there are only, oh, 1100 or so perfect songs in the world

1. Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy: “Take It and Git” [10.24.42]
2. Freddie Slack and His Orchestra: “Mr. Five by Five” [10.31.42]
3. Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra: “Trav’lin’ Light” [11.7.42]*
4. Earl Hines and His Orchestra: “Stormy Monday Blues” [11.14.42]
5. Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra: “When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World)” [11.28.42]
6. Bing Crosby: “White Christmas” [12.19.42]
7. Bea Booze: “See See Rider Blues” [1.16.43]
8. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “What’s the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)” [1.23.43]
9. King Cole Trio: “That Ain’t Right” [1.16.43]
10. Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra: “Apollo Jump” [2.13.43]
11. Bonnie Davis: “Don’t Stop Now” [3.6.43]
12. Ink Spots: “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” [3.27.43]
13. Harry James and His Orchestra: “I’ve Heard That Song Before” [4.17.43]
14. Ink Spots: “I Can’t Stand Losing You” [4.24.43]
15. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament)” [5.29.43]
16. Dick Haymes: “You’ll Never Know” [7.17.43]
17. Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra: “Don’t Cry, Baby” [8.14.43]*
18. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: “A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)” [9.25.43]
19. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: “Sentimental Lady” [10.2.43]
20. King Cole’s Trio: “All for You” [11.20.43]
21. Ella Mae Morse: “Shoo-Shoo Baby” [12.18.43]
22. Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra: “Sweet Slumber” [12.25.43]
23. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Ration Blues” [1.1.44]
24. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me” [1.15.44]
25. Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and His Orchestra: “G.I. Jive” [1.22.44]
26. Benny Goodman and His Orchestra: “Solo Flight” [3.11.44]
27. Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald: “Cow-Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)” [3.25.44]
28. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: “Main Stem” [4.1.42]
29. Buddy Johnson and His Band: “When My Man Comes Home” [4.15.44]
30. The King Cole Trio: “Straighten Up and Fly Right” [4.29.44]
31. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “G.I. Jive” [7.15.44]
32. Mills Brothers: “Till Then” [8.19.44]
33. Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra: “Hamp’s Boogie Woogie” [9.2.44]
34. Benny Carter and His Orchestra: “I’m Lost” [9.20.44]
35. The King Cole Trio: “Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You” [4.29.44]
36. Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald: “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” [11.18.44]*
37. Cootie Williams and His Orchestra: “Somebody’s Gotta Go” [2.10.45]
38. Pvt. Cecil Grant: “I Wonder” [2.17.45]
39. Roosevelt Sykes and His Piano: “I Wonder” [2.24.45]
40. Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra: “Tippin’ In” [4.14.45]
41. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Mop! Mop!” [4.21.45]
42. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Caldonia” [6.2.45]
43. Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra: “Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well” [7.14.45]
44. Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers: “The Honeydripper Pt. 1 & 2” [9.8.45]*
45. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Buzz Me” [1.2.46]
46. Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra: “Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop” [3.16.46]
47. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Don’t Worry ’Bout That Mule” [3.23.46]
48. Ink Spots: “The Gypsy” [6.29.46]
49. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)” [7.20.46]
50. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” [8.24.46]*
51. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time)” [11.23.46]
52. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” [1.14.47]*
53. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Texas and Pacific” [4.26.47]
54. Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists: “I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You)” [5.17.47]
55. Eddie Vinson and His Orchestra: “Old Maid Boogie” [5.24.47]
56. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Jack, You’re Dead!” [6.28.47]
57. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Boogie Woogie Blue Plate” [8.30.47]
58. Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends: “(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It” [11.22.47]
59. Bull Moose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats: “I Love You Yes I Do” [2.21.48]
60. Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends: “King Size Papa” [3.20.48]*
61. Lonnie Johnson: “Tomorrow Night” [5.22.48]
62. Wynonie Harris: “Good Rockin’ Tonight” [6.19.48]
63. Sonny Thompson with the Sharps and Flats: “Long Gone Pt. 1 & 2” [7.10.48]
64. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Run Joe” [7.10.47]
65. Bull Moose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats: “I Can’t Go on Without You” [7.24.48]
66. Memphis Slim and His House Rockers: “Messin’ Around” [9.4.48]
67. Arbee Stidham: “My Heart Belongs to You” [9.11.48]
68. Ivory Joe Hunter: “Pretty Mama Blues” [9.18.48]
69. Hal Singer Sextette: “Corn Bread” [10.2.48]
70. Sonny Thompson Quintet featuring Eddie Chamblee: “Late Freight” [10.2.48]
71. Dinah Washington: “Am I Asking Too Much” [10.9.48]
72. Pee Wee Crayton and His Guitar: “Blues After Hours” [11.6.48]
73. The Orioles: “It’s Too Soon to Know” [11.27.48]
74. Amos Milburn: “Chicken Shack Boogie” [12.4.48]
75. Red Miller Trio: “Bewildered” [12.4.48]
76. Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men: “’Long About Midnight” [12.18.48]
77. Amos Milburn: “Bewildered” [12.25.48]
78. John Lee Hooker & His Guitar: “Boogie Chillen’” [2.19.49]
79. Big Jay McNeeley’s Blue Jays: “The Deacon’s Hop” [2.19.49]
80. Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers: “The Huckle-Buck” [3.5.49]
81. Charles Brown Trio: “Trouble Blues” [6.4.49]*
82. Jimmy Witherspoon: “Ain’t Nobody’s Business Pt. 1 & 2” [8.20.49]
83. Amos Milburn: “Roomin’ House Boogie” [9.10.49]
84. Wynonie Harris: “All She Wants to Do Is Rock” [9.17.49]
85. The Orioles: “Tell Me So” [9.17.49]
86. Dinah Washington: “Baby Get Lost” [9.24.49]
87. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Beans and Corn Bread” [10.8.47]
88. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Saturday Night Fish Fry Pt. 1 & 2” [10.15.49]
89. Larry Darnell: “For You My Love” [12.24.49]
90. Ivory Joe Hunter: “I Almost Lost My Mind” [2.18.50]
91. Johnny Otis Quintette, the Robins and Little Esther: “Double Crossing Blues” [3.14.50]
92. Little Esther with Mel Walker and the Johnny Otis Orchestra: “Mistrustin’ Blues” [4.15.50]
93. Ivory Joe Hunter: “I Need You So” [5.13.50]
94. Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers: “Pink Champagne” [5.27.50]*
95. Johnny Otis Quintette, Little Esther and Mel Walker: “Cupid Boogie” [7.8.50]
96. Roy Brown and His Mighty-Mighty Men: “Hard Luck Blues” [8.19.50]
97. Nat “King” Cole: “Mona Lisa” [9.2.50]
98. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five: “Blue Light Boogie” [9.9.50]
99. Lowell Fulson featuring Lloyd Glenn at the “88”: “Blue Shadows” [10.28.50]
