| 1 |
recordlabel: Urban Sound 785
chartposition: RandB #64
album: You Got Me Running
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| 2 |
recordlabel: Critique 712
chartposition: RandB #64
writtenby: Nick Braddy and Richard Bassoff
album: Teaser
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| 3 |
recordlabel: Portrait 05434
chartposition: RandB #66
writtenby: Rod Temperton
album: What About Me?
comments: [love ballad]
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| 4 |
recordlabel: MCA 52631
chartposition: RandB #66
writtenby: Al Hudson, Curtis Dudley, Maurice Gregory and Donald Mitchell
album: Wrap Your Body
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| 5 |
recordlabel: Solar 69615
chartposition: RandB #66
writtenby: Babyface (as Kenny Edmonds), Carl Greene, L.A. Reid and Kevin
album: Material Thangz
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| 6 |
recordlabel: Select 62260
chartposition: RandB #64
writtenby: Full Force
comments: [hip hop]
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| 7 |
recordlabel: Columbia 5710
chartposition: RandB #63
writtenby: André Cymone
album: A.C.
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| 8 |
recordlabel: Profile 7076
chartposition: RandB #62
writtenby: Darnell Pretlow, David L. Miller, Ed Fletcher and Robert Cheese
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| 9 |
recordlabel: Sutra 148
chartposition: RandB #62
writtenby: Kurtis Blow
album: The Fat Boys Are Back
comments: [hip hop]
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| 10 |
recordlabel: Mirage 99628
chartposition: RandB #63
writtenby: Billy Rush
album: Middle of the Night
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| 11 |
recordlabel: P.I.R. 05436
chartposition: RandB #63
writtenby: J.H. Smith and Wells
album: Patti
comments: [ballad]
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| 12 |
recordlabel: Red Label 71000
chartposition: RandB #67
writtenby: Billy Osborne and Attala Zane Giles
album: Stranger in the Night
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| 13 |
recordlabel: Mercury 884 232
chartposition: RandB #67
writtenby: The Bar Kays and Allen Jones
album: Banging the Walls
comments: [funk]
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| 14 |
recordlabel: CRC 85 001
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Curtis Mayfield , Benny Scott, Edward Gregory and Joe Scott
album: We Come in Peace with a Message of Love
comments: [ballad]
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| 15 |
recordlabel: Critique 8518
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Eric van Tijn and Jochim Fluitsima
album: Mai Tai
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| 16 |
recordlabel: Capitol 5504
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: George Clinton and St. Song
album: Some of my Best Jokes Are Friends
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| 17 |
recordlabel: Prism 99661
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Ernesto Phillips
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| 18 |
recordlabel: Manhattan 50004
chartposition: US Dance #45
writtenby: Eric Mercury, Ira Antelis and Thelonious Monk Jr. (as Thelonious Monk III)
album: Merc and Monk
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| 19 |
recordlabel: Profile 7066
chartposition: US Dance #45
writtenby: Bobby Miller
comments: [disco dance]
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| 20 |
recordlabel: Epic 05448
chartposition: RandB #67
writtenby: Bee Starr, Charles Radcliff and Ron Scott
album: I Really Want You
comments: [ballad]
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| 21 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 89566
chartposition: RandB #68
writtenby: Larry Smith and Randy Murry
comments: [from the movie Rappin']
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| 22 |
recordlabel: Motown 1777
chartposition: RandB #68
writtenby: Gregg Crockett, Sharon Barnes and Gwen Gordy (as Gwen Gordy Fuqua)
album: That Look
comments: [Motown Sound] [from the movie The Last Dragon]
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| 23 |
recordlabel: Jam Packed 002
chartposition: RandB #68
writtenby: Tony Butler
album: Trinere
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| 24 |
