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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

2020-2029: Top 50 Songs of the Decade So Far

Top 50 Songs of the Decade (so far):

2020-2029

These are the top 100 songs from the 2020s according to Dave’s Music Database. Rankings are figured by combining sales figures, chart data, radio airplay, video airplay, streaming figures, awards, and appearances on best-of lists.

Check out other “songs of the decade” lists here.

  1. Miley Cyrus “Flowers” (2023)
  2. Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022)
  3. The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay” (2021)
  4. Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating” (2020)
  5. Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (2020)
  6. Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (2021)
  7. Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” (2024)
  8. The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears” (2020)
  9. Adele “Easy on Me” (2021)
  10. Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U” (2021)

  11. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak) “Leave the Door Open” (2021)
  12. Alex Warren “Ordinary” (2025)
  13. Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP” (2020)
  14. Xiao Zhan “Spotlight” (2020)
  15. Teddy Swims “Lose Control” (2023)
  16. Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” (2024)
  17. Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” (2021)
  18. 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood” (2020)
  19. Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” (2024)
  20. BTS “Dynamite” (2020)

  21. Hozier “Too Sweet” (2024)
  22. Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero” (2022)
  23. SZA “Kill Bill” (2022)
  24. Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” (2021)
  25. Morgan Wallen “Last Night” (2023)
  26. Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” (2024)
  27. Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” (2021)
  28. Lizzo “About Damn Time” (2022)
  29. Noah Kahan “Stick Season” (2022)
  30. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die with a Smile” (2024)

  31. Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso” (2024)
  32. Chappell Roan “Good Luck, Babe!” (2024)
  33. Post Malone & Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” (2024)
  34. Justin Bieber with Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches” (2021)
  35. BTS “Butter” (2021)
  36. DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar” (2020)
  37. SZA “Snooze” (2022)
  38. Huntr/x “Golden” (2025)
  39. Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire” (2023)
  40. Steve Lacy “Bad Habit” (2022)

  41. Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For?” (2023)
  42. Sam Smith & Kim Petras “Unholy” (2022)
  43. Beyoncé “Texas Hold ‘Em” (2024)
  44. Zach Bryan with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” (2023)
  45. Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down” (2022)
  46. Megan Thee Stallion with Beyoncé “Savage” (remix) (2020)
  47. Jack Harlow “First Class” (2022)
  48. Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Luther” (2024)
  49. Jawsh 685 with Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (2020)
  50. Encanto Cast “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (2021)

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First posted 10/12/2024; last updated 1/21/2026.

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Monday, November 27, 2023

R&B: Annual Song Awards, 1942-2023

R&B:

Annual Song Awards, 1942-2023

This page offers a consolidated list of the R&B songs of each year as determined by various organizations and entities. They include:

  • American Music Awards: R&B/Soul Song of the Year (1974-1995, 2016-)
  • Billboard: R&B Song of the Year, 1942-.
  • Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI): R&B Song of the Year, 2001-. Music publishing company tracks most-played songs each year.
  • Grammys: Best Rhythm & Blues Performance (1959-1961), Best Rhythm & Blues Performance (1962-1968), Best R&B Song (1969)
  • Soul Train: Song of the Year (1989-1996, 2009-), Song of the Year by Male, Female, or Group/Duo (1987-2007)

See links at bottom of page for more details on above.

In some cases, awards are listed a year earlier than they were often given. For example, Bruno Mars won the Grammy for Best R&B Song in 2018 for “That’s What I Like” but the song is listed under 2017 because that was its eligibility year.

Click here to see other ‘Songs of the Year’ lists.


