Billboard #1 R&B Songs Of 1992 Rankdown (COMPLETE)

[Soulsista]

18. All Woman - Lisa Stansfield

"All Woman" was the second single from Lisa's sophomore album Real Love. It became her third #1 on the R&B chart.


Stats
Chart Entry: February 22, 1992
Peak Date: May 9, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 6
Weeks On Chart: 21
Hot 100 Peak: #56

Points: 418
Average: 18.07
Standard Deviation: 7.092 (13th highest)

.indulgecountry - 2
annoymous1 - 6
Glove Slap - 10

rowellfarm490 - 11
Troublemaker - 11
ccarter1023 - 12
samo🦕 - 13
singingrulebritannia - 14
aerodynamite - 14
Mirago - 14
Mic Technique - 15
Juanca - 15
Ivy Leegue™ - 16
Private Dancer - 17
SHOOTER - 19
Soulsista - 20
divasummer - 20

#LisaRinna - 21
Gonza'90 - 21
Kelly's 10th Fan - 21
newpower - 25
B-Boy - 26
beyoncelover - 26
BB🌕 - 26
chanman - 26
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 27
wyckyd - 29
gonecountry - 29

Observing
mamooshka


The next reveal has the 2nd highest SD. Nine Top 10s will go down, taking with it nine bottom 10s.

[Soulsista]

17. Games - Chuckii Booker

The lead single from his sophomore album Niice 'n Wiild, "Games" was Chuckii's second R&B charttopper as well as the second of his two Hot 100 entries.


Stats
Chart Entry: September 5, 1992
Peak Date: November 21, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 7
Weeks On Chart: 35
Hot 100 Peak: #68

Points: 433
Average: 17.54
Standard Deviation: 9.574 (2nd highest)

Kelly's 10th Fan - 2
Gonza'90 - 3
aerodynamite - 4
Mic Technique - 5
singingrulebritannia - 6
BB🌕 - 7
rowellfarm490 - 8
SHOOTER - 9
B-Boy - 10

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 12
Soulsista - 13
wyckyd - 16
Private Dancer - 16

ccarter1023 - 21
Mirago - 21
samo🦕 - 21
.indulgecountry - 21
newpower - 22
Troublemaker - 22
Juanca - 24
chanman - 24
Glove Slap - 25
Ivy Leegue™ - 26
annoymous1 - 28

All Work, No Play:
divasummer - 31
#LisaRinna - 31
gonecountry - 31
beyoncelover - 32

Observing
mamooshka


We'll be losing five more Top 10s with the next reveal. Five others will rid themselves of a bottom 5.

[Soulsista]

16. Humpin' Around - Bobby Brown

"Humpin' Around" was the lead single from Bobby's Brown third solo album Bobby. It became his sixth #1 on the R&B chart, and peaked inside the Top 5 on the Hot 100, helping Bobby go double platinum. It contains an interpolation of the Led Zeppelin song "Dancing Days".


Stats
Chart Entry: August 8, 1992
Peak Date: September 19, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 7
Weeks On Chart: 18
Hot 100 Peak: #3

Points: 453
Average: 16.82
Standard Deviation: 6.354 (14th lowest)

Troublemaker - 4
newpower - 7
chanman - 7
Glove Slap - 8
Private Dancer - 9

beyoncelover - 12
divasummer - 12
SHOOTER - 12
Juanca - 13
aerodynamite - 15
Gonza'90 - 15
Soulsista - 16
Ivy Leegue™ - 17
Kelly's 10th Fan - 18
ccarter1023 - 19
#LisaRinna - 19
wyckyd - 19
Mirago - 19
annoymous1 - 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 20
BB🌕 - 20

rowellfarm490 - 21
gonecountry - 22
Mic Technique - 23
B-Boy - 25
singingrulebritannia - 25
.indulgecountry - 25
samo🦕 - 30

Observing
mamooshka

[Soulsista]

The Top 15:

Remember The Time - Michael Jackson
Diamonds And Pearls - Prince & The New Power Generation
Save The Best For Last - Vanessa Williams
My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue
Come & Talk To Me - Jodeci
In The Closet - Michael Jackson
Tennessee - Arrested Development
The Best Things In Life Are Free - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson
You Remind Me - Mary J. Blige
Giving Him Something He Can Feel - En Vogue
Baby-Baby-Baby - TLC
End Of The Road - Boyz II Men
Real Love - Mary J. Blige
Ain't Nobody Like You - Miki Howard
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston


Five more will be revealed tomorrow...multiple #1s will be going down!

