| 1 |
record label: Atlantic 2326
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #4
written by: Percy Sledge
album: When A Man Loves A Woman / The Best Of Percy Sledge / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 2 |
record label: will.i.am 007809
chart position: RandB #56, US #1, UK #3
written by: Fergie, Sean Garrett, Mike Hartnett and Polow da Don
album: The Dutchess
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| 3 |
record label: Warner Bros. 17877 (UK)
chart position: RandB #1, US #5, UK #29, US dance #32
written by: Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon & Steve Lukather
album: The George Benson Collection
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| 4 |
record label: DreamWorks 59000
chart position: RandB #22, US #7, UK #1, US AC #6
written by: George Michael
album: Older
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| 5 |
record label: So So Def 79626
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, UK #2
written by: Brandon Casey, Jermaine Dupri and Nelly
album: Jagged Little Thrill
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| 6 |
record label: Cotillion 44251
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #8, US dance #1, US AC #30
written by: Bernard Edwards, Lehman & Nile Rodgers
album: We Are Family
comments: [disco]
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| 7 |
record label: Polydor 14483
chart position: RandB #31, US #5, UK #32, US dance #2, US AC #44
written by: Alicia Bridges & Susan Hutcheson
album: Alicia Bridges
comments: [disco]
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| 8 |
record label: Atlantic 2796
chart position: RandB #1, US #6, US AC #40
written by: Paul Simon
album: Live At Fillmore West
comments: [ballad]
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| 9 |
record label: Cotillion 44245
chart position: RandB #1, UK #6, US #9, US dance #1
written by: Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
album: We Are Family
comments: [disco]
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| 10 |
record label: So So Def 76974
chart position: RandB #2, US #6, UK #21
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey and Bryan Michael Cox
album: Hard
comments: [slow jam]
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| 11 |
record label: Soul 35044
chart position: RandB #4, US #8, UK #30
written by: Billie Jean Brown, Shorty Long (as Frederick Long) & Suzanne DePasse
album: Here Comes the Judge
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 12 |
record label: So So Def 79571
chart position: RandB #1, US #9
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Jermaine Dupri, G. Smith and B.L. Young
album: J.E. Heartbreak
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| 13 |
record label: Buddah 569
chart position: RandB #10, US #52, UK #4
written by: Van McCoy
album: Still Together
comments: [disco dance]
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| 14 |
record label: Columbia 2589
chart position: RandB #1, US #11, UK #197
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Bryan Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri
album: J.E. Heartbreak
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| 15 |
record label: Atlantic 2342
chart position: RandB #5, US #17, UK #34
written by: Bobby Robinson, Dan Quinvy & Pronto Bob
album: Warm & Tender Soul / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 16 |
record label: Atlantic 89547
chart position: RandB #32, UK #1, US #75, US AC #15
written by: Joy Denny
album: When the Boys Meet the Girls
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 17 |
record label: So So Def 79146
chart position: RandB #3, US #15
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey and Bryan Michael Cox
album: J.E. Heartbreak
comments: [slow jam]
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| 18 |
record label: Chess 2049
chart position: RandB #4, US #19, UK #19
written by: Bob Astor, Pigmeat Markham (as Dewey Markham), Dick Allen & Sarah Harvey
comments: [southern soul novelty]
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| 19 |
record label: Cotillion 47000
chart position: RandB #14, US #23, US AC #2
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: The Sisters
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| 20 |
record label: Warner Bros. 17333 (UK)
chart position: RandB #3, US #18, UK #29, US AC #12
written by: Skip Scarborough
album: Livin' Inside Your Love
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| 21 |
record label: Cotillion 46007
chart position: RandB #3, US dance #6, UK #41, US #79
written by: Narada Michael Walden (as Narada Walden), Lisa Walden, Allee Willis & Joni Sledge
album: All American Girls
comments: [disco dance]
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| 22 |
record label: Atlantic 2490
chart position: RandB #6, US #11
written by: Steve Davis
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [southern soul ballad]
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| 23 |
record label: MCA 53210
chart position: RandB #1, US #13, UK #42, US dance #4, US AC #45
written by: Reggie Calloway
album: All Our Love
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| 24 |
record label: Polydor 2053
chart position: RandB #37, US #19, US AC #33
written by: Dino Fekaris & Freddie Perren
album: Twice the Fire
comments: [love ballad]
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| 25 |
record label: Soul 35042
chart position: RandB #5, US #15
written by: Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong & Norman Whitfield
album: All In A Knight's Work
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 26 |
record label: Atlantic 2358
chart position: RandB #7, US #20
written by: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
album: Warm and Tender Soul / The Best Of Percy Sledge
comments: [deep soul ballad]
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| 27 |
record label: WEA 4508 (UK)
chart position: UK #5, US Dance #31
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
comments: [disco dance] (Sure Is Pure Remix)
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| 28 |
record label: Atlantic 9718 (UK)
chart position: UK #4
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
comments: [Special 1984 Nile Rodgers Remix]
|
| 29 |
record label: Warner Bros.
