Soul/R&B · Contralto · F3–F5
Soul/R&B songs a contralto can sing in the original key.
28 of the 77 Soul/R&B songs in the catalogue fit a contralto as written — every note between F3 and F5.
The widest of them is OMG by Usher featuring will.i.am, 21 semitones from G3 to E5; the narrowest is Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, at 7 semitones.
Of the 77, 37 go below F3 and 15 climb above F5; 3 do both.
Every Soul/R&B song that fits F3–F5
The best-known songs come first, and the easier ones first inside that. Rows whose chart position nobody matched sit at the end.
| Song | Artist | Year | Range | Original key | Difficulty | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie | Amy Winehouse | 2007 | G3–A#4 | Eb Major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Back To Black | Amy Winehouse | 2007 | G3–G4 | D Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Rolling in the Deep | Adele | 2010 | A#3–D5 | C Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Set Fire To the Rain | Adele | 2011 | A#3–D5 | D Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Stay | Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko | 2012 | A3–E5 | C major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Finally | CeCe Peniston | 1991 | B3–D5 | B minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| First Love | Jennifer Lopez | 2014 | C4–D5 | — | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Lose My Breath | Destiny's Child | 2004 | C4–D5 | — | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Maps | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 2003 | G3–D4 | G major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Straight Up | Paula Abdul | 1988 | A3–C5 | D minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Faith | George Michael | 1987 | F#3–G#4 | B major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| I Don't Want To | Toni Braxton | 1997 | F3–G4 | B major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| On My Mind | Ellie Goulding | 2015 | D4–D5 | D minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| The Way That I Love You | Ashanti | 2008 | D4–E5 | E minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Your Love Is King | Sade | 1984 | A3–F#4 | A major | 1 | Soul/R&B |
| Greatest Love of All (Whitney Houston recording) | Whitney Houston | 1986 | A3–E5 | A-major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Needed Me | Rihanna | 2016 | F3–C5 | G minor | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Respect | Aretha Franklin | 1967 | A#3–E5 | C major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Rock the Boat | Aaliyah | 2001 | F#3–C#5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Beggie Beggie | Ayra Starr featuring CKay | 2021 | G#3–C#5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| I Care 4 U | Aaliyah | 2003 | F#3–C#5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Kemosabe | Everything Everything | 2013 | A#3–C#5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Love Like This | Natasha Bedingfield featuring Sean Kingston | 2007 | C4–F5 | F major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| The One I Gave My Heart To | Aaliyah | 1997 | G#3–D#5 | G major | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Turnin Me On | Keri Hilson featuring Lil Wayne | 2008 | G3–C5 | — | 2 | Soul/R&B |
| Happy | Pharrell Williams | 2013 | F3–C5 | F minor | 3 | Soul/R&B |
| OMG | Usher featuring will.i.am | 2010 | G3–E5 | — | 4 | Soul/R&B |
| Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | Nina Simone | 1964 | F#3–G4 | B Minor | 1 | Soul/R&B |
What this list is
The catalogue holds 430 songs with a sourced lowest and highest note, and 77 of those are Soul/R&B. A song is on this page only if both of its notes already sit inside F3–F5 — nothing has been moved to another key.
A voice type is a convention for classifying a trained voice by timbre and where it sits, not a test result on its own.
No song here is marked safe or risky. Those labels are read off notes held for two seconds, and this page has not heard you sing.