Jan-Dec R&B Charts Year End 1970-1994

[Private Dancer]

1973: I posted this b4 72' because I left my 72' list at home, but will post it tomorrow.

Anyways, this list is full of classics! Gladys Knight & The Pips were on fire this year for pop & R&B! Midnight Train To Georgia and Neither One Of Us are some of my favorite songs of all time!

1	Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	1 (6 weeks)	598,693
2	Midnight Train To Georgia	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (4 weeks)	545,242
3	Neither One Of Us	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (4 weeks)	516,641
4	Love Train	The O'Jays	1 (4 weeks)	481,867
5	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	1 (3 weeks)	466,265
6	One Of A Kind	Spinners	1 (4 weeks)	450,018
7	Could It Be I'm Falling In Love	Spinners	1	429,216
8	Masterpiece	Temptations	1 (2 weeks)	423,042
9	Get It Together	Jackson 5	2 (2 weeks)	420,616
10	Pillow Talk	Sylvia	1 (2 weeks)	416,326
11	I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More	Barry White	1 (2 weeks)	411,863
12	The Love I Lost	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1 (2 weeks)	402,480
13	Ain't No Woman	Four Tops	2	392,925
14	Doing It To Death	Fred Wesley & The J.B's	1	389,457
15	Why Can't We Live Together	Timmy Thomas	2 (2 weeks)	360,642
16	Killing Me Softly With His Song	Roberta Flack	2 (4 weeks)	339,949
17	Leaving Me	The Independents	1	335,183
18	Daddy Could Swear, I Declare	Gladys Knight & The Pips	2 (2 weeks)	331,500
19	Keep On Truckin	Eddie Kendricks	1 (2 weeks)	330,959
20	If You're Ready	Staple Singers	1 (3 weeks)	326,625
21	Angel	Aretha Franklin	1 (2 weeks)	323,917
22	Love Jones	Love Jones? (gotta fix this)	3 (3 weeks)	321,967
23	Space Race	Billy Preston	1	317,871
24	Time To Get Down	O'jays	2 (2 weeks)	316,984
25	Give Your Baby A Standing Ovation	The Dells	3	312,000
26	Hey Girl	Temptations	2	304,202
27	If You Want Me To Stay	Sly & The Family Stone	3 (2 weeks)	302,579
28	That Lady	Isley Brothers	2 (2 weeks)	298,654
29	Stoned Out Of My Mind	Chi- Lites	2	296,312
30	The World Is Ghetto	War	3 (2 weeks)	295,209
31	Here I Am	Al Green	2 (3 weeks)	294,559
32	Hurts So Good	Millie Jackson	3	290,965
33	Trouble Man	Marvin Gaye	4 (2 weeks)	290,008
34	Nobody Wants You When You're Down	Bobby Womack	2	285,349
35	Check It Out	Tavares	5 (2 weeks)	284,354
36	Funky Worm	The Ohio Players	1	283,400
37	I Believe In You And Me	Johnnie Taylor	1 (2 weeks)	278,287
38	There's No Me Without You	The Manhattans	3 (2 weeks)	278,203
39	Higher Ground	Stevie Wonder	1	277,789
40	A Letter To Myself	Chi-Lites	3 (2 weeks)	277,769
41	Funky Stuff	Kool & The Gang	5 (2 weeks)	271,550
42	Call Me	Al Green	2 (2 weeks)	270,941
43	Cheaper To Keep Her	Johnnie Taylor	2 (2 weeks)	269,641
44	You're A Special Part of Me	Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye	4	268,992
45	Daddy's Home	Jermaine Jackson	3	267,909
46	I Got A Bag Of My Own	James Brown	3	266,284
47	Natural High	Bloodstone	4	260,868
48	You Are The Sunshine Of My Life	Stevie Wonder	3 (2 weeks)	252,851
49	Break Up To Make Up	The Stylistics	5	242,017
50	Theme From Cleopatra Jones	Joe Simon	3 (2 weeks)	240,804
51	Baby I've Been Missing You	The Independents	4	235,083
52	Without You In My Life	Tyrone Davis	5 (2 weeks)	227,175
53	I Can Understand It	New Birth	4 (2 weeks)	225,550
54	I've Got So Much More To Give	Barry White	5 (2 weeks)	224,380
55	I Got Ants In My Pants	James Brown	4	223,816
56	Rockin Roll Baby	The Stylistics	3	223,709
57	Hey You Get Off My Mountain	The Dramatics	5	223,492
58	Are You Man Enough	Four Tops	2	218,942
59	Where Peaceful Waters Flow	Gladys Knight & The Pips	6 (4 weeks)	217,534
60	Gypsy Man	War	6 (2 weeks)	216,018
61	Step by Step	Joe Simon	6 (2 weeks)	213,310
62	Superfly	Curtis Mayfield	5 (2 weeks)	209,950
63	I Can't Stand The Rain	Ann Pebbles	6 (2 weeks)	208,803
64	Master of Eyes	Aretha Franklin	8 (2 weeks)	192,400
65	I'll Always Love My Mama	The Intruders	6	191,209
66	I Was Checkin Out...	Don Covay	6	190,542
67	Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up	Barry White	2 (2 weeks)	189,474
68	Touch Me In The Morning	Diana Ross	5 (2 weeks)	186,010
69	Ghetto Child	Spinners	4	185,554
70	Having A Party	The Ovations	7	181,633
71	Oh La De Da	Staple Singers	4	180,267
72	Finder's Keepers	Chairmen Of The Board	7 (2 weeks)	176,693
73	There It Is	Tyrone Davis	9 (3 weeks)	175,199
74	Come Get To This	Marvin Gaye	3	174,699
75	Some Guys Have All The Luck	The Persuaders	7	172,122
76	The Cisco Kid	War	5 (2 weeks)	170,408
77	River	Joe Simon	6 (2 weeks)	168,091
78	Harry Hippie	Bobby Womack	8	164,992
79	Living For The City	Stevie Wonder	1 (2 weeks)	160,983
80	Misdeamoner	The Slyvers	7	158,710
81	Give Me Your Love	Barbra Mason	9 (2 weeks)	157,951
82	Wish That I Could Talk To You	The Slyvers	10 (2 weeks)	154,918
83	Let Me be Your Lovemaker	Betty Wright	10 (2 weeks)	141,443
84	You'll Never Get To Heaven	The Stylistics	8 (2 weeks)	137,584
85	Will It Go Round In Circles	Billy Preston	10	135,743
86	I'll Be Your Shelter	Luther Ingram	9 (3 weeks)	135,200
87	My Pretending Days Are Over	The Dells	10	132,675
88	Never Let You Go	Bloodstone	7	123,762
89	I Wanna Know Your Name	The Intruders	9 (2 weeks)	121,183
90	You're Getting A Little Too Smart	Detroit Emeralds	10 (2 weeks)	115,377
91	Sweet Understanding Love	Four Tops	10 (2 weeks)	113,296
92	Plastic Man	Temptations	8	110,934
93	Sexy, Sexy, Sexy	James Brown	6	109,721
94	I Don't Know What It Is	Ripple	11	107,663
95	Until You Come Back To Me	Aretha Franklin	1	100,945
96	So Very Hard To Go	Tower of Power	11	100,102
97	Halleujah Day	Jackson 5	10	96,527
98	Future Shock	Curtis Mayfield	11	89,830
99	Armed and Extremely Dangerous	First Choice	11	87,642
100	Nutbush City Limits	Ike & Tina Turner	11	82,945

[Private Dancer]

1972 list:

1	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	1 (9 weeks)	660,834
2	I'll Take You There	Staple Singers	1 (4 weeks)	545,893
3	I Don't Want To Be Right	Luther Ingram	1 (4 weeks)	531,267
4	Get Off On The Good Foot	James Brown	1 (4 weeks)	517,184
5	In The Rain	The Dramatics	1 (4 weeks)	480,024
6	Oh Girl	Chi-Lites	1 (2 weeks)	474,611
7	I'll Be Around	Spinners	1 (5 weeks)	456,167
8	Freddie's Dead	Curtis Mayfield	2 (4 weeks)	444,384
9	Lean On Me	Bill Withers	1	435,500
10	Everybody Plays The Fool	Main Ingreident	2 (3 weeks)	430,299
11	If You Don't Know Me By Now	Harold Melvin & The BlueNotes	1	428,675
12	That's The Way I Feel About Cha	Bobby Womack	2	423,690
13	Look What You Done For Me	AL Green	2 (4 weeks)	407,876
14	Back Stabbers	O'Jays	1	397,801
15	Outa-Space	Billy Preston	1	384,367
16	Day Dreaming	Aretha Franklin	1 (2 weeks)	383,935
17	Power of Love	Joe Simon	1 (2 weeks)	373,317
18	Me and Mrs. Jones	Billy Paul	1 (4 weeks)	364,976
19	One Life to Live	The Manhattans	3 (2 weeks)	360,644
20	Woman's Got To Have It	Bobby Womack	1	355,333
21	Fire and Water	Wilson Pickett	2 (2 weeks)	331,393
22	Use Me	Bill Withers	2 (2 weeks)	331,392
23	I'm Still In Love With You	Al Green	1 (2 weeks)	326,950
24	You Ought To Be With Me	Al Green	1	320,233
25	Ask Me What You Want	Millie Jackson	4	320,017
26	Betcha By golly, Wow	The Stylistics	2 (2 weeks)	315,576
27	Woman Don't Go Astray	King Floyd	3 (2 weeks)	314,060
28	Hearsay	The Soul Children	5 (2 weeks)	311,240
29	I Wanna Be Where You Are	Michael Jackson	2 (2 weeks)	306,473
30	Where Is The Love	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway	1	304,364
31	Clean Up Woman	Betty Wright	2 (8 weeks)	304,364
32	Sugar Daddy	Jackson 5	3 (3 weeks)	299,435
33	Pop That Thang	Isley Brothers	3	298,026
34	Papa Was A Rolling Stone	Temptations	5 (2 weeks)	289,901
35	Drowning In The Sea Of Love	Joe Simon	3 (3 weeks)	289,142
36	I Gotcha	Joe Tex	1	287,733
37	Ben	Michael Jackson	5 (2 weeks)	274,300
38	I'm Still In Love With You	The Stylistics	4 (3 weeks)	271,158
39	Ain't Understanding Mellow	Jerry Butler	3	270,077
40	Rip Off	Laura Lee	3 (2 weeks)	266,827
41	Baby Sitter	Betty Wright	6 (2 weeks)	266,717
42	Baby Let Me Take You In My Arms	Detriot Emeralds	4 (2 weeks)	260,324
43	You Want It, You Got It	Detriot Emeralds	5 (2 weeks)	258,375
44	Talkin Loud and Saying Nothing	James Brown	1	251,875
45	Think	Lyn Collins	9 (2 weeks)	250,577
46	Now Run and Tell That	Denise LaSelle	3 (3 weeks)	249,820
47	Looking Through The Windows	Jackson 5	5 (2 weeks)	246,676
48	Close To You	Jerry Lee ft Brenda Eager	3 (3 weeks)	245,268
49	My Man, A Sweet Man	Millie Jackson	7 (2 weeks)	242,560
50	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	Roberta Flack	4	238,768
51	A Man Sized Job	Denise Lasalle	4 (2 weeks)	236,385
52	Starting All Over Again	Mel & Tim	4	235,950
53	I Had It All The Time	Tyrone Davis	5 (3 weeks)	230,640
54	Rockin Robin	Michael Jackson	2	227,500
55	Floy Joy	The Supremes	5	224,685
56	Too Late To Turn Back Now	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	5 (2 weeks)	224,250
57	Troglodyte	Jimmy Castor Bunch	4 (2 weeks)	223,654
58	I Miss You	Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes	7 (2 weeks)	222,517
59	Do Your Thing	Isaac Hayes	3	219,376
60	Make Me The Woman...	Gladys Knight & The Pips	3 (2 weeks)	214,392
61	This World	Staple Singers	6 (2 weeks)	210,709
62	Why Can't We Be Lovers	Brian Holland	9 (2 weeks)	205,186
63	I've Been Lonely For So Long	Fredrick Knight	8 (2 weeks)	195,759
64	Family Affair	Sly & The Family Stones	1 (5 weeks)	187,417
65	There It Is	James Brown	4	186,549
66	Walkin In The Rain With The One	Love Unlimited	6	185,468
67	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show	Honey Cone	5 (3 weeks)	174,471
68	Lay Away	Isley Brothers	6	173,660
69	The Day I Found Myself	Honey Cone	8	171,167
70	Trouble In My Home	Joe Simon	5 (2 weeks)	165,100
71	People Make The World Go Round	The Stylstics	6 (2 weeks)	158,926
72	Little Bitty Pretty One	Jackson 5	8	155,459
73	Honky Tonk	James Brown	7 (2 weeks)	155,352
74	Just As Long As You Need Me	The Independents	8 (2 weeks)	154,700
75	Do What You Set Out To Do	Bobby Bland	7 (2 weeks)	146,578
76	We've Come To Far	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	9	145,059
77	Why Can't We Live Together	Timmy Thomas	1 (2 weeks)	144,301
78	Love Gonna Pack Up	Persuaders	8 (2 weeks)	142,458
79	You're The Man	Marvin Gaye	7 (2 weeks)	141,052
80	Nature Planned It	Four Tops	8 (2 weeks)	140,834
81	All The King's Horses	Aretha Franklin	7 (2 weeks)	138,775
82	The Coldest Days of My Life	Chi-Lites	8	138,235
83	Corner Of The Sky	Jackson 5	9 (2 weeks)	135,093
84	King Heroin	James Brown	6	128,810
85	Son Of Shaft	Bar Kays	10 (2 weeks)	128,051
86	Take A Look Around	Temptations	10 (2 weeks)	126,751
87	Walk In The Night	jr. Walker & The All Stars	10 (2 weeks)	125,560
88	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	1 (3 weeks)	122,092
89	Jungle Fever	The Chakachas	11 (2 weeks)	116,784
90	That's What Love Will Make You Do	Little Milton	9	113,752
91	Slow Motion	Johnny Williams	12 (2 weeks)	112,991
92	Keeper Of The Castle	Four Tops	7	109,527
93	One Night Affair	Jerry Butler	6 (2 weeks)	107,791
94	Everybody Know About My Good...	Little Johnny Taylor	9 (2 weeks)	102,701
95	You Are Everything	The Stylistics	10	101,077
96	I Got A Bag Of My Own	James Brown	3	100,750
97	Slipin Into Darkness	War	12 (2 weeks)	96,959
98	In The Ghetto	Candi Staton	12 (2 weeks)	93,383
99	Gimmie Some More	The JBs	11	87,210
100	Do The Funky Penguin	Rufus Thomas	11 (2 weeks)	85,910