chart position: RandB #3, US #49
written by: Gucci Mane, Plies and Fatboi
album: The State vs. Radric Davis
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| 30 |
record label: Epic
chart position: RandB #14, US #20
written by: Fabolous, Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Loon, Duro and DJ Clue?
album: Street Dreams
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| 31 |
record label: Atlantic 11404
chart position: RandB #6, UK #34, US #64, US dance #34
written by: Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
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| 32 |
record label: RSO/Curtom 921
chart position: RandB #49, UK #28, US #41, US dance #11
written by: Paul Simon
album: Let Me Be Your Woman
comments: [disco]
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| 33 |
record label: So So Def 79010
chart position: RandB #11, US #23
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal (as Manuel Seal Jr.)
album: A Jagged Era
comments: [slow jam]
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| 34 |
record label: Columbia 11239
chart position: RandB #3, US #46
written by: Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
album: About Love
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| 35 |
record label: Cotillion 45001
chart position: RandB #35, UK #17
written by: Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
album: We Are Family
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 36 |
record label: Buddah 473(UK)
chart position: UK #15
written by: Van McCoy and Joe Cobb
album: The One and Only
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| 37 |
record label: Columbia 76779
chart position: RandB #17, US #42, UK #42
written by: Johnta Austin, Ryan Bowser, Rahman Griffin, Antoine Macon and Bow Wow
album: Unleashed
|
| 38 |
record label: Cotillion 9744 (UK)
chart position: UK #11
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
album: We Are Family
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| 39 |
record label: Geffen 28718
chart position: RandB #61, US #1, UK #4, US dance #1, US rock #1
written by: Peter Gabriel
album: So
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| 40 |
record label: Epic 74212
chart position: RandB #24, US Dance #1
written by: Kenneth Harris and Mark Holden
album: Heart
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| 41 |
record label: T.K. 1007
chart position: RandB #8, US #37
written by: Harry Casey (as Harry Wayne Casey) and Richard Finch
album: Rock Your Baby
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| 42 |
record label: Bad Boy 94145
chart position: RandB #20, US #44, UK #1
written by: The Notorious B.I.G., Stevie J, Diddy, Nelly, Brandon Casey, Brian Casey and L. Watson
album: Duets: The Final Chapter
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| 43 |
record label: Toddlin Town 108
chart position: RandB #9, US #39
written by: Leo Hutton and Andre Williams
|
| 44 |
record label: Giant 40410
chart position: RandB #10, US #64
written by: Stanley Brown
album: Good 2 Go
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| 45 |
record label: Wand 11200
chart position: US #14
written by: Joe Jeffrey (as Joe Stafford Jr.)