recordlabel: MCA 52675
chartposition: RandB #62
writtenby: Al Smith
album: Six Silver Strings
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| 25 |
recordlabel: Sound Town 0011
chartposition: RandB #62
writtenby: Joe Shamwell, Regina Bennett & Sonja Floyd
album: Physical Attraction
comments: [beat ballad]
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| 26 |
recordlabel: Modern 96841
chartposition: US dance #36
writtenby: Diane Steinberg and Marti Sharron
album: Dangerous
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| 27 |
recordlabel: Elektra 5052
chartposition: RandB #54
album: They Said It Couldn't Be Done
comments: [hip hop]
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| 28 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05442
chartposition: RandB #55
writtenby: Marvin Gaye
album: Dream of a Lifetime
comments: [ballad]
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| 29 |
recordlabel: MCA 1258
chartposition: RandB #56
writtenby: Jonah Ellis
album: Love Cycles
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| 30 |
recordlabel: RCA 14048
chartposition: RandB #57, US AC #35
writtenby: Keithen Carter and Bruce Gaitsch
album: So Romantic
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| 31 |
recordlabel: RCA 14157
chartposition: RandB #54
writtenby: Richard Dimples Fields, Belinda Wilson and John Pilla
album: Dark Gable
comments: [funk]
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| 32 |
recordlabel: Motown 1801
chartposition: RandB #53
writtenby: Glen Barbee, Isaias Gamboa and Leon Sylvers III
album: More Than You Can Handle
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| 33 |
recordlabel: Sutra 147
chartposition: RandB #52
writtenby: Kool Rock Ski, Buff Love, Davy D , Kurtis Blow and Prince Markie Dee
album: The Fat Boys Are Back
comments: [reggae, hip hop]
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| 34 |
recordlabel: Profile 7080
chartposition: RandB #53
album: King of Rock
comments: [hip hop]
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| 35 |
recordlabel: Island 99660
chartposition: RandB #53
writtenby: Katreese Barnes and Jerry Barnes
album: Just for You
comments: [ballad]
|
| 36 |
recordlabel: SuperTronics 009
chartposition: US Dance #35
writtenby: Boyd Jarvis and Walter Briggins Jr.
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| 37 |
recordlabel: 4th and Bway 411
chartposition: US Dance #38
writtenby: Boyd Jarvis
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| 38 |
recordlabel: Profile 7075
chartposition: RandB #58
writtenby: Huey 'Baby' Harris (as Huey Harris) and Joseph Williams
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| 39 |
recordlabel: Solar 69639
chartposition: RandB #60
writtenby: Babyface (as Kenny Edmonds)
album: So Good
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| 40 |
recordlabel: FastFire 7003
chartposition: RandB #61
writtenby: Barbara Acklin, Diane Womack and Karriem Muhammed
album: Your Love Looks Good on Me
comments: [ballad]
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| 41 |
recordlabel: Philly World 99632
chartposition: RandB #61
writtenby: Donald R. Robinson
album: Veronica Underwood
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| 42 |
recordlabel: Motown 1772
chartposition: RandB #65, US #108
writtenby: Curtis Anthony Nolen and Peter Rafelson
album: Captured
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| 43 |
recordlabel: Columbia 04930
chartposition: RandB #60
writtenby: Lottie Golden and Richard Scher
album: Too Hot to Stop It
comments: (featuring B.J. Nelson)
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| 44 |
recordlabel: Capitol 5522
chartposition: RandB #60
writtenby: William D. Stroman, Joe Malloy, Ted Currier and Rudy Sheriff
album: City Life
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| 45 |
recordlabel: Epic 4
chartposition: RandB #59
writtenby: Brenda Russell
album: The Night I Fell in Love
comments: [ballad]
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| 46 |
recordlabel: Prelude 8089
chartposition: RandB #59
writtenby: Hubert Eaves III, James D Train Williams
album: The Best Of D Train
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| 47 |
recordlabel: Panoramic 201
chartposition: RandB #59
album: All About Love, Who's Gonna Make The First Move?