2023:
  • Billboard: SZA “Kill Bill”
  • Soul Train: SZA “Snooze”
2022:
  • AMA: WizKid with Tems “Essence”
  • Billboard: Jack Harlow “First Class”
  • DMDB: Lizzo “About Damn Time”
  • Grammy: Beyoncé “Cuff It”
  • Soul Train: Beyoncé “Break My Soul”

2021:
2020:
  • AMA: Kanye West “Heartless”
  • Billboard: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
  • BMI: Doja Cat “Say So”
  • DMDB: Chris Brown with Young Thug “Go Crazy”
  • Grammy: Robert Glasper with H.E.R. & Me’Shell Ndegeocello “Better Than I Imagined”
  • Soul Train: Chris Brown with Young Thug “Go Crazy”

2019:
  • AMA: Khalid “Talk”
  • Billboard: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road”
  • BMI: Khalid “Talk”
  • DMDB: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
  • Grammy: PJ Morton with JoJo “Say So”
  • Soul Train: Chris Brown with Drake “No Guidance”
2018:
  • AMA: Bruno Mars & Cardi B “Finesse”
  • Billboard: Drake “God’s Plan”
  • BMI: Drake “God’s Plan”
  • DMDB: Ella Mai “Boo’d Up”
  • Grammy: Ella Mai “Boo’d Up”
  • Soul Train: Ella Mai “Boo’d Up”
2017:

2016:
  • AMA: Rihanna with Drake “Work”
  • Billboard: Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance”
  • BMI: G-Eazy with Bebe Rexha “Me, Myself & I”
  • DMDB: Rihanna with Drake “Work”
  • Grammy: Maxwell “Lake by the Ocean”
  • Soul Train: Beyoncé “Formation”
2015:

2014:
  • Billboard: Pharrell Williams “Happy”
  • BMI: John Legend “All of Me”
  • DMDB: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
  • Grammy: Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Drunk in Love”
  • Soul Train: Pharrell Williams “Happy”
2013:
  • Billboard: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop”
  • BMI: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
  • DMDB: Pharrell Williams “Happy”
  • Grammy: Justin Timberlake “Pusher Love Girl”
  • Soul Train: Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”

2012:
  • Billboard: Rihanna “Diamonds”
  • BMI: Nicki Minaj “Starships”
  • DMDB: Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
  • Grammy: Miguel “Adorn”
  • Soul Train: Tyrese “Stay”
2011:
  • Billboard: DJ Khaled with Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne “I’m on One”
  • BMI: Nicki Minaj “Super Bass”
  • DMDB: Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
  • Grammy: Cee-Lo Green with Melanie Fiona “Fool for You”
  • Soul Train: Kelly Rowland with Lil Wayne “Motivation”
2010:
  • Billboard: Alicia Keys “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)”
  • BMI: B.o.B. with Bruno Mars “Nothin’ on You”
  • DMDB: Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)”
  • Grammy: John Legend & the Roots “Shine”
  • Soul Train: B.o.B. with Bruno Mars “Nothin’ on You”
2009:

2008:
2007:
  • Billboard: Robin Thicke “Lost Without U”
  • BMI: Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”
  • DMDB: Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella”
  • Grammy: Alicia Keys “No One”
  • Soul Train (Female): Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”
  • Soul Train (Male): John Legend “Save Room”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
2006:
  • Billboard: Mary J. Blige “Be Without You”
  • BMI: Beyoncé with Slim Thug & Bun B “Check on It”
  • DMDB: Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
  • Grammy: Mary J. Blige “Be Without You”
  • Soul Train (Female): Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
  • Soul Train (Male): John Legend with will.i.am “Ordinary People”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Destiny’s Child “Cater 2 U”

2005:
2004:
  • Billboard: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
  • BMI: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
  • DMDB: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
  • Grammy: Alicia Keys “You Don’t Know My Name”
  • Soul Train (Female): Alicia Keys “You Don’t Know My Name”
  • Soul Train (Male): Luther Vandross “Dance with My Father”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Floetry “Say Yes”