album: My Pledge Of Love
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| 46 |
record label: Profile 7214
chart position: UK #16, RandB #61
written by: Berry Gordy, Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, Dennis Lussier and Derek B
album: Bullet from a Gun
comments: [hip hop]
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| 47 |
record label: Atco 456940
chart position: UK #20
written by: Anthony Bell and Phil Hurtt
|
| 48 |
record label: Atlantic 4509(UK)
chart position: UK #14
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
album: The Very Best of Sister Sledge (1973 1993)
comments: (Sure Is Pure Remix Edit)
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| 49 |
record label: Go! Beat 153
chart position: UK #15
written by: Gabrielle, Ben Wolff, Andy Dean and Benjamin Barson
album: Gabrielle
comments: [ballad]
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| 50 |
record label: Atco 7008
chart position: RandB #31, US #92, US Dance #5
written by: Gwen Guthrie and Haras Fyre (as Patrick Grant)
album: Circle of Love
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| 51 |
record label: Cotillion 46017
chart position: RandB #32, US Dance #6
written by: Allee Willis and Narada Michael Walden
album: All American Girls
comments: (A tribute to Bob Marley)
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| 52 |
record label: Atlantic 4515(UK)
chart position: UK #17
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
comments: (Ramp Radio Remix)
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| 53 |
record label: Ill Will 76916
chart position: RandB #49, US #94, UK #18
album: Street's Disciple
|
| 54 |
record label: RCA 7946
chart position: Cashbox RandB #42, US #22
written by: Willie Nelson
comments: [ballad]
|
| 55 |
record label: Go! Beat 146(UK)
chart position: UK #23
written by: Gabrielle, Ben Wolff, Andy Dean and Benjamin Barson
album: Gabrielle
|
| 56 |
record label: Fantasy 132 (UK)
chart position: UK #22
written by: collins
comments: [northern soul]
|
| 57 |
record label: Buddah 432
chart position: US #21
written by: Ronald Miller [Ronald Norman Miller]
album: I Feel a Song
|
| 58 |
record label: Atco 105
chart position: US Dance #7
written by: Gwen Guthrie and Haras Fyre (as Patrick Grant)
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| 59 |
record label: Geffen 1
chart position: RandB #57, US #97, UK #40, US Dance #8
written by: Stevie Wonder, El DeBarge, GZA (as Gary Grice) , RZA (as Robert Diggs) and Jason Hunter
album: Liquid Swords
|
| 60 |
record label: Atlantic 11293
chart position: UK #33
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
|
| 61 |
record label: Capricorn 2089009
chart position: RandB #15, US #62
written by: George Soule
|
| 62 |
record label: RCA 2822
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Shwayze, Gene Rice and Stan Sheppard
album: Just for You
|
| 63 |
record label: Atco 36 105
chart position: US dance #7
written by: Gwen Guthrie and Haras Fyre (as Patrick Grant)
album: Circle of Love
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 64 |
record label: So So Def/Columbia 16865
chart position: RandB #18, US #58
written by: Brian Casey, Bryan Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri
album: Jagged Little Thrill
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 65 |
record label: So So Def 79685
chart position: RandB #45, US #93, UK #43
written by: Bryan Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri and Ric Ocasek
album: Doggy Bag
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| 66 |
record label: Columbia Digital
chart position: RandB #13, US #73
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Chad Elliott, Rodney Richard and John Williams [John "Cheese" Williams]
album: Jagged Edge
|
| 67 |
record label: Gee Street 63881 (UK)
chart position: UK #44
written by: The Gravediggaz
album: The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel
|
| 68 |
record label: Casablanca 880 445
chart position: RandB #47, US Dance #14
written by: Tom Snow and Roy Freeland
album: I've Got the Cure
|
| 69 |
record label: London 256
chart position: RandB #24, US #96, US Dance #15
written by: B. Johnson and William
album: What's on Your Mind?