SPOILER: Click to show

{R&B Class Of '92}B-Boy singingrulebritannia beyoncelover aerodynamite ccarter1023 rowellfarm490 newpower divasummer #LisaRinna SHOOTER wyckyd Gonza'90 gonecountry Private Dancer 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 Ivy Leegue™ BB🌕 Mic Technique Mirago annoymous1 samo🦕 .indulgecountry Juanca Kelly's 10th Fan chanman Glove Slap Troublemaker mamooshka

[Private Dancer]

I fear this is where Vanessa gets off...I know Miki was always be leaving

[Glove Slap]

Jun 23, 2022 11:39:53 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

16. Humpin' Around - Bobby Brown

"Humpin' Around" was the lead single from Bobby's Brown third solo album Bobby. It became his sixth #1 on the R&B chart, and peaked inside the Top 5 on the Hot 100, helping Bobby go double platinum. It contains an interpolation of the Led Zeppelin song "Dancing Days".


Stats
Chart Entry: August 8, 1992
Peak Date: September 19, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 7
Weeks On Chart: 18
Hot 100 Peak: #3

Points: 453
Average: 16.82
Standard Deviation: 6.354 (14th lowest)

[Kelly's 10th Fan]

I think this is the most perfect rankings I've ever had in a rankdown. I'm up to five!

Nothing particularly surprising in this set of reveals. I'm probably going to lose two more top 10s before we make it to the top 10, but it would be nice if I also lost the two remaining songs outside of my top 20 too (got a feeling one of those is top 10 bound, though).

[Private Dancer]

How y'all feel about Save The Best For Last?

[singingrulebritannia]

Jun 23, 2022 12:01:49 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

How y'all feel about Save The Best For Last?

it's ok but it's the second-worst song still in the game

[Glove Slap]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 30, 32

[Private Dancer]

Dang...I didn't know it was possible to hate that sso. Save The Best For Last is the best song on the list tbh

[samo🦕]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
12, 16, 19
26, 28

i've never gotten anything out of Jodeci's music and their two songs here were no exception
as for my other bottom 10...one of Michael's songs very much deserves to be in; the other very much does not

[beyoncelover]

- I enjoyed listening to "Tell Me What You Want Me To Do" for this game. I ranked it 18th and it came in 20th, so that's very close to a perfect ranking. This was a really enjoyable song for a first listen and I am fine with the ranking for this.

- Omgg lmao finally my #31 shows up. I forgot that it was "Keep It Comin'" here. Hmmm I feel like I am liking this on re-listen here but I guess it didn't do much for me when listening to all of these songs together. So hmmm okay yeah maybe I did underrank this a bit. This does have lots of rankings in the same spots, I noticed.

- Oooh I was hoping for "All Woman" to show up when it was said the first female artist would be showing up. A nice and good song but this was one that kinda bored and didn't really engage me that much while listening to it.

- OMGG LOL my lowest ranked song of "Games" being the 2nd highest standard deviation. I never heard of this song before but this was one that didn't do anything for me or engage me while I was listening to this for this list. I forgot all about this and where I had ranked this but yeah glad for this to show up now.

- Aww darn, "Humpin' Around" was so close to making it to the Top 15, but #16 is still really good and glad it made it this far. This was a really fun and entertaining song from Bobby Brown.


A pretty strong Top 15! I think most, if not, all of my Top 10 is still remaining so I'm very happy about that!

[beyoncelover]

I wanted to see what I got remaining. Ooh wow I got my whole Top 11 remaining. :o

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 28

[gonecountry]

Jun 23, 2022 15:01:31 GMT -5 beyoncelover said:

- Oooh I was hoping for "All Woman" to show up when it was said the first female artist would be showing up. A nice and good song but this was one that kinda bored and didn't really engage me that much while listening to it.

I love most of Lisa Stansfield's stuff, but this song was BORING.   Pretty solid top 15,  looking for one overhyped song to get out before the top 10.