[Private Dancer]

Well...guys...something has come up...I have 74-76 finished. I will get back to this but I'm putting a hold on this for right now

[Private Dancer]

1974:

1	Feel Like Makin Love	Roberta Flack	1 (5)	565,674
2	Boogie Down	Eddie Kendricks	1 (3)	491,507
3	Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	Barry White	1 (3)	449,064
4	You Havent Done Nothin	Stevie Wonder	1 (2)	444,644
5	Do It	BT Express	1	423,000
6	The Payback	James Brown	1 (2)	420,183
7	Rock Your Baby	George McCrae	1 (2)	405,147
8	My Thang	James Brown	1 (2)	401,592
9	Jungle Boogie	Kool & The Gang	2 (2)	393,358
10	Finally Got Myself Together	Impressions	1 (2)	390,521
11	Lookin For Love	Bobby Womack	1 (3)	387,358
12	Let's Straighten It Out	Latimore	1 (2)	380,576
13	Rock The Boat	The Hues Corporation	2 (2)
14	Put Your Hands Together	Ojays	2 (2)	370,933
15	Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (2)	364,955
16	Mighty Love	Spinners	1 (2)	357,609
17	Outside Woman	Bloodstone	2	351,847
18	She's Gone	Tavares	1	348,466
19	Be Thankful For What You Get	William DeVaughn	1	348,074
20	On and On	Gladys Knight & The Pips	2 (4)	347,293
21	Dancing Machine	Jackson 5	1	346,819
22	Higher Plane	Kool & The Gang	1	342,225
23	Skin Tight	Ohio Players	2	337,004
24	Im In Love	Aretha Franklin	1 (2)	333,883
25	TSOP	MFSB & Third Degrees	1	323,172
26	Papa Don’t Take No Mess	James Brown	1	313,295
27	Sexy Mama	The Moments	3	304,353
28	Let Your Hair Down	Temptations	1	299,324
29	Hollywood Swinging	Kool & The Gang	1	298,742
30	I Feel A Song	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (2)	298,112
31	Hang On In There Baby	Johnny Bristol	2 (2)	297,679
32	Woman To Woman	Shirley Brown	1 (2)	292,891
33	Trying To Hold On To My Woman	Lamont Dozier	4	289,382
34	Livin For You	Al Green	1	286,976
35	Party Down	Little Beaver	2	281,559
36	Don't You Worry Bout A Thing	Stevie Wonder	2	281,515
37	I'll Be The Other Woman	Soul Children	3 (2)	279,264
38	Sha-La-La	Al Green	2 (2)	278,050
39	Tell Me Something Good	Rufus & Chaka Khan	3 (2)	269,774
40	Sideshow	Blue Magic	1	265,288
41	Live It Up	Isley Brothers	4	259,372
42	Homely Girl	The Chi-Lites	3 (2)	258,957
43	Touch A Hand, Make A Friend	Staple Singers	3	258,573
44	Kung Fu	Curtis Mayfield	3	255,755
45	You Got The Love	Rufus & Chaka Khan	1	249,081
46	Then Came You	Dionne Warwick and The Spinners	2 (2)	247,759
47	Do It Baby	The Miracles	4 (2)	246,135
48	Love Don't Love Nobody	Spinners	4	242,126
49	Let's Get Married	Al Green	3	237,446
50	I'm Coming Home	The Spinners	3 (2)	235,065
51	We're Getting Careless With Our Love	Johnnie Taylor	5 (2)	233,504
52	Imagination	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1	232,485
53	For The Love of Money	Ojays	3 (2)	231,944
54	I Like To Live The Love	B.B King	6	228,931
55	Mighty Mighty	Earth, Wind & Fire	4 (2)	228,175
56	One Chain Don't Make No Prison	Four Tops	3 (2)	227,654
57	Honey Please, Can't Ya See	Barry White	6 (2)	227,242
58	Son of Sagittarius	Eddie Kendricks	5	212,962
59	Until You Come Back To Me	Aretha Franklin	1	211,334
60	You Make Me Feel Brand New	The Stylitics	4	211,164
61	Satisfaction Guaranteed	Harold Melvin & The Blue	6	210,385
62	You're Welcome, Stop On By	Bobby Womack	5 (2)	207,914
63	Whatever You Got, I Want	Jackson 5	3	202,975
64	Three Ring Circus	Blue Magic	5	187,504
65	Fish Ain't Bittin	Lamont Dozier	4 (2)	186,637
66	Machine Gun	Commodores	7	186,617
67	Jive Turkey	Ohio Players	6	185,013
68	Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing	Aretha Franklin	6	184,839
69	When Will I See You Again	Three Degrees	3	179,530
70	Kalimba Story	Earth, Wind & Fire	6	178,642
71	What It Comes Down To	Isley Brothers	5	177,864
72	Joy	Isaac Haye	7	174,310
73	Happines Is Just Around The Bend	The Main Ingredient	7	169,824
74	Midnight Flower	Four Tops	5	167,462
75	Let This Be A Lesson To You	The Independents	7	166,424
76	Heavy Fallin Out	The Stylitics	4	166,183
77	City In The Sky	Staple Singers	4 (3)	166,119
78	Just Don't Want To Be Lonely	The Main Ingredient	8 (2)	164,517
79	Boogie On Reggae Woman	Stevie Wonder	1 (2)	163,279
80	It's Been A Long Time	The New Birth	9 (2)	156,825
81	Stoned To The Bone	James Brown	4	155,783
82	Rockin Soul	The Hues Corporation	6	154,160
83	Thanks For Saving My Life	Billy Paul	9	148,850
84	Nothing From Nothing	Billy Preston	8	148,786
85	In The Bottle	Brother to Brother	9	147,378
86	I Miss You	The Dells	8	144,451
87	Love's Theme	Love Unlimited Orchestra	10 (2)	143,002
88	Heavenly	Temptations	8	142,350
89	Can This Be Real	Natural Four	10 (2)	141,161
90	Tell Her Love Has Felt The Need	Eddie Kendricks	8	140,335
91	Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City	Bobby Bland	9	137,260
92	The Player	First Choice	7	132,948
93	There Will Never Be Any Peace	The Chi-Lites	8	130,976
94	Let's Put It All Together	The Stylitics	8	129,631
95	Can You Handle It	Graham Central Station	9 (2)	129,221
96	Careful Man	John Edwards	8	127,488
97	This Time Im Gone For Good	Bobby Bland	5 (2)	127,292
98	Funky President	James Brown	4	125,364
99	The Same Love That Made Me Laugh	Bill Withers	10	122,223
100	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	1	121,139

[Private Dancer]

Jul 27, 2022 11:33:49 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Well...guys...something has come up...I have 74-76 finished. I will get back to this but I'm putting a hold on this for right now

Whoops I lied...I have worked on this and I have 1975-half of 1979 finished.

Thought I would have to hold off on this but nvm

[Private Dancer]

1975:

The year with 41 #1 hits! 