comments: [sweet soul]
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| 48 |
recordlabel: PRT 345
chartposition: RandB #59
writtenby: Hop, Joey Moore, Michael Deering and Wally Muhammad
comments: [hip hop]
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| 49 |
recordlabel: Sound Town 0012
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Henderson Thigpen, James Banks and R. L. Hall
album: Intimate Storm
comments: [beat ballad]
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| 50 |
recordlabel: Constellation 52485
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Grady Harrell and Fred Wesley
album: Mwana
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| 51 |
recordlabel: Columbia 05415
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: Bunny Rugs (as William Clarke)
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| 52 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 99581
chartposition: RandB #75
writtenby: Merria Ross and Philip Michael Thomas
album: Living the Book of My Life
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| 53 |
recordlabel: Sugarscoop 430
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: John Carter, Man Parrish and Raul Rodriguez
album: Boogie Down
comments: [hip hop]
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| 54 |
recordlabel: Golden Boy 126
chartposition: RandB #76
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| 55 |
recordlabel: Urban Sound 780
chartposition: RandB #76
album: You Got Me Running
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| 56 |
recordlabel: Arista 9305
chartposition: RandB #75
writtenby: Kashif
album: Send Me Your Love
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| 57 |
recordlabel: Total Experience 2424
chartposition: RandB #75
weeksinr&bchart: 5
album: Billy and Baby Gap
comments: [hip hop]
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| 58 |
recordlabel: Tommy Boy 854
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Whiz Kid, Monica Lynch and Steve Knutson
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| 59 |
recordlabel: Golden Boy 7125
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Sam Brown
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| 60 |
recordlabel: Sunnyview 425
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Ben Cenac and Bob Crafton
album: Space Is The Place
comments: [hip hop]
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| 61 |
recordlabel: Sunnyview 3024
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Ben Cenac and Bob Crafton
album: Space Is The Place
comments: [hip hop]
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| 62 |
recordlabel: Manhattan 3
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: Eric Mercury, Thelonious Monk Jr. (as Thelonious Monk III) and Peggy Taft
album: Merc and Monk
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| 63 |
recordlabel: Asylum 5067
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: Marvin Hamlisch and Dean Pitchford
album: [beat ballad]
comments: [from the movie D.A.R.Y.L.]
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| 64 |
recordlabel: Private I 04850
chartposition: RandB #78
writtenby: Herb the K (as Herb Kneeland) , Henry Bush and T. Yarbary
|
| 65 |
recordlabel: Profile 7078
chartposition: RandB #78
writtenby: Spyder D (as Duane Hughes)
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 66 |
recordlabel: MCA 52594
chartposition: RandB #79
writtenby: Micki Free, Hawk and Howard Hewett
album: Heartbreak
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| 67 |
recordlabel: Warner 29123
chartposition: RandB #79
album: The Saga Continues...
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| 68 |
recordlabel: Private I 04720
chartposition: RandB #78
|
| 69 |
recordlabel: Motown 1778
chartposition: AC #39
writtenby: Jimmy Felber
album: Light The Night
mpcode: KdSMIQxIuuY
|
| 70 |
recordlabel: Geffen 29061
chartposition: RandB #76
writtenby: Foster Sylvers and Pamela Phillips Oland
album: Bizarre
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 71 |
recordlabel: Sound Town 0015
chartposition: RandB #77
