2023 Adult R&B Year-End Rankdown (Winner Revealed!)

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18. Babyface - "As a matter of fact"

Points: 600
Avg: 22.43
St. Dev: 15.47 (4th-Highest)

• Господин Умљеновић • : 5
Troublemaker : 6
Fire : 6
Kanenrá:ke : 7
emerald : 7
Soulsista : 7
beyoncelover : 8
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9

HamedM1 💔 : 15
#LisaRinna : 16
jtd Thee Stallion : 17

wavey. : 22
wheatsquares33 : 23

SHOOTER : 35
wrip : 35
Mayman : 38
singingrulebritannia : 40

.indulgecountry : 41
BB🌕 : 42
Leo ✔ : 44
samo🦕 : 48

Fresh on the heels of his Grammy-nominated Girls Night Out project, Babyface issued the solo single As a matter of fact, which became his seventh #1 on Adult R&B as an artist.

Congrats to BB🌕 Leo ✔ and samo🦕 for finally clearing their bottom-10s.

2 points for singingrulebritannia.

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #17

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{Movement}Fire : 12 ⬆️
Mayman : 15
singingrulebritannia : 15
beyoncelover : 13
wrip : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 17
Soulsista : 17
.indulgecountry : 17
wheatsquares33 : 19
samo🦕 : 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 20
emerald : 21
Leo ✔ : 21
BB🌕 : 20
• Господин Умљеновић • : 19
Kanenrá:ke : 21
wavey. : 20
#LisaRinna : 20
Troublemaker : 17
HamedM1 💔 : 17

Highest Rank: #9
Lowest Rank: #39
SD: 3rd-Lowest

Our first reveal with no bottom-10 ranks.

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17. Babyface x Coco Jones - "Simple"

Points: 603
Avg: 22.29
St. Dev: 8.37 (3rd-Lowest)

Troublemaker : 9
wavey. : 10

BB🌕 : 13
HamedM1 💔 : 13
.indulgecountry : 14
Fire : 16
SHOOTER : 17
beyoncelover : 19
Mayman : 19

singingrulebritannia : 21
samo🦕 : 21
wrip : 23
#LisaRinna : 24
• Господин Умљеновић • : 27
Leo ✔ : 28
wheatsquares33 : 28

jtd Thee Stallion : 30
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 30
emerald : 33
Soulsista : 34
Kanenrá:ke : 39

Although not a radio single, Simple did earn Babyface and Coco Jones a 2024 Grammy nomination for Best Traditional R&B Performance.

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #16

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{Movement}Fire : 21 ⬇️
Mayman : 21
singingrulebritannia : 21
beyoncelover : 20
wrip : 16
jtd Thee Stallion : 13
Soulsista : 12
.indulgecountry : 14
wheatsquares33 : 17
samo🦕 : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 13
emerald : 16
Leo ✔ : 18
BB🌕 : 18
• Господин Умљеновић • : 20
Kanenrá:ke : 19
wavey. : 18
#LisaRinna : 17
Troublemaker : 16
HamedM1 💔 : 16

Highest Rank: #1
Lowest Rank: #47
SD: 13th-Highest

Misses the top-15 by just 2 points.

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16. SiR - "Nothing Even Matters"

Points: 623
Avg: 21.33
St. Dev: 13.49 (13th-Highest)

jtd Thee Stallion : 1
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 7
HamedM1 💔 : 9
SHOOTER : 9
wrip : 9
Troublemaker : 10

Soulsista : 13
wavey. : 14
BB🌕 : 15
samo🦕 : 16
singingrulebritannia : 19
#LisaRinna : 20

Kanenrá:ke : 21
wheatsquares33 : 22
Mayman : 23

beyoncelover : 34
Fire : 34
Leo ✔ : 39

• Господин Умљеновић • : 42
emerald : 44
.indulgecountry : 47

Singer/songwriter SiR gained his first top-10 hit on Adult R&B in 2023 with Nothing Even Matters, the first single from his fourth album - HEAVY - coming later this year via TDE.

Congrats to .indulgecountry for finally clearing his bottom-10!