1	Fire	Ohio Player	1 (2)	450,124
2	Fight The Power	Isley Brothers	1 (3)	435,305
3	They Just Cant Stop It	Spinners	1	418,015
4	Let's Do It Again	Staple Singers	1 (2)	389,698
5	The Hustle	Van McCoy	1	382,331
6	Baby That's Backatcha	Smokey Robinson	1	364,153
7	Get Down Tonight	KC & The Sunshine Band	1	360,835
8	It Only Takes A Minute	Tavares	1	356,201
9	L-O-V-E	Al Green	1 (2)	343,721
10	This Will Be	Natalie Cole	1 (2)	338,348
11	Love Won't Let Me Wait	Major Harris	1	337,567
12	Give The People What They Want	O'Jays	1	324,198
13	How Long	Pointer Sisters	1 (2)	323,549
14	Shining Star	Earth, Wind & Fire	1 (2)	322,012
15	Your Love	Graham Central Station	1	320,841
16	To Each His Own	Faith, Hope, & Charity	1	320,453
17	Rockin Chair	Gwen McCrae	1	315,837
18	Look At Me	The Moments	1	315,467
19	Low Rider	War	1	313,106
20	Shoeshine Boy	Eddie Kendricks	1	312,889
21	What Am I Gonna Do With You	Barry White	1	311,979
22	Dream Merchant	The New Birth	1	309,076
23	Get Down, Get Down	Joe Simon	1 (2)	301,472
24	I Love Music	O'Jays	1	299,759
25	Do It Any Way You Wanna	People's Choice	1	296,314
26	I Belong To You	Love Unlimited	1	293,153
27	Slippery When Wet	Commodores	1	286,542
28	Once You Get Started	Rufus & Chaka Khan	1	285,373
29	Spirit Of The Boogie	Kool & The Gang	4	282,274
30	Hope The We Can Be Together Soon	Sharon Paige	1	279,718
31	Shame, Shame, Shame	Shirley Goodman	1	276,814
32	Same Thing It Took	Impressions	3	275,494
33	Walking In Rhythm	The Blackbyrds	4	275,211
34	Fly, Robin, Fly	Silver Convention	1	273,391
35	My Little Lady	Bloodstone	4 (2)	268,884
36	Express	B.T. Express	1	256,381
37	Pick Up The Piece	Average White Band	5 (2)	255,341
38	I Get High On You	Sly & The Family Stone	3 (2)	253,026
39	Lady Marmalade	Labelle	1	252,028
40	Supernatural Thing	Ben E King	1	251,918
41	Sooner Or Later	Impressions	3 (2)	251,661
42	Sexy	MFSB	2 (2)	250,728
43	Love Machine	The Miracles	5	249,838
44	Sweet Sticky Thing	Ohio Player	1	246,416
45	Give It What You Got	B.T. Express	5 (2)	245,703
46	The Agony and The Ecstasy	Smokey Robinson	7	239,526
47	Remember What I Told You To Forget	Tavares	4	234,781
48	Dreaming A Dream	Crown Heights Affair	5	231,207
49	Shakey Ground	Temptations	1	230,967
50	That's The Way	KC & The Sunshine Band	1	229,991
51	Do It In The Name Of Love	Ben E King	4 (2)	228,130
52	Love Finds Its Own Way	Gladys Knight & The Pips	3	227,912
53	Make Me Feel Like A Woman	Jackie Moore	6	223,710
54	You're The First, My Last, My Everything	Barry White	1	221,650
55	I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To	Barry White	4	217,252
56	Lovin You	Minnie Riperton	3	216,407
57	Fulll of Fire	Al Green	1	213,005
58	Just A Little Bit Of You	Michael Jackson	4 (2)	211,597
59	Let Me Start Tonite	Lamont Dozier	4 (2)	208,652
60	Rhyme Tyme People	Kool & The Gang	3	204,315
61	Bad Luck	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	4 (2)	203,927
62	From His Woman To You	Barbra Mason	3	201,978
63	Love Rollercoaster	Ohio Player	1	200,417
64	Part Time Love	Gladys Knight & The Pips	4 (2)	197,925
65	Money	Gladys Knight & The Pips	4 (2)	197,011
66	Happy People	Temptations	1	196,583
67	The Way We Were/Try To Rememeber	Gladys Knight & The Pips	6 (2)	196,323
68	Don't Cha Love It	The Miracles	4 (2)	195,974
69	Get The Cream Off The Top	Eddie Kendricks	7 (2)	194,265
70	I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You	Leon Haywood	7 (2)	192,857
71	Take Me To The River	Syl Johnson	7	184,145
72	Walk Away From Love	David Ruffin	1	181,394
73	Love Power	Willie Hutch	8	178,512
74	Forever Came Today	Jackson 5	6 (2)	177,863
75	Change With The Times	Van McCoy	6 (2)	176,779
76	That's The Way Of The World	Earth, Wind & Fire	5 (2)	174,590
77	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	1	171,491
78	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog	Bobby Bland	3	168,567
79	Carribbean Festival	Kool & The Gang	6 (2)	168,199
80	Cut The Cake	Average White Band	7	166,857
81	Don't Take Your Love	The Manhattan	7 (2)	165,143
82	Please Pardon Me	Rufus & Chaka Khan	6	162,903
83	I Am Love	Jackson 5	5	159,749
84	Living A Little Laughing A Little	Spinners	7 (2)	159,488
85	We're Almost There	Michael Jackson	7 (2)	158,776
86	Check It Out	Bobby Womack	6	158,752
87	Wake Up Everybody	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1 (2)	158,189
88	Rolling Down A Mountainside	The Main Ingredient	7	155,654
89	I Want To Be Free	Ohio Player	6 (2)	154,441
90	Me and Mrs. Jones	The Dramatics	4 (2)	153,076
91	Thank You Baby	The Stylistics	7	151,798
92	Super Duper Love	Sugar Billy	7	151,516
93	7-6-5-4-3-2-1	Gary Toms Empire	5 (3)	151,278
94	Music In My Bones	Joe Simon	7	143,001
95	Keep The Home Fire Burnin	Latimore	5	140,228
96	I am I am	Smokey Robinson	6 (2)	137,693
97	Sadie	Spinners	7 (2)	134,638
98	Happy People	Eddie Kendricks	8 (2)	131,235
99	Midnight Sky	Isley Brothers	8	129,460
100	What Can I Do For You	Labelle	8	126,686

[phieaglesfan712]

Ouch, Love Won't Let Me Wait getting blocked from the Top 10 is harsh.

[Private Dancer]

1976:
Something He Can Feel, Love Hangover, Disco Lady, Kiss and Say Goodbye, Sweet Thing are the higlights of the year. Every song is good besides #2. #2 is trash and idk how it managed to do so well on R&B

1	Disco Lady	Johnnie Taylor	1 (6)	666,574
2	Shake Your Booty	KC & The Sunshine Band	1 (4)	612,842
3	Something He Can Feel	Aretha Franklin	1 (4)	590,807
4	Kiss and Say Goodbye	The Manhattans	1	540,802
5	You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	Lou Rawls	1 (2)	510,855
6	Getaway	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (2)	496,949
7	Sophsitcated Lady	Natalie Cole	1	454,913
8	Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel	Tavares	3 (2)	439,313
9	Sweet Thing	Rufus and Chaka Khan	1 (2)	431,927
10	Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	1 (2)	428,242
11	Who'd She Coo?	Ohio Players	1	425,598
12	Young Hearts Run Free	Candi Staton	1	412,795
13	Love Ballad	L.T.D.	1 (2)	403,044
14	Just To be Close To You	Commodores	1 (2)	402,914
15	Sing A Song	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (2)	398,775
16	Turning Point	Tyrone Davis	1	390,977
17	The Rubberband Man	Spinners	1	375,593
18	Love Hangover	Diana Ross	1	372,994
19	Dazz	Brick	1 (4)	371,280
20	Boogie Fever	The Slyvers	1	362,331
21	This Masquerade	George Benson	3 (2)	361,703
22	Livin For The Weekend	O'Jays	1 (2)	356,613
23	Give It Up	Tyrone Davis	2 (3)	350,545
24	Misty Blue	Dorothy Moore	2 (2)	350,481
25	Get Up Offa That Thing	James Brown	4	341,792
26	Sweet Love	Commodores	2 (2)	333,862
27	Message In Our Music	O'Jays	1	330,309
28	Shake Your Rump To The Funk	Bar-Kays	5	330,114
29	He's A Friend	Eddie Kendricks	2 (3)	320,622
30	I'll Be Good To You	Brothers Johnson	1	314,819
31	Wake Up Everybody	Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes	1 (2)	314,385
32	Who Loves You Better	Isley Brothers	3 (3)	307,366
33	Inseperable	Natalie Cole	1	307,232
34	I Want You	Marvin Gaye	1	298,698
35	You Don't Have To Be A Star	Marylin McCoo & Billy Davis jr.	1	297,916
36	Enjoy Yourself	The Jacksons	2 (2)	296,509
37	Movin	The Brass Construction	1	296,140
38	Summer	War	4 (2)	295,273
39	Lowdown	Boz Scaggs	5 (2)	294,144
40	Get The Funk Out Ma Face	Brothers Johnson	4 (2)	290,659
41	You Are My Starship	Norman Connors	4 (2)	290,225
42	I've Got A Feeling	Al Wilson	3 (2)	282,188
43	Car Wash	Rose Royce	1 (2)	281,103
44	It's Cool	The Thymes	3	266,869
45	New Orleans	Staple Singers	4 (2)	254,996
46	Let The Music Play	Barry White	4 (2)	254,475
47	Get Up and Boogie	Silver Convention	4 (2)	252,289
48	Walk Away From Love	David Ruffin	5 (2)	250,793
49	Hot Line	The Slyvers	3 (2)	237,535
50	Happy Music	The Blackbyrds	4	234,240
51	Tear The Roof Off the Sucker	Parliament	5	234,108
52	Somebody's getting It	Johnnie Taylor	5	231,293
53	Keep Holding On	Temptations	3 (2)	225,745
54	Catfish	Four Tops	7 (2)	219,419
55	Love To Love You Baby	Donna Summer	3	213,634
56	Dance Wit Me	Rufus and Chaka Khan	5 (2)	211,966
57	Can't Stop Grooving Now…	B.T. Express	6	210,018
58	I Need You, You Need Me	Joe Simon	5	209,322
59	You Should Be Dancing	Bee Gees	4	207,719
60	Once You Hit The Road	Dionne Warwick	5	204,208
61	Do It To My Mind	Johnny Bristol	5 (2)	203,710
62	Keep Me Cryin	Al Green	4 (3)	201,934
63	The More You Do It	Ronnie Dyson	6	196,475
64	Love or Leave	Spinners	8 (2)	188,174
65	You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate	6	187,201
66	Everything's Coming Up Love	David Ruffin	8	176,909
67	Only You Babe	Curtis Mayfield	8 (2)	171,774
68	Love and Understanding	Kool & The Gang	8	167,503
69	Daylight	Bobby Womack	5 (2)	163,909
70	Heavy Love	David Ruffin	8 (2)	159,815
71	From Us To You	Five Stairsteps	10 (2)	157,671
72	I Kinda Miss You	The Manhattans	7	157,083
73	Let's Groove	Archie Bells & The Blue Notes	7 (2)	152,470
74	Harvest For The World	Isley Brothers	9 (2)	147,357
75	Tell The World How I Feel About Cha Baby	Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes	7 (2)	146,598
76	Your Fooling You	The Dramatics	10 (2)	145,104
77	Theme From Swat	Rhythm Heritage	11 (2)	143,326
78	One For The Money	Whisphers	10 (2)	142,957
79	Funny How Time Slips Away	Dorothy Moore	7 (2)	139,491
80	Open Sesame	Kool & The Gang	6 (3)	138,624
81	A Fifth Of Beethoven	Walter Murphy	10	134,854
82	Mr. Melody	Natalie Cole	10	128,723
83	Born To Get Down	The Muscle Shoals Horns	8	128,354
84	So Good	Tyrone Davis	9	127,358
85	Anything You Want	John Valenti	10 (2)	126,384
86	Open	Smokey Robinson	10 (2)	123,479
87	Fopp	Ohio Players	9	122,483
88	Free Ride	Tavares	8 (2)	121,008
89	The Lonely One	Special Delivery	11 (3)	117,153
90	Hold Back The Night	The Tramps	10	114,921
91	Make Love To Your Mind	Bill Withers	10 (2)	111,152
92	One Love In My Lifetime	Diana Ross	10	109,526
93	Can't Hide Love	Earth, Wind and Fire	11 (2)	105,540
94	The Love I Never Had	Tavares	11 (2)	105,237
95	It Ain't The Real Thing	Bobby Bland	12 (2)	102,983
96	Love Machine	The Miracles	5	102,765
97	That's Where The Happy People Go	The Tramps	12 (2)	101,163
98	So Sad The Song	Gladys Knight & The Pips	12 (2)	98,657
99	The Best Disco In Town	The Ritchie Family	5	98,475
100	Wake Up Susan	Spinners	12 (2)	89,592

[Private Dancer]

1977:
List is full of classics...especially #3 which is my most played song of the year so far

