Black Vocalists Featured On List Of The Top 100 Pop Songs Of All Time

Jet, Dec 4, 2000

Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes and Stevie Wonder are among the elite group of vocalists who sang some of the top 10 greatest songs of all time.

A list of the 100 greatest pop songs since 1963 was released this month and Blacks recorded 27 of the songs.

According to a list compiled by experts at MTV and Rolling Stone magazine, Michael Jackson has two songs that rank in the top 25, Billie Jean (5) and Beat It (22).

Other songs that made the top 25 are Respect, Aretha Franklin (7), I Want You Back, The Jackson 5 (9), Where Did Our Love Go? The Supremes (12), Superstition, Stevie Wonder (17) and What's Going On, Marvin Gaye (24).

More songs by Black artists on the list are: When Doves Cry, Prince (27), (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding (32), Waterfalls, TLC (36), O.P.P., Naughty By Nature (37), I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston (40), The Tracks of My Tears, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (46), Little Red Corvette, Prince (50), Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), The Temptations (51), I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor (56), You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Stevie Wonder (59), Hot Fun in the Summertime, Sly & The Family Stone (75), Let's Stay Together, Al Green (77), Nasty, Janet Jackson (79), I Need Love, LL Cool J (80), Rock With You, Michael Jackson (82), Gone Til November, Wyclef Jean (88), The Boy Is Mine, Brandy & Monica (90), No Diggity, Blackstreet (91), Good Times, Chic (95) and Just a Friend, Biz Markie (99).