2003:
  • Billboard: 50 Cent “In Da Club”
  • BMI: R. Kelly “Ignition (remix)”
  • DMDB: OutKast “Hey Ya!”
  • Grammy: Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love”
  • Soul Train (Female): Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish”
  • Soul Train (Male): Musiq Soulchild “Don’t Change”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): M2K with P. Diddy “Bump Bump Bump”
2002:
  • Billboard: Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish”
  • BMI: Nelly “Hot in Herre”
  • DMDB: Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish”
  • Grammy: Erykah Badu with Common “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)”
  • Soul Train (Female): Aaliyah “Rock the Boat”
  • Soul Train (Male): Musiq Soulchild “Love”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): The Isley Brothers with Chante Moore “Contagious”
2001:
  • Billboard: Usher “U Got It Bad”
  • BMI: Janet Jackson “All for You”
  • DMDB: Alicia Keys “Fallin’”
  • Grammy: Alicia Keys “Fallin’”
  • Soul Train (Female): Yolanda Adams “Open My Heart”
  • Soul Train (Male): R. Kelly “I Wish”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Jagged Edge “Let’s Get Married”
2000:
  • Billboard: Erykah Badu “Bag Lady”
  • BMI: Santana with the Product G&B “Maria Maria”
  • DMDB: Destiny’s Child “Independent Women”
  • Grammy: Destiny’s Child “Say My Name”
  • Soul Train (Female): Lauryn Hill “Ex-Factor”
  • Soul Train (Male): Maxwell “Fortunate”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): TLC “No Scrubs”
1999:
  • Billboard: Destiny’s Child “Bills, Bills, Bills”
  • DMDB: TLC “No Scrubs”
  • Grammy: TLC “No Scrubs”
  • Soul Train (Female): Deborah Cox “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here”
  • Soul Train (Male): Brian McKnight “Anytime”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Next “Too Close”
1998:
  • Billboard: Deborah Cox “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here”
  • DMDB: Brandy & Monica “The Boy Is Mine”
  • Grammy: Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
  • Soul Train (Female): Erykah Badu “On and On”
  • Soul Train (Male): Usher “U Make Me Wanna…”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Dru Hill “In My Bed”
1997:
  • Billboard: Usher “U Make Me Wanna…”
  • DMDB: Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You”
  • Grammy: R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly”
  • Soul Train (Female): Toni Braxton “You’re Makin’ Me High” / “Let It Flow”
  • Soul Train (Male): Maxwell “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Blackstreet with Dr. Dre & Queen Pen “No Diggity”
1996:
  • Billboard: R. Kelly with Ronald Isley “Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)”
  • DMDB: Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart”
  • Grammy: Whitney Houston “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”
  • Soul Train: The Notorious B.I.G. “One More Chance”
  • Soul Train (Female): Whitney Houston “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”
  • Soul Train (Male): D’Angelo “Brown Sugar”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): TLC “Waterfalls”
1995:
  • AMA: Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You”
  • Billboard: The Notorious B.I.G. “One More Chance” / “Stay with Me”
  • DMDB: Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day”
  • Grammy: Stevie Wonder “For Your Love”
  • Soul Train: Barry White “Practice What You Preach”
  • Soul Train (Female): Anita Baker “Body and Soul”
  • Soul Train (Male): R. Kelly “Bump N’ Grind”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You”

1994:
1993:
  • AMA: Michael Jackson “Remember the Time”
  • Billboard: Silk “Freak Me”
  • DMDB: Janet Jackson “That’s the Way Love Goes”
  • Grammy: Janet Jackson “That’s the Way Love Goes”
  • Soul Train: Boyz II Men “End of the Road”
  • Soul Train (Female): Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
  • Soul Train (Male): Michael Jackson “Remember the Time”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Boyz II Men “Please Don’t Go”

1992:
  • AMA: Color Me Badd “I Wanna Sex You Up”
  • Billboard: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
  • DMDB: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
  • Grammy: Boyz II Men “End of the Road”
  • Soul Train: Color Me Badd “I Wanna Sex You Up”
  • Soul Train (Female): Lisa Fischer “How Can I Ease the Pain?”
  • Soul Train (Male): Keith Washington “Kissing You”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Color Me Badd “I Wanna Sex You Up”
1991:
  • AMA: MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This”
  • Billboard: Shanice “I Love Your Smile”
  • DMDB: Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable”
  • Grammy: Luther Vandross “Power of Love/Love Power”
  • Soul Train: MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This”
  • Soul Train (Female): Mariah Carey “Vision of Love”
  • Soul Train (Male): Johnny Gill “My My My”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): En Vogue “Hold On”