1	It's Ecstasty When You Lay Down Next To Me	Barry White	1 (5)	731,402
2	Float On	The Floaters	1 (6)	696,626
3	Best Of My Love	The Emotions	1 (4)	660,771
4	I've Got Love On My Mind	Natalie Cole	1 (5)	658,017
5	Got To Give It Up	Marvin Gaye	1 (5)	598,845
6	Back In Love Again	LTD	1 (2)	566,367
7	I Wish	Stevie Wonder	1 (5)	562,207
8	Serpentine Fire	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (7)	547,193
9	Strawberry Letter 23	Brothers Johnson	1	528,386
10	Dusic	Brick	2 (2)	480,439
11	Slide	Slave	1	472,312
12	Boogie Nights	Heatwave	5 (3)	457,536
13	Tryin To Love Two	William Bell	1	436,389
14	Easy	Commodores	1	430,474
15	You Can't Turn Me Off	High Inergy	2 (4)	406,747
16	The Pride	Isley Brothers	1	403,260
17	Don't Leave Me This Way	Thelma Houston	1	393,683
18	Sunshine	Enchantment	3	387,160
19	The Greatest Love of All	George Benson	2 (2)	379,599
20	Free	Deniece Williams	2	372,884
21	I'm Your Boogie Man	KC and The Sunshine Band	3	364,477
22	I Believe You	Dorothy Moore	5	363,502
23	If You're Not Back In Love By Monday	Millie Jackson	5 (2)	362,376
24	Darlin Darlin Baby	The O'Jays	1	362,266
25	Whodunit	Tavares	1	361,943
26	At Midnight My Love	Rufus & Chaka Khan	1 (2)	359,992
27	Let's Clean Up The Ghetto	Phildadelphia All Stars	4 (3)	352,713
28	La Sunshine	War	2	338,066
29	Sometimes	Facts Of Life	3	336,875
30	Keep It Comin Love	KC and The Sunshine Band	1	329,551
31	Dance With Me	Peter Brown	6	329,119
32	Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me	Peter Brown	3 (2)	326,302
33	Dazz	Brick	1	319,259
34	Do Your Dance	Rose Royce	4 (3)	310,310
35	Devil's Gun	CJ & Company	2	305,110
36	Break It To Me Gently	Aretha Franklin	1	293,974
37	Shake It Well	The Dramatics	4	286,371
38	Love Is Better In The AM	Johnnie Taylor	2 (2)	285,740
39	Sir Duke	Stevie Wonder	1	281,711
40	Be My Girl	Dramatics	3	269,427
41	Car Wash	Rose Royce	1	265,634
42	I Don't Love You Anymore	Teddy Pendergrass	5 (3)	261,755
43	Hollywood	Rufus & Chaka Khan	3 (2)	260,912
44	I Wanna Get Next To You	Rose Royce	3	260,453
45	Brick House	Commodores	4	260,172
46	A Real Mother For Ya	Johnny Guitar Watson	5 (2)	256,382
47	There Will Come A Day	Smokey Robinson	7 (3)	251,964
48	It Feels So Good To be Loved	Manhattans	6	250,511
49	Ain't Gonna Bump No More	Joe Tex	7	248,928
50	Gloria	Enchantment	5	242,819
51	Livin In the Life	Isley Brothers	4	239,093
52	The Pinocchio Theory	Bootsy Rubber Band	6 (4)	233,200
53	This I Swear	Tyrone Davis	6	229,798
54	Work On Me	The Ojays	7	224,315
55	Saturday Nite	Earth, Wind and Fire	4 (2)	220,892
56	Reaching For The World	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	6 (2)	212,855
57	Don't Ask My neighbors	The Emotions	7	205,897
58	High School Dance	The Sylvers	6 (2)	200,981
59	Good Thing Man	Frank Lucas	9	198,123
60	Native New York Worker	Odyssey	6 (2)	196,214
61	Somethin Bout Cha	Latimore	7 (2)	196,151
62	I Wanna Do It To You	Jerry Butler	7	192,314
63	You're Throwing A Good Love Away	Spinners	5 (2)	184,605
64	I Like To Do It	KC and The Sunshine Band	5	183,300
65	O-h-i-o	Ohio Players	9	182,845
66	I Feel Love	Donna Summer	9 (2)	181,026
67	Show You The Way To Go	The Jacksons	6	179,402
68	See You When I Git There	Lou Rawls	8	171,845
69	Hot Line	The Sylvers	3 (2)	170,085
70	We Never Danced To A Love Song	Manhattans	10	168,135
71	Too Hot To Stop	Bar Kays	8 (2)	165,750
72	Shake Your Rump To The Funk	Bar Kays	6	165,230
73	Ha Cha Cha	Brass Construction	8 (2)	165,296
74	Goin Places	Jackson 5	8 (2)	160,095
75	Your Love	Marylin McCoo & Billy Davis Jr	7	159,057
76	Reach For It	George Duke	3 (2)	159,034
77	Star Wars Theme/Catina Band	Meco	8 (2)	158,839
78	Fancy Dancer	Commodores	9 (2)	158,603
79	If It Don't Fit Don't Force It	Kellee Patterson	10	157,170
80	Do It To My Mind	Johnny Bristol	5 (2)	154,374
81	I Can't Get Over You	Dramatics	9	151,148
82	Disco Inferno	Trammps	9	150,623
83	Somebody's Gotta Win, Somebody's Gotta Lose	The Controllers	8 (3)	146,553
84	Make It With You	The Whispers	10	142,071
85	Ooh Boy	Rose Royce	4 (2)	138,754
86	Uptown Festival	Shalamar	10 (2)	135,940
87	Baby Don't Change Your Mind	Gladys Knight & The Pips	10 (3)	135,201
88	Feelings	Walter Jackson	9	123,934
89	Enjoy Yourself	The Jacksons	4	120,358
90	Our Love	Natalie Cole	1	116,135
91	Open Sesame-Part I	Kool & The Gang	6	113,751
92	Look Into Your Heart	Aretha Franklin	10	113,059
93	Party Lights	Natalie Cole	9	112,170
94	I'm Going Down	Rose Royce	10	110,284
95	Belle	Al Green	9 (2)	107,424
96	When Love Is New	Arthur Prysock	10	101,944
97	Now Do U Wanta Dance	Graham Central Station	10	96,244
98	I Kinda Miss You	Manhattans	10	87,101
99	Dance, Dance, Dance	Chic	11 (2)	86,451
100	Galaxy	War	10 (2)	83,310

[phieaglesfan712]

Another year where the #1 absolutely sucks, and the songs right below it are classics. Float On is easily the #1 on my 1977 rankdown.

[Private Dancer]

Another year???? Disco Lady and the Barry White song are good songs!

[phieaglesfan712]

Aug 8, 2022 12:45:27 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Another year???? Disco Lady and the Barry White song are good songs!

Disco Lady is good, but the Barry White song is eww. Float On would have been a great #1, and so would have BOML for that matter.

[Private Dancer]

1978 lit:

The whole list is full of classics! My favorite being Boogie Oogie Oogie

1	One Nation Under A Groove	Funkadelic	1 (6)	750,142
2	Use To Be My Girl	O'Jays	1 (5)	650,670
3	Too Much, Too Little, Too Late	Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams	1 (4)	611,367
4	Flashlight	Parliament	1 (3)	559,434
5	Three Times A Lady	Commodores	1 (2)	544,399
6	You and I	Rick James	1 (2)	528,929
7	The Closer I Get To You	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway	1 (2)	515,601
8	Get Off	Foxy	1	501,498
9	Take Me To The Next Phase	Isley Brothers	1 (2)	491,811
10	Boogie Oogie Oogie	A Taste Of Honey	1	486,895
11	It's You That I Need	Enchantment	1	479,050
12	Our Love	Natalie Cole	1 (2)	477,360
13	It Seems To Hang On	Ashford & Simpson	2 (5)	475,323
14	Close The Door	Teddy Pendergrass	1 (2)	473,416
15	Holding On	LTD	1	459,548
16	The Grooveline	Heatwave	3 (5)	457,687
17	Bootzilla	Booty's Rubber Band	1	455,240
18	Got To Get You Into My Life	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (3)	453,397
19	Stuff Like That	Quincy Jones f Chaka, Asford & Simpson	1	440,461
20	Theme From Which Way Is Up	Stargard	1 (2)	436,650
21	I'm Every Woman	Chaka Khan	1 (4)	413,942
22	Le Freak	Chic	1 (5)	407,031
23	Dance With Me	Peter Brown & Betty Wright	5 (3)	406,079
24	On Broadway	George Benson	2 (2)	394,485
25	Stay	Rufus and Chaka Khan	3 (2)	382,635
26	Dance	Sylvester	4	372,257
27	What You Waiting For	Stargard	4 (2)	371,430
28	I'm In Love	Rose Royce	5 (3)	360,187
29	Your Sweetness Is My Weakness	Barry White	2 (3)	355,812
30	Take Me I'm Yours	Michael Henderson	3 (2)	354,077
31	Always and Forever	Heatwave	2 (2)	349,701
32	Runaway Love	Linda Clifford	3 (2)	344,742
33	Shake and Dance	Con Funk Shun	5 (2)	333,842
34	Blame It On The Boogie	The Jacksons	3 (3)	329,661
35	Too Hot Ta Trot	Commodores	6 (3)	326,842
36	Reaching For The Sky	Peabo Bryson	6 (4)	324,525
37	There'll Never be	Switch	6 (4)	297,918
38	Annie Mae	Natalie Cole	6 (2)	297,594
39	Shame	Evelyn Champagne King	7 (2)	296,011
40	Ffun	Con Funk Shun	1 (2)	292,781
41	Dukey Stick	George Duke	4	290,031
42	Mary Jane	Rick James	3 (2)	288,016
43	Got To Be Real	Cheryl Lynn	1	287,604
44	Stayin Alive	Bee Gees	4 (2)	261,670
45	Last Dance	Donna Summer	5 (2)	248,170
46	Smile	The Emotions	6 (3)	244,163
47	Am I Loosing You	Manhattans	6	237,362
48	Dance Across The Floor	Jimmy Bo Horne	8 (3)	219,117
49	Let's Start The Dance	Hamilton Bohannon	9 (3)	215,911
50	Let Me Party With You	Bunny Sigler	8 (2)	210,621
51	Jack and Jill	Raydio	5	207,891
52	Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody	Brick	7 (2)	207,461
53	Riding High	Faze-O	9	202,650
54	I Like Girls	FatBack Band	9	199,486
55	Never Get Enough Of Your Love	LTD	8 (3)	193,267
56	MacArthur Park	Donna Summer	8 (2)	187,981
57	Dance, Dance, Dance	Chic	6 (2)	187,417
58	Daylight and Darkness	Smokey Robinson	9 (3)	185,035
59	Reach For It	George Duke	2	181,458
60	Night Fever	Bee Gees	8 (2)	177,884
61	Playing Your Game, Baby	Barry White	8 (3)	177,732
62	Don't Cost You Nothing	Ashford & Simpson	10 (2)	176,497
63	You	McCrarys	9 (2)	174,636
64	ADC Band	Long Stroke	6 (2)	173,638
65	Lovely Day	Bill Withers	6	172,143
66	Disco To Go	Brides of Funkenstein	7 (2)	167,766
67	September	Earth, Wind and Fire	1	165,209
68	Don't Cost You Nothing	Ashford & Simpson	10 (2)	155,460
69	Workin Together	Maze ft Frankie Beverly	9 (2)	153,423
70	Ooh Boy	Rose Royce	3 (3)	150,260
71	Love Don't Live Here Anymore	Rose Royce	5 (3)	149,608
72	Let's Go All The Way	Whisphers	10	140,487
73	Get On Up	Tyrone Davis	12 (3)	137,735
74	I Don't Know If It's Right	Evelyn Champagne King	9 (2)	136,110
75	Love Me Right	Denise LaSalle	10	134,553
76	Serpentine Fire	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (7)	133,728
77	Get Down	Gene Chandler	7 (2)	131,865
78	Soft and Wet	Prince	12 (3)	129,805
79	Only You	Loleatta Holloway and Bunny Sigler	11 (2)	128,246
80	You're All I Need To Get By	Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams	10 (2)	118,084
81	Shout It Out	B.T. Express	12	114,966
82	Baby Come Back	Player	10	113,535
83	Do You Love Somebody	Luther Ingram	13	111,013
84	Funk N Roll	Quazar	11 (2)	108,986
85	What You Won't Do For Love	Bobby Caldwell	10 (2)	103,914
86	Everybody Dance	Chic	12 (2)	101,835
87	Shadow Dancing	Andy Gibb	11 (4)	100,709
88	All The Way Lover	Millie Jackson	12 (2)	100,557
89	You Can't Turn Me Off	High Inergy	5	98,800
90	Let's Have Some Fun	Barkays	11	94,123
91	Tonight is The Night	Betty Wright	11	93,536
92	Fantasy	Earth, Wind and Fire	12	91,651
93	With Pen In My Hand	Dorothy Moore	12 (2)	90,026
94	Native New Yorker	Odyssey	10	87,426
95	Baby All My Love's All For You	Deniece Williams	13	86,018
96	Almighty Fire	Aretha Franklin	12 (2)	84,350
97	Galaxy	War	5 (3)	70,200
98	Take That To The Bank	Shalamar	12 (2)	66,777
99	Belle	Al Green	9	57,200
100	Somebody's Gotta Win…	Controllers	8	49,292