100. Joe Morris and His Orchestra featuring Laurie Tate: “Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere” [11.4.50]
101. Percy Mayfield and His Orchestra: “Please Send Me Someone to Love” [11.25.50]
102. Ruth Brown: “Teardrops from My Eyes” [12.9.50]
103. Amos Milburn and His Aladdin Chickenshackers: “Bad, Bad Whiskey” [1.6.51]
104. Charles Brown and His Band: “Black Night” [3.3.51]
105. Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats: “Rocket ‘88’” [6.9.51]
106. Lloyd Glenn at the “88”: “Chica Boo” [6.9.51]
107. The Dominoes: “Sixty-Minute Man” [6.30.51]*
108. The Clovers: “Don’t You Know I Love You” [9.1.51]
109. The Five Keys: “The Glory of Love” [9.22.51]
110. Jimmie Nelson and the Peter Rabbit Trio: “‘T’ 99 Blues” [11.3.51]
111. The Clovers: “Fool, Fool, Fool” [11.10.51]
112. “Peppermint” Harris: “I Got Loaded” [11.10.51]
113. John Lee Hooker: “I’m in the Mood’” [11.17.51]
114. Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto and Orchestra: “Becuase of You” [12.8.51]
115. Earl Bostic and His Orchestra: “Flamingo” [12.29.51]
116. Griffin Brothers Orchestra feat. Tommy Brown: “Weepin’ & Cryin’” [1.12.52]
117. Johnny Ray and the Four Lads: “Cry” [1.12.52]
118. B.B. King: “3 O’Clock Blues” [2.2.52]
119. Jimmy Forest, Tenor and All-Star Combo: “Night Train” [3.15.52]
120. Roscoe Gordon: “Booted” [3.15.52]
121. Ruth Brown: “5-10-15 Hours” [5.3.52]
122. The Dominoes: “Have Mercy Baby” [6.14.52]*
123. Fats Domino: “Goin’ Home” [6.21.52]
124. Lloyd Price and His Orchestra: “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” [7.12.52]
125. Four Blazes: “Mary Jo” [8.23]
126. The Clovers: “Ting-a-Ling” [9.6.52]
127. Johnny Ace with the Beale Streeters: “My Song” [9.27.52]
128. Little Walter and His Night Cats: “Juke” [9.27.52]
129. Eddie Boyd: “Five Long Years” [11.8.52]
130. B.B. King and His Orchestra: “You Know I Love You” [11.8.52]
131. Willie Mabon and His Combo: “I Don’t Know” [12.27.52]
132. The “5” Royales: “Baby Don’t Do It” [2.21.53]
133. Ruth Brown: “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” [3.7.53]
134. Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton: “Hound Dog” [4.18.53]
135. Willie Mabon and His Combo: “I’m Mad” [5.20.53]
136. The “5” Royales: “Help Me Somebody” [6.13.53]
137. B.B. King and His Orchestra: “Please Love Me” [7.4.53]
138. Johnny Ace (the Beale Streeters): “The Clock” [7.18.53]
139. The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel” [8.22.53]
140. Faye Adams: “Shake a Hand” [9.19.53]
141. Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters: “Money Honey” [11.21.53]*
142. Joe Turner and His Band: “Honey Hush” [12.5.53]
143. Guitar Slim and His Band: “The Things I Used to Do” [1.30.54]*
144. Faye Adams: “I’ll Be True” [2.6.54]
145. Roy Hamilton: “You’ll Never Walk Alone” [3.27.54]
146. The Midnighters: “Work With Me Annie” [5.22.54]
147. Joe Turner and His Blues Kings: “Shake, Rattle and Roll” [6.12.54]
148. The Drifters feat. Clyde McPhatter: “Honey Love” [7.10.54]
149. Ruth Brown and Her Rhythmakers: “Oh What a Dream” [9.4.54]
150. The Midnighters: “Annie Had a Baby” [9.25.54]
151. Faye Adams: “Hurts Me to My Heart” [10.16.54]
152. Ruth Brown and Her Rhythmakers: “Mambo Baby” [11.20.54]
153. The Charms: “Hearts of Stone” [11.27.54]
154. B.B. “Blues Boy” King and His Orchestra: “You Upset Me Baby” [12.25.54]
155. The Penguins: “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” [1.15.55]
156. The Moonglows: “Sincerely” [1.22.55]
157. Johnny Ace: “Pledging My Love” [2.12.55]
158. Etta James and “the Peaches”: “The Wallflower” [4.9.55]
159. Little Walter and His Jukes: “My Babe” [4.23.55]
160. Ray Charles and His Band: “I’ve Got a Woman” [5.7.55]
161. Roy Hamilton: “Unchained Melody” [5.21.55]
162. Fats Domino: “Ain’t It a Shame” [6.11.55]*
163. Al Hibbler: “Unchained Melody” [6.18.55]
164. Bo Diddley: “Bo Diddley” [6.25.55]
165. Ray Charles and His Band: “A Fool for You” [8.6.55]
166. Chuck Berry and His Combo: “Maybellene” [8.20.55]
167. The Platters: “Only You (and You Alone)” [10.22.55]
168. Fats Domino: “All by Myself” [10.29.55]
169. Jay McShann’s Orchestra: “Hands Off” [12.17.55]
170. Fats Domino: “Poor Me” [12.31.55]
171. The Drifters: “Adorable” [12.31.55]
172. The Platters: “The Great Pretender” [1.7.56]
173. The El Dorados: “At My Front Door” [1.7.56]
174. The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon: “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” [3.17.56]
175. Ray Charles and His Band: “Drown in My Own Tears” [3.24.56]
176. Little Richard and His Band: “Long Tall Sally” [4.14.56]
177. Fats Domino: “I’m in Love Again” [5.19.56]
178. Little Willie John: “Fever” [7.21.56]
179. Clyde McPhatter: “Treasure of Love” [7.28.56]
180. Little Richard and His Band: “Rip It Up” [8.4.56]
181. The Platters: “My Prayer” [8.18.56]
182. Bill Doggett: “Honky Tonk Pt. 1 & 2” [8.25.56]*
183. Shirley & Lee: “Let the Good Times Roll” [9.1.56]
184. Elvis Presley: “Hound Dog”/“Don’t Be Cruel” [9.15.56]
185. Fats Domino: “Blueberry Hill” [11.3.56]
186. Ivory Joe Hunter: “Since I Met You Baby” [1.5.57]
187. Fats Domino: “Blue Monday” [1.26.57]
188. LaVerne Baker and the Gliders: “Jim Dandy” [3.9.57]
189. Mickey and Sylvia: “Love Is Strange” [3.16.57]
190. Fats Domino: “I’m Walkin’” [3.23.57]
191. Little Richard and His Band: “Lucille” [4.27.57]
192. Chuck Berry: “School Day” [4.29.57]
193. Elvis Presley: “All Shook Up” [4.29.57]
194. The Coasters: “Young Blood” [6.3.57]
195. The Coasters: “Searchin’” [6.10.57]*
196. Chuck Willis: “C.C. Rider” [6.17.57]
197. Larry Williams and His Band: “Short Fat Fannie” [7.29.57]
198. Nat “King” Cole: “Send for Me” [8.19.57]
199. Bobby “Blue” Bland: “Farther Up the Road” [9.2.57]
200. Elvis Presley: “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” [9.2.57]
201. Jerry Lee Lewis: “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” [9.9.57]
202. Clyde McPhatter: “Long Lonely Nights” [9.16.57]
203. Paul Anka: “Diana” [9.23.57]
204. The Bobbettes: “Mr. Lee” [9.30.57]
205. Jimmie Rodgers: “Honeycomb” [10.7.57]
206. Elvis Presley: “Jailhouse Rock” [10.21.57]
207. The Everly Brothers: “Wake Up Little Susie” [10.28.57]
208. Sam Cooke: “You Send Me” [11.25.57]
209. Danny & the Juniors: “At the Hop” [1.6.58]
210. Ernie Freeman: “Raunchy” [1.6.58]
211. Bill Justis and His Orchestra: “Raunchy” [1.20.58]
212. Sam Cooke: “I’ll Come Running Back to You” [1.27.58]
213. The Silhouettes: “Get a Job” [2.3.58]
214. Chuck Berry: “Sweet Little Sixteen” [3.10.58]
215. The Champs: “Tequila” [3.31.58]
216. The Platters: “Twilight Time” [4.28.58]
217. Elvis Presley: “Wear My Ring Around Your Neck” [5.5.58]
218. The Everly Brothers: “All I Have to Do Is Dream” [5.19.58]
219. The Music of David Seville: “Witch Doctor” [5.26.58]
220. The Coasters: “Yakety Yak” [6.23.58]
221. Chuck Willis: “What Am I Living For” [6.23.58]
222. Bobby Darin: “Splish Splash” [8.4.58]
223. Perez Prado and His Orchestra: “Patricia” [8.11.58]
224. Jimmy Clanton and His Rockets: “Just a Dream” [8.25.58]
225. The Elegants: “Little Star” [9.1.58]
226. Kalin Twins: “When” [9.1.58]
227. Tommy Edwards: “It’s All in the Game” [9.29.58]
228. Bobby Day: “Rock-in Robin” [10.6.58]
229. Cozy Cole: “Topsy II” [10.27.58]
230. Clyde McPhatter: “A Lover’s Question” [12.8.58]
231. Jackie Wilson: “Lonely Teardrops” [12.15.58]
232. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “Try Me” [2.2.59]
233. Lloyd Price: “Stagger Lee” [2.9.59]
234. Brook Benton: “It’s Just a Matter of Time” [3.9.59]*
235. Wilbert Harrison: “Kansas City” [5.11.59]
