New R&B Releases RD: September 2024 (Due November 10th)

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Rank 1-20 (Due: September 3rd)
WITH ALL MY HEART (Teedra Moses feat. J BLACK)
Mary Jane (Orion Sun)
ELEVATOR (Adanna Duru)
War (Camper feat. Ari Lennox & Jeremih)
In the Night (Childish Gambino feat. Jorja Smith & Amaarae)
Ain't Sad About It (LAYA)
act iv: fckin u again (4batz x Usher)
All I Want Is You (Boney James feat. October London)
Better Off Friends (Blxst x Joyce Wrice)
Boys Like U (Äyanna)
2AM (Forest Claudette)
Angry (TA Thomas)
High (Jorja Smith)
Life Size (Mahalia x Take a Daytrip)
Making Room (Raiche)
One Bad Decision (Mustard feat. Ella Mai & Roddy Ricch)
One Wish (Ravyn Lenae feat. Childish Gambino)
Ruined Me (Muni Long)
Sober (Psiryn)
guidance (Jhené Aiko)

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Since life got in the way this weekend, in lieu of reveals, here's July's list. Enjoy!

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30. Jeremy Pope - "What I Gotta Do"
(49 Points; Lowest SD)

singingrulebritannia : 25
Ty : 25
wheatsquares33 : 25
.indulgecountry : 26
samo🦕 : 26
wrip : 26
BB🌕 : 27
SHOOTER : 27
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 28
jtd Thee Stallion : 29
Soulsista : 29
newpower : 30

Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated triple threat Jeremy Pope enters this series with a resounding thud! What I Gotta Do is one of his six tracks available on his debut EP, LAST NAME: POPE, out now.

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29. Liana Banks x Saweetie - "GPP"
(77 Points; 9th-Highest SD)

.indulgecountry : 8
Soulsista : 8

newpower : 20

BB🌕 : 26
wheatsquares33 : 26
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 29
samo🦕 : 29
wrip : 29
singingrulebritannia : 30
jtd Thee Stallion : 30
SHOOTER : 30
Ty : 30

Third time is not the charm for singer/songwriter Liana Banks as her summer bop with Saweetie, GPP, quickly stalls inside the bottom-6. She made it to #13 and #12 last summer with her singles Petty and Dancing at a Funeral, respectively.

[Ty]

This song should not have seen the light of day.

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28. Keke Wyatt - "Open"
(87 Points; 15th-Lowest SD)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9

.indulgecountry : 13
Soulsista : 16

newpower : 24

samo🦕 : 25
SHOOTER : 26
wheatsquares33 : 27
singingrulebritannia : 28
jtd Thee Stallion : 28
Ty : 29
BB🌕 : 30
wrip : 30

Keke Wyatt's modern flip of The Flamingos' classic I Only Have Eyes for You with Open fails to find much of an audience here. It can be found on her sixth album, Certified, out now. She previously made it to #22 with its lead single, Water Into Wine, last August.

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27. Eric Benét & Tamar Braxton - "Something We Can Make Love To"
(113 Points; 4th-Highest SD)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 3
.indulgecountry : 7

Ty : 14
samo🦕 : 20

Soulsista : 21
jtd Thee Stallion : 25

newpower : 27
BB🌕 : 28
wheatsquares33 : 28
wrip : 28
singingrulebritannia : 29
SHOOTER : 29

After an eight-year hiatus from music, Eric Benét returns and receives a tepid response with Something We Can Make Love To, the first single from his duets album coming later this year. As for Tamar, she recently revealed that she is working on a new album being produced by Tricky Stewart.

[Ty]

I love Keke but that song's lyrics are just laughable.

Surprised to see Tamar out already! She sounds great.

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26. Mavis Staples - "Worthy"
(123 Points; 9th-Lowest SD)

samo🦕 : 7

wheatsquares33 : 13
BB🌕 : 15
singingrulebritannia : 19
SHOOTER : 20
wrip : 20

.indulgecountry : 24
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 25
newpower : 26
jtd Thee Stallion : 26
Ty : 26
Soulsista : 28

At age 85, soul legend Mavis Staples has no intention of slowing down (even if the audience here did try to stop her bag). Worthy is just a summer treat for fans ahead of her 13th studio album to be released next year.

