Me, Myself & I
comments: [ballad]
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| 20 |
record label: RCA 10827
chart position: US dance #1, RandB#31, US #27, US AC #22
written by: Schonberger, Coburn, Rose, Browder & Darnell
album: Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 21 |
record label: Virgin 12776
chart position: RandB #96, US #43, UK #35, US dance #4
written by: Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey, Katreese Barnes and Milton Barnes
album: Homebrew
|
| 22 |
record label: Sho'Nuff
chart position: RandB #14, US #41, UK #94
written by: Farrah King, Fallon King, Felisha King and Neosha King
album: Unappreciated
|
| 23 |
record label: Columbia 04256
chart position: RandB #1, US dance #6, UK #68, US #69
written by: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
album: Preppie
|
| 24 |
record label: Motown 1892
chart position: RandB #5, US #96, US dance #1
written by: Georgio
album: Sexappeal
|
| 25 |
record label: Elektra 66513
chart position: RandB #7, US #74, US dance #2
written by: Narada Michael Walden and Lisa Fischer
album: So Intense
|
| 26 |
record label: Invictus 9085
chart position: RandB #11, US #44, UK #46
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Angelo Bond
album: Contact
|
| 27 |
record label: Columbia 03204
chart position: RandB #4, US #101
written by: Marvin Gaye
album: Instant Love
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 28 |
record label: Tabu 08052
chart position: RandB #1, UK #83
written by: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
album: Affair
|
| 29 |
record label: Tabu 68568
chart position: RandB #4, UK #67, US Dance #15
written by: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
album: Affair
|
| 30 |
record label: Atco 6359
chart position: RandB #19, US #1, UK #1
written by: Sonny Bono
album: Look At Us
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 31 |
record label: Universal 1574
chart position: US #13, US AC #4
written by: Dan Hill and Keith Stegall
album: 98 Degrees and Rising
|
| 32 |
record label: Tabu 05901
chart position: RandB #28, US Dance #5
written by: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
album: High Priority
|
| 33 |
record label: Orbitone 22 (UK)
chart position: UK #18
written by: Felix Da Silva
album: Can't Be With You Tonight
comments: [reggae]
|
| 34 |
record label: Virgin 99180
chart position: RandB #7
written by: Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and Paul Barry
album: Whatever It Takes
|
| 35 |
record label: Tabu 04406
chart position: RandB #7, US #79, US dance #6
written by: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
album: Fragile
|
| 36 |
record label: WEA 130
chart position: UK #25
written by: Errol Brown
album: That's How Love Is
|
| 37 |
record label: Virgin 96532
written by: Neneh Cherry and Booga Bear
album: Raw Like Sushi
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 38 |
record label: Manhattan 50074
chart position: RandB #11, US Dance #28
written by: Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers and Robin Smith
album: Start Over
|
| 39 |
record label: Brunswick 55387
chart position: RandB #16, US #57
written by: Barbara Acklin, Carl Davis and Eugene Record
|
| 40 |
record label: Cadet 5662
chart position: US AC #32
written by: Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby (as Hank Cosby) and Sylvia Moy
album: Another Voyage
comments: [instrumental]
|
| 41 |
record label: Columbia 10907
chart position: RandB #16, US #62, US Dance #11
written by: John Footman and Judy Wieder
album: Cheryl Lynn
comments: charted as Got to Be Real / Star Love / You Saved My Day in US dance charts
|
| 42 |
record label: Circa 53
chart position: UK #25
written by: Cole Porter
album: Red Hot and Blue
|
| 43 |
record label: Gee Street 32
chart position: UK #36, US dance #44
written by: Prince Be (as Attrell Cordes)
album: Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
|
| 44 |
record label: Sho'Nuff 17110
