Themed rankings that guestimate what the hottest tracks are based on monitoring of sales, radio, streaming, media usage, fan engagement, artist influencing, news, critic opinion, and real life experiences.

harpsichord’s Greatest

countdown of

hip hop soul songs

of all time

Published December 2023

With this interactive countdown, click on the picture frames to watch the music videos from No.’s 106 to 1, because we miss MTV and BET as much as you do…

charting milestones by the numbers

These milestones do not include data from artist specific charts.

Most song entries

9

Beyoncé

Most No. 1 Songs

2

SZA

highest chart jump

+8

victoria monét

spotlighted chart news

The girl group’s 1999 anthem leads a pack of 12 other contemporary songs that is driven by the sound of the renaissance instrument, on our tastemaker chart.

Just in time for her nine Grammy nominations, SZA earns her second chart topper with “Snooze.”

highlighted Song on the charts

calm down

rema ft selena gomez

published july 2023

No. 1: “alright”

No. 2: “changes”

No. 3: “fight the power”

No. 4: “my president”

No. 5: “why”

No. 1

J. Cole

No. 2

Drake

No. 3

Doja Cat

No. 1

Nas

No. 2

Missy Elliott

No. 3

Lil Wayne

highlighted Song on the charts

agora hills

doja cat