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25. Keke Palmer feat. DivaGurl - "S.O.B."
(136 Points; 7th-Highest SD)

.indulgecountry : 3
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 4

Soulsista : 14
samo🦕 : 18
wheatsquares33 : 18

singingrulebritannia : 24
jtd Thee Stallion : 24
SHOOTER : 24

newpower : 25
wrip : 25
Ty : 28
BB🌕 : 29

Keke Palmer and her new girl group, DivaGurl, came close to escaping the bottom-6 but still technically snags a top-25 finish with S.O.B., their debut single. You can watch the official self-titled series documenting the group's rise on Palmer's Key TV network via YouTube.

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New R&B: June 2024 (Top-24)

Big Boy (Normani feat. Starrah)
Breakin' the Bank (Lucky Daye)

Dance With the Devil (Blxst x Anderson .Paak)
DEVIL IS A LIE (Tommy Richman)
Dimitri (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Done With You (Omar Apollo)
Dream Girl (Ravyn Lenae x Ty Dolla $ign)

Endless Night (Maeta)
Era (Tayla Parx x Tkay Maidza)

Getting No Sleep (Tinashe)

Hold On (KAYTRANADA feat. Dawn Richard)

jehovah witness (Amaarae)
Junebug (Raveena feat. JPEGMAFIA)

KeepHer (NxWorries feat. Thundercat)

Lovely Day (Amber Mark)

Mood for You (Lalah Hathaway feat. MC Lyte)

Never Be Yours (Kali Uchis)

Paper Tigers (Fana Hues)
Power of Two (Victoria Monét)

ROCKET (Doechii)

Tears (Kehlani feat. Omah Lay)
Thrill Her (Marsha Ambrosius)

Where They At (Ebony Riley)
Wickedest (Tems)

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Damn..S.O.B. is such a bop too. Sad that Keke Wyatt and Tamar are out so early.

[jtd Thee Stallion]

No complaints about any of these going out

[.indulgecountry]

Mavis the ONLY female song out so far that needed to go this early...

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24. Tommy Richman - "DEVIL IS A LIE"
(141 Points; 3rd-Highest SD)

singingrulebritannia : 6
BB🌕 : 8
wrip : 10

wheatsquares33 : 11
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
.indulgecountry : 20

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 22
Ty : 24

newpower : 28
SHOOTER : 28
samo🦕 : 30
Soulsista : 30

After making it to the top-5 in April, Tommy Richman has to settle for top-24 with his follow-up entry, DEVIL IS A LIE. It's the second single released from his debut album, COYOTE, coming sometime this year.

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23. Omar Apollo - "Done with You"
(143 Points; 5th-Lowest SD)

Ty : 8
samo🦕 : 9

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 17
Soulsista : 17
wheatsquares33 : 17

newpower : 21
wrip : 21
singingrulebritannia : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 22

BB🌕 : 25
.indulgecountry : 25
SHOOTER : 25

Seems like the audience here is done with Omar Apollo as he fails to make the top-half for a third time with Done with You, taken from his sophomore album - God Said No - out now. To date, he has failed to make it past #13 in this series.

Omar Apollo: New R&B RD History
#13 Killing Me (March 2022)
#17 3 Boys (February 2023)
#23 Dispose of Me (May 2024)
#23 Done with You (June 2024)

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22. Normani feat. Starrah - "Big Boy"
(152 Points; 5th-Highest SD)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 1
SHOOTER : 4

newpower : 13
.indulgecountry : 14
samo🦕 : 17
jtd Thee Stallion : 20

wrip : 22
BB🌕 : 23
singingrulebritannia : 23

Soulsista : 27
Ty : 27
wheatsquares33 : 29

Looks like the DOPAMINE has quickly worn off as Normani has her worst showing yet with Big Boy, the opening track of her long-awaited debut album which is finally out in the world.

Normani: New R&B RD History
#1 Wild Side feat. Cardi B (July 2021)
#4 Fair (March 2022)
#5 New to You (Calvin Harris feat. Normani, Tinashe & Offset) [July 2022]
#11 DON'T THEY REMIX (Josh Levi feat. Normani) [June 2022]
#14 Candy Paint (May 2024)
#19 1:59 feat. Gunna (April 2024)
#22 Big Boy feat. Starrah (June 2024)

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Why y'all hate Normani so much?? 