1- 11, 15, 17, 21, 25

[Soulsista]

First extra for today was the biggest hit by this group from Harlem whose members include the brother of Teddy Riley. It topped the rap chart, and peaked at #3 on the R&B chart and #2 on the Hot 100. Contains numerous samples, notably "Darkest Light" by Lafayette Afro Rock Band and "Midnight Theme" by Manzel.

Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect


Fun fact: one of the song's writers was a young Pharrell Williams.

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Next, another rap charttopper, this time by a dancehall artist from Jamaica. It also peaked at #8 R&B and #13 on the Hot 100.

Flex - Mad Cobra

[312999]

Rump Shaker would have definitely been my 1 on this.

[Troublemaker]

Not my 1, 2 and 4 not making top 15.

[singingrulebritannia]

Jun 23, 2022 14:11:23 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Dang...I didn't know it was possible to hate that sso. Save The Best For Last is the best song on the list tbh

If you're referring to my post, I didn't say I hated STBFL, I said the track was decent lol
But it's my #20, and my only remaining ranking below #20 is my #30

[Private Dancer]

Jun 23, 2022 18:09:46 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Jun 23, 2022 14:11:23 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Dang...I didn't know it was possible to hate that sso. Save The Best For Last is the best song on the list tbh

If you're referring to my post, I didn't say I hated STBFL, I said the track was decent lol
But it's my #20, and my only remaining ranking below #20 is my #30

It's all good. I don't expect it to make high anyways. Too much good competition

[beyoncelover]

I really love "Rump Shaker" a ton. Such a classic. That could have been a Top 10 contender for my list. :)

[Soulsista]

Welcome back!

We break into the Top 15 with a song that has seven Top 10s, six bottom 10s, and two perfect rankings.

SPOILER: Click to show

{R&B Class Of '92}B-Boy singingrulebritannia beyoncelover aerodynamite ccarter1023 rowellfarm490 newpower divasummer #LisaRinna SHOOTER wyckyd Gonza'90 gonecountry Private Dancer 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 Ivy Leegue™ BB🌕 Mic Technique Mirago annoymous1 samo🦕 .indulgecountry Juanca Kelly's 10th Fan chanman Glove Slap Troublemaker mamooshka

[Soulsista]

15. Ain't Nobody Like You - Miki Howard

"Ain't Nobody Like You" was the lead single from Miki's fourth album Femme Fatale, and her debut single on the Giant label. It was her second #1 on the R&B chart and her only Hot 100 entry, making it her biggest hit.

For a time, it seemed like Miki's career would reach new heights, as she portrayed Billie Holiday in the movie Malcolm X. But after her husband at the time tore through the Giant offices, that came to a halt. Miki's next single, "Release Me", stalled on the charts, and she was later dropped from the label.

Fun fact: Miki also appeared in the movie Poetic Justice.


Stats
Chart Entry: August 22, 1992
Peak Date: November 14, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 6
Weeks On Chart: 24
Hot 100 Peak: #84

Points: 473
Average: 16.11
Standard Deviation: 6.983 (15th highest)

.indulgecountry - 4
Gonza'90 - 5
BB🌕 - 6
Glove Slap - 7
SHOOTER - 10
samo🦕 - 10
Kelly's 10th Fan - 10

singingrulebritannia - 11
ccarter1023 - 11
aerodynamite - 12
Private Dancer - 13
gonecountry - 15
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 15
Mirago - 16
Troublemaker - 17
Soulsista - 18
chanman - 18
rowellfarm490 - 19
Juanca - 19
B-Boy - 20

beyoncelover - 21
Mic Technique - 21
newpower - 23
divasummer - 23
wyckyd - 23
annoymous1 - 25
Ivy Leegue™ - 29
#LisaRinna - 30

Observing
mamooshka


Two #1s will be lost with the next reveal. Five others will be losing a bottom 10.

[Soulsista]

14. The Best Things In Life Are Free - Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

From the Mo' Money soundtrack, "The Best Things In Life Are Free" shot to the top of the R&B charts and peaked in the Top 10 on the Hot 100. It also reached the Top 10 in several other countries. The original version features Bell Biv DeVoe and Ralph Tresvant, and was later remixed by the likes of Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Roger Sanchez.

Apologies to newpower and Gonza'90...


