Have you ever wondered what some of the highest charting freestyle songs have been? Did any of this Latin Hip-Hop music make its way to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Top 100? How well did freestyle music do on the U.S. Dance Chart? The list here may surprise you. Many of the U.S. Billboard chart topping freestyle songs were slow love songs, but not all. Here we go.
Freestyle songs to make the top #20 on the U.S. Billboard Top 100
- Expose – Season’s Change – #1
- Stevie B – Because I Love You (The Postman Song) – #1
- Sweet Sensation – If Wishes Came True – #1
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Head to Toe – #1
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Lost in Emotion – #1
- Will to Power – Baby I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley – #1
- Timmy T. – One More Try – #1
- Taylor Dayne – Love Will Lead you Back – #1
- Seduction – Takes Two to Make it Right – #2
- Taylor Dayne – Don’t Rush Me – #2
- New Shooz – I Can’t Wait – #3
- Stacey Q – Two of Hearts – #3
- Taylor Dayne – I’ll Always Love You – #3
- Taylor Dayne – I’ll be Your Shelter – #4
- Expose – Come Go With Me – #5
- Expose – Point of no Return – #5
- Linear – Sending all my Love – #5
- Taylor Dayne – With Every Beat of my Heart – #5
- Corina – Temptation – #6
- Dino – Romeo – #6
- Will to Power – I’m not in Love – #7
- Dino – I Like It – #7
- Taylor Dayne – Prove Your Love – #7
- Expose – Let me be the One – #7
- Taylor Dayne – Tell it to my Heart – #7
- Expose – What you don’t know – #8
- The Cover Girls – We Can’t Go Wrong – #8
- Pretty Poison – Catch Me (I’m Fallin’) – #8
- Shannon – Let the Music Play – #8
- Expose – I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me) – #8
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – All Cried Out – #8
- The Cover Girls – Wishing on a Star – #9
- Expose – Tell me why – #9
- Expose – When I Looked at Him – #10
- Seduction – Could This Be Love – #11
- Taylor Dayne – Heart of Stone – #12
- Stevie B – I’ll be by your Side – #12
- Sa-Fire – Thinking of you – #12
- Sweet Sensation – Love Child – #13
- Seduction – Heartbeat – #13
- Brenda K. Starr – I Still Believe – #13
- Stevie B – Love and Emotion – #15
- Sweet Sensation – Sincerely Yours – #16
- Expose – Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue – #17
- Taylor Dayne – Can’t Get Enough of Your Love – #20
As far as the U.S. Dance Chart goes, there were many more songs to make #1. Well, freestyle music is mainly dance music, so it should come as no surprise to anyone. Here is a list of the top charting freestyle songs to make the U.S. Dance Chart.
Freestyle songs to make the top #10 on the U.S. Dance Chart
- Shannon – Let the Music Play – #1
- Shannon – Give me Tonight – #1
- Shannon – Do you wanna get away – #1
- Company B – Fascinated – #1
- Sweet Sensation – Never let you go – #1
- Pretty Poison – Catch Me (I’m Fallin’) – #1
- Noel – Like a Child – #1
- Noel – Out of Time – #1
- Seduction – Two to make it Right – #1
- Expose – Point of no Return – #1
- Expose – Come go with me – #1
- Alisha – Baby Talk – #1
- Lil Suzy – Take Me In Your Arms – #1
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – I Wonder if I Take you Home – #1
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Head to Toe – #1
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Let the Beat Hit’ Em” – #1
- Will to Power – Say it’s Gonna Rain – #1
- Will to Power – Fading Away – #1
- New Shooz – I Can’t Wait – #1
- New Shooz – Point of no Return – #1
- Taylor Dayne – Beautiful – #1
- Taylor Dayne – Planet Love – #1
- Nancy Martinez – For Tonight – #2
- Nocera – Summertime Summertime – #2
- Seduction – Heartbeat – #2
- Seduction – Free Your Body – #2
- Expose – What You Don’t Know – #2
- Expose – Let me be the One – #2
- New Shooz – Are you Lookin’ for Somebody Nu” – #2
- Taylor Dayne – I’m not Featuring You – #2
- Taylor Dayne – Can’t Get Enough of Your Love – #2
- Seduction – You’re my One and Only True Love – #3
- Expose – Tell me why – #3
- Taylor Dayne – I’ll Wait #3