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2023 Adult R&B: Top-15



Back to Your Place (October London)
Better Thangs (Ciara x Summer Walker)
Bloody Samaritan (Ayra Starr x Kelly Rowland)

CUFF IT (Beyoncé)
Changed (Tamar Braxton)

Free Mind (Tems)

I Need to Know (Ledisi)
ICU (Coco Jones)

Kill Bill (SZA)

Last Night Was Good for My Soul (The Shindellas)
Lipstick Lover (Janelle Monáe)

Nowhere But Up (Phony Ppl)

Smoke (Victoria Monét feat. Lucky Daye)
Special (Lizzo feat. SZA)

Waste My Time (Ari Lennox)

*thunderous applause*

[jtd Thee Stallion]

Damn so close to top 15

This is your fault stallie

[wrip]

hoping my last 2 bottom 20s miss top 10 but overall a nice top 15.

[Leo ✔]

Glad to see my favorite discoveries are still in!!

[beyoncelover]

20. Alicia Keys feat. Khalid & Lucky Daye - "Come for Me:" Aww I do feel kinda bad for ranking an Alicia song so low at #35 as I wish I could have put this higher. This is nice but it just didn't really grab or do much for me, hence my ranking. Not one of my favorites from Alicia but glad it did well here.

19. Alex Vaughn - "So Be It:" This was pretty nice and good enough for me to rank it at #30. I'm not too huge on this but it's fine.

18. Babyface - "As a matter of fact:" Ooof ouch at this getting the 4th highest SD, which I did not expect. This is a really beautiful song from Babyface. I wasn't too familiar with it but it was a standout to me and I loved it enough to give this a #8 ranking. Glad this made Top 20 though I wish it could have done better.

17. Babyface x Coco Jones - "Simple:" Aww sad to see back-to-back Babyface eliminated on the same set here. :( This was a really good collabo that I did really like enough to give it a #19 ranking. Very nice song. It's cool that this song got them a Grammy nod.

16. SiR - "Nothing Even Matters:" Okay so this is my #34. I can't really remember this song right now but it was probably a nice middle of the road song that didn't do too much for me. Fine with this showing up.

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #15

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{Movement}Fire : 22 ⬇️
Mayman : 20
singingrulebritannia : 13
beyoncelover : 9
wrip : 11
jtd Thee Stallion : 9
Soulsista : 7
.indulgecountry : 8
wheatsquares33 : 8
samo🦕 : 10
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 8
emerald : 8
Leo ✔ : 11
BB🌕 : 9
• Господин Умљеновић • : 9
Kanenrá:ke : 12
wavey. : 4
#LisaRinna : 13
Troublemaker : 14
HamedM1 💔 : 15

Highest Rank: #2 (x2)
Lowest Rank: #42
SD: 12th-Highest

Headed to the top-10. Let's go!

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15. October London - "Back to Your Place"

Points: 625
Avg: 21.24
St. Dev: 13.52 (12th-Highest)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 2
Soulsista : 2
emerald : 4
singingrulebritannia : 8
BB🌕 : 9

beyoncelover : 11
#LisaRinna : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 15
wrip : 15
Mayman : 16
SHOOTER : 16
wheatsquares33 : 16

.indulgecountry : 26

Fire : 31
Kanenrá:ke : 33
wavey. : 35
samo🦕 : 36
Leo ✔ : 37
• Господин Умљеновић • : 38
Troublemaker : 40

HamedM1 💔 : 42

After several years toiling as an indie artist, singer/songwriter October London finally struck chart gold in the summer of 2023 with Back to My Place, the lead single from his album The Rebirth of Marvin. It spent nine weeks at #1 on Adult R&B and earned him four Soul Train Award nominations.

Congrats to HamedM1 💔 for finally clearing his bottom-10!

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #14

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{Movement}Fire : 8 ⬇️
Mayman : 16
singingrulebritannia : 16
beyoncelover : 15
wrip : 22
jtd Thee Stallion : 20
Soulsista : 18
.indulgecountry : 16
wheatsquares33 : 18
samo🦕 : 18
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 17
emerald : 17
Leo ✔ : 16
BB🌕 : 19
• Господин Умљеновић • : 16
Kanenrá:ke : 16
wavey. : 16
#LisaRinna : 16
Troublemaker : 15
HamedM1 💔 : 14

Highest Rank: #4
Lowest Rank: #40
SD: 4th-Lowest

Our second reveal with no bottom-10s.