Stats
Chart Entry: May 30, 1992
Peak Date: July 18, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 5
Weeks On Chart: 17
Hot 100 Peak: #10

Points: 489
Average: 15.54
Standard Deviation: 7.535 (9th highest)

newpower - 1
Gonza'90 - 1
Juanca - 7
samo🦕 - 8
divasummer - 9
ccarter1023 - 10
Troublemaker - 10

#LisaRinna - 11
.indulgecountry - 11
Ivy Leegue™ - 12
Mic Technique - 12
BB🌕 - 14
Soulsista - 15
Private Dancer - 15
B-Boy - 16
Kelly's 10th Fan - 16
singingrulebritannia - 17
rowellfarm490 - 17
aerodynamite - 18
Mirago - 18
beyoncelover - 19

gonecountry - 21
chanman - 22
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 23
annoymous1 - 24
SHOOTER - 27
Glove Slap - 30

wyckyd - 31

Observing
mamooshka


The next reveal has the 3rd highest SD. Someone will lose their #1 while another will lose their #32.

[Soulsista]

13. End Of The Road - Boyz II Men

From the Boomerang soundtrack, "End Of The Road" was an international smash, topping the charts in five other countries and hitting the Top 10 in many more. Stateside, it broke the record for longest stay at #1 on the Hot 100 and won Grammys for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Vocal Performance By a Duo Or Group. It was Billboard's top pop single for 1992.

Apologies to Juanca...


Stats
Chart Entry: July 18, 1992
Peak Date: August 22, 1992
Weeks At #1: 4
Weeks In Top 10: 7
Weeks On Chart: 27
Hot 100 Peak: #1 (13 weeks)

Points: 548
Average: 13.43
Standard Deviation: 8.900 (3rd highest)

Juanca - 1
annoymous1 - 2
beyoncelover - 3
Ivy Leegue™ - 3
ccarter1023 - 4
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 5
chanman - 6
gonecountry - 7
SHOOTER - 8
Troublemaker - 8
Gonza'90 - 9
rowellfarm490 - 10
divasummer - 10

Mirago - 12
BB🌕 - 13
Soulsista - 14
singingrulebritannia - 15
newpower - 16
.indulgecountry - 16
Kelly's 10th Fan - 17
#LisaRinna - 18
B-Boy - 19
samo🦕 - 19

wyckyd - 21
Mic Technique - 28
aerodynamite - 30
Private Dancer - 30

Glove Slap - 32

Observing
mamooshka


Thirteen Top 10s go down with the next reveal. Three of you will shed a bottom 10.

[Glove Slap]

OMG yes! Glad these two aren't in the top 10.

[annoymous1]

Well at least End Of The Road outlasted Uhh Ahh 😐.

[SHOOTER]

Miki Howard’s career deserved so much better. 💔

[Soulsista]

12. In The Closet - Michael Jackson

"In The Closet" was the third release from Dangerous. Co-written and co-produced with Teddy Riley, it topped the R&B and dance charts and peaked in the Top 10 of the Hot 100. The female vocal, which was labeled "Mystery Girl", was later to be revealed as that of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.

The music video, directed by the late Herb Ritts, features Naomi Campbell.

Fun fact: "In The Closet" was originally intended to be a duet with Madonna, but it was scrapped after MJ determined that Madonna's lyrical content was too provocative.


Stats
Chart Entry: April 25, 1992
Peak Date: June 27, 1992
Weeks At #1: 1
Weeks In Top 10: 6
Weeks On Chart: 15
Hot 100 Peak: #6

Points: 555
Average: 13.18
Standard Deviation: 7.912 (8th highest)

divasummer - 2
Glove Slap - 2
newpower - 3
annoymous1 - 4
Ivy Leegue™ - 6
Soulsista - 7
B-Boy - 7
Kelly's 10th Fan - 7
wyckyd - 8
Juanca - 8
aerodynamite - 10
gonecountry - 10
Mirago - 10

beyoncelover - 11
Private Dancer - 12
singingrulebritannia - 13
rowellfarm490 - 13
ccarter1023 - 14
#LisaRinna - 16
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 17
Troublemaker - 19

BB🌕 - 21
chanman - 21
SHOOTER - 22
.indulgecountry - 22
Mic Technique - 27
samo🦕 - 28
Gonza'90 - 29

Observing
mamooshka


The last song to miss the Top 10 has eleven Top 10s, three bottom 10s, and one lucky perfect ranking.

[annoymous1]

Always had a soft spot for this song. Dangerous era is underrated.