236. Lloyd Price and His Orchestra: “Personality” [6.29.59]
237. The Drifters: “There Goes My Baby” [7.27.59]
238. Ray Charles and His Band: “What’d I Say Pt. 1” [8.3.59]
239. Brook Benton: “Thank You Pretty Baby” [8.10.59]
240. Lloyd Price: “I’m Gonna Get Married” [9.7.59]
241. Fats Domino: “I Want to Walk You Home” [9.21.59]
242. The Coasters: “Poison Ivy” [10.5.59]
243. Phil Phillips with the Twilights: “Sea of Love” [10.12.59]
244. Jackie Wilson: “You Better Know It” [10.19.59]
245. Brook Benton: “So Many Ways” [11.16.59]
246. Della Reese: “Don’t You Know” [11.23.59]
247. The Spacemen: “The Clouds” [12.7.59]
248. Bill Black’s Combo: “Smokie Pt. 2” [1.11.60]
249. Dinah Washington & Brook Benton: “Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)” [2.8.60]
250. Buster Brown: “Fannie Mae” [4.18.60]
251. Bill Black’s Combo: “White Silver Sands” [4.25.60]
252. Jackie Wilson: “Doggin’ Around” [5.23.60]
253. The Everly Brothers: “Cathy’s Clown” [6.13.60]
254. Dinah Washington & Brook Benton: “A Rockin’ Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)” [6.20.60]
255. Bobby Marchan: “There’s Something on Your Mind Pt. 2” [7.11.60]
256. Dinah Washington: “This Bitter Earth” [7.25.60]
257. Jackie Wilson: “A Woman, a Lover, a Friend” [8.1.60]
258. Brook Benton: “Kiddio” [8.29.60]
259. The Drifters: “Save the Last Dance for Me” [10.31.60]
260. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: “Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go” [11.7.60]
261. Jerry Butler: “He Will Break Your Heart” [11.14.60]
262. The Miracles (featuring Bill “Smokey” Robinson): “Shop Around” [1.16.61]
263. Chubby Checker: “Pony Time” [3.13.61]
264. Bobby Bland: “I Pity the Fool” [3.27.61]
265. The Marcels: “Blue Moon” [4.3.61]
266. Ray Charles: “One Mint Julep” [4.17.61]
267. Ernie K-Doe: “Mother-in-Law” [4.24.61]
268. Ben E. King: “Stand by Me” [5.29.61]
269. Pips: “Every Beat of My Heart” [6.26.61]
270. Bobby Lewis: “Tossin’ and Turnin’” [7.3.61]*
271. The Jive Five: “My True Story” [9.11.61]
272. Ray Charles and His Orchestra: “Hit the Road Jack” [10.2.61]
273. Lee Dorsey: “Ya Ya” [11.6.61]
274. The Marvelettes: “Please Mr. Postman” [11.13.61]
275. Ray Charles and His Orchestra: “Unchain My Heart” [1.6.62]
276. Barbara George: “I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More)” [1.20.62]
277. Gene Chandler: “Duke of Earl” [2.17.62]
278. Sam Cooke: “Twistin’ the Night Away” [3.24.62]
279. King Curtis and the Noble Knights: “Soul Twist” [4.14.62]
280. Dee Dee Sharp: “Mashed Potato Time” [4.28.62]
281. Ray Charles: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” [5.26.62]*
282. Barbara Lynn: “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” [8.4.62]
283. Little Eva: “The Loco-Motion” [8.25.62]
284. Booker T. & the M.G.’s: “Green Onions” [9.15.62]
285. Mary Wells: “You Beat Me to the Punch” [9.22.62]
286. The 4 Seasons: “Sherry” [10.6.62]
287. The Contours: “Do You Love Me” [10.20.62]
288. The 4 Seasons: “Big Girls Don’t Cry” [11.17.62]
289. Esther Phillips “Little Esther”: “Release Me” [12.8.62]
290. Ray Charles: “You Are My Sunshine” [12.15.62]
291. Mary Wells: “Two Lovers” [1.19.63]
292. The Miracles: “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” [2.16.63]
293. Paul and Paula: “Hey Paula” [2.23.63]
294. Bobby Bland: “That’s the Way Love Is” [3.9.63]
295. Ruby and the Romantics: “Our Day Will Come” [3.23.63]
296. The Chiffons: “He’s So Fine” [4.6.63]
297. Jackie Wilson: “Baby Workout” [5.4.63]
298. Little Peggy March: “I Will Follow Him” [5.25.63]
299. Jimmy Soul: “If You Wanna Be Happy” [6.1.63]
300. Sam Cooke: “Another Saturday Night” [6.8.63]
301. Lesley Gore: “It’s My Party” [6.15.63]
302. Barbara Lewis: “Hello Stranger” [7.6.63]
303. The Essex: “Easier Said Than Done” [7.20.63]
304. Little Stevie Wonder: “Fingertips Pt. 2” [8.3.63]*
305. Martha & the Vandellas: “Heat Wave” [9.14.63]
306. Garnet Mimms & the Enchangers: “Cry Baby” [10.12.63]
307. Little Johnny Taylor: “Part Time Love” [10.19.63]
308. The Impressions: “It’s All Right” [11.9.63]
309. Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs: “Sugar Shack” [11.23.63]
[Billboard discontinues R&B chart. No. 1 pop hits that would have charted the same or similar on R&B chart: Mary Wells, “My Guy”; Dixie Cups, “Chapel of Love”; Supremes, “Where Did Our Love Go” and “Baby Love”; Shangri-Las, “Leader of the Pack”]
310. The Temptations: “My Girl” [1.30.65]
311. Jr. Walker & the All Stars: “Shotgun” [3.13.65]
312. Solomon Burke: “Got to Get You Off My Mind” [4.3.65]
313. Little Milton: “We’re Gonna Make It” [5.1.65]
314. Marvin Gaye: “I’ll Be Doggone” [5.22.65]
315. Supremes: “Back in My Arms Again” [5.29.65]
316. Four Tops: “I Can’t Help Myself” [6.5.65]*
317. Wilson Pickett: “In the Midnight Hour” [8.7.65]
318. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag Pt. 1” [8.14.65]
319. Joe Tex: “I Want to (Do Everything for You)” [10.9.65]
320. Fontella Bass: “Rescue Me” [10.30.65]
321. Marvin Gaye: “Ain’t That Peculiar” [11.27.65]
322. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “I Got You (I Feel Good)” [12.4.65]
323. Joe Tex: “A Sweet Woman Like You” [1.8.66]
324. Stevie Wonder: “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” [1.22.66]
325. Slim Harpo: “Baby Scratch My Back” [2.26.66]
326. Wilson Pickett: “634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)” [3.12.66]
327. The Temptations: “Get Ready” [4.30.66]
328. Percy Sledge: “When a Man Loves a Woman” [5.7.66]
329. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” [6.4.66]
330. Sam & Dave: “Hold On! I’m a Comin’” [6.18.66]
331. The Temptations: “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” [6.25.66]*
332. Ray Charles: “Let’s Go Get Stoned” [7.23.66]
333. Stevie Wonder: “Blowin’ in the Wind” [8.27.66]
334. Supremes: “You Can’t Hurry Love” [9.3.66]
335. Wilson Pickett: “Land of 1,000 Dances” [9.27.66]
336. The Temptations: “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep” [9.24.66]
337. Four Tops: “Reach Out I’ll Be There” [10.29.66]
338. Lou Rawls: “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing” [11.12.66]
339. Eddie Floyd: “Knock on Wood” [11.19.66]
340. Supremes: “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” [11.26.66]
341. The Temptations: “(I Know) I’m Losing You” [12.24.66]
342. Aaron Neville: “Tell It Like It Is” [1.7.67]
343. Freddie Scott: “Are You Lonely for Me” [2.11.67]
344. Supremes: “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” [3.11.67]
345. Aretha Franklin: “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)” [3.25.67]
346. Martha & the Vandellas: “Jimmy Mack” [5.13.67]
347. Aretha Franklin: “Respect” [5.22.67]*
348. Stevie Wonder: “I Was Made to Love Her” [7.15.67]
349. Bettye Swann: “Make Me Yours” [7.22.67]
350. Aretha Franklin: “Baby I Love You” [8.26.67]
351. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “Cold Sweat Pt. 1” [9.8.67]
352. Wilson Pickett: “Funky Broadway” [9.30.67]
353. Jackie Wilson: “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” [10.7.67]
354. Sam & Dave: “Soul Man” [10.14.67]
355. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” [12.2.67]
356. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: “I Second That Emotion” [1.13.68]
357. Aretha Franklin: “Chain of Fools” [1.20.68]
358. The Temptations: “I Wish It Would Rain” [2.17.68]
359. The Impressions: “We’re a Winner” [3.9.68]
360. Otis Redding: “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” [3.16.68]