chart position: RandB #53, US #39, UK #52
written by: Farrah King, Rodney Richard, Yung Joc, Neosha King, Brandon Bowles, Felisha King and Fallon King
album: The Truth
|
| 45 |
record label: Columbia 02905
chart position: RandB #16, US #105
written by: Luther Vandross and Marcus Miller
album: Instant Love
|
| 46 |
record label: Epic 50306
chart position: RandB #41, US #43
written by: Robert Parissi
album: Electrified Funk
|
| 47 |
record label: Elektra 60889
chart position: RandB #15
album: So Intense
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 48 |
record label: Epic 50500
chart position: RandB #49, US #69
written by: Robert Parissi
album: I Love My Music
|
| 49 |
record label: Elektra 87732
chart position: RandB #18, US AC #18
written by: James Ingram, Bruce Roberts and Carole Bayer Sager
album: Made in America: Music from the Original Soundtrack
comments: [ballad]
|
| 50 |
record label: Epic 74980
chart position: RandB #45, US #106, UK #53
written by: Sade Adu, Andrew Hale and Stuart Matthewman
album: Love Deluxe
|
| 51 |
record label: Profile 7302
chart position: RandB #17
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Tony Depula and Wise Intelligent
album: Holy Intellect
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 52 |
record label: Columbia 08508
chart position: RandB #18
written by: Full Force
album: Me, Myself and I
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 53 |
record label: United Artists 229
chart position: RandB #18
written by: Dave Braithwaite and Eddie Powell
|
| 54 |
record label: Columbia 11261
chart position: US Dance #12
album: In Love
|
| 55 |
record label: Virgin 595 (UK)
chart position: UK #56
written by: Sam Jones, I Level
album: I Level
comments: [electro funk, dance]
|
| 56 |
record label: Groovy 3001
chart position: RandB #23, US #89
written by: Ted Daniels and Darrow Fletcher
|
| 57 |
record label: One World 1(UK)
chart position: UK #56
written by: Rod Temperton
album: Lovers Again
comments: [love song]
|
| 58 |
record label: Tabu 6927 (UK)
chart position: UK #57
written by: J. Harris III, T. Lewis
album: High Priority
|
| 59 |
record label: Epic 50401
chart position: US #61
written by: Robert Parissi
album: Electrified Funk
|
| 60 |
record label: Soul Train 10995
chart position: US #92, US Dance #21
written by: Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby (as Hank Cosby) and Sylvia Moy
|
| 61 |
record label: Demon 1512
chart position: US #71
written by: Fred Smith and Cliff Goldsmith
|
| 62 |
record label: Tabu 28965
chart position: RandB #22
written by: Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken and Paul Gray
album: The Woman I Am
|
| 63 |
record label: Capitol 44017
chart position: US Dance #16
written by: Clif Magness and Glen Ballard
album: Picture Me
|
| 64 |
record label: Geffen
chart position: UK #76, R&B #101
written by: Beau Dozier and Boniface
album: Director
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 65 |
record label: Columbia 04932
chart position: RandB #25, UK #97
written by: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
album: It's Gonna Be Right
|
| 66 |
record label: Source 13910
chart position: UK #77
written by: Chuck Brown
comments: Originally released in 1978 This longer version released in UK in 1985
|
| 67 |
record label: Virgin 99142
chart position: RandB #26
written by: Cheryl Lynn, Keith Lewis and Kim Cage
album: Whatever It Takes
comments: [ballad]
|
| 68 |
record label: Tabu 04556
chart position: RandB #26
written by: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
album: Fragile
|
| 69 |
record label: Tabu 6623
chart position: RandB #26
written by: Jimmy Jam (as James Harris III) & Terry Lewis
album: High Priority
|
| 70 |
record label: T.T.E.D. 3004
chart position: RandB #26
written by: C. Brown, M. Johnson, D. Tillery, J.B. Buchanan, M. Fleming
comments: [funk]
|
| 71 |
record label: Twenty One 107
chart position: RandB #40, US dance #27
written by: Geraldine Hunt and Peter Dowse
