R&B in Album Draft
R&B is one of the softer genres, so it fits The Ballad at track 6. Only a handful of R&B songs are big enough to lead an album, so it does its best work in the middle of the record.
38R&B songs you can draft
1970s–2020s6 decades covered
3big enough for Lead Single
21small enough for the Deep Cut
Which slots R&B fills
- The Ballad (track 6): it counts as a softer genre.
- Lead Single (track 3) and The Closer (track 12) want your biggest songs, whatever the genre. 3 R&B songs qualify.
- Deep Cut (track 9) wants your smallest song. 21 R&B songs qualify.
Albums score higher when they use fewer genres and more decades, so R&B works best as one of two or three genres spread across several eras. How scoring works.
The biggest R&B songs by decade
1970s
- Let's Stay Together · Al Green, 1971
- Rock with You · Michael Jackson, 1979
- Killing Me Softly with His Song · Roberta Flack, 1973
- Midnight Train to Georgia · Gladys Knight & the Pips, 1973
- I Wish · Stevie Wonder, 1976
1980s
- Ain't Nobody · Chaka Khan, 1983
- Saving All My Love for You · Whitney Houston, 1985
- Rhythm Nation · Janet Jackson, 1989
- Nasty · Janet Jackson, 1986
- Never Too Much · Luther Vandross, 1981
1990s
- Killing Me Softly · Fugees, 1996
- Doo Wop (That Thing) · Lauryn Hill, 1998
- Say My Name · Destiny's Child, 1999
- No Scrubs · TLC, 1999
- End of the Road · Boyz II Men, 1992
2000s
- Crazy in Love · Beyoncé, 2003
- Yeah! · Usher, 2004
- Fallin' · Alicia Keys, 2001
- Cry Me a River · Justin Timberlake, 2002
- No One · Alicia Keys, 2007
2010s
- Formation · Beyoncé, 2016
- Hotline Bling · Drake, 2015
- Redbone · Childish Gambino, 2016
- Thinkin Bout You · Frank Ocean, 2012
- Adorn · Miguel, 2012
2020s
- Kill Bill · SZA, 2022
- Save Your Tears · The Weeknd, 2020
- Snooze · SZA, 2022
- Water · Tyla, 2023
- Damage · H.E.R., 2021
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