361. Aretha Franklin: “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone” [4.6.68]
362. James Brown and the Famous Flames: “I Got the Feelin’” [4.27.68]
363. The Intruders: “Cowboys to Girls” [5.11.68]
364. Archie Bell & the Drells: “Tighten Up” [5.18.68]
365. Stevie Wonder: “Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day” [6.1.68]
366. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” [6.8.68]
367. Aretha Franklin: “Think” [6.15.68]
368. The Impressions: “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)” [7.6.68]
369. Hugh Masakela: “Grazing in the Grass” [7.13.68]
370. The Dells: “Stay in My Corner” [8.10.68]
371. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: “You’re All I Need to Get By” [8.31.68]
372. James Brown: “Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud Pt. 1” [10.5.68]
373. Jerry Butler: “Hey, Western Union Man” [11.16.68]
374. Johnnie Taylor: “Who’s Making Love” [11.23.68]
375. Marvin Gaye: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” [12.14.68]*
376. Tyrone Davis: “Can I Change My Mind” [2.1.69]
377. Sly & the Family Stone: “Everyday People” [2.22.69]
378. James Brown: “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose” [3.8.69]
379. The Temptations: “Runaway Child, Running Wild” [3.22.69]
380. Jerry Butler: “Only the Strong Survive” [4.5.69]
381. The Isley Brothers: “It’s Your Thing” [4.19.69]
382. Joe Simon: “The Chokin’ Kind” [5.17.69]
383. Marvin Gaye: “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” [6.7.69]*
384. Jr. Walker & the All Stars: “What Does It Take (to Win Your Love)” [7.19.69]
385. James Brown: “Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me) Pt. 1” [8.2.69]
386. The Impressions: “Choice of Colors” [8.16.69]
387. Aretha Franklin: “Share Your Love with Me” [8.23.69]
388. The Dells: “Oh, What a Night” [9.27.69]
389. The Temptations: “I Can’t Get Next to You” [10.4.69]
390. The Originals: “Baby, I’m for Real” [11.8.69]
391. Diana Ross and the Supremes: “Someday We’ll Be Together” [12.13.69]
392. The Jackson 5: “I Want You Back” [1.10.70]
393. Sly & the Family Stone: “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” [2.7.70]
394. Brook Benton: “Rainy Night in Georgia” [3.14.70]
395. Aretha Franklin: “Call Me” [3.21.70]
396. The Jackson 5: “ABC” [4.4.70]
397. Tyrone Davis: “Turn Back the Hands of Time” [5.2.70]
398. The Moments: “Love on a Two-Way Street” [5.16.70]
399. The Jackson 5: “The Love You Save” [6.20.70]*
400. Stevie Wonder: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” [8.1.70]
401. Aretha Franklin with the Dixie Flyers: “Don’t Play That Song” [9.12.70]
402. Diana Ross: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” [10.3.70]
403. The Jackson 5: “I’ll Be There” [10.10.70]
404. James Brown: “Super Bad Pt. 1 & 2” [11.21.70]
405. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: “The Tears of a Clown” [12.5.70]
406. The Supremes: “Stoned Love” [12.26.70]
407. King Floyd: “Groove Me” [1.2.71]
408. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “If I Were Your Woman” [1.23.71]
409. Rufus Thomas: “(Do the) Push and Pull Pt. 1” [2.6.71]
410. Johnnie Taylor: “Jody’s Got Your Girl and Gone” [2.20.71]
411. The Temptations: “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” [3.6.71]
412. Marvin Gaye: “What’s Going On” [3.27.71]
413. The Jackson 5: “Never Can Say Goodbye” [5.1.71]
414. Aretha Franklin: “Bridge Over Troubled Water” [5.22.71]
415. The Honey Cone: “Want Ads” [5.29.71]
416. Wilson Pickett: “Don’t Knock My Love Pt. 1” [6.26.71]
417. Jean Knight: “Mr. Big Stuff” [7.3.71]*
418. James Brown: “Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants) Pt. 1” [8.7.71]
419. Marvin Gaye: “Mercy Mercy Me (the Ecology)” [8.14.71]
420. Aretha Franklin: “Spanish Harlem” [8.28.71]
421. The Honey Cone: “Stick-Up” [9.18.71]
422. James Brown: “Make It Funky Pt. 1” [10.2.71]
423. The Persuaders: “Thin Line Between Love & Hate” [10.16.71]
424. Denise LaSalle: “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” [10.30.71]
425. Marvin Gaye: “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” [11.6.71]
426. Chi-Lites: “Have You Seen Her” [11.20.71]
427. Sly & the Family Stone: “Family Affair” [12.4.71]
428. Al Green: “Let’s Stay Together” [1.8.72]*
429. James Brown: “Talking Loud and Sayin’ Nothing Pt. 1” [3.11.72]
430. Joe Tex: “I Gotcha” [3.18.72]
431. Dramatics: “In the Rain” [3.25.72]
432. Aretha Franklin: “Day Dreaming” [4.22.72]
433. The Staple Singers: “I’ll Take You There” [5.6.72]
434. Chi-Lites: “Oh Girl” [6.3.72]
435. (The Preacher) Bobby Womack: “Woman’s Gotta Have It” [5.6.72]
436. Bill Withers: “Lean on Me” [6.24.72]
437. Billy Preston: “Outa-Space” [7.1.72]
438. Luther Ingram: “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” [7.8.72]
439. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: “Where Is the Love” [8.5.72]
440. Al Green: “I’m Still in Love with You” [8.12.72]
441. Joe Simon: “Power of Love” [8.26.72]
442. O’Jays: “Back Stabbers” [9.9.72]
443. James Brown: “Get on the Good Foot Pt. 1” [9.16.72]
444. The Spinners: “I’ll Be Around” [10.14.72]
445. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” [11.8.72]
446. Al Green: “You Ought to Be with Me” [12.2.72]
447. Billy Paul: “Me and Mrs. Jones” [12.9.72]
448. Stevie Wonder: “Superstition” [1.6.73]
449. Timmy Thomas: “Why Can’t We Live Together” [1.27.73]
450. The Spinners: “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love” [1.27.73]
451. O’Jays: “Love Train” [2.17.73]
452. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)” [3.17.73]
453. The Temptations: “Masterpiece” [4.14.73]
454. Sylvia: “Pillow Talk” [4.28]
455. Ohio Players: “Funky Worm” [5.12.73]
456. The Independents: “Leaving Me” [5.19.73]
457. Barry White: “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby” [5.26.73]
458. The Spinners: “One of a Kind (Love Affair)” [6.9.73]
459. Fred Wesley & the J.B.’s: “Doing It to Death” [7.7.73]
460. Johnnie Taylor: “I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)” [7.21.73]
461. Aretha Franklin: “Angel” [8.4.73]
462. Marvin Gaye: “Let’s Get It On” [8.18.73]
463. Stevie Wonder: “Higher Ground” [9.29.73]
464. Eddie Kendricks: “Keep on Truckin’ Pt. 1” [10.6.73]
465. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Midnight Train to Georgia” [10.20.73]
466. Billy Preston: “Space Race” [11.17.73]
467. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: “The Love I Lost Pt. 1” [11.24.73]
468. The Staple Singers: “If You’re Ready (Come Go with Me)” [12.8.73]
469. Stevie Wonder: “Living for the City” [12.29.73]
470. Aretha Franklin: “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” [1.12.74]
471. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “I’ve Got to Use My Imagination” [1.19.74]
472. Al Green: “Livin’ for You” [1.26.74]
473. The Temptations: “Let Your Hair Down” [2.2.74]
474. Eddie Kendricks: “Boogie Down” [3.2.74]
475. The Spinners: “Mighty Love Pt. 1” [3.2.74]
476. Bobby Womack: “Lookin’ for a Love” [3.16.74]
477. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” [4.6.74]
478. MFSB featuring the Three Degrees: “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” [4.20.74]
479. James Brown: “The Payback Pt. 1” [4.27.74]
480. The Jackson 5: “Dancing Machine” [5.11.74]
481. Aretha Franklin: “I’m in Love” [5.18.74]
482. William DeVaughn: “Be Thankful for What You Got” [6.1.74]
483. Kool & the Gang: “Hollywood Swinging” [6.8.74]
484. Blue Magic: “Sideshow” [6.15.74]