album: Love Stew
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 72 |
record label: Capitol 79231
chart position: US Dance #18
written by: Kevin Calhoun and Matt Noble
album: Picture Me
|
| 73 |
record label: United Artists 50773
chart position: RandB #30, US #111
written by: Bobby Womack, D. Patterson
album: The Womack Live
|
| 74 |
record label: Capitol 2698
chart position: RandB #29, US #86
written by: Joe Zawinul
album: Country Preacher
comments: [jazz instrumental]
|
| 75 |
record label: Elektra 64888
chart position: RandB #31, AC #37
weeksinr&bchart: 11
written by: Leroy Bell and Casey James
album: Truly Blessed
comments: (from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane Motion Picture)
|
| 76 |
record label: Epic 50362
chart position: RandB #62, US #95
written by: Robert Parissi
album: Electrified Funk
|
| 77 |
record label: Sussex 517
chart position: RandB #31
written by: Chuck Brown and Maxx Kidd
album: Salt of the Earth
|
| 78 |
record label: Solar 69638
chart position: RandB #31
written by: Bill Simmons, Bo Watson, Melvin Gentry, Reggie Calloway and Vincent Calloway
album: Planetary Invasion
|
| 79 |
record label: Wu Tang 79464
chart position: RandB #42, US #98
album: Supreme Clientele
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 80 |
record label: So So Def 52308
chart position: RandB #32, US #44
written by: Da Brat and L.T. Hutton
album: Limelite, Luv and Niteclubz
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 81 |
record label: Avex (UK)
chart position: UK #96
album: Good Time
|
| 82 |
record label: Private I 04736
chart position: RandB #34, US Dance #39
written by: Michael Bolton and Doug James
album: Heavenly Bodies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
comments: [ballad]
|
| 83 |
record label: Manhattan 50056
chart position: RandB #34
written by: Bernadette Cooper and Roman Johnson
album: Start Over
|
| 84 |
record label: Interscope 981911
chart position: RandB #114, US #104
written by: Nicole Scherzinger, T.I., Polow da Don Sean Garrett
album: Whatever U Like
|
| 85 |
record label: Columbia 45452
chart position: RandB #35
album: Chapters
comments: [ballad]
|
| 86 |
record label: Reprise 40903
chart position: RandB #36
album: ...All That!
|
| 87 |
record label: RSO 1017
chart position: RandB #39, US #107
written by: Curtis Mayfield
album: Ripe !!!
|
| 88 |
record label: Bad Boy
chart position: RandB #38
album: In And Out of Love
|
| 89 |
record label: Tabu 28965 1705
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Allee Willis, Louis Biancaniello and Narada Michael Walden
album: The Woman I Am
|
| 90 |
record label: Sussex 236
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Chuck Brown and John Buchanan
album: We the People
|
| 91 |
record label: Columbia 11174
chart position: RandB #41
written by: Bobby Caldwell
album: In Love
|
| 92 |
record label: Stax 0071
chart position: RandB #42
written by: Billy Ward, Rose Marks, traditional and Rufus Thomas (arrangement)
album: Do the Funky Chicken
|
| 93 |
record label: Jewel 765
chart position: RandB #43
weeksinr&bchart: 3
written by: Frank Frost, Chip Young
|
| 94 |
record label: Sussex 253
chart position: RandB #43
written by: James Brown
album: We the People
|
| 95 |
record label: Columbia 73965
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Carolyn Franklin
album: Chapters
comments: [ballad]
|
| 96 |
record label: Home-Town 102
chart position: Cashbox RandB #46
written by: Bobby Adams, Nick Raftis
|
| 97 |
record label: Congress 6011
chart position: RandB #47
written by: D. Mancha
|
| 98 |
record label: Columbia 04429
chart position: RandB #49
written by: T. Johnson and D. Cohen
album: Preppie
comments: [ballad]
|
| 99 |
record label: Altair 94979
chart position: US Dance #35
written by: Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and Rick Gianatos
|
| 100 |
record label: Bad Boy
chart position: RandB #55
album: In and Out of Love
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