writtenby: Homer Banks & Chuck Brooks
album: Physical Attraction
comments: [southern soul]
|
| 72 |
recordlabel: Music Spec. 108
chartposition: RandB #77
writtenby: Tony Butler
|
| 73 |
recordlabel: Gordy 1799
chartposition: RandB #77
writtenby: Dennis Lambert, Patrick Henderson and Peter Wolf
album: Coolin' Out
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 74 |
recordlabel: Mercury 884 079
chartposition: RandB #74
album: America
|
| 75 |
recordlabel: Beverly Glen 2021
chartposition: RandB #74
writtenby: Donny Hathaway and Edward Howard
album: Someday We'll All Be Free
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 76 |
recordlabel: Tempre 1835
chartposition: RandB #70
writtenby: Gerald Levert and Eddie Levert
album: I Get Hot
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 77 |
recordlabel: Privaye 5630
chartposition: RandB #71
writtenby: R. Dixon, B. Wright, V. Thomas
|
| 78 |
recordlabel: Epic 05714
chartposition: RandB #71
writtenby: David Foster, Jay Graydon and Richard Page
album: Love All Your Blues Away
comments: [ballad]
|
| 79 |
recordlabel: RCA 14168
chartposition: RandB #71
writtenby: Nona Hendryx
album: The Heat
|
| 80 |
recordlabel: MCA 52563
chartposition: RandB #70
writtenby: Mike Calhoun and A. Haley
album: Voyeur
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 81 |
recordlabel: Polydor 738
chartposition: RandB #70
writtenby: Hubert Eaves III, Dexter Redding, Otis Redding III and Mark Lockett
album: If Looks Could Kill
|
| 82 |
recordlabel: Profile 7072
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Chip Carpenter, Chris Hamlin, Chris Lee, James Johnstone, Ollie Moore, Roger Freeman and S.Underwood
comments: (produced by Paul Hardcastle]
|
| 83 |
recordlabel: Starlite 959
chartposition: RandB #69
comments: [hip hop]
|
| 84 |
recordlabel: 4th and Bway 7419
chartposition: RandB #69
writtenby: Allen Saunders, Loni C., Jay Ellis, Niecy D. and Richard Blumenthal (as R. B. Thall)
|
| 85 |
recordlabel: Atlantic 89526
chartposition: US Dance #46
writtenby: Allen George, Fred McFarlane and S. McRae
album: Jenny Burton
comments: [dance]
|
| 86 |
recordlabel: Arista 9414
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: David Lesley and Randy Goodrum
album: Tell Me Tomorrow
|
| 87 |
recordlabel: Private I 05694
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: Jerry Barnes and Katreese Barnes
album: It Takes Two
|
| 88 |
recordlabel: JWP 1460
chartposition: RandB #73
writtenby: Greg Brown and Rappin' Duke (as Shawn Brown)
album: Que Pasa?
|
| 89 |
recordlabel: Pandisc 011
chartposition: RandB #73
writtenby: B. Mizell, Eugene Cooper, S. Miller and W. Hall
|
| 90 |
recordlabel: Sugar Hill 92018
chartposition: RandB #77
writtenby: Jim Pass and Derrick Givens
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 91 |
recordlabel: Malaco 2107
chartposition: RandB #74
album: This Is Your Night
comments: [southern soul ballad]
|
| 92 |
recordlabel: Columbia 04825
chartposition: RandB #73
writtenby: Rick James
album: Too Sharp
|
| 93 |
recordlabel: Panoramic 206
writtenby: H. Goodman, L. Walter
album: All About Love, Who\'s Gonna Make The First Move?
comments: [sweet soul]
|
| 94 |
recordlabel: AandM 395
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: Freddie Washington, Raymond Jones and Portia Griffin
album: Wanna Play Your Game
|
| 95 |
recordlabel: Asylum 69670
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: Xavion
album: Burnin' Hot
|
| 96 |
recordlabel: Epic 05267
chartposition: RandB #72
writtenby: Rosie Gaines
|
| 97 |
recordlabel: AandM 2757
chartposition: RandB #73
writtenby: Herb Alpert, John Barnes and Romeo Williams
album: Wild Romance
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
|
| 98 |
recordlabel: Cotillion 99635
chartposition: RandB #52
writtenby: Michael Masser and Randy Goodrum
album: I'm Not the Same Girl
|
| 99 |
recordlabel: MCA 52699
chartposition: RandB #52
writtenby: Dave Roberson
album: Wrap Your Body
comments: [ballad]
|
| 100 |
recordlabel: Gordy 1816
chartposition: RandB #79, US Dance #33
writtenby: Rick James
album: Only Four You
comments: [Motown Sound]
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