Presidential Playlist: Listen to All 46 Inauguration Songs

1980s

"Could You Be Loved" - Bob Marley & the Wailers
From Uprising, 1980

"You Make My Dreams" - Hall & Oates
From Voices, 1981
Peaked at No. 5
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1990s

"Optimistic" - Sounds of Blackness
From The Evolution of Gospel, 1991

"Award Tour" - A Tribe Called Quest ft. Trugoy
From Midnight Marauders, 1993
Peaked at No. 47

"Whatta Man" - Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue
From Very Necessary, 1993
Peaked at No. 3
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"You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
From Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, 1998
Peaked at No. 36

 

2000s

"Run to the Sun" - N.E.R.D.
From In Search Of..., 2001
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"Coffin Nails" - MF Doom
From Special Herbs, Vols. 4, 5 & 6, 2003
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"Golden" - Jill Scott
From Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2, 2004

"Work That" - Mary J. Blige
From Growing Pains, 2008
Peaked at No. 65
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