[Private Dancer]

1979 list: A good year overall

1	Good Times	Chic	1 (6)	686,291
2	Don't Stop Till You Get Enough	Michael Jackson	1 (5)	659,707
3	Ladies Night	Kool & The Gang	1 (3)	548,688
4	Reunited	Peaches & Herb	1 (4)	544,202
5	Ring My Bell	Anita Ward	1 (5)	543,619
6	Disco Nights	GQ	1 (2)	540,583
7	Aqua Boogie	Parliament	1 (4)	527,582
8	Knee Deep	Funkdelic	1 (3)	513,284
9	I Got My Mind Made Up	Instant Funk	1 (3)	507,498
10	Turn Off The Lights	Teddy Pendergrass	2 (4)	495,406
11	Bustin Loose	Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers	1	492,808
12	Ain't No Stoppin Us Now	McFadden & Whitehead	3 (4)	477,252
13	I Just Want To Be	Cameo	1	473,181
14	Bad Girls	Donna Summer	1	461,241
15	Found A Cure	Ashford & Simpson	2 (3)	443,756
16	I Wanna Be Your Lover	Prince	1 (2)	433,074
17	Shake Your Body Down To The Ground	The Jacksons	3 (4)	420,488
18	I Wanna Be With You	Isley Brothers	1	416,824
19	Do You Love What You Feel	Rufus and Chaka Khan	1 (3)	416,736
20	Still	Commodores	1	413,487
21	Chase Me	Con Funk Shun	4 (3)	398,492
22	After The Love Has Gone	Earth, Wind and Fire	2 (2)	381,182
23	Firecracker	Mass Production	4 (2)	379,210
24	Crusin	Smokey Robinson	4	378,017
25	I'm So Into You	Peabo Bryson	2 (2)	372,560
26	You Gonna Make Me Love Some…	Jones Girls	5 (4)	367,661
27	Boogie Wonderland	Earth, Wind and Fire	2 (4)	364,497
28	September	Earth, Wind and Fire	1	356,742
29	Rise	Herb Alpert	4 (2)	351,673
30	Love Ballad	George Benson	3 (2)	336,312
31	Hot Number	Foxy	4 (3)	330,461
32	He's The Greatest Dancer	Sister Sledge	1	318,824
33	Hot Stuff	Donna Summer	3 (3)	317,829
34	Shake Your Groove Thing	Peaches & Herb	4 (2)	302,358
35	Shake	The Gap Band	4 (2)	299,803
36	I'm A Sucker For Your Love	Teena Marie	8 (3)	292,133
37	Do You Wanna Go Party	KC & The Sunshine Band	8	283,185
38	Rapper's Delight	Sugarhill Gang	4	283,117
39	We Are Family	Sister Sledge	1	281,537
40	Move Your Boogie Body	Bar-Kays	3 (4)	280,087
41	It's All The Way Live	Lakeside	4 (3)	277,876
42	You Can't Change That	Raydio	3 (3)	277,813
43	I Just Can't Control Myself	Nature's Divine	6 (2)	276,880
44	I Want Your Love	Chic	5 (3)	266,500
45	In The Mood	Tyrone Davis	6 (2)	263,554
46	Why Leave Us Alone	Five Special	9	260,955
47	Oh Honey	Delegation	6 (3)	258,615
48	Knock On Wood	Amii Stewart	6 (3)	252,397
49	Never Had A Love Like This Before	Tavares	5 (2)	247,889
50	Get Down	Gene Chandler	4	246,893
51	I Do Love You	GQ	5 (2)	239,959
52	Sing A Happy Song	O'jays	7	234,999
53	What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin	Stephanie Mills	8	232,788
54	Livin It Up	Bell & James	7 (2)	225,551
55	I Don't Want Nobody Else	Narada Walden	9 (3)	223,319
56	Rock With You	Michael Jackson	1 (6)	222,992
57	I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	4 (2)	215,108
58	Feel That You're Feelin	Maze	7 (2)	213,224
59	Got To Be Real	Cheryl Lynn	1	209,191
60	Le Freak	Chic	1	207,567
61	Every 1's A Winner	Hot Chocolate	7 (2)	205,596
62	Break My Heart	David Ruffin	9 (2)	205,056
63	What You Won't Do For Love	Bobby Caldwell	7	193,918
64	It Must Be Love	Alton McClain & Destiny	10 (2)	186,379
65	Now That We Found Love	Third World	9 (2)	180,485
66	The Boss	Diana Ross	12 (5)	174,222
67	Bustin Out	Rick James	8 (2)	172,056
68	Sail On	Commodores	8 (3)	171,839
69	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?	Rod Stewart	5 (2)	171,731
70	Crank It Up	Peter Brown	9	169,716
71	Dancin	Grey & Hanks	8 (2)	169,132
72	Send One Your Love	Stevie Wonder	6	162,501
73	Stand By	Natalie Cole	9 (2)	159,925
74	I Don't Know If It's Right	Evelyn Champagne King	8	152,450
75	I Call Your Name	Switch	10 (2)	141,073
76	Make My Dreams A Reality	GQ	8	138,300
77	Holy Ghost	Barkays	9 (2)	136,501
78	Heaven Knows	Donna Summer	10 (2)	131,475
79	Let Me Be Good To You	Lou Rawls	11 (6)	131,107
80	Don't Let Go	Isaac Hayes	11 (3)	130,825
81	Glide	Pleasure	10	116,980
82	Long Stroke	ADC Band	6	115,592
83	Good, Good Feelin'	War	12 (4)	112,190
84	High On Your Love Suite	Rick James	12 (2)	98,757
85	Open Up Your Mind	Gap Band	13	97,436
86	When You Wake Up Tomorrow	Candi Staton	13	97,134
87	Do It Good	A Taste of Honey	13 (2)	96,417
88	Free Me From My Freedom	Bonnie Pointer	10	95,551
89	Too Much Heaven	Bee Gees	10	93,147
90	Peanut Butter	29 & Lenny White	3	91,760
91	Dim All The Lights	Donna Summer	13 (2)	90,374
92	Love Don't Live Here Anymore	Rose Royce	5	89,592
93	Somewhere In My Lifetime	Phyllis Hyman	12 (2)	82,247
94	Jam Fan	Bootsy Rubber Band	13	80,819
95	Contact	Edwin Starr	13 (2)	78,976
96	I'm Every Woman	Chaka Khan	1	72,584
97	You Know How To Love Me	Phyllis Hyman	12 (3)	72,409
98	Love Gun	Rick James	13 (2)	70,374
99	Sparkle	Cameo	13 (2)	64,763
100	Is It Still Good To Ya	Ashford & Simpson	12 (2)	61,641

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Here are the most popular R&B songs of the decade. 

Some things to note:
-The points are a little inflated because I used a high multiplier, 

-Al Green's Tired of Being Alone stayed at #7 for 7 weeks and made it onto the chart.

- Boogie Oogie Oogie (one of the best songs and disco songs of all time) fared well on the Pop charts as it was #33 for the decade and #98 for the decade in R&B.

-Narrowly missing the list is The Spinners "I'll Be Around" which misses by 3k points.

1	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	1 (9)	1,486,552
2	One Nation Under A Groove	Funkadelic	1 (6)	1,472,859
3	It's Ecstasty When You Lay Down Next To Me	Barry White	1 (5)	1,462,804
4	Float On	The Floaters	1 (6)	1,393,252
5	Dazz	Brick	1 (4)	1,381,078
6	Feel Like Makin Love	Roberta Flack	1 (5)	1,357,618
7	Serpentine Fire	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (7)	1,348,469
8	Disco Lady	Johnnie Taylor	1 (6)	1,333,148
9	Best Of My Love	The Emotions	1 (4)	1,321,542
10	I've Got Love On My Mind	Natalie Cole	1 (5)	1,316,034
11	Good Times	Chic	1 (6)	1,303,953
12	The Love You Save	Jackson 5	1 (6)	1,262,950
13	Don't Stop Till You Get Enough	Michael Jackson	1 (5)	1,253,443
14	Use To Be My Girl	O'Jays	1 (5)	1,236,273
15	Signed, Sealed, Delivered	Stevie Wonder	1 (6)	1,233,484
16	Shake Your Booty	KC & The Sunshine Band	1 (4)	1,225,684
17	Mr. Big Stuff	Jean Knight	1 (5)	1,216,798
18	Back In Love Again	LTD	1 (2)	1,210,746
19	Got To Give It Up	Marvin Gaye	1 (5)	1,197,690
20	Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	1 (6)	1,197,386
21	What's Going On	Marvin Gaye	1 (5)	1,184,950
22	Boogie Down	Eddie Kendricks	1 (3)	1,182,911
23	Something He Can Feel	Aretha Franklin	1 (4)	1,181,614
24	Le Freak	Chic	1 (5)	1,180,867
25	I Wish	Stevie Wonder	1 (5)	1,164,498
26	Too Much, Too Little, Too Late	Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams	1 (4)	1,161,597
27	Superstition	Stevie Wonder	1 (3)	1,158,512
28	Groove Me	King Floyd	1 (4)	1,140,532
29	Our Love	Natalie Cole	1 (2)	1,139,254
30	I'll Be There	Jackson 5	1 (6)	1,133,818
31	Love On A Two-Way Street	The Moments	1 (5)	1,133,598
32	I Love Music	O'Jays	1	1,120,961
33	Me and Mrs. Jones	Billy Paul	1 (4)	1,104,786
34	Fire	Ohio Player	1 (2)	1,101,149
35	Car Wash	Rose Royce	1 (2)	1,093,474
36	I'll Take You There	Staple Singers	1 (4)	1,091,786
37	Midnight Train To Georgia	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (4)	1,090,484
38	Kiss and Say Goodbye	The Manhattans	1	1,081,604
39	Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	Barry White	1 (3)	1,077,754
40	Just My Imagination	Tempations	1 (3)	1,072,498
41	You Havent Done Nothin	Stevie Wonder	1 (2)	1,067,146
42	Flashlight	Parliament	1 (3)	1,062,925
43	I Don’t Want To Be Right	Luther Ingram	1 (4)	1,062,534
44	They Just Cant Stop It	Spinners	1	1,060,915
45	Strawberry Letter 23	Brothers Johnson	1	1,056,772
46	Family Affair	Sly & Family Stones	1 (5)	1,053,218
47	You Can't Turn Me Off	High Inergy	2 (4)	1,048,668
48	Thank You	Sly & The Family Stone	1 (5)	1,047,584
49	Ffun	Con Funk Shun	1 (2)	1,046,776
50	Fight The Power	Isley Brothers	1 (3)	1,044,732
51	Aqua Boogie	Parliament	1 (4)	1,044,645
52	Ladies Night	Kool & The Gang	1 (3)	1,042,507
53	Get On The Good Foot	James Brown	1 (4)	1,034,368
54	Three Times A Lady	Commodores	1 (2)	1,034,358
55	Reunited	Peaches & Herb	1 (4)	1,033,984
56	Neither One Of Us	Gladys Knight & The Pips	1 (4)	1,033,282
57	Ring My Bell	Anita Ward	1 (5)	1,032,876
58	Sing A Song	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (2)	1,032,486
59	Disco Nights	GQ	1 (2)	1,027,108
60	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Aretha Franklin	1 (2)	1,026,350
61	You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine	Lou Rawls	1 (2)	1,021,710
62	Do It	BT Express	1	1,015,200
63	Why Can't We Live Together	Timmy Thomas	1 (2)	1,009,886
64	The Payback	James Brown	1 (2)	1,008,439
65	Wake Up Everybody	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1 (2)	1,008,424
66	You and I	Rick James	1 (2)	1,004,965
67	I'm Every Woman	Chaka Khan	1 (4)	999,364
68	Let's Do It Again	Staple Singers	1 (2)	998,095
69	Getaway	Earth, Wind and Fire	1 (2)	993,898
70	September	Earth, Wind and Fire	1	991,707
71	Push and Pull	Rufus Thomas	1 (2)	983,888
72	The Closer I Get To You	Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway	1 (2)	979,642
73	Knee Deep	Funkdelic	1 (3)	975,240
74	Rock Your Baby	George McCrae	1 (2)	972,353
75	Super Bad	James Brown	1 (2)	969,368
76	Walk Away From Love	David Ruffin	1 (2)	964,691
77	I Got My Mind Made Up	Instant Funk	1	964,246
78	My Thang	James Brown	1 (3)	963,821
79	Love Train	Ojays	1 (4)	963,734
80	Dusic	Brick	2 (2)	960,878
81	In The Rain	The Dramatics	1 (4)	960,048
82	Turn Back The Hands Of Time	Tyrone Davis	1 (2)	955,066
83	Tired Of Being Alone	Al Green	7 (7)	954,204
84	Get Off	Foxy	1	952,846
85	Oh Girl	Chi-Lites	1 (2)	949,222
86	Bustin Loose	Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers	1 (4)	944,982
87	Slide	Slave	1	944,624
88	Jungle Boogie	Kool & The Gang	2 (2)	944,059
89	Got To Be Real	Cheryl Lynn	1	943,911
90	She's Gone	Tavares	1	942,657
91	Turn Off The Lights	Teddy Pendergrass	2 (4)	941,271
92	ABC	Jackson 5	1 (4)	939,032
93	Finally Got Myself Together	Impressions	1 (2)	937,250
94	Take Me To The Next Phase	Isley Brothers	1 (2)	934,441
95	Let's Straighten It Out	Latimore	1 (2)	932,414
96	Lookin For Love	Bobby Womack	1 (3)	929,659
97	If You Don't Know Me By Now	Harold Melvin & Bluenotes	1	927,116
98	Boogie Oogie Oogie	A Taste Of Honey	1	925,101
99	I Want You Back	Jackson 5	1 (4)	918,666
100	The Hustle	Van McCoy	1	917,594