485. The Impressions: “Finally Got Myself Together (I’m a Changed Man)” [6.22.74]
486. George McCrae: “Rock Your Baby” [7.6.74]
487. James Brown: “My Thang” [7.20.74]
488. Roberta Flack: “Feel Like Makin’ Love” [8.3.74]*
489. Barry White: “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” [9.7.74]
490. Stevie Wonder: “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” [9.28.74]
491. James Brown: “Papa Don’t Take No Mess Pt. 1” [10.12.74]
492. B.T. Express: “Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied)” [10.19.74]
493. Kool & the Gang: “Higher Plane” [10.26.74]
494. Latimore: “Let’s Straighten It Out” [11.2.74]
495. Shirley Brown: “Woman to Woman” [11.16.74]
496. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “I Feel a Song (in My Heart)” [11.30.74]
497. Rufus feat. Chaka Khan: “You Got the Love” [12.14.74]
498. Tavares: “She’s Gone” [12.21.74]
499. Stevie Wonder: “Boogie on Reggae Woman” [12.28.74]
500. Carl Douglas: “Kung Fu Fighting” [1.11.75]
501. Barry White: “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” [1.18.75]
502. Ohio Players: “Fire” [1.25.75]
503. The Temptations: “Happy People” [2.8.75]
504. Love Unlimited: “I Belong to You” [2.15.75]
505. LaBelle: “Lady Marmalade” [2.22.75]
506. Shirley (and Company): “Shame Shame Shame” [3.1.75]
507. Eddie Kendricks: “Shoeshine Boy” [4.5.75]
508. Al Green: “L-O-V-E (Love)” [4.12.75]
509. The Temptations: “Shakey Ground” [4.26.75]
510. Barry White: “What Am I Gonna Do with You” [5.3.75]
511. Joe Simon: “Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)” [5.10.75]
512. Smokey Robinson: “Baby That’s Backatcha” [5.24.75]
513. Kool & the Gang: “Spirit of the Boogie” [5.31.75]
514. Major Harris: “Love Won’t Let Me Wait” [6.7.75]
515. Gwen McCrae: “Rockin’ Chair” [6.14.75]
516. O’Jays: “Give the People What They Want” [6.21.75]
517. Moments: “Look at Me (I’m in Love)” [6.28.75]
518. Commodores: “Slippery When Wet” [7.5.75]
519. Van McCoy the Soul City Symphony: “The Hustle” [7.12.75]
520. The Isley Brothers: “Fight the Power Pt. 1” [7.19.75]*
521. Sharon Paige and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: “Hope That We Can Be Together Soon” [8.9.75]
522. New Birth: “Dream Merchant” [8.16.75]
523. K.C. & the Sunshine Band: “Get Down Tonight” [8.23.75]
524. Graham Central Station: “Your Love” [8.30.75]
525. The Pointer Sisters: “How Long (Betcha’ Got a Chick on the Side)” [9.6.75]
526. Tavares: “It Only Takes a Minute” [9.20.75]
527. Peoples Choice: “Do It Any Way You Wanna” [9.27.75]
528. Natalie Cole: “This Will Be” [10.4.75]
529. The Spinners: “‘They Just Can’t Stop It’ the (Games People Play)” [10.18.75]
530. Faith Hope & Charity: “To Each His Own” [10.25.75]
531. Ohio Players: “Sweet Sticky Thing” [11.1.75]
532. War: “Low Rider” [11.8.75]
533. Silver Convention: “Fly, Robin, Fly” [11.15.75]
534. The Staple Singers: “Let’s Do It Again” [11.22.75]
535. K.C. & the Sunshine Band: “That’s the Way (I Like It)” [11.29.75]
536. O’Jays: “I Love Music Pt. 1” [12.6.75]
537. Al Green: “Full of Fire” [12.20.75]
538. Ohio Players: “Love Rollercoaster” [12.27.75]
539. David Ruffin: “Walk Away from Love” [1.3.76]
540. Earth, Wind & Fire: “Sing a Song” [1.10.76]
541. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes: “Wake Up Everybody Pt. 1” [1.17.76]
542. Tyrone Davis: “Turning Point” [2.7.76]
543. Natalie Cole: “Inseparable” [2.14.76]
544. Rufus feat. Chaka Khan: “Sweet Thing” [2.21.76]
545. Sylvers: “Boogie Fever” [3.6.76]
546. Johnny Taylor: “Disco Lady” [3.13.76]*
547. O’Jays: “Livin’ for the Weekend” [4.24.76]
548. Brass Construction: “Movin’” [5.8.76]
549. Diana Ross: “Love Hangover” [5.15.76]
550. Manhattans: “Kiss and Say Goodbye” [5.22.76]
551. Marvin Gaye: “I Want You” [5.29.76]
552. Candi Staton: “Young Hearts Run Free” [6.5.76]
553. The Brothers Johnson: “I’ll Be Good to You” [6.12.76]
554. Natalie Cole: “Sophisticated Lady (She’s a Different Lady)” [6.19.76]
555. Aretha Franklin: “Something He Can Feel” [6.26.76]
556. Lou Rawls: “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” [7.24.76]
557. Earth, Wind & Fire: “Getaway” [8.7.76]
558. Ohio Players: “Who’d She Coo?” [8.21.76]
559. K.C. & the Sunshine Band: “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty” [8.28.76]
560. Wild Cherry: “Play That Funky Music” [9.4.76]
561. Commodores: “Just to Be Close to You” [10.9.76]
562. The Spinners: “The Rubberband Man” [10.23.76]
563. O’Jays: “Message in Our Music” [10.30.76]
564. L.T.D.: “Love Ballad” [11.6.76]
565. Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.: “You Don’t Have to Be a Star (to Be in My Show)” [11.20.76]
566. Brick: “Dazz” [11.27.76]
567. Rose Royce: “Car Wash” [12.25.76]
568. O’Jays: “Darlin’ Darlin’ Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love)” [1.8.77]
569. Stevie Wonder: “I Wish” [1.15.77]
570. Thelma Houston: “Don’t Leave Me This Way” [2.19.77]
571. Natalie Cole: “I’ve Got Love on My Mind” [2.26.77]
572. William Bell: “Tryin’ to Love Two” [4.2.77]
573. Rufus feat. Chaka Khan: “At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)” [4.9.77]
574. The Isley Brothers: “The Pride Pt. 1” [4.23.77]
575. Marvin Gaye: “Got to Give It Up Pt. 1” [4.30.77]
576. Tavares: “Whodunit” [5.21.77]
577. Stevie Wonder: “Sir Duke” [5.28.77]
578. Aretha Franklin: “Break It to Me Gently” [6.18.77]
579. Emotions: “Best of My Love” [6.25.77]
580. Commodores: “Easy” [7.16.77]
581. Slave: “Slide” [7.30.77]
582. The Brothers Johnson: “Strawberry Letter 23” [8.6.77]
583. The Floaters: “Float On” [8.13.77]
584. K.C. & the Sunshine Band: “Keep It Comin’ Love” [9.24.77]
585. Barry White: “It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me” [10.1.77]
586. L.T.D.: “(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again” [11.5.77]
587. Earth, Wind & Fire: “Serpentine Fire” [11.19.77]*
588. Con Funk Shun: “Ffun” [1.7.78]
589. Natalie Cole: “Our Love” [1.21.78]
590. Stargard: “Theme Song from ‘Which Way Is Up’” [2.4.78]
591. Commodores: “Too Hot ta Trot” [2.18.78]
592. Enchantment: “It’s You That I Need” [2.25.78]
593. Parliament: “Flash Light” [3.4.78]
594. Bootsy’s Rubber Band: “Bootzilla” [3.25.78]
595. Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway: “The Closer I Get to You” [4.1.78]
596. Johnny Mathis/Deniece Williams: “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” [4.15.78]
597. O’Jays: “Use ta Be My Girl” [5.27.78]
598. Quincy Jones: “Stuff Like That” [7.1.78]
599. Teddy Pendergrass: “Close the Door” [7.8.78]
600. Rick James: “You and I” [7.22.78]
601. A Taste of Honey: “Boogie Oogie Oogie” [8.5.78]
602. Commodores: “Three Times a Lady” [8.12.78]
603. Foxy: “Get Off” [8.26.78]
604. L.T.D.: “Holding On (When Love Is Gone)” [9.9.78]
605. Earth, Wind & Fire: “Got to Get You Into My Life” [9.23.78]
606. Funkadelic: “One Nation Under a Groove Pt. 1” [9.30.78]*
607. Chaka Khan: “I’m Every Woman” [11.11.78]
608. Chic: “Le Freak” [12.2.78]
609. Cheryl Lynn: “Got to Be Real” [1.6.79]
610. Earth, Wind & Fire: “September” [1.13.79]
611. Parliament: “Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)” [1.20.79]
612. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: “Bustin’ Loose Pt. 1” [2.17.79]
613. Instant Funk: “I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)” [3.17.79]
614. Sister Sledge: “He’s the Greatest Dancer” [3.31.79]
615. G.Q.: “Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)” [4.14.79]
616. Peaches & Herb: “Reunited” [4.28.79]
617. The Isley Brothers: “I Wanna Be with You Pt. 1” [5.26.79]
