80s Soul Playlist

80s Soul — Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This set covers the 1980s.

🔒 The top 10 are this genre's must-play anthems — the biggest hits no DJ leaves out — so they stay pinned. Tap 🔀 and everything from #11 down refreshes into a fresh mix (from a pool of 178).

1. Billie Jean — Michael Jackson
2. All Night Long (All Night) — Lionel Richie
3. Ain't Nobody — Chaka Khan
4. Never Too Much — Luther Vandross
5. Sexual Healing — Marvin Gaye
6. Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run) — Billy Ocean
7. Sweet Love — Anita Baker
8. I Feel for You — Chaka Khan
9. Shake You Down — Gregory Abbott
10. Teardrops — Womack & Womack
11. Between the Sheets — The Isley Brothers
12. I'm In Love — Evelyn "champagne" King
13. Do What You Do — Jermaine Jackson
14. Give It To Me Baby — Rick James
15. Liberian Girl — Michael Jackson
16. Human Nature — Michael Jackson
17. Through the Fire — Chaka Khan
18. Suddenly — Billy Ocean
19. Turn on Some Music — Marvin Gaye
20. Give Me the Reason — Luther Vandross
21. Love Come Down — Evelyn "Champagne" King
22. I Really Didn't Mean It — Luther Vandross
23. Super Freak — Rick James
24. Just the Two of Us — Grover Washington, Jr.
25. Faith — George Michael
26. Part-Time Lover — Stevie Wonder
27. Holding Back the Years — Simply Red
28. Hang on to Your Love — Sade
29. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe — Barry White
30. Act Like You Know — Fat Larry's Band
31. Saving All My Love for You — Whitney Houston
32. Just An Illusion — Imagination
33. Sign Your Name — Sananda Maitreya
34. Fresh — Kool & The Gang
35. Chain Reaction — Diana Ross
36. Solid — Ashford & Simpson
37. After the Love Has Gone — Earth, Wind & Fire
38. Every Kinda People — Robert Palmer
39. Never Knew Love Like This Before — Stephanie Mills
40. Can You Feel It — The Jacksons
41. Holiday — Madonna
42. Shout To The Top — The Style Council
43. Heartbreaker — Dionne Warwick
44. Word Up — Cameo
45. Turn Your Love Around — George Benson
46. Rock Your Baby — George McCrae
47. I Cannot Believe It's True — Phil Collins
48. Automatic — The Pointer Sisters
49. I'm Coming Out — Diana Ross
50. Music And Lights — Imagination
51. Dance Little Sister — Sananda Maitreya
52. The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite) — Quincy Jones
53. Just Once — Quincy Jones
54. Gonna Get Along Without You Now — Viola Wills
55. Funkin' for Jamaica — Tom Browne
56. Forget Me Nots — Patrice Rushen
57. Licence To Kill — Gladys Knight
58. The Glow of Love — Change
59. Juicy Fruit — Mtume
60. Candy — Cameo
61. Let It Whip — Dazz Band
62. Body Talk — Imagination
63. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) — Paul Young
64. Come into My Life (Radio Mix) — Joyce Sims
65. Friends — Amii Stewart
66. Keep On Movin' — Soul II Soul
67. Love Town — Booker Newberry III
68. Computer Love — Zapp & Roger
69. I Want to Be Your Man — Roger
70. Give Me the Night — George Benson
71. The Sweetest Taboo — Sade
72. Criticize — Alexander O'Neal
73. New Attitude — Patti LaBelle
74. Why — Carly Simon
75. Don't Stop The Music — Yarbrough & Peoples
76. Outstanding — The Gap Band
77. Love Two Love — Terry Callier
78. Let's Groove — Earth, Wind & Fire
79. Rock Baby — Tower of Power
80. Never Give up on a Good Thing — George Benson
81. Good Times — Chic
82. Let's Go Round Again — Average White Band
83. A Night To Remember — Shalamar
84. Going Back to My Roots — Odyssey
85. Feel so Real — Steve Arrington
86. Youre the One for Me — D Train
87. Music — D Train
88. Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent — Gwen Guthrie
89. Smooth Operator — Sade
90. The Rain — Oran "Juice" Jones
91. Midas Touch — Midnight Star
92. Jump (For My Love) — The Pointer Sisters
93. Fool's Paradise — Meli'sa Morgan
94. How 'Bout Us — Champaign
95. Risin' to the Top — Keni Burke
96. It's A Love Thing — The Whispers
97. Encore — Cheryl Lynn
98. I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) — Daryl Hall & John Oates
99. Hangin' On A String — Loose Ends
100. Southern Freeez — Freeez

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