1990:
  • AMA: Janet Jackson “Miss You Much”
  • Billboard: Pebbles “Giving You the Benefit”
  • DMDB: C + C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
  • Grammy: MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This”
  • Soul Train: Soul II Soul “Keep on Movin’”
  • Soul Train (Female): Janet Jackson “Miss You Much”
  • Soul Train (Male): Luther Vandross “Here and Now”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Soul II Soul “Keep on Movin’”
1989:
  • AMA: Freddie Jackson “Nice N Slow”
  • Billboard: Karyn White “Superwoman”
  • DMDB: Soul II Soul “Back to Life (How Ever Do You Want Me)”
  • Grammy: Simply Red “If You Don’t Know Me by Now”
  • Soul Train: Anita Baker “Giving You the Best That I Got”
  • Soul Train (Female): Anita Baker “Giving You the Best That I Got”
  • Soul Train (Male): Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): E.U. “Da Butt”
1988:
  • AMA: Michael Jackson “Bad”
  • Billboard: Keith Sweat “I Want Her”
  • DMDB: Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
  • Grammy: Anita Baker “Giving You the Best That I Got”
  • Soul Train (Female): Natalie Cole “I Live for Your Love”
  • Soul Train (Male): Michael Jackson “Bad”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Levert “Casanova”
  • Soul Train (Rap): LL Cool J “I Need Love”
1987:
  • AMA: Janet Jackson “Nasty”
  • Billboard: Michael Jackson “The Way You Make Me Feel”
  • DMDB: Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me”
  • Grammy: Club Nouveau “Lean on Me”
  • Soul Train (Female): Anita Baker “Sweet Love”
  • Soul Train (Male): Gregory Abbott “Shake You Down”
  • Soul Train (Group/Duo): Cameo “Word Up!”
  • Soul Train (Rap): Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way”
1986:
  • AMA: Whitney Houston “You Give Good Love”
  • Billboard: Prince “Kiss”
  • DMDB: Prince “Kiss”
  • Grammy: Anita Baker “Sweet Love”
1985:
  • AMA: Prince “When Doves Cry”
  • Billboard: Freddie Jackson “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Time’s Sake)”
  • DMDB: Dionne & Friends (Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder) “That's What Friends Are For”
  • Grammy: Aretha Franklin “Freeway of Love”

1984:
1983:

1982:
  • AMA: Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love”
  • Billboard: Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing”
  • DMDB: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”
  • Grammy: George Benson “Turn Your Love Around”
1981:
  • AMA: Diana Ross “Upside Down”
  • Billboard: Earth, Wind & Fire “Let’s Groove”
  • DMDB: Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love”
  • Grammy: Bill Withers with Grover Washington Jr. “Just the Two of Us”
1980:
1979:
  • AMA: Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late”
  • Billboard: Chic “Good Times”
  • DMDB: Sister Sledge “We Are Family”
  • Grammy: Earth, Wind & Fire “After the Love Has Gone”
1978:
  • AMA: The Emotions “Best of My Love”
  • Billboard: Funkadelic “One Nation Under a Groove”
  • DMDB: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive”
  • Grammy: Donna Summer “Last Dance”
1977:
  • AMA: Lou Rawls “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” and Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music”
  • Billboard: Earth, Wind & Fire “Serpentine Fire”
  • DMDB: Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”
  • Grammy: Leo Sayer “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing”
1976:
  • AMA: KC & the Sunshine Band “Get Down Tonight”
  • Billboard: Johnnie Taylor “Disco Lady”
  • DMDB: Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music”
  • Grammy: Boz Scaggs “Lowdown”
1975:
  • AMA: Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia”
  • Billboard: The Isley Brothers “Fight the Power (Part 1)”
  • DMDB: Van McCoy “The Hustle”
  • Grammy: Betty Wright “Where Is the Love”
1974:
  • AMA: Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
  • Billboard: Roberta Flack “Feel Like Makin’ Love”
  • DMDB: Bob Marley & the Marleys “No Woman, No Cry”
  • Grammy: Stevie Wonder “Living for the City”