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Most Number Ones:

Aretha Franklin	10
Stevie Wonder	8
James Brown	8
O'Jays	7
Jackson 5	6
Marvin Gaye	6
Al Green	6
Gladys Knight & The Pips	6
The Spinners	6
Earth, Wind & Fire	6

Most Weeks At #1:

Jackson 5	24
Aretha Franklin	22
Stevie Wonder	22
Marvin Gaye	21
Al Green	16
James Brown	15
O'Jays	15
Gladys Knight & The Pips	14
The Spinners	14
Earth, Wind & Fire	14

Songs with Most Weeks at Number One

Let's Stay Together	Al Green	9
Serpentine Fire	Earth, Wind & Fire	7
The Love You Save	Jackson 5	6
Signed, Sealed, Delivered	Stevie Wonder	6
I'll Be There	Jackson 5	6
Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	6
Disco Lady	Johnnie Taylor	6
Float On	The Floaters	6
One Nation Under A Groove	Funkadelic	6
Good Times	Chic	6

[Private Dancer]

1990 list:
-Mariah, Whitney, & Janet all had a number 1 here
-En Vogue dominates with their debut single and have another #1 from the same album at #17 "Lies"
-Pop hit "Opposites Attract" makes it onto the chart at #56
-Flop hit and worst song on the list at #78 and what the hell is that song at #83...its runner up behind Ice Ice Baby as worst song on the list
-Surprise song in the top ten= Giving You The Benefit

1	Hold On	En Vogue	1 (2)	388,571
2	All Around The World	Lisa Stansfield	1 (2)	378,213
3	Spread My Wings	Troop	1 (2)	366,232
4	Giving You The Benefit	Pebbles	1 (3)	364,174
5	Feels Good	Tony, Toni, Tone	1 (2)	360,188
6	Vision of Love	Mariah Carey	1 (2)	359,148
7	My, My, My	Johnny Gill	1 (2)	351,282
8	Poison	BBD	1 (2)	349,269
9	Make It Like It Was	Regina Belle	1	344,761
10	Make You Sweat	Keith Sweat	1	335,508
11	I'm Your Baby Tonight	Whitney Houston	1 (2)	331,608
12	Rub You The Right Way	Johnny Gill	1	331,264
13	Ready or Not	After 7	1 (2)	327,947
14	U Can't Touch This	MC Hammer	1	322,682
15	So You Like What You See	Samuelle	1 (2)	320,191
16	Jerk Out	The Time	1	317,071
17	Lies	En Vogue	1	316,268
18	Crazy	The Boys	1	313,973
19	I Thought It Was Me	BBD	1	309,508
20	The Blues	Tony, Toni, Tone	1	307,624
21	Tommorrow	Quincy Jones	1	306,410
22	Love Takes Time	Mariah Carey	1	305,176
23	Love Under New Management	Miki Howard	2 (2)	304,006
24	Where Do We Go From Here	Stacy Lattisaw and Johnny Gill	1 (2)	303,574
25	Everybody Everybody	Black Box	2	302,317
26	The Secret Garden	Quincy Jones	1	298,568
27	Real Love	Skyy	1	298,568
28	Thieves In The Temple	Prince	1	293,974
29	Can't Stop	After 7	1	293,584
30	Why You Get Funky On Me	Today	2	292,978
31	Sensitivity	Ralph Tresvant	1	290,358
32	Heaven Knows	Lalah Hathway	3 (2)	286,542
33	Do Me!	BBD	4 (2)	281,061
34	It Never Rains	Tony, Toni, Tone	1 (2)	280,128
35	I'll Be Good To You	Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Ray Charles	1	272,805
36	Slow Motion	Gerald Aston	3 (2)	271,332
37	Close To You	Maxi Priest	2	270,010
38	Missunderstanding	Al B Sure	1	264,443
39	Escapade	Janet Jackson	1	264,233
40	Show Me	Howard Hewett	2 (2)	264,182
41	No More Lies	Michel'le	2 (2)	259,458
42	Merry Go Round	Keith Sweat	2 (2)	257,508
43	All I Do Is Think of You	Troop	1	253,977
44	You Can't Deny It	Lisa Stansfield	1	253,135
45	My Kinda Girl	Babyface	3 (2)	253,047
46	Have You Seen Her	MC Hammer	4	251,941
47	Whip Appeal	Babyface	2	250,446
48	Fairweather Friend	Johnny Gill	2	250,055
49	Ghetto Heaven	The Family Stand	3 (2)	249,972
50	Talk To Me	Anita Baker	3 (2)	248,649
51	Come Back To Me	Janet Jackson	2 (2)	247,303
52	All Over You	Freddie Jackson	4 (3)	246,958
53	It's Gonna Be Alright	Ruby Turner	1	245,701
54	Alright	Janet Jackson	2	238,465
55	The Power	Snap!	4	238,008
56	Opposites Attract	Paula Abdul	3 (2)	237,727
57	Innocent	The Whisphers	3	230,772
58	Round and Round	Tevin Campbell	3	229,234
59	Everything You Touch	Smokey Robinson	4 (3)	223,405
60	Love Me Down	Freddie Jackson	1 (2)	223,276
61	I Wanna Get With U	Guy	4 (2)	220,026
62	Walk On By	Sybil	3	215,150
63	Don't Wanna Fall In Love	Jane Child	6 (2)	213,548
64	The Boomin System	LL Cool J	6	211,814
65	Treat You Right	Luther Vandross	5	210,730
66	The Humpty Dance	Digital Underground	7	209,433
67	It's Time	The Winans	5 (2)	208,608
68	Pray	MC Hammer	4 (2)	201,719
69	My Heart Your Heart	The Whisphers	4	201,503
70	What Goes Around	Regina Belle	3	201,197
71	Livin In The Right	Caron Wheeler	3	199,704
72	Good Love	Klymaxx	4	199,032
73	Get A Life	Soul II Soul	5	198,662
74	Comfort of A Man	Stephanie Mills	8	193,269
75	Nicety	Michel'le	5	192,877
76	I Need Your Lovin	Alyson Williams	5	191,469
77	I Want It Now	Cameo	5 (2)	190,212
78	Ice Ice Baby	Vanilla Ice	6	185,637
79	Until You Come Back To Me	Miki Howard	3	185,207
80	Can We Spend Some Time	Surface	5	180,441
81	Never Too Far	Dianne Reeves	5	176,736
82	Knockin Boots	Candyman	5	175,046
83	Girls Nite Out	Tyler Collins	8 (3)	170,301
84	My Baby's House	Michael Cooper	7	168,048
85	Let's Get It On	By All Means	3	163,106
86	Rhytm Nation	Janet Jackson	1	162,088
87	Silky Soul	MAZE ft Frankie Beverly	4	157,908
88	Rope A Dope Style	Levert	7	156,977
89	This Is Love	Regina Belle	7	156,328
90	Stay	Glenn Jones	6 (2)	155,892
91	The First Time	Surface	1	155,006
92	Heritage	Earth, Wind & Fire	5	Row 92 column 5
93	Promises, Promises	Christopher Williams	7	154,509
94	Expressions	Salt N Peppa	8	152,905
95	Your Sweetness	The Good Girls	6 (2)	150,692
96	Jazzie's Groove	Soul II Soul	6 (2)	142,936
97	I Wanna Be Rich	Calloway	5	141,440
98	Scandalous	Prince	5	140,399
99	Only Human	Jeffrey Osborne	3 (2)	136,392
100	All Nite	Entouch	7 (2)	136,219

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1991:

1	Forever My Lady	Jodeci	1 (2)	405,211
2	Can You Stop The Rain	Peabo Bryson	1 (2)	386,470
3	How Can I Ease The Pain	Lisa Fisher	1 (2)	369,916
4	Tender Kisses	Tracie Spencer	1	367,230
5	I Like The Way	Hi-Five	1 (2)	362,919
6	Let The Beat Hit Em	Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam	1	352,344
7	Addictive Love	Bebe and Cece Winans	1 (2)	347,511
8	Written All Over Your Face	Rude Boys	1	346,213
9	I Can't Wait Another Minute	Hi-Five	1	344,068
10	Running Back To You	Vanessa Williams	1 (2)	337,048
11	Summertime	DJ Jazzy & The Fresh Prince	1	334,167
12	I Wanna Sex You Up	Color Me Bad	1 (2)	331,804
13	Power of Love/Love Power	Luther Vandross	1 (2)	331,307
14	I'll Take You There	Bebe and Cece Winans	1	327,707
15	Private Line	Gerald LeVert	1	327,058
16	Love Makes Things Happen	Pebbles & Babyface	1 (2)	322,291
17	Gonna Make You Sweat	C + C Music Factory	1	320,905
18	Wrap My Body Tight	Johnny Gill	1	320,775
19	Exclusivity	Damian Dame	1 (2)	320,647
20	All The Man That I Need	Whitney Houston	1 (2)	320,579
21	Emotions	Mariah Carey	1	318,846
22	Baby Im Ready	LeVert	1	317,742
23	Its So Hard To Say Goodbye	Boyz II Men	1	315,339
24	It Should've Been You	Teddy Pendergrass	1	314,992
25	Are You Lonely For Me	Rude Boys	1	312,933
26	I Adore Mi Amor	Color Me Bad	1	304,395
27	Do Me Again	Freddie Jackson	1	302,293
28	Whatever You Want	Tony! Toni! Tone!	1 (2)	300,951
29	Put Me In Your Mix	Barry White	2	294,429
30	I'm Dreamin	Christopher Williams	1	288,342
31	Don't Go	En Vogue	3 (2)	286,888
32	Call Me	Phil Perry	1	286,693
33	I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love	B Angie B	2	286,587
34	Right Down To It	Damian Dame	2	286,132
35	Don’t Wanna Change The World	Phyllis Hyman	1	284,395
36	Miracle	Whitney Houston	2 (2)	284,288
37	Motownphilly	Boyz II Men	4 (2)	282,644
38	Giving You All My Love	Chris Walker	4	275,623
39	Do What I Gotta Do	Ralph Tresvant	2	273,998
40	Romantic	Karyn White	1	272,855
41	Feels Like Another One	Patti LaBelle & Big Daddy Kane	3 (2)	269,948
42	I'll Give All My Love To You	Keith Sweat	1	269,534
43	You Don't Have To Worry	En Vogue	1	269,037
44	OPP	Naughty By Nature	5 (3)	266,825
45	Special	Vesta	2	264,768
46	Something In My Heart	Michel'le	2	263,380
47	So Much Love	B Angie B	3	263,053
48	Kissing You	Keith Washington	1	262,016
49	Never Stop	The Brand New Heavies	3 (2)	256,426
50	Don't Want To Be A Fool	Luther Vandross	4	253,069
51	Love Crazy	Atlantic Starr	7 (3)	252,483
52	Housecall	Shabba Ranks	4	251,658
53	Keep On Loving Me	O'Jays	4	250,946
54	Don't Let Me Down	O'Jays	4 (2)	247,998
55	Optimstic	Sounds Of Blackness	3	246,330
56	When I See You Smile Again	BBD	3 (2)	241,888
57	All Season	LeVert	4	237,187
58	Main Course	Freddie Jackson	2 (2)	236,191
59	Do Me Right	Guy	2	234,477
60	I Love Your Smile	Shanice	1 (4)	233,025
61	Stone Cold Gentleman	Ralph Tresvant	3 (2)	232,377
62	Gotta Have You	Stevie Wonder	3	232,094
63	Men	Gladys Knight	2 (2)	225,116
64	Someday	Mariah Carey	3	224,012
65	Emotionally Yours	O'Jays	5 (2)	221,867
66	The First Time	Surface	1	220,328
67	I Don't Wanna Cry	Mariah Carey	2	217,449
68	Let's Chill	Guy	3	216,278
69	Only Human	Jeffrey Osbourne	3 (2)	214,459
70	With You	Tony Terry	6	214,309
71	Hold You Tight	Tara Kemp	4	213,700
72	Love Will Never Do Without You	Janet Jackson	3	211,619
73	After The Dance	Fourplay & El Debarge	2 (2)	211,444
74	Why Can't You Come Home	Ex-Girlfriend	5	207,157
75	All True Man	Alexander O Neal	5 (2)	207,026
76	In Your Eyes	Shirley Murdock	7 (2)	206,789
77	Your Love	Keith Sweat	4	205,531
78	Playground	Another Bad Creation	4	204,577
79	Backyard	Pebbles & Salt n Peppa	4	200,004
80	Iesha	Another Bad Creation	6	192,010
81	Love Me Down	Freddie Jackson	1 (2)	191,209
82	Around The Way Girl	LL Cool J	5	190,081
83	Now That We Found Love	Heavy D & The Boyz	5	180,701
84	Gett Off	Prince & The NPG	6	174,656
85	No Matter What You Do	Diana Ross & Al B Sure	4	172,704
86	Never Been In Love Before	Marva Hicks	7	171,452
87	My Heart Is Failing Me	Riff	6 (2)	171,016
88	This House	Tracie Spencer	7	170,496
89	Here We Go	C + C Music Factory	7	162,760
90	Fairy Tales	Anita Baker	8	158,061
91	Save Me	Lisa Fisher	7	154,419
92	My Name Is Not Susan	Whitney Houston	8 (2)	150,584
93	2 Legit 2 Quit	MC Hammer	3 (2)	150,477
94	Fun Day	Stevie Wonder	6	150,476
95	Getting Back Into Love	Gerald Alston	6	148,505
96	Nights Like This	After 7	7	147,702
97	If You're Serious	Riff	7	145,256
98	If I Were A Bell	Teena Marie	8	142,481
99	Get Here	Oleta Adams	8	142,331
100	Tell Me What You Want Me To Do	Tevin Campbell	1	137,519

[Private Dancer]

1992 list:

1	Real Love	Mary J Blige	1 (2)	434,917
2	People Everyday	Arrested Development	2 (2)	420,941
3	Honey Love	R Kelly & Public Announcement	1 (2)	420,357
4	Save The Best For Last	Vanessa Williams	1 (3)	419,231
5	Come and Talk To Me	Jodeci	1	409,936
6	You Remind Me	Mary J Blige	1 (2)	398,474
7	Baby Baby Baby	TLC	1 (2)	397,973
8	Remember The Time	Micheal Jackson	1	382,742
9	Slow Dance	R Kelly & Public Announcement	1	379,927
10	Don't Be Afraid	Aaron Hall	1	375,257
11	Tennessee	Arrested Development	1	370,523
12	Stay	Jodeci	1 (2)	368,465
13	Games	Chuckii Booker	1	364,239
14	Humpin Around	Bobby Brown	1 (2)	363,698
15	Here I Go Again	Glenn Jones	1	361,186
16	Somebody Loves You Baby	Patti LaBelle	2	347,868
17	Rump Shaker	Wreckx n Effect	2	345,217
18	All Woman	Lisa Stansfield	1	343,266
19	Keep It Comin	Keith Sweat	1 (2)	341,424
20	Jump	Kris Kross	2	340,645
21	Right Now	Al B Sure	1	338,867
22	My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It)	En Vogue	1 (2)	338,476
23	Breakin My Heart	Mint Condition	3 (3)	336,970
24	She's Playing Hard To Get	Hi Five	2 (2)	335,683
25	Ain't Nobody Like You	Miki Howard	1	329,270
26	What About Your Friends	TLC	2	328,771
27	Sweet November	Troop	1	321,080
28	Baby Hold Onto Me	Gerald & Eddie Levert	1	319,607
29	Alone With You	Tevin Campbell	1	319,261
30	Giving Him Something He Can Feel	En Vogue	1	318,154
31	Diamonds and Pearls	Prince & New Power Generation	1	314,167
32	Why Me Baby?	Keith Sweat	2	313,929
33	I Will Always Love You	Whitney Houston	1 (11)	310,483
34	Uhh Ahh	Boyz II Men	1	310,333
35	If I Ever Fall In Love	Shai	1	303,483
36	Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg	TLC	2	303,377
37	Do It to Me	Lionel Richie	1	298,113
38	Live and Learn	Joe Public	3	290,182
39	In The Closet	Micheal Jackson	1	289,815
40	End Of The Road	Boyz II Men	1 (4)	284,356
41	The Best Things In Life Are Free	Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson	1	282,231
42	Love Me	Tracie Spencer	2	281,493
43	I Could Use A Little Love	Freddie Jackson	2 (2)	280,627
44	Love You All My Lifetime	Chaka Khan	2 (2)	279,284
45	Keep On Walkin	Cece Peniston	3	279,110
46	Love Shoulda Brought You Home	Toni Braxton	4	277,786
47	Can't Let Go	Mariah Carey	2 (2)	277,484
48	Goodbye	Tevin Campbell	2 (2)	276,054
49	Tell Me What You Want Me To Do	Tevin Campbell	1	273,565
50	I Got A Thang 4 Ya!	Lo-Key?	4	271,551
51	Silent Prayer	Shanie & Johnny Gill	4	265,114
52	Warm It Up	Kris Kross	3 (2)	264,574
53	When You've Been Blessed	Patti LaBelle	4 (2)	262,949
54	Masterpiece	Atlantic Starr	3	260,997
55	Slow and Sexy	Shabba Ranks & Johnny Gill	4 (2)	259,458
56	School Me	Gerald Levvert	3 (2)	252,764
57	Give U My Heart	Babyface & Toni Braxton	2	251,679
58	Someone To Hold	Trey Lorenz	5	242,018
59	Money Can't Buy You Love	Ralph Tresvant	2	240,913
60	My Kinda Girl	Rude Boys	4	237,316
61	I Love Your Smile	Shanice	1 (4)	232,894
62	They Want EFX	Das EFX	5	230,340
63	Everlasting Love	Tony Terry	6 (2)	225,835
64	Mr. Loveman	Shabba Ranks	2	220,849
65	Work To Do	Vanessa Williams	3	220,633
66	Mad Cobra	Flex	7	213,742
67	It's O.K.	Bebe and Cece Winans	6	212,530
68	Jade	I Wanna Love You	7	210,752
69	Here We Go Again	Potrait	3	209,538
70	She's Got That Vibe	R Kelly & Public Announcement	7	206,875
71	Make It Happen	Mariah Carey	6	201,806
72	I've Been Searchin	Glenn Jones	8 (2)	200,116
73	I Want You	Jody Watley	5	196,734
74	Insatiable	Prince & New Power Generation	3	195,348
75	Take Time	Chris Walker	6	191,600
76	Jam	Micheal Jackson	3	188,934
77	The Rush	Luther Vandross	6 (3)	183,018
78	The Way I Feel About You	Karyn White	5	181,634
79	Can't Have My Man	Alyson Williams	7	178,081
80	Forever In Your Eyes	Mint Condition	7	176,194
81	Black Or White	Micheal Jackson	2	172,423
82	Real Love	Lorenzo	6	163,521
83	Please Don't Go	Boyz II Men	7	152,946
84	The Comfort Zone	Vanessa Williams	2 (2)	151,472
85	You Can Make The Story Right	Chaka Khan	8	149,935
86	Kickin It	After 7	6	148,590
87	Just My Luck	Alyson Williams	6	148,568
88	Use Me	Men At Large	9	147,442
89	These Three Words	Stevie Wonder	7	146,317
90	Ssometimes It's Only Love	Luther Vandross	9	145,103
91	I'm Still Waiting	Jodeci	10	144,041
92	They Reminisce Over You	Pete Rock & CL Smooth	10 (2)	142,071
93	I Miss You	Joe Public	8	134,054
94	Inside That I Cried	Cece Peniston	10	128,765
95	Still In Love With You	Meli'sa Morgan	9	124,671
96	Can You Handle It	Gerald LeVert	9	124,434
97	Never Satisfied	Good 2 Go	10	121,920
98	Baby I'm Foreeal	After 7	5	117,456
99	In The Still Of The Nite	Boyz II Men	4 (3)	117,217
100	When You Right Down To It	Phyllis Hyman	10	115,116

[Private Dancer]

1993: 
-the first year in which the R&B charts used the Soundscan data (airplay + sales)
-Whitney was going to be #1 regardless. Her number one spot was not affected at all by the change in tracking
-SWV dominated this year, and it was their debut album. 3 songs in the top ten! Surprised at Weak being their lowest speaking it is their biggest song, recently certified 3x platinum. 
-The top ten are classics and a good bit of this entire list still receives heavy recurrent airplay.
-If Whitney's entire chart run was calculated in this year she would've been #1, but she got caught between 2 years.