618. McFadden & Whitehead: “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” [6.2.79]
619. Sister Sledge: “We Are Family” [6.9.79]
620. Anita Ward: “Ring My Bell” [6.16.79]
621. Summer: “Bad Girls” [7.21.79]
622. Chic: “Good Times” [7.28.79]*
623. Michael Jackson: “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” [9.8.79]
624. Kool & the Gang: “Ladies Night” [11.3.79]
625. Commodores: “Still” [11.24.79]
626. Prince: “I Wanna Be Your Lover” [12.1.79]
627. Rufus and Chaka: “Do You Love What You Feel” [12.15.79]
628. Michael Jackson: “Rock with You” [1.5.80]
629. Shalamar: “The Second Time Around” [2.16.80]
630. Ray, Goodman & Brown: “Special Lady” [2.23.80]
631. The Whispers: “And the Beat Goes On” [3.1.80]
632. The Brothers Johnson: “Stomp!” [4.5.80]
633. Jermaine Jackson: “Let’s Get Serious” [5.17.80]
634. The S.O.S. Band: “Take Your Time (Do It Right) Pt. 1” [6.28.80]
635. Larry Graham: “One in a Million You” [8.2.80]
636. Diana Ross: “Upside Down” [8.16.80]
637. George Benson: “Give Me the Night” [9.13.80]
638. Tom Browne: “Funkin’ For Jamaica (N.Y.)” [10.4.80]
639. Stevie Wonder: “Master Blaster (Jammin’)” [11.1.80]
640. Kool & the Gang: “Celebration” [12.20.80]
641. Lakeside: “Fantastic Voyage” [1.31.81]
642. Gap Band: “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)” [2.14.81]
643. Yarbrough & Peoples: “Don’t Stop the Music” [2.28.81]
644. Smokey Robinson: “Being with You” [4.4.81]
645. A Taste of Honey: “Sukiyaki” [5.9.81]
646. Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio: “A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)” [5.16.81]
647. Chaka Khan: “What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me” [5.30.81]
648. Rick James: “Give It to Me Baby” [6.13.81]
649. Frankie Smith: “Double Dutch Bus” [7.18.81]
650. Evelyn King: “I’m in Love” [8.15.81]
651. Diana Ross & Lionel Richie: “Endless Love” [8.22.81]
652. The Four Tops: “When She Was My Girl” [10.10.81]
653. Luther Vandross: “Never Too Much” [10.24.81]
654. Roger: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine Pt. 1” [11.7.81]
655. Kool & the Gang: “Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)” [11.21.81]
656. Earth, Wind & Fire: “Let’s Groove” [11.28.81]*
657. George Benson: “Turn Your Love Around” [1.23.82]
658. Daryl Hall & John Oates: “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” [1.30.82]
659. Skyy: “Call Me” [2.6.82]
660. Stevie Wonder: “That Girl” [2.20.82]
661. Richard “Dimples” Fields: “If It Ain’t One Thing…It’s Another” [4.24.82]
662. Deniece Williams: “It’s Gonna Take a Miracle” [5.15.82]
663. Dazz Band: “Let It Whip” [5.29.82]
664. Gap Band: “Early in the Morning” [6.26.82]
665. Jennifer Holliday: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” [7.24.82]
666. Zapp: “Dance Floor Pt. 1” [8.21.82]
667. Aretha Franklin: “Jump To It” [9.4.82]
668. Evelyn King: “Love Come Down” [10.2.82]
669. Marvin Gaye: “Sexual Healing” [11.6.82]*
670. Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney: “The Girl Is Mine” [1.15.83]
671. Gap Band: “Outstanding” [2.5.83]
672. Michael Jackson: “Billie Jean” [2.12.83]*
673. George Clinton: “Atomic Dog” [4.16.83]
674. New Edition: “Candy Girl” [5.14.83]
675. Michael Jackson: “Beat It” [5.21.83]
676. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Save the Overtime (For Me)” [5.28.83]
677. Mtume: “Juicy Fruit” [6.4.83]
678. Donna Summer: “She Works Hard for the Money” [7.30.83]
679. Aretha Franklin: “Get It Right” [8.20.83]
680. Rick James: “Cold Blooded” [9.3.83]
681. Rufus and Chaka Khan: “Ain’t Nobody” [10.15.83]
682. Lionel Richie: “All Night Long (All Night)” [10.22.83]
683. DeBarge: “Time Will Reveal” [12.10.83]
684. Kool & the Gang: “Joanna” [1.14.84]
685. Patti LaBelle: “If Only You Knew” [1.28.84]
686. Cheryl Lynn: “Encore” [2.25.84]
687. Rockwell: “Somebody’s Watching Me” [3.3.84]
688. Cameo: “She’s Strange” [4.7.84]
689. Lionel Richie: “Hello” [5.5.84]
690. Yarbrough & Peoples: “Don’t Waste Your Time” [5.26.84]
691. Deniece Williams: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” [6.2.84]
692. O’Bryan: “Lovelite” [6.23.84]
693. Prince: “When Doves Cry” [6.30.84]
694. Ray Parker Jr.: “Ghostbusters” [8.25.84]
695. Billy Ocean: “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” [9.8.84]
696. Prince & the Revolution: “Let’s Go Crazy” [10.6.84]
697. Stevie Wonder: “I Just Called to Say I Love You” [10.13.84]
698. Chaka Khan: “I Feel 4 U” [11.3.84]
699. New Edition: “Cool It Now” [11.24.84]
700. Ashford & Simpson: “Solid” [12.1.84]
701. Midnight Star: “Operator” [12.22.84]
702. Eugene Wilde: “Gotta Get You Home Tonight” [1.26.85]
703. New Edition: “Mr. Telephone Man” [2.2.85]
704. Diana Ross: “Missing You” [2.23.85]
705. Commodores: “Nightshift” [3.16.85]
706. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly: “Back in Stride” [4.13.85]
707. Kool & the Gang: “Fresh” [5.18.85]
708. Whitney Houston: “You Give Good Love” [5.25.85]
709. Freddie Jackson: “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” [6.1.85]*
710. Loose Ends: “Hangin’ on a String (Contemplating)” [7.13.85]
711. Rene & Angela: “Save Your Love (For #1)” [7.20.85]
712. Aretha Franklin: “Freeway of Love” [8.3.85]
713. Whitney Houston: “Saving All My Love for You” [9.7.85]
714. Kool & the Gang: “Cherish” [9.14.85]
715. Ready for the World: “Oh Sheila” [9.21.85]
716. Freddie Jackson: “You Are My Lady” [10.5.85]
717. Stevie Wonder: “Part-Time Lover” [10.19.85]
718. Isley Jasper Isley: “Caravan of Love” [11.30.85]
719. Eugene Wilde: “Don’t Say No Tonight” [12.21.85]
720. Lionel Richie: “Say You, Say Me” [1.11.86]
721. Dionne & Friends: Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder: “That’s What Friends Are For” [1.25.86]
722. Meli’sa Morgan: “Do Me Baby” [2.15.86]
723. Whitney Houston: “How Will I Know” [3.8.86]
724. Rene & Angela: “Your Smile” [3.15.86]
725. Janet Jackson: “What Have You Done for Me Lately” [3.22.86]
726. Prince & the Revolution: “Kiss” [4.5.86]*
727. Stephanie Mills: “I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love” [5.3.86]
728. Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald: “On My Own” [5.17.86]
729. Janet Jackson: “Nasty” [6.14.86]
730. Billy Ocean: “There’ll Be Sad Songs (to Make You Cry)” [6.28.86]
731. El DeBarge: “Who’s Johnny” [7.12.86]
732. Timex Social Club: “Rumors” [7.19.86]
733. Jean Carn: “Closer Than Close” [8.2.86]
734. Shirley Jones: “Do You Get Enough Love” [8.16.86]
735. Billy Ocean: “Love Zone” [8.30.86]
736. Gwen Guthrie: “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on But the Rent” [9.6.86]
737. Levert: “(Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop) Goes My Mind” [9.13.86]
738. Oran “Juice” Jones: “The Rain” [9.20.86]
739. Cameo: “Word Up” [10.4.86]
740. Gregory Abbott: “Shake You Down” [10.25.86]
741. Melba Moore (with Freddie Jackson): “A Little Bit More” [11.8.86]
742. Freddie Jackson: “Tasty Love” [11.15.86]
743. Ready for the World: “Love You Down” [12.13.86]
744. Bobby Brown: “Girlfriend” [12.27.86]
745. Janet Jackson: “Control” [1.10.87]
746. Luther Vandross: “Stop to Love” [1.17.87]
747. Cameo: “Candy” [1.31.87]
748. Melba Moore: “Falling” [2.14.87]
749. Freddie Jackson: “Have You Ever Loved Somebody” [2.21.87]
750. Loose Ends: “Slow Down” [3.7.87]
751. Janet Jackson: “Let’s Wait Awhile” [3.14.87]
752. Jody Watley: “Looking for a New Love” [3.21.87]
753. Prince: “Sign ‘O’ the Times” [4.11.87]
754. The System: “Don’t Disturb This Groove” [5.2.87]
755. Luther Vandross (with Gregory Hines): “There’s Nothing Better Than Love” [5.9.87]