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14. Ledisi - "I Need to Know"

Points: 632
Avg: 20.90
St. Dev: 8.69 (4th-Lowest)

Troublemaker : 4
SHOOTER : 7
• Господин Умљеновић • : 9

.indulgecountry : 11
Soulsista : 15
#LisaRinna : 17
jtd Thee Stallion : 18
samo🦕 : 18
HamedM1 💔 : 20
Leo ✔ : 20

singingrulebritannia : 22
Fire : 22
Kanenrá:ke : 25
emerald : 25
Mayman : 25
wheatsquares33 : 25
BB🌕 : 26
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 27

wavey. : 31
beyoncelover : 32
wrip : 40

Ledisi has her best showing in this series yet with I Need to Know, the lead single from her 11th album, Good Life, out March 1st as well as her second #1 hit on Adult R&B (after the Grammy-award winning Anything to You which finished at #29 in 2020).

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #13

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{Movement}Fire : 20 ⬆️
Mayman : 10
singingrulebritannia : 9
beyoncelover : 23
wrip : 13
jtd Thee Stallion : 10
Soulsista : 14
.indulgecountry : 13
wheatsquares33 : 12
samo🦕 : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 12
emerald : 12
Leo ✔ : 10
BB🌕 : 8
• Господин Умљеновић • : 13
Kanenrá:ke : 14
wavey. : 12
#LisaRinna : 14
Troublemaker : 13
HamedM1 💔 : 13

Highest Rank: #3
Lowest Rank: #50
SD: 3rd-Highest

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13. Tems - "Free Mind"

Points: 660
Avg: 19.57
St. Dev: 15.70 (3rd-Highest)

Troublemaker : 3
Mayman : 4
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 5
wavey. : 5
wheatsquares33 : 5
Leo ✔ : 6
singingrulebritannia : 7
jtd Thee Stallion : 7
BB🌕 : 8

emerald : 11
wrip : 12
Fire : 18
samo🦕 : 19

SHOOTER : 24

.indulgecountry : 33
Kanenrá:ke : 35
HamedM1 💔 : 38
#LisaRinna : 38
Soulsista : 40

beyoncelover : 43
• Господин Умљеновић • : 50

Tems's first entry as a solo act bests the #15 peak of her global smash with Wizkid, Essence, from 2021.

Congrats to beyoncelover for finally clearing her bottom-10!

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #12

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{Movement}Fire : 11 ⬆️
Mayman : 17
singingrulebritannia : 19
beyoncelover : 8
wrip : 9
jtd Thee Stallion : 7
Soulsista : 9
.indulgecountry : 11
wheatsquares33 : 11
samo🦕 : 9
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 11
emerald : 11
Leo ✔ : 9
BB🌕 : 12
• Господин Умљеновић • : 14
Kanenrá:ke : 13
wavey. : 13
#LisaRinna : 12
Troublemaker : 12
HamedM1 💔 : 12

Highest Rank: #3 (x2)
Lowest Rank: #34
SD: 13th-Lowest

Our third reveal with zero bottom-10s.

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12. Lizzo feat. SZA - "Special"

Points: 679
Avg: 18.67
St. Dev: 9.90 (13th-Lowest)

beyoncelover : 3
#LisaRinna : 3
jtd Thee Stallion : 5
Leo ✔ : 7
samo🦕 : 8

.indulgecountry : 13
SHOOTER : 13
wrip : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
Troublemaker : 18
Fire : 20

HamedM1 💔 : 22
emerald : 22
Mayman : 22
singingrulebritannia : 24
wavey. : 28
BB🌕 : 29
Kanenrá:ke : 29
• Господин Умљеновић • : 30

Soulsista : 33
wheatsquares33 : 34

After finishing top-3 last year, Lizzo has to settle for a top-12 peak here with Special, the third single from its parent album and her first #1 on Adult R&B (About Damn Time peaked at #2).

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: Top-11

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{#11 Movement}Fire : ?
Mayman : ?
singingrulebritannia : ?
beyoncelover : ?
wrip : ?
jtd Thee Stallion : ?
Soulsista : ?
.indulgecountry : ?
wheatsquares33 : ?
samo🦕 : ?
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : ?
emerald : ?
Leo ✔ : ?
BB🌕 : ?
• Господин Умљеновић • : ?
Kanenrá:ke : ?
wavey. : ?
#LisaRinna : ?
Troublemaker : ?
HamedM1 💔 : ?

