How the R&B Songs bracket works
Rank R&B songs without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — No Diggity or Waterfalls? Kiss from a Rose or Killing Me Softly? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 tracks in the field. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including No Diggity, Waterfalls, Kiss from a Rose and Killing Me Softly.
No Diggity
Blackstreet
Waterfalls
TLC
Kiss from a Rose
Seal
Killing Me Softly
Fugees
Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers
Let's Stay Together
Al Green
Unchained Melody
The Righteous Brothers
If I Ain't Got You
Alicia Keys
No Scrubs
TLC
Crazy in Love
Beyonce
Say My Name
Destiny's Child
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston
End of the Road
Boyz II Men
That's the Way Love Goes
Janet Jackson
Climax
Usher
Untitled (How Does It Feel)
D'Angelo
Drunk in Love
Beyonce
Nice & Slow
Usher
Pony
Ginuwine
You Make Me Wanna...
Usher
Adorn
Miguel
Blinding Lights
The Weeknd
Earned It
The Weeknd
Best Part
Daniel Caesar ft. H.E.R.
Love Galore
SZA
Redbone
Childish Gambino
The Weekend
SZA
Come and Talk to Me
Jodeci
Bump N' Grind
R. Kelly
My Boo
Usher & Alicia Keys
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 3 completed R&B Songs brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
No Scrubs
8W - 2L · won 1 bracket
80%
win rate
- 2
I Will Always Love You
7W - 2L · won 1 bracket
78%
win rate
- 3
Crazy in Love
10W - 3L
77%
win rate
- 4
Untitled (How Does It Feel)
6W - 2L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 5
Brown Sugar
8W - 3L
73%
win rate
- 6
Waterfalls
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 7
Pony
5W - 3L
63%
win rate
- 8
No Diggity
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 9
End of the Road
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
- 10
Blinding Lights
4W - 3L
57%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Go with the track you would rather hear right now — instant reaction beats a considered take.
- 2The default run puts all 32 tracks in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the track you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
R&B Songs bracket FAQ
How many tracks are in the R&B Songs bracket?
The pool holds 32 tracks. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which tracks are included?
No Diggity, Waterfalls, Kiss from a Rose, Killing Me Softly, Ain't No Sunshine, Let's Stay Together, Unchained Melody, If I Ain't Got You, No Scrubs, Crazy in Love, Say My Name and Superstition, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank R&B songs take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other track grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two tracks that never met. If you would rather place the tracks into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the R&B Songs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a track I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own tracks, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.