Top Roots Reggae Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
540
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Redemption Song
Singer/Songwriter
1980
2
543
The Wailers
Get Up, Stand Up
1973
3
651
Junior Murvin
Police & Thieves
1976
4
872
The Wailers
I Shot the Sheriff
1973
5
1261
The Melodians
Rivers of Babylon
Rocksteady
1970
6
1469
Burning Spear
Marcus Garvey
1975
7
1473
Bob Marley and The Wailers
One Love/People Get Ready
1977
8
1731
Culture
Two Sevens Clash
1977
9
1918
Peter Tosh
Legalize It
1975
10
1982
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Jamming
1977
11
2280
Max Romeo
Chase the Devil
1976
12
2427
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Is This Love
Lovers Rock
1978
13
2650
The Congos
Fisherman
1977
14
2814
The Abyssinians
Satta Massa Gana
1971
15
2854
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Trench Town Rock
1971
16
2870
Horace Andy
Skylarking
Dub
1972
17
2940
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Exodus
1977
18
3299
Max Romeo & The Upsetters
War ina Babylon
1976
19
3346
Bob Marley and The Wailers
War
1976
20
3399
Dennis Brown
Money In My Pocket
Dub
1972
21
3497
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Lively Up Yourself
1971
22
4132
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Three Little Birds
Pop Reggae
1977
23
4170
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Concrete Jungle
1973
24
4892
Burning Spear
Slavery Days
1975
25
5214
The Heptones
Book of Rules
1973
26
5626
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Buffalo Soldier
1983
27
5754
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Duppy Conqueror
1970
28
6478
Luciano
It's Me Again Jah
1994
29
7222
Willie Williams
Armagideon Time
1978
30
7260
Lee Perry
Roast Fish and Corn Bread
1976
31
7481
Bunny Wailer
Dream Land
1976
32
7516
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Natural Mystic
1977
33
7844
Peter Tosh
Equal Rights
1977
34
8797
Junior Byles
Curley Locks
1974
35
8881
The Mighty Diamonds
Right Time
1976
36
9562
Third World
96 Degrees in the Shade
1977
37
9758
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Roots, Rock, Reggae
1976
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Junior Byles
Fade Away
1975
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
1974
Dr. Alimantado
Born for a Purpose
Deejay
1976
The Congos
Ark of the Covenant
1977
Jacob Miller
Tenement Yard
1975
Misty in Roots
Man Kind
1979
Niney
Blood & Fire
1971
Toots and The Maytals
Time Tough
1974
Gregory Isaacs
Love Is Overdue
1974
Burning Spear
Door Peeper
1969
Black Uhuru
Sponji Reggae
1981
Linval Thompson
I Love Marijuana
Dub
1978
John Holt
Police in Helicopter
Dancehall
1982
The Mighty Diamonds
Pass the Kouchie
1981
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Zimbabwe
1979
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Crazy Baldhead
1976
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Natty Dread
Singer/Songwriter
1974
Israel Vibration
The Same Song
1978
Black Uhuru
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Dub
1979
Burning Spear
Social Living
1978
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block)
Singer/Songwriter
1974
Johnny Clarke
None Shall Escape the Judgement
1974
Alpha Blondy
Brigadier Sabari (Opération Coup de Poing)
1982
Bob Marley and The Wailers
No More Trouble
1973
Black Uhuru
Stalk of Sinsemilla / Sinsemilla
Dub
1980
Lucky Dube
Slave
1987
The Wailers
Burnin' and Lootin'
1973