1973:
1972:
1971:
  • Billboard: Jean Knight “Mr. Big Stuff”
  • DMDB: Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
  • Grammy: Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine”
1970:
  • Billboard: The Jackson 5 “The Love You Save”
  • DMDB: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There”
  • Grammy: Clarence Carter “Patches”
1969:
  • Billboard: Marvin Gaye “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby”
  • DMDB: The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back”
  • Grammy: The Winstons “Color Him Father”
1968:
1967:
  • Billboard: Aretha Franklin “Respect”
  • DMDB: Aretha Franklin “Respect”
  • Grammy: Aretha Franklin “Respect”

1966:
  • Billboard: The Temptations “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
  • DMDB: Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)”
  • Grammy: Ray Charles “Crying Time”
1965:
1964:
  • Billboard: Mary Wells “My Guy”
  • DMDB: The Temptations “My Girl”
  • Grammy: Nancy Wilson “How Glad I Am”
1963:
1962:

1961:
  • Billboard: Bobby Lewis “Tossin’ and Turnin’”
  • DMDB: Ben E. King “Stand by Me”
  • Grammy: Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack”
1960:
  • Billboard: Dinah Washington & Brook Benton “Baby, You’ve Got What It Takes”
  • DMDB: Chubby Checker “The Twist”
  • Grammy: Ray Charles “Let the Good Times Roll”
1959:
  • Billboard: Brook Benton “It’s Just a Matter of Time”
  • DMDB: Ray Charles “What’d I Say”
  • Grammy: Dinah Washington “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes”
1958:
  • Billboard: Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops”
  • DMDB: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
  • Grammy: The Champs “Tequila”
1957:
  • Billboard: The Coasters “Searchin’”
  • DMDB: The Coasters “Searchin’”
1956:
1955:
  • Billboard: Fats Domino “Ain’t That a Shame”
  • DMDB: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”
1954:
1953:
1952:
  • Billboard: The Dominoes “Have Mercy Baby”
  • DMDB: Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
1951:
  • Billboard: The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man”
  • DMDB: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88”
1950:
  • Billboard: Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers “Pink Champagne”
  • DMDB: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa”
1949:
  • Billboard: Charles Brown “Trouble Blues”
  • DMDB: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen”
1948:
  • Billboard: Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends “King Size Papa”
  • DMDB: Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy”
1947:
  • Billboard: Louis Jordan “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens”
  • DMDB: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday”
1946:
1945:
  • Billboard: Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers “The Honeydripper”
  • DMDB: Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)”
1944:
  • Billboard: The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall”
  • DMDB: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right”
1943:
  • Billboard: Erskine Hawkins with Jimmy Mitchelle “Don’t Cry Baby”
  • DMDB: The Ink Spots “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
1942:
  • Billboard: Paul Whiteman with Billie Holiday “Travl’lin’ Light”
  • DMDB: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll”

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Sunday, April 3, 2022

Silk Sonic “Leave the Door Open” wins Grammys for Record and Song of the Year

Leave the Door Open

Silk Sonic

Writer(s): Bruno Mars, Brandon Anderson, Dernst Emile II, Christopher Brody Brown (see lyrics here)

Released: March 5, 2021

First Charted: March 13, 2021

Peak: 12 US, 110 BA, 6 AC, 7 A40, 118a RB, 20 UK, 9 CN, 10 AU, 22 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.6 UK, 3.96 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 994.30 video, 1389.17 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Silk Sonic was a collaboration between Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak. Mars had established himself as a commercial juggernaut with his three multi-platinum albums which reached the top three on the Billboard album chart. He’d also landed eight #1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and another nine top-10’s. He’d also won eleven Grammys including Record of the Year two times (“Uptown Funk” and “24K Magic”) and Song of the Year (“That’s What I Like”). He also won a Grammy for Album of the Year with 24K Magic.