756. Atlantic Starr: “Always” [5.16.87]
757. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam: “Head to Toe” [5.30.87]
758. Whispers: “Rock Steady” [6.13.87]
759. Herb Alpert (Janet Jackson): “Diamonds” [6.20.87]
760. Stephanie Mills: “I Feel Good All Over” [7.4.87]
761. Alexander O’Neal: “Fake” [7.25.87]
762. Janet Jackson: “The Pleasure Principle” [8.8.87]
763. Freddie Jackson: “Jam Tonight” [8.15.87]
764. Levert: “Casanova” [8.22.87]
765. Force M.D.’s: “Love Is a House” [9.5.87]
766. Michael Jackson: “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” [9.19.87]
767. L.L. Cool J: “I Need Love” [9.26.87]
768. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam: “Lost in Emotion” [10.3.87]
769. Stephanie Mills: “(You’re Puttin’) a Rush on Me” [10.10.87]
770. Michael Jackson: “Bad” [10.17.87]
771. Angela Winbush: “Angel” [11.14.87]
772. Stevie Wonder: “Skeletons” [11.28.87]
773. Earth, Wind & Fire: “System of Survival” [8.7.76]
774. Roger: “I Want to Be Your Man” [12.19.87]
775. Michael Jackson: “The Way You Make Me Feel” [12.26.87]
776. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Love Overboard” [1.23.88]
777. Keith Sweat: “I Want Her” [1.30.88]*
778. Pebbles: “Girlfriend” [2.20.88]
779. Stevie Wonder: “You Will Know” [3.5.88]
780. Morris Day: “Fishnet” [3.12.88]
781. Michael Jackson: “Man in the Mirror” [3.26.88]
782. Terence Trent D’Arby: “Wishing Well” [4.2.88]
783. Teena Marie: “Ooo La La La” [4.9.88]
784. Billy Ocean: “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car” [4.16.88]
785. E.U.: “Da’Butt” [4.23.88]
786. Al B. Sure!: “Night and Day” [4.30.88]
787. Pebbles: “Mercedes Boy” [5.21.8]
788. Johnny Kemp: “Just Got Paid” [5.28.88]
789. Tony! Toni! Toné!: “Little Walter” [6.11.88]
790. George Michael: “One More Try” [6.18.88]
791. Teddy Pendergrass: “Joy” [6.25.88]
792. Sade: “Paradise” [7.9.88]
793. Mac Band featuring the McCampbell Brothers: “Roses Are Red” [7.16.88]
794. Bobby Brown: “Don’t Be Cruel” [7.23.88]
795. Al B. Sure!: “Off on Your Own (Girl)” [8.6.88]
796. Rick James featuring Roxanne Shanté: “Loosey’s Rap” [8.20.88]
797. Freddie Jackson: “Nice ’N’ Slow” [8.27.88]
798. Michael Jackson: “Another Part of Me” [9.17.88]
799. Jeffrey Osborne: “She’s on the Left” [9.24.88]
800. Levert: “Addicted to You” [9.24.88]
801. Bobby Brown: “My Prerogative” [10.15.88]
802. Karyn White: “The Way You Love Me” [10.29.88]
803. Luther Vandross: “Any Love” [11.5.88]
804. Anita Baker: “Giving You the Best That I Got” [11.12.88]
805. Cheryl Pepsii Riley: “Thanks for My Child” [11.26.88]
806. Freddie Jackson: “Hey Lover” [12.3.88]
807. The Boys: “Dial My Heart” [12.10.88]
808. Cherrelle: “Everything I Miss at Home” [12.17.88]
809. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers: “Tumblin’ Down” [12.24.88]
810. Roberta Flack: “Oasis” [1.7.89]
811. Karyn White: “Superwoman” [1.14.89]*
812. New Edition: “Can You Stand the Rain” [2.4.89]
813. Vanessa Williams: “Dreamin’” [2.18.89]
814. Anita Baker: “Just Because” [3.4.89]
815. Levert featuring Heavy D: “Just Coolin’” [3.11.89]
816. Surface: “Closer Than Friends” [3.18.89]
817. The Boys: “Lucky Charm” [4.1.89]
818. Today: “Girl I Got My Eyes on You” [4.8.89]
819. Bobby Brown: “Every Little Step” [4.15.89]
820. Karyn White: “Love Saw It” [4.22.89]
821. Jody Watley: “Real Love” [5.6.89]
822. Skyy: “Start of a Romance” [5.13.89]
823. Atlantic Starr: “My First Love” [5.27.89]
824. Natalie Cole: “Miss You Like Crazy” [6.3.89]
825. De La Soul: “Me Myself and I” [6.10.89]
826. O’Jays: “Have You Had Your Love Today” [6.17.89]
827. Peabo Bryson: “Show & Tell” [7.1.89]
828. Soul II Soul: “Keep on Movin’” [7.8.89]
829. Chuckii Booker: “Turned Away” [7.22.89]
830. Surface: “Shower Me with Your Love” [7.29.89]
831. Bobby Brown: “On Our Own” [8.5.89]
832. Prince: “Batdance” [8.12.89]
833. Stephanie Mills: “Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)” [8.19.89]
834. Babyface: “It’s No Crime” [8.26.89]
835. Teddy Riley featuring Guy: “My Fantasy” [9.9.89]
836. Eric Gable: “Remember (the First Time)” [9.16.89]
837. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly: “Can’t Get Over You” [9.23.89]
838. Soul II Soul: “Back to Life” [10.7.89]
839. Janet Jackson: “Miss You Much” [10.14.89]
840. Regina Belle: “Baby Come to Me” [10.28.89]
841. Surface: “You Are My Everything” [11.4.89]
842. Jermaine Jackson: “Don’t Take It Personal” [11.18.89]
843. Stephanie Mills: “Home” [11.25.89]
844. Luther Vandross: “Here and Now” [12.2.89]
845. Miki Howard: “Ain’t Nuthin’ in the World” [12.16.89]
846. Gap Band: “All of My Love” [12.23.89]
847. Babyface: “Tender Lover” [1.6.90]
848. Janet Jackson: “Rhythm Nation” [1.13.90]
849. Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan: “I’ll Be Good to You” [1.20.90]
850. Regina Belle: “Make It Like It Was” [2.3.90]
851. Skyy: “Real Love” [2.10.90]
852. Ruby Turner: “It’s Gonna Be Alright” [2.17.90]
853. Stacy Lattisaw with Johnny Gill: “Where Do We Go From Here” [2.24.90]
854. Janet Jackson: “Escapade” [3.10.90]
855. Quincy Jones featuring Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, Barry White: “The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)” [3.17.90]
856. Lisa Stansfield: “All Around the World” [3.24.90]
857. Troop: “Spread My Wings” [4.7.90]
858. After 7: “Ready or Not” [4.21.90]
859. Bell Biv DeVoe: “Poison” [5.5.90]
860. Johnny Gill: “Rub You the Right Way” [5.19.90]
861. En Vogue: “Hold On” [5.26.90]
862. Tony! Toni! Toné!: “The Blues” [6.9.90]
863. Quincy Jones featuring Tevin Campbell: “Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)” [1.20.90]
864. M.C. Hammer: “U Can’t Touch This” [6.23.90]
865. Troop: “All I Do Is Think of You” [6.30.90]
866. Lisa Stansfield: “You Can’t Deny It” [7.7.90]
867. Johnny Gill: “My, My, My” [7.14.90]
868. Keith Sweat: “Make You Sweat” [7.28.90]
869. After 7: “Can’t Stop” [8.4.90]
870. Mariah Carey: “Vision of Love” [8.11.90]
871. The Time: “Jerk-Out” [8.25.90]
872. Tony! Toni! Toné!: “Feels Good” [9.1.90]
873. En Vogue: “Lies” [9.15.90]
874. The Boys: “Crazy” [9.22.90]
875. Prince: “Thieves in the Temple” [9.29.90]
876. Pebbles: “Giving You the Benefit” [10.6.90]*
877. Samuelle: “So You Like What You See” [10.27.90]
878. Mariah Carey: “Love Takes Time” [11.10.90]
879. Bell Biv DeVoe: “B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?” [11.17.90]
880. Al B. Sure!: “Missunderstanding” [11.24.90]
881. Whitney Houston: “I’m Your Baby Tonight” [12.1.90]
882. Ralph Tresvant: “Sensitivity” [12.15.90]
883. Tony! Toni! Toné!: “It Never Rains (in Southern California)” [12.22.90]
884. Freddie Jackson: “Love Me Down” [1.5.91]
885. Surface: “The First Time” [1.19.91]
886. Pebbles: “Love Makes Things Happen” [1.26.91]
887. En Vogue: “You Don’t Have to Worry” [2.9.91]
888. Keith Sweat: “I’ll Give All My Love to You” [2.16.91]
889. C&C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams: “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” [2.23.91]
890. Whitney Houston: “All the Man That I Need” [3.2.91]
891. Rude Boys: “Written All Over Your Face” [3.16.91]
892. Hi-Five: “I Like the Way (the Kissing Game)” [3.23.91]
893. Freddie Jackson: “Do Me Again” [4.6.91]
894. Johnny Gill: “Wrap My Body Tight” [4.13.91]
895. Tony! Toni! Toné!: “Whatever You Want” [4.20.91]
896. Christopher Williams: “I’m Dreamin’” [5.4.91]
897. Phil Perry: “Call Me” [5.11.91]
898. Teddy Pendergrass: “It Should’ve Been You” [5.18.91]
899. Keith Washington: “Kissing You” [5.25.91]