- Taylor Dayne – Naked Without You – #3
- Shannon – My Heart’s Divided – #3
- Stacey Q – Two of Hearts – #4
- The Cover Girls – Show Me – #4
- The Cover Girls – My Heart Skips a Beat – #4
- Alisha – All Night Passion – #4
- Seduction – Breakdown – #4
- Seduction – Groove Me – #4
- George Lamond – Without You – #4
- George Lamond – Look into my Eyes – #4
- Johnny O – Runaway Love – #4
- Stevie B – Spring Love (Come back to me) – #5
- Company B – Full Circle – #5
- George Lamond – Bad of the Heart – #5
- Sa-Fire – Taste the Bass – #6
- Noel – Silent Morning – #6
- Expose – I Specialize in Love – #6
- TKA – Tears may fall – #6
- Stacey Q – Don’t Make a Fool of Yourself – #4
- Brenda K. Starr – What You See is What you Get – #6
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Can you Feel the Beat – #6
- Denise Lopez – Sayin’ Sorry (Don’t Make it Right) – #6
- Taylor Dayne – Whatever You Want – #6
- Alisha – Too Turned On – #6
- Taylor Dayne – How Many – #6
- The Cover Girls – Wishing on a Star – #7
- TKA – Crash – #7
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Just git it Together – #7
- Taylor Dayne – Say a Prayer – #7
- The Cover Girls – Don’t Stop Now – #8
- The Cover Girls – Funk Boutique – #8
- The Cover Girls – If you want my Love (Here it is) – #8
- Nocera – Let’s Go – #8
- TKA – Come Get My Love – #8
- TKA – One Way Love – #8
- Linear – Sending all my Love – #8
- Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam – Lost in Emotion – #8
- Company B – Signed in Your Book of Love – #9
- Sandee (Sandra Casanas) – Notice Me – #9
- Brenda K. Starr – Pickin’ Up Pieces – #9
- Alisha – Into my Secret – #9
- Dino – I Like It – #9
- Taylor Dayne – Tell it to my Heart – #10
- Alisha – Bounce Back – #10
There you have it. The top charting freestyle songs on the U.S. Billboard Top 100 and the U.S. Dance Billboard. You may see songs here that we all know are all well deserving, but you may be wondering how a certain favorite jam of yours is not there.
A few surprises to me are that Dino’s “Summer Girls” only charted at #50 on the U.S. Billboard and #40 on the U.S. Dance Chart. What is considered the greatest freestyle duet “Dream Boy / Dream Girl” by Cynthia and Johnny O only made it to #53 on the U.S. Chart. Speaking of Cynthia, none of her songs made either list. This includes “Change on me” which made its way to #37 on the U.S. Dance Charts but didn’t chart on the U.S. Top 100. Also, you won’t find “Take me in your arms” by Lil Suzy on the U.S. Chart as is only went to #67, although it hit #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart.
Safire’s “Boy I’ve been told” only made it to #48 on the U.S. Billboard Top 100 and #13 on the U.S. Dance Chart. Johnny O’s “Fantasy Girl” did not chart at all on the U.S. Billboard, but it did make it to #48 on the U.S. Dance Chart. Also, ranking lower than what I thought was Nice and Wild’s “Diamond Girl” (#20 on U.S. Dance Chart) and Lisette Melendez “Together Forever” (#35 U.S. Top 100 and #31 on the U.S. Dance Chart.)
I would have thought Stevie B’s “Spring Love” would have made top #20 on the U.S. Billboard Top 100 (It went to #43.) It did make #5 on the U.S. Dance Chart. Honestly, I would have thought a lot of Stevie B songs would have charted better, although he did have multiple songs chart on the top 20 of the U.S. Billboard.
Here’s another surprise to me, Will to Powers “Say it’s gonna rain” only made #49 on the U.S. Billboard, but the song did hit #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart. Their other hit “Dreamin” made #50 on the U.S. Billboard and #15 on the U.S. Dance Chart. A few other songs that are coming to my mind right now are Sweet Sensation’s “Hooked on you” (#23 on U.S. Billboard,) Company B’s “Fascinated” (#21 on U.S. Billboard) and The Cover Girls “Because of you” (#27 on U.S. Billboard.)
All in all, many freestyle songs charted on the U.S. Top 100 Billboard, but our list is of the highest charting songs. The same goes with the U.S. Dance Chart. Many great songs, but the list consist of the highest charting songs.