Soul/R&B · Mezzo-soprano · A3–A5
Soul/R&B songs a mezzo-soprano can sing in the original key.
16 of the 77 Soul/R&B songs in the catalogue fit a mezzo-soprano as written — every note between A3 and A5.
The widest of them is Sorry Not Sorry by Demi Lovato, 24 semitones from A3 to A5; the narrowest is Your Love Is King by Sade, at 9 semitones.
Of the 77, 60 go below A3 and 3 climb above A5; 2 do both.
Every Soul/R&B song that fits A3–A5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Straight Up | Paula Abdul | 1988 | A3–C5 | D minor | 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 |
| Respect | Aretha Franklin | 1967 | A#3–E5 | C major | 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 |
| LoveGame | Lady Gaga | 2009 | B3–G5 | B minor | 3 | Soul/R&B |
| Sorry Not Sorry | Demi Lovato | 2017 | A3–A5 | B minor | 4 | 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 A3–A5 — 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.