900. Color Me Badd: “I Wanna Sex You Up” [6.1.91]
901. Luther Vandross: “Power of Love/Love Power” [6.15.91]
902. Lisa Fischer: “How Can I Ease the Pain” [6.29.91]
903. Damian Dame: “Exclusivity” [7.13.91]
904. Levert: “Baby I’m Ready” [7.13.91]
905. D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: “Summertime” [8.3.91]
906. Hi-Five: “I Can’t Wait Another Minute” [8.10.91]
907. Peabo Bryson: “Can You Stop the Rain” [8.17.91]
908. BeBe & CeCe Winans: “Addictive Love” [8.31.91]
909. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam: “Let the Beat Hit ’Em” [9.14.91]
910. Phyllis Hyman: “Don’t Wanna Change the World” [9.21.91]
911. Color Me Badd: “I Adore Mi Amor” [9.28.91]
912. Vanessa Williams: “Running Back to You” [10.5.91]
913. Karyn White: “Romantic” [10.19.91]
914. Boyz II Men: “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” [10.26.91]
915. Mariah Carey: “Emotions” [11.2.91]
916. Jodeci: “Forever My Lady” [11.9.91]
917. Tracie Spencer: “Tender Kisses” [11.23.91]
918. Rude Boys: “Are You Lonely for Me” [11.30.91]
919. BeBe & CeCe Winans (feat. Mavis Staples): “I’ll Take You There” [12.7.91]
920. Gerald Levert: “Private Line” [12.14.91]
921. Shanice: “I Love Your Smile” [12.21.91]*
922. Tevin Campbell: “Tell Me What You Want Me to Do” [1.18.92]
923. Keith Sweat: “Keep It Comin’” [1.25.92]
924. Jodeci: “Stay” [2.8.92]
925. Boyz II Men: “Uhh Ahh” [2.2.92]
926. Gerald Levert (with Eddie Levert): “Baby Hold on to Me” [2.29.92]
927. Michael Jackson: “Remember the Time” [3.7.92]
928. Prince and the N.P.G.: “Diamonds and Pearls” [3.21.92]
929. Vanessa Williams: “Save the Best for Last” [3.28.92]
930. Glenn Jones: “Here I Go Again” [4.18.92]
931. Aaron Hall: “Don’t Be Afraid” [4.25.92]
932. Lisa Stansfield: “All Woman” [5.9.92]
933. En Vogue: “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” [5.16.92]
934. Jodeci: “Come & Talk to Me” [5.30.92]
935. R. Kelly and Public Announcement: “Honey Love” [6.13.92]
936. Michael Jackson: “In the Closet” [6.27.92]
937. Lionel Richie: “Do It to Me” [7.4.92]
938. Arrested Development: “Tennessee” [7.11.92]
939. Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson with BBD & Ralph Tresvant: “The Best Things in Life Are Free” [7.18.92]
940. Mary J. Blige: “You Remind Me” [7.25.92]
941. En Vogue: “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” [8.1.92]
942. TLC: “Baby-Baby-Baby” [8.8.92]
943. Boyz II Men: “End of the Road” [8.22.92]
944. Bobby Brown: “Humpin’ Around” [9.19.92]
945. R. Kelly and Public Announcement: “Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ)” [10.3.92]
946. Tevin Campbell: “Alone with You” [10.10.92]
947. Mary J. Blige: “Real Love” [10.17.92]
948. Troop: “Sweet November” [11.7.92]
949. Miki Howard: “Ain’t Nobody Like You” [11.14.92]
950. Chuckii Booker: “Games” [11.21.92]
951. Lo-Key?: “I Got a Thang 4 Ya!” [11.28.92]
952. Whitney Houston: “I Will Always Love You” [12.5.92]*
953. Naughty by Nature: “Hip Hop Hooray” [2.20.93]
954. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg): “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” [2.27.93]
955. Silk: “Freak Me” [3.13.93]*
956. Janet Jackson: “That’s the Way Love Goes” [5.8.93]
957. H-Town: “Knockin’ Da Boots” [6.5.93]
958. SWV (Sisters with Voices): “Weak” [7.3.93]
959. Tag Team: “Whoomp! (There It Is)” [7.17.93]
960. Jodeci: “Lately” [7.24.93]
961. Ice Cube featuring Das EFX: “Check Yo’ Self” [8.7.93]
962. SWV—Sisters with Voices: “Right Here/Human Nature” [8.28.93]
963. Xscape: “Just Kickin’ It” [10.16.93]
964. D.R.S.: “Gangsta Lean” [11.13.93]
965. Tevin Campbell: “Can We Talk” [12.25.93]
966. Jodeci: “Cry for You” [1.15.94]
967. Xscape: “Understanding” [2.12.94]
968. R. Kelly: “Bump N’ Grind” [2.26.94]*
969. Aaliyah: “Back & Forth” [5.21.94]
970. Janet Jackson: “Any Time, Any Place” [6.11.94]
971. Boyz II Men: “I’ll Make Love to You” [8.20.94]
972. Brandy: “I Wanna Be Down” [10.22.94]
973. Barry White: “Practice What You Preach” [11.19.94]
974. TLC: “Creep” [12.10.94]
975. Brandy: “Baby” [2.11.95]
976. Soul For Real: “Candy Rain” [3.11.95]
977. Montell Jordan: “This Is How We Do It” [4.1.95]
978. Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige: “I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need to Get By” [5.20.95]
979. Monica: “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)” [6.10.95]
980. The Notorious B.I.G.: “One More Chance/Stay with Me” [6.24.95]*
981. Shaggy: “Boombastic” [8.26.95]
982. Michael Jackson: “You Are Not Alone” [9.2.95]
983. Mariah Carey: “Fantasy” [9.30.95]
984. Xscape: “Who Can I Run To?” [11.11.95]
985. R. Kelly: “You Remind Me of Something” [11.18.95]
986. Whitney Houston: “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” [11.25.95]
987. Monica: “Before You Walk Out of My Life” [1.20.96]
988. Mary J. Blige: “Not Gon’ Cry” [2.3.96]
989. R. Kelly (featuring Ronald Isley and Ernie Isley): “Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)” [3.9.96]*
990. SWV: “You’re the One” [4.27.96]
991. Mariah Carey: “Always Be My Baby” [5.4.96]
992. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: “Tha Crossroads” [5.11.96]
993. Toni Braxton: “You’re Makin’ Me High” [6.29.96]
994. 2Pac (featuring KC & JoJo): “How Do U Want It” [7.6.96]
995. R. Kelly: “I Can’t Sleep Baby (If I)” [8.3.96]
996. Keith Sweat: “Twisted” [8.17.96]
997. New Edition: “Hit Me Off” [8.31.96]
998. Aaliyah: “If Your Girl Only Knew” [9.28.96]
999. Az Yet: “Last Night” [10.12.96]
1000. BLACKstreet (featuring Dr. Dre): “No Diggity” [10.19.96]
1001. Ginuwine: “Pony” [11.16.96]
1002. Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage: “Twisted” [11.30.96]
1003. R. Kelly: “I Believe I Can Fly” [12.21.96]
1004. En Vogue: “Don’t Let Go (Love)” [1.25.97]
1005. Erykah Badu: “On & On” [2.8.97]
1006. Dru Hill: “In My Bed” [2.22.97]
1007. Puff Daddy featuring Ma$e: “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” [3.8.97]
1008. The Notorious B.I.G.: “Hypnotize” [4.26.97]
1009. Changing Faces: “G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T.” [5.17.97]
1010. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans (featuring 112): “I’ll Be Missing You” [6.14.97]
1011. Dru Hill: “Never Make a Promise” [8.9.97]
1012. Usher: “You Make Me Wanna…” [9.6.97]*
1013. LSG: “My Body” [11.22.97]
1014. Boyz II Men: “A Song for Mama” [12.27.97]
1015. Usher: “Nice & Slow” [1.24.98]
1016. Destiny’s Child (featuring Wyclef Jean): “No, No, No Pt. 2” [3.21.98]
1017. Montell Jordan feat. Master P & Silkk “the Shocker”: “Let’s Ride” [3.28.98]
1018. K-Ci & JoJo: “All My Life” [4.4.98]
1019. Next: “Too Close” [5.2.98]
1020. Janet Jackson (featuring Blackstreet): “I Get Lonely” [5.23.97]
1021. Brandy & Monica: “The Boy Is Mine” [6.6.98]
1022. Kelly Price: “Friend of Mine” [8.1.98]
1023. Monica: “The First Night” [9.5.98]
1024. Dru Hill featuring Redman: “How Deep Is Your Love” [10.17.98]
1025. Deborah Cox: “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here” [11.7.98]*
1026. Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans & Kelly Price: “Heartbreak Hotel” [2.13.99]
1027. Busta Rhymes featuring Janet: “What’s It Gonna Be?!” [4.3.99]
1028. TLC: “No Scrubs” [4.10.99]
1029. Maxwell: “Fortunate” [5.15.99]
1030. Destiny’s Child: “Bills, Bills, Bills” [7.10.99]*
1031. Eric Benét featuring Tamia: “Spend My Life with You” [9.18.99]
1032. Deborah Cox with R.L. from Next: “We Can’t Be Friends” [10.27.99]
1033. Puff Daddy featuring R. Kelly: “Satisfy You” [10.30.99]
1034. Donnell Jones: “U Know What’s Up” [11.13.99]