|
| 70 |
record label: Atlantic 1132
chart position: RandB #15
weeksinr&bchart: 1
written by: Ramona Redd
|
| 71 |
record label: Epic 9294
chart position: US #45
written by: Fats Washington (as Ferdinand Washington) and Don Robey
album: With All My Love
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 72 |
record label: Warner Bros. 17748
chart position: UK #45
written by: Kerry Chater and Glen Ballard
album: Give Me the Night
comments: [jazz funk]
|
| 73 |
record label: Marquee 443
chart position: Cashbox R&B #20, US #88
written by: Ron Sherae and Nick Ameno
comments: [instrumental]
|
| 74 |
record label: Gee Street 5001626 (UK)
chart position: UK #48
album: The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel
|
| 75 |
record label: Atlantic 89520
chart position: RandB #71, UK #50
written by: David Bryant, Dennis Herring and Lorelei Mcbroom
album: When the Boys Meet the Girls
|
| 76 |
record label: Checker 1019
chart position: RandB #21, US #48
written by: Willie Dixon
album: Bo Diddley
|
| 77 |
record label: Atlantic 11477
chart position: RandB #21, US #101, US Dance #34
written by: Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
album: Love Somebody Today
|
| 78 |
record label: Warner 8061
chart position: RandB #18, UK #53
written by: Abrim Tilmon
album: Release Yourself
|
| 79 |
record label: NRC 002
chart position: UK #54
written by: Stevie Wonder
|
| 80 |
record label: Stiff 184 (UK)
chart position: UK #56
written by: Daniel Vangarde, Jean Kluger and Nelly Byl
album: Tic...Tac...Tic...Tac... (My Heart's Beating Wild)
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 81 |
record label: WTG 08025
chart position: RandB #65, US Dance #19
written by: Lloyd Tolbert and Michael Rodgers
album: Coming to America: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
|
| 82 |
record label: Profile 7087
chart position: RandB #53, UK #58
weeksinr&bchart: 10
written by: Haim Saban and Shuki Levy
comments: [novelty] electro funk novelty version of the theme from the TV cartoon series
|
| 83 |
record label: Capitol 15839
chart position: RandB #20
written by: Gary Brown and D. Blake
album: Rhythm or Romance
|
| 84 |
record label: Cooltempo 320 (UK)
chart position: UK #61
written by: Guru, Nikke Nikole
album: Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 85 |
record label: Atlantic 62417
chart position: RandB #20, US #76, US AC #25
written by: Gerald Levert and Joe Little
album: G
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 86 |
record label: Atlantic 2396
chart position: RandB #25, US #59
written by: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
|
| 87 |
record label: MCA 54883
chart position: RandB #32, US #60
written by: Special Ed (as Edward K. Archer), Buckshot (as Kenyatta Blake), Duvall Clear, Q Tip
|
| 88 |
record label: Atlantic 2453
chart position: RandB #39, US #42
written by: Eddie Hinton and Marlin Greene
album: Take Time to Know Her / The Best Of Percy Sledge
|
| 89 |
record label: So So Def 78639
chart position: RandB #34, US #65
written by: Brandon Casey, Brian Casey, Da Brat and Jermaine Dupri
album: A Jagged Era
|
| 90 |
record label: LaFace 24145
chart position: RandB #31, US #64
written by: Robert Barnett, Brandon Bennett, Marc Benno, Bill Boatman, Thomas Burton, Cameron Gipp
album: Soul Food
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 91 |
record label: Cotillion 99885
chart position: RandB #22
written by: Michael Garvin and Tom Shapiro
album: Bet Cha Say That to All the Girls
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 92 |
record label: Warner 29049
chart position: RandB #35, US #88, US Dance #38
album: B Movie Matinee
|
| 93 |
record label: Atlantic 2116
chart position: RandB #24
written by: Glenn Jones and Ray Watkins (as
album: Here I Am
|
| 94 |
record label: Cotillion 46012
chart position: RandB #28, US #82
written by: Narada Michael Walden and Allee Willis
album: All American Girls
comments: [ballad]
|
| 95 |
record label: Epic 74464
chart position: US Dance #16
written by: Troy Taylor and Kathy Sledge
album: Heart
comments: [dance, garage house]
|
| 96 |
record label: Calla 168
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Charles Hodges
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 97 |
record label: Warner 8417
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Larry Graham
album: Now Do U Wanta Dance
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| 98 |
record label: So So Def 79556
chart position: RandB #27, US #75, UK #123
written by: Bryan Michael Cox, Brandon Casey, Darryl Pierce, Jermaine Dupri, Bobby Erving, LL Cool J,Brian Casey
album: Beware of Dog
|
| 99 |
record label: Atlantic 2414
chart position: RandB #35, US #40
written by: Vera Matson, Elvis Presley, George R. Poulton (uncredited) and Ken Darby (uncredited)
album: Warm and Tender Soul
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| 100 |
record label: Legrand 1019
chart position: Cashbox RandB #26
written by: D. Pomus, M. Schuman
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