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21. Ebony Riley - "Where They At"
(164 Points; 6th-Highest SD)

.indulgecountry : 2
Ty : 4
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 7

jtd Thee Stallion : 12
SHOOTER : 16

samo🦕 : 22
newpower : 23
wheatsquares33 : 23
BB🌕 : 24
wrip : 24

Soulsista : 25
singingrulebritannia : 26

Fashion model Riley Montana spent close to a decade working catwalks around the world before finally deciding to pivot full-time into her real passion: singing and songwriting. After securing a deal with Interscope, she opted for releasing material under birth name and dropped her debut EP, ebony, in 2023. Where They At is her second release of 2024 with a second EP expected this year.

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20. Doechii - "Rocket"
(165 Points; 15th-Highest SD)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 6
samo🦕 : 6
newpower : 10

Soulsista : 13
SHOOTER : 15
jtd Thee Stallion : 17
.indulgecountry : 19
BB🌕 : 20

Ty : 23
wheatsquares33 : 24

singingrulebritannia : 27
wrip : 27

While her debut album remains in limbo, Doechii was chosen to kick off the third season of Sprite's Limelight series with her new song Rocket. The series was started in 2022 as a music-focused extension of their global platform with a goal of "[breaking] the mold of the traditional music and brand partnership with a new type of program that places real artists and real stories at the center of everything."

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19. Blxst x Anderson .Paak - "Dance with the Devil"
(173 Points; 6th-Lowest SD)

jtd Thee Stallion : 6
singingrulebritannia : 10

samo🦕 : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 14
BB🌕 : 16
wheatsquares33 : 16
wrip : 16
Soulsista : 18
newpower : 19
Ty : 20

SHOOTER : 21

.indulgecountry : 30

After eight years of releasing music, L.A. singer/songwriter Blxst finally worked his way up to a debut album. Dance with the Devil is the second single from I'll Always Come Find You, out now.

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New R&B: June 2024 (Top-18)

Breakin' the Bank (Lucky Daye)

Dimitri (Hiatus Kaiyote)
Dream Girl (Ravyn Lenae x Ty Dolla $ign)

Endless Night (Maeta)
Era (Tayla Parx x Tkay Maidza)

Getting No Sleep (Tinashe)

Hold On (KAYTRANADA feat. Dawn Richard)

jehovah witness (Amaarae)
Junebug (Raveena feat. JPEGMAFIA)

KeepHer (NxWorries feat. Thundercat)

Lovely Day (Amber Mark)

Mood for You (Lalah Hathaway feat. MC Lyte)

Never Be Yours (Kali Uchis)

Paper Tigers (Fana Hues)
Power of Two (Victoria Monét)

Tears (Kehlani feat. Omah Lay)
Thrill Her (Marsha Ambrosius)

Wickedest (Tems)

[Ty]

"Where They At" was a pleasant discovery! :/

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18. Amaarae - "jehovah witness"
(177 Points; 8th-Lowest SD)

.indulgecountry : 6
newpower : 7
Ty : 10

SHOOTER : 14
singingrulebritannia : 15
BB🌕 : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18

jtd Thee Stallion : 19
wrip : 19
wheatsquares33 : 20
samo🦕 : 24

Soulsista : 26

After cracking the top-5 last June with Princess Going Digital, Ghanaian sensation Amaarae has to settle for top-18 with jehovah witness, one of seven new tracks on roses are red, tears are blue. It is an extended version of her debut album, Fountain Baby, released last summer. You can also catch her as an opener on the North American leg of Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n Sweet Tour kicking off next month.

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17. Tayla Parx feat. Tkay Maidza - "Era"
(181 Points; 12th-Highest SD)

.indulgecountry : 4
Soulsista : 7
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 8

samo🦕 : 11
Ty : 13
newpower : 14
singingrulebritannia : 17

BB🌕 : 21
jtd Thee Stallion : 21
SHOOTER : 22
wrip : 23

wheatsquares33 : 30

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Tayla Parx is fully in her solo artist era with Era, the third drop from her third album - Many Moons, Many Suns - out now.

