Best R&B Songs

Top 100 R&B Songs for Weddings

These are the Best R&B Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! R&B, aka rhythm and blues, started as a combination of jazz, gospel and blues. R&B is a genre of smooth pop music that is entirely centered on the vocalist. In later years, R&B branched off to create different music styles such as funk, hip-hop, rap, soul and different styles of R&B than its beginnings.

Song	Artist	Format	Lyrics	iTunes	Amazon
A Song For Mama	Boyz 2 Men	R&B
ABC	Jackson 5	R&B
After All Is Said And Done	Beyoncé Knowles & Marc Nelson	R&B
Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Marvin Gaye	R&B
Ain't That Love	Ray Charles	R&B
All My Life	K-Ci & JoJo	R&B
All Night Long (All Night)	Lionel Richie	R&B
Always	Atlantic Starr	R&B
Always and Forever	Heatwave	R&B
American Boy	Estelle	R&B
Angel Of Mine	Monica	R&B
Atomic Dog	George Clinton	R&B
Baby I Need Your Loving	Four Tops	R&B
Baby I'm Yours	Barbara Lewis	R&B
Back At One	Brian McKnight	R&B
Better Be Good To Me	Tina Turner	R&B
Brick House	Commodores	R&B
Build Me Up Buttercup	Foundations	R&B
By Your Side	Sade	R&B
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	Barry White	R&B
Closer	Ne-Yo	R&B
Count On Me	Whitney Houston	R&B
Crazy	Gnarls Barkley	R&B
Crazy In Love	Beyonce	R&B
Crazy Love	Brian McKnight	R&B
Daddy	Beyonce	R&B
Dance With My Father	Luther Vandross	R&B
December 1963 (Oh What A Night)	Four Seasons	R&B
Endless Love	Lionel Richie & Diana Ross	R&B
Every Time I Close My Eyes	Babyface	R&B
Family Affair	Mary J Blige	R&B
For You	Kenny Lattimore	R&B
Forever	Jaheim	R&B
Forever Mine	The O'Jays	R&B
Georgia On My Mind	Ray Charles	R&B
Glamorous	Fergie Feat. Ludacris	R&B
Greatest Love Of All	Whitney Houston	R&B
Here And Now	Luther Vandross	R&B
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)	Marvin Gaye	R&B
I Believe I Can Fly	R. Kelly	R&B
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)	Four Tops	R&B
I Got You (I Feel Good)	James Brown	R&B
I Have Nothing	Whitney Houston	R&B
I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Marvin Gaye	R&B
I Swear	All-4-One	R&B
I Wanna Dance With Somebody	Whitney Houston	R&B
I Will Always Love You	Whitney Houston	R&B
If I Ain't Got You	Alicia Keys	R&B
I'll Be There	Mariah Carey	R&B
I'll Be There	The Jackson 5	R&B
Incomplete	Sisqo	R&B
Isn't She Lovely	Stevie Wonder	R&B
Jump (For My Love)	The Pointer Sisters	R&B
Just Because	Anita Baker	R&B
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)	The Temptations	R&B
Just The Two Of Us	Bill Withers	R&B
Lean On Me	Bill Withers	R&B
Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye	R&B
Let's Stay Together	Al Green	R&B
Love Train	The O'Jays	R&B
Love X Love	George Benson	R&B
Lovely Day	Bill Withers	R&B
Made To Love Ya	Gerald Levert	R&B
Midnight Train To Georgia	Gladys Knight & The Pips	R&B
My Girl	The Temptations	R&B
My Prerogative	Bobby Brown	R&B
No One	Alicia Keys	R&B
On Bended Knee	Boyz II Men	R&B
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	R&B
Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	R&B
Reach Out I'll Be There	Four Tops	R&B
Save The Best For Last	Vanessa Williams	R&B
September	Earth, Wind & Fire	R&B
Sexual Healing	Marvin Gaye	R&B
Shower Me With Your Love	Surface	R&B
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours	Stevie Wonder	R&B
Sittin' On The Dock OF The Bay	Otis Redding	R&B
Smile	Nat King Cole	R&B
Spend My Life With You	Eric Benet	R&B
Stand By Me	Ben E. King	R&B
Stay With You	John Legend	R&B
Superstition	Stevie Wonder	R&B
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World	Prince	R&B		- -
These Arms Of Mine	Otis Redding	R&B
This Is How We Do It	Montell Jordan	R&B
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)	Natalie Cole	R&B
Three Times A Lady	Commodores	R&B
Unforgettable	Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole	R&B
Uptight (Everything's Alright)	Stevie Wonder	R&B
When A Man Loves A Woman	Percy Sledge	R&B
When I Fall In Love	Nat King Cole	R&B
Word Up!	Cameo	R&B
Working My Way Back To You	The Spinners	R&B
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life	Stevie Wonder	R&B
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman	Aretha Franklin	R&B
You Send Me	Sam Cooke	R&B
You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate	R&B
Your Joy	Chrisette Michele	R&B
You're All I Need To Get By	Marvin Gaye	R&B
You're The First, My Last, My Everything	Barry White	R&B
You've Really Got A Hold On Me	The Miracles	R&B

R&B started in the U.S. in the 30’s with the migration of African Americans to urban cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Early rhythm and blues stars included Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan. In 1949 Billboard started using the R&B music style in their charts. Paul Williams had the first R&B song to reach #1 on the Billboard charts.

The 60’s and 70’s had created a new style of R&B called Funk. Funk became popular with artists such as George Clinton and Sly and the Family Stone. In the 90’s a new style of R&B was created and stayed with acts like Jodeci, Boyonce and Ashanti. The late 90’s gave birth to a new form of R&B with artists like D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill and John Legend.

Our Top R&B Wedding Reception Songs: 1) How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You - Marvin Gaye, 2) This Will Be An Everlasting Love - Natalie Cole, 3) Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe - Barry White, 4) No One - Alicia Keys, 5) All My Life - K-Ci & JoJo.

Being former wedding DJs, we've calculated a list of our favorite R&B Songs. If you have a special song that you think should be added to our list, please add your song suggestion through the comment section below. Be sure to also check out the song lyric link to find song relevance to what you want for in your song choice. Once decided, we provided a link to iTunes to purchase and Amazon.com to purchase and listen to a sample of each song.