1	Freak Me	Silk	1 (8)	837,851
2	Right Here (Human Nature)	SWV	1 (7)	832,975
3	Knockin Da Boots	H-Town	1 (4)	749,556
4	That's The Way Loves Goes	Janet Jackson	1 (4)	733,634
5	Lately	Jodeci	1 (4)	698,315
6	I'm So Into You	SWV	2 (4)	670,477
7	Nuthin But A G Thang	Dr. Dre	1 (2)	657,411
8	Weak	SWV	1 (2)	654,338
9	Whomp! There It Is	Tag Team	1	640,470
10	Just Kickin It	Xscape	1 (4)	624,086
11	Don't Walk Away	Jade	2 (2)	623,677
12	I Will Always Love You	Whitney Houston	1 (11)	610,676
13	Another Sad Love Song	Toni Braxton	2 (2)	567,085
14	Gangsta Lean	DRS	1 (6)	526,889
15	Something's Goin On	UNV	3 (3)	524,747
16	Lose Control	Silk	4 (3)	522,493
17	So Alone	Men At Large	5 (2)	511,379
18	Hey Mr DJ	Zhane	3	494,436
19	Hip Hop Hooray	Naughty By Nature	1	478,314
20	Dreamlover	Mariah Carey	2 (4)	454,132
21	Can We Talk	Tevin Campbell	1 (3)	442,579
22	If	Janet Jackson	3	435,935
23	Comforter	Shai	4 (3)	434,547
24	I Get Around	2Pac	5	404,519
25	Anniversary	Tony, Toni, Tone	2 (2)	403,108
26	I Have Nothing	Whitney Houston	4 (3)	393,491
27	Breathe Again	Toni Braxton	4 (2)	377,864
28	Love No Limit	Mary J Blige	5 (2)	363,786
29	Mr. Wendal	Arrested Development	6	346,021
30	Show Me Love	Robin S	7 (3)	338,740
31	Get Away	Bobby Brown	3 (2)	338,002
32	Shoop	Salt N Peppa	3	335,097
33	Cry No More	II D Extreme	6 (2)	324,959
34	If I Ever Fall In Love	Shai	1	323,807
35	Here We Go Again	Potrait	3 (4)	322,401
36	ABC-123	Levert	5	320,991
37	It Was A Good Day	Ice Cube	7 (4)	312,783
38	Never Keeping Secrets	Babyface	3 (3)	305,500
39	I'm Every Woman	Whitney Houston	5 (3)	303,075
40	If I Had No Loot	Tony, Toni, Tone	8 (2)	283,812
41	Something In Your Eyes	BBD	6 (3)	282,817
42	Quality Time	Hi Five	3 (3)	280,151
43	Come Inside	Intro	9 (5)	275,060
44	Whoot, There It IS	95 South	7	274,886
45	Check Yo Self	Ice Cube	1	271,529
46	Rump Shaker	Wreck N Effect	2	267,477
47	One Last Cry	Brian McKnight	8	249,992
48	Reminisce	Mary J Blige	6	242,886
49	Dre Day	Dr Dre	6 (2)	239,266
50	Dedicated	R Kelly	9 (2)	234,717
51	Alright	Kris Kross	8	232,357
52	Baby I'm For Real	After 7	5	227,611
53	Rebirth of Slick	Digable Planets	6	226,959
54	Every Little Thing U Do	Christopher Williams	7	210,300
55	Sex Me	R Kelly	8 (4)	201,608
56	Dazzey Duks	Dazzey Dukes	19	196,954
57	Love Shoulda Brought You Home	Toni Braxton	4	194,792
58	Good Enough	Bobby Brown	5 (2)	187,634
59	RuffNeck	MC Lyte	10	186,617
60	I'm In Luv	Joe	10 (2)	184,037
61	In The Still Of The Nite	Boyz II Men	4 (3)	181,134
62	Who Is It	Michael Jackson	6	177,192
63	For The Cool In You	Babyface	10 (2)	176,238
64	Ditty	Paperboy	17	175,828
65	One Woman	Jade	16	167,313
66	Keep Ya Head Up	2Pac	7 (2)	165,319
67	I Got A Man	Positiive K	10	163,693
68	Kiss Of Life	Sade	10	163,306
69	If I Could	Regina Belle	9	152,664
70	Sweet Thing	Mary J Blige	11	149,066
71	Informer	Snow	10	146,599
72	Hero	Mariah Carey	5 (2)	144,844
73	Slam	Onyx	11 (2)	144,346
74	Happy Days	Silk	13	143,870
75	Again	Janet Jackson	7	143,435
76	Little Miracles	Luther Vandross	10	140,315
77	Down With The King	Run DMC	9	138,298
78	That's The Way Love Is	Bobby Brown	9	137,629
79	Good Ol' Days	Levert	12	129,698
80	Get It Up	TLC	15 (2)	126,361
81	The Floor	Johnny Gill	11 (2)	125,864
82	Seems Your're Much Too Busy	Vertical Hold	17	125,407
83	Baby I'm Yours	Shai	19	122,876
84	It's Alright	Chante Moore	13 (2)	121,811
85	Cry For You	Jodeci	1 (4)	121,550
86	It's For You	Shanice	14	117,457
87	Sweet On U	Lo-Key?	13	112,105
88	Love Makes No Sense	Alexander O'Neal	13	107,902
89	Give It Up, Turn It Loose	En Vogue	16 (4)	105,952
90	Laid Back Girl	Maze & Frankie Beverly	15	103,395
91	No Ordinary Love	Sade	9	96,849
92	Honey Dip	Potrait	18	94,620
93	Pink Cashmere	Prince	14	92,971
94	Hat 2 Da Back	TLC	14	91,844
95	Baby Be Mine	Blackstreet & Teddy Riley	17	89,163
96	Shoop Shoop	Michael Cooper	17	86,409
97	Runaway Love	En Vogue	15	85,584
98	Flex	Mad Cobra	7	85,043
99	Looking For Mr. Do Right	Jade	16	82,356
100	Sunday Moring	Earth, Wind & Fire	20 (2)	82,163

[Private Dancer]

1994:

1	Bump N Grind	R Kelly	1 (12)	1,008,582
2	Any Time, Any Place	Janet Jackson	1 (10)	919,643
3	I'll Make Love To You	Boyz II Men	1 (9)	840,884
4	Back & Forth	Aaliyah	1 (3)	764,834
5	I Wanna Be Down	Brandy	1 (4)	649,848
6	Cry For You	Jodeci	1 (4)	605,693
7	I'm Ready	Tevin Campbell	2 (4)	597,781
8	I Miss You	Aaron Hall	2 (3)	591,522
9	Stroke You Up	Changing Faces	2 (4)	572,607
10	Here Comes The Hostepper	Ini Kamoze	2 (4)	543,832
11	U Send Me Swingin	Mint Condition	2 (4)	540,475
12	Practice What You Preach	Barry White	1 (3)	539,392
13	Your Body's Callin'	R Kelly	2 (2)	527,258
14	Funkdafied	Da Brat	2 (3)	522,491
15	Can We Talk	Tevin Campbell	1 (3)	504,074
16	Understanding	Xscape	1 (2)	502,905
17	Body & Soul	Anita Baker	4 (5)	498,874
18	Willing To Forgive	Aretha Franklin	5 (4)	497,294
19	Groove Thing	Zhane	2	492,051
20	Anything	SWV	4 (4)	488,041
21	At Your Best	Aaliyah	2 (3)	477,751
22	Flava In Ya Ear	Craig Mack	4	475,151
23	Sending My Love	Zhane	5 (3)	467,201
24	The Most Beautiful Girl In The World	Prince	2	452,944
25	Feenin	Jodeci	2	417,625
26	Never Lie	Immature	5 (2)	415,048
27	Before I Let You Go	Blackstreet	2 (4)	407,116
28	You Mean The World To Me	Toni Braxton	3 (2)	406,208
29	Never Keeping Secrets	Babyface	3	399,969
30	U Will Know	B.M.U.	5 (3)	388,159
31	Whatta Man	Salt N Peppa	3	383,871
32	Lay Your Head On My Pillow	Tone x3	4 (5)	382,959
33	I'd Give Anything	Gerald Levert	4	371,614
34	Right Kind Of Lover	Patti LaBelle	8 (2)	362,810
35	Always In My Heart	Tevin Campbell	6	327,169
36	When Can I See You	Babyface	6	326,193
37	I'm In The Mood	Cece Peniston	7 (2)	325,869
38	Got Me Waiting	Heavy D & The Boyz	3	316,985
39	Getto Jam	Domino	4	311,024
40	Regulate	Warren G	7	310,983
41	Treat U Rite	Angela Winbush	6	286,977
42	Toosie Roll	69 Boyz	9 (2)	279,679
43	I Belong To You	Toni Braxton	6 (2)	265,634
44	Part Time Lover	H-Town	9 (2)	257,058
45	Creep	TLC	1 (9)	250,900
46	I'm Not Over You	Cece Peniston	10 (3)	246,590
47	On Bended Knee	Boyz II Men	2 (2)	246,567
48	Be Happy	Mary J Blige	6	224,251
49	How Do You Like It	Keith Sweat	9 (3)	223,710
50	Believe In Love	Teddy Pendergras	14 (2)	205,684
51	Hero	Mariah Carey	5 (2)	204,859
52	You're Always On My Mind	SWV	8 (2)	203,125
53	Breathe Again	Toni Braxton	4 (2)	202,910
54	Never Forget You	Mariah Carey	7	202,109
55	You Want This	Janet Jackson	9	201,394
56	Endless Love	Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey	7 (2)	200,592
57	Because Of Love	Janet Jackson	9	189,413
58	And Our Feelings	Babyface	8 (2)	188,566
59	Shoop	Salt N Peppa	3	172,468
60	So Much In Love	All-4-One	10 (2)	168,005
61	Gangsta Lean	DRS	1 (6)	160,118
62	U.N.I.T.Y.	Queen Latifah	7	157,843
63	Lettigo	Prince	10 (3)	153,55
64	Do You Wanna Get Funky	C + C Music Factory	11	150,197
65	Can U Get Wit It	Usher	13 (2)	149,176
66	Time and Chance	Color Me Badd	9	143,326
67	Stay	Eternal	13	140,574
68	Juicy	Notorious BIG	14 (3)	138,127
69	If You Love Me	Brownstone	2 (2)	136,545
70	Player's Ball	Outkast	12	135,744
71	I Swear	All-4-One	13	135,333
72	Fantastic Voyage	Coolio	12 (2)	135,028
73	Booti Call	Blackstreet	14	133,469
74	90's Girl	Blackgirl	13 (2)	129,786
75	I Believe	Sounds Of Blackness	15 (3)	128,960
76	Gin and Juice	Snoop Dogg	13	119,213
77	You Don't Have To Worry	Mary J Blige	11	118,887
78	Your Love Is A…	Whitehead Bros.	15 (4)	116,694
79	Never Should've Let You Go	Hi-Five	10	115,918
80	When A Man Loves A Woman	Jody Watley	11	115,876
81	Ribbon In The Sky	Intro	11	115,049
82	Get Up On It	Keith Sweat	12	113,860
83	Nuttin But Love	Heavy D & The Boyz	18	111,457
84	This D.J.	Warren G	14	109,353
85	Thuggish Ruggish Bone	Bone Thugs & Harmony	17 (2)	107,752
86	Love On My Mind	Xscape	16 (3)	106,646
87	What About Us	Jodeci	14	105,975
88	5-4-3-2 (Yo! Time Is Up)	Jade	13	105,042
89	Gonna Love You Right	Ceybil Jeffries/Sweet Sable	15 (2)	104,824
90	Old Times Sake	Ahmad	19 (2)	103,416
91	Back In The Day	Ahmad	19 (2)	100,991
92	Sweet Potato Pie	Domino	13	99,150
93	What's My Name	Snoop Dogg	8	98,715
94	Betcha'll Never Find	Chantay Savage	17 (2)	95,119
95	Ease My Mind	Arrested Development	14	93,709
96	I'll Take Her	Ill Al Skratch	16	87,147
97	Foolin Around	Changing Faces	9	86,126
98	Family Affair	Shabba Ranks	16	84,957
99	Black Coffee	Heavy D & The Boyz	15	84,718
100	Hungah	Karyn White	18	82,054

[mamooshka]

Like mikerivera 's calendar year compilations, these are fascinating. You've clearly put a lot of effort into this. Thanks for sharing, Private Dancer .

[Private Dancer]

Nov 7, 2022 22:54:27 GMT -5 mamooshka said:

Like mikerivera 's calendar year compilations, these are fascinating. You've clearly put a lot of effort into this. Thanks for sharing, Private Dancer .

Thank you! I have more projects with these coming soon! These charts here I used a point system that weighed a week at #1 waaay to much, so I'm reconfiguring the point system.