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16. Hiatus Kaiyote - "Dimitri"
(183 Points; 11th-Highest SD)

Ty : 1
singingrulebritannia : 4
SHOOTER : 8

wrip : 13
newpower : 15
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15

BB🌕 : 19
samo🦕 : 21
wheatsquares33 : 21
Soulsista : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 23

.indulgecountry : 27

Hiatus Kaiyote remain one of our most polarizing groups to participate as they remain 1/5 with Dimitri, an offering from their new album - Love Heart Cheat Code - out now.

Hiatus Kaiyote: New R&B RD History
#4 Everything's Beautiful (January 2024)
#11 Make Friends (March 2024)
#15 Telescope (May 2024)
#16 Dimitri (June 2024)
#21 Chivalry Is Not Dead (June 2021)

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15. Marsha Ambrosius - "Thrill Her"
(187 Points; 10th-Highest SD)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 2
newpower : 4
Ty : 9

SHOOTER : 12
singingrulebritannia : 13
BB🌕 : 14
.indulgecountry : 15
wrip : 17

wheatsquares33 : 22
Soulsista : 23

jtd Thee Stallion : 27
samo🦕 : 27

It's a third swing and second miss for Marsha Ambrosius as Thrill Her ties with One Night Stand at #15. Both songs can be found on her ambitious fourth studio album, CASABLANCO, out now alongside The Greatest, which made it to #8 last December. In case you missed it, the samples on this track alone are In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington & John Coltrane), Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson) and C.R.E.A.M. (Wu-Tang Clan).

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14. Lalah Hathaway feat. MC Lyte - "Mood for You"
(193 Points; 14th-Lowest SD)

jtd Thee Stallion : 4
Soulsista : 5
.indulgecountry : 10

BB🌕 : 12
newpower : 12
Ty : 12

singingrulebritannia : 18
SHOOTER : 18
wrip : 18

wheatsquares33 : 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 23

samo🦕 : 28

Lalah Hathaway's only made it to the top-10 once as a lead act and we were not in the mood to place her there again. Mood for You can be found on her eighth album, VANTABLACK, out now.

Lalah Hathaway: New R&B RD History
#9 Tell Him (Moonchild feat. Lalah Hathaway) [January 2022]
#10 Coastin' (Boney James feat. Lalah Hathaway) [August 2021]
#10 So in Love (May 2024)
#14 Mood for You feat. MC Lyte (June 2024)
#16 The Energy

[Ty]

Hiatus Coyote's "Dimitri" is an absolute gem. It's giving Erykah Badu.

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13. NxWorries feat. Thundercat - "Keep Her"
(195 Points; 2nd-Highest SD)

Soulsista : 3
wrip : 3
singingrulebritannia : 5
wheatsquares33 : 8
BB🌕 : 10

jtd Thee Stallion : 11

newpower : 17

samo🦕 : 19
Ty : 22
SHOOTER : 23

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 27
.indulgecountry : 29

Super-duo NxWorries, comprised of Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge, made a valiant effort to place inside the top-12 but come seven points short with KeepHer. It can be found on their 8-years-in-the-making sophomore album, Why Lawd?, out now.

Anderson .Paak: New R&B RD History
#1 Smokin' Out the Window (Silk Sonic) [November 2021]
#2 Skate (Silk Sonic) [July 2021]
#3 Blast Off (Silk Sonic) [December 2021]
#4 Twin Flame (KAYTRANADA x Anderson .Paak) [August 2021]
#6 Where I Go (NxWorries feat. H.E.R.) [October 2022]
#6 Gangsta (Free Nationals x A$AP Rocky x Anderson .Paak) [February 2024]
#8 POETRY IN MOTION (SiR x Anderson .Paak) [March 2024]
#13 Keep Her (NxWorries feat. Thundercat) [June 2024]
#19 Dance with the Devil (Blxst x Anderson .Paak) [June 2024]

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New R&B: June 2024 (Top-12)

Breakin' the Bank (Lucky Daye)

Dream Girl (Ravyn Lenae x Ty Dolla $ign)

Endless Night (Maeta)

Getting No Sleep (Tinashe)

Hold On (KAYTRANADA feat. Dawn Richard)

Junebug (Raveena feat. JPEGMAFIA)

Lovely Day (Amber Mark)

Never Be Yours (Kali Uchis)

Paper Tigers (Fana Hues)
Power of Two (Victoria Monét)

Tears (Kehlani feat. Omah Lay)

Wickedest (Tems)