Top Deep Soul Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
29
Sam Cooke
A Change Is Gonna Come
1964
2
154
Percy Sledge
When a Man Loves a Woman
1966
3
234
Otis Redding
Try a Little Tenderness
1966
4
382
Otis Redding
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
1965
5
483
James Brown
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
1966
6
512
Bill Withers
Ain't No Sunshine
Smooth Soul
1971
7
552
Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
1967
8
681
James Carr
The Dark End of the Street
1967
9
1163
Aaron Neville
Tell It Like It Is
1966
10
1363
Lorraine Ellison
Stay with Me
1966
11
3160
Otis Redding
Respect
1965
12
3739
Otis Redding
Mr. Pitiful
1964
13
3781
Sam & Dave
When Something Is Wrong with My Baby
1967
14
3978
Bobby Bland
Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
1974
15
4766
Brenda Holloway
Every Little Bit Hurts
1964
16
4819
Irma Thomas
Wish Someone Would Care
1964
17
5491
William Bell
You Don't Miss Your Water
1961
18
5620
Bettye LaVette
Let Me Down Easy
1965
19
5639
Otis Redding
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
1966
20
6176
Charles Bradley
Changes
Psychedelic Soul
2016
21
6278
Otis Redding
These Arms of Mine
Rhythm & Blues
1962
22
7249
Dorothy Moore
Misty Blue
1975
23
7612
Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up on Me
2002
24
8524
Millie Jackson
If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want To Be Right)
Smooth Soul
1974
25
9002
Irma Thomas
It's Raining
New Orleans R&B
1962
26
9165
Percy Sledge
Take Time to Know Her
1968
27
9307
Otis Redding
I've Got Dreams to Remember
1968
28
9526
Aretha Franklin
A Change Is Gonna Come
1967
29
9557
Otis Redding
Change Gonna Come
1965
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Aretha Franklin
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Gospel
1971
Aaron Neville
Hercules
Funk
1973
Otis Redding
Ole Man Trouble
1965
Linda Jones
Your Precious Love
1972
Paul Kelly [USA]
Stealing in the Name of the Lord
Gospel
1970
O.V. Wright
That's How Strong My Love Is
1964
Donny Hathaway
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Smooth Soul
1972
Otis Redding
Cigarettes and Coffee
1966
Jimmy Hughes
Steal Away
1964
James Carr
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
1966
Michael Kiwanuka
Cold Little Heart
Psychedelic Soul
2016
Doris Duke
I Don’t Care Anymore
1969
Aretha Franklin
Brand New Me
Gospel
1971
Doris Allen
A Shell of a Woman
1969
Jackie Wilson
No Pity (In the Naked City)
Chicago Soul
1965
William Bell
I Forgot to Be Your Lover
1968