Paak hadn’t been as successful, but the singer/songwriter, rapper, and drummer did reach the top five on the Billboard album chart with Ventura, his fourth studio release and a Grammy winner for Best R&B Album. He’d also won two other Grammys. He connected with Mars in 2017 when he was the opening act on Mars’ tour.

At the 2022 Grammys, the pair picked up Grammys four all four categories in which they were nominated. That included Record and Song of the Year trophies for “Leave the Door Open.” It also took home the awards for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance. It gave Mars an impressive streak of winning the award for everything he’d been nominated for since 2016 – thirteen in all. GR

The “steamy tune” SF incorporated Philadelphia soul, R&B, and pop with smooth jazz. Critics praised both singers’ voices as well as the song’s witty lyrics in which the protagonist tries to convince a woman to come over to his house. Vulture’s Zoe Haylock called it a “bedroom classic.” WK Billboard’s staff named it the song of the year. NME’s Anna Rose said the song reminded her of “60s and 70s easy listening love songs,” WK which isn’t surprising given Paak and Mars both being known as lovers of R&B from the ‘60s and ‘70s. SF Various crticis compared the song to the Chi-Lites, the Delfonics, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, the O’Jays, the Spinners, the Stylistics, and Bobby Womack. WK

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Top 50 Songs of 2021

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2021

These are the top 50 songs of 2021 based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from more than 30 year-end lists.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

Check out Dave’s Music Database podcast: The Top 20 songs of 2021 based on this list.

    DMDB Top 1%:

  1. Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
  2. The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay”
  3. Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak) “Leave the Door Open”

    DMDB Top 2%:

  4. Adele “Easy on Me”
  5. Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
  6. Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U”
  7. Justin Bieber with Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches”
  8. BTS “Butter”
  9. Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits”
  10. Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow “Industry Baby”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  11. Elton John with Dua Lipa “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)”
  12. Walker Hayes “Fancy Like”
  13. Doja Cat with SZA “Kiss Me More”
  14. Taylor Swift “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)”
  15. Polo G “Rapstar”
  16. Encanto Cast (Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz, et al) “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”
  17. Gayle “abcdefu”
  18. Doja Cat “Woman”
  19. Cardi B “Up”
  20. Doja Cat “Need to Know”

  21. Billie Eilish “Happier Than Ever”
  22. Coldplay with BTS “My Universe”
  23. Lil Tjay with 6lack “Calling My Phone”
  24. Imagine Dragons with JID “Enemy”
  25. Doja Cat & the Weeknd “You Right”
  26. Morgan Wallen “Wasted on You”
  27. Ed Sheeran “Shivers”
  28. Olivia Rodrigo “Traitor”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  29. Saweetie with Doja Cat “Best Friend”
  30. Nicky Youre & Dazy “Sunroof”

  31. Latto “Big Energy”
  32. Megan Thee Stallion “Thot Shit”
  33. Maroon 5 with Megan Thee Stallion “Beautiful Mistakes”
  34. Drake “What’s Next”
  35. Kacey Musgraves “Justified”
  36. Drake with Future & Young Thug “Way 2 Sexy”
  37. BTS “Permission to Dance”
  38. Marshmello with the Jonas Brothers “Leave Before You Love Me”
  39. Billie Eilish “Your Power”
  40. The Weeknd “Take My Breath”

  41. Justin Bieber “Ghost”
  42. Justin Bieber “Anyone”
  43. Adele “Oh My God”
  44. Olivia Rodrigo “Déjà Vu”
  45. Farruko “Pepas”
  46. Baby Keem with Kendrick Lamar “Family Ties”

    DMDB Top 20%:

  47. Coldplay “Higher Power”
  48. Doja Cat “Get Into It (Yuh)”
  49. Imagine Dragons “Follow You”

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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

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