Highest Rank: #1 (more than one)
Lowest Rank: Inside Bottom-10
SD: High-End of Spectrum

*insert suspense* see you ghosts in March!

Better Thangs (Ciara x Summer Walker)
Bloody Samaritan (Ayra Starr x Kelly Rowland)

CUFF IT (Beyoncé)
Changed (Tamar Braxton)

ICU (Coco Jones)

Kill Bill (SZA)

Last Night Was Good for My Soul (The Shindellas)
Lipstick Lover (Janelle Monáe)

Nowhere But Up (Phony Ppl)

Smoke (Victoria Monét feat. Lucky Daye)

Waste My Time (Ari Lennox)

[singingrulebritannia]

I'm kind of expecting my #4, but I really hope "Bloody Samaritan" or "Lipstick Lover" misses, especially the latter

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Feb 21, 2024 0:13:18 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

I'm kind of expecting my #4, but I really hope "Bloody Samaritan" or "Lipstick Lover" misses, especially the latter

[Leo ✔]

Free Mind deserved top 10

[singingrulebritannia]

Not the 'posting the milestone last song of the set on a different day' trick 💀

Everyone hated when Tom did that in 1991 Alternative
(fun fact: he didn't even run this idea by me, his co-host. He just decided on his own to post the reveals this way while I was on an out-of-state trip )

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Feb 21, 2024 14:15:30 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Not the 'posting the milestone last song of the set on a different day' trick 💀

Everyone hated when Tom did that in 1991 Alternative
(fun fact: he didn't even run this idea by me, his co-host. He just decided on his own to post the reveals this way while I was on an out-of-state trip )

I actually meant to post it last night but then I wound up watching TV and forgot. Plus y'all on a time delay in here anyway so... technically I'm ahead of schedule.

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: #11

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{#11 Movement}Fire : 7 ⬇️
Mayman : 18
singingrulebritannia : 14
beyoncelover : 12
wrip : 15
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
Soulsista : 10
.indulgecountry : 9
wheatsquares33 : 9
samo🦕 : 11
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9
emerald : 9
Leo ✔ : 12
BB🌕 : 11
• Господин Умљеновић • : 8
Kanenrá:ke : 11
wavey. : 11
#LisaRinna : 10
Troublemaker : 10
HamedM1 💔 : 11

Highest Rank: #1 (x2)
Lowest Rank: #42
SD: 18th-Highest

Ok lemme reveal this right quick before everyone riots. Please keep calm.

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11. Tamar Braxton - "Changed"

Points: 710
Avg: 17.19
St. Dev: 12.18 (18th-Highest)

🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 1
#LisaRinna : 1
• Господин Умљеновић • : 2
.indulgecountry : 5
SHOOTER : 5
Soulsista : 5
jtd Thee Stallion : 9

BB🌕 : 11
emerald : 14
singingrulebritannia : 15
Troublemaker : 16
HamedM1 💔 : 17
beyoncelover : 18

Fire : 21
Leo ✔ : 26
wheatsquares33 : 26
wavey. : 30
Mayman : 31
wrip : 32
samo🦕 : 34

Kanenrá:ke : 42

After making it to #20 in 2020 with her soundtrack single Crazy Kind of Love, Tamar Braxton falls two points short of a top-10 finish with her 2023 single Changed. No word yet on whether her fifth studio album will surface this year.

Congrats to Kanenrá:ke for finally clearing his bottom-10!

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2023 Adult R&B YE-RD: Top-10



Better Thangs (Ciara x Summer Walker)

Bloody Samaritan (Ayra Starr x Kelly Rowland)

CUFF IT (Beyoncé)

ICU (Coco Jones)

Kill Bill (SZA)

Last Night Was Good for My Soul (The Shindellas)

Lipstick Lover (Janelle Monáe)

Nowhere But Up (Phony Ppl)

Smoke (Victoria Monét feat. Lucky Daye)

Waste My Time (Ari Lennox)

What's gonna win? Post your gotdamn predictions!!

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1-2-3-4-6
12-14-19
26-28

I won't be mad at an upset but not exactly thrilled if my 26 or 28 wins either.

[Leo ✔]

This is a Kill Bill vs Cuff It showdown but I hope Bey wins

[.indulgecountry]

Tamar robbed I fear 😫