The leaderboards

The 50 yachtiest and 50 driest of the 16,627 songs the model has rated so far — plus the Brazilian fleet.

⛵ Smoothest waters

#SongYearVerdictScore
1 Bill LaBounty — Livin’ It Up 1982 MAXIMUM YACHT 97
2 George Duke — You 1982 MAXIMUM YACHT 97
3 Kevin Moore — Holding On To You 1980 MAXIMUM YACHT 96
4 David Roberts — Wrong Side of the Tracks 1982 MAXIMUM YACHT 96
5 Pages — You Need a Hero 1981 MAXIMUM YACHT 96
6 Bill LaBounty — Dream On 1982 MAXIMUM YACHT 95
7 Dane Donohue — Freedom 1978 PURE YACHT 94
8 Parachute — Baby You’re Just Like Me 1982 PURE YACHT 94
9 Robbie Dupree — Saturday Night 1981 PURE YACHT 94
10 Brenda Russell — It's Something! 1983 PURE YACHT 94
11 Valerie Carter — Crazy 1978 PURE YACHT 93
12 Dave Raynor — Leave Me Alone Tonight 1981 PURE YACHT 93
13 Billy Ocean — Whatever Turns You On 1981 PURE YACHT 93
14 Dane Donohue — Tracey 1978 PURE YACHT 93
15 Grover Washington, Jr. w/ Bill Withers — Just the Two Of Us 1981 PURE YACHT 92
16 Al Jarreau — My Old Friend 1981 PURE YACHT 92
17 Tavares — I Hope You'll Be Very Unhappy Without Me 1982 PURE YACHT 92
18 Robbie Dupree — Brooklyn Girls 1981 PURE YACHT 92
19 Paul Hart — Peppermint Park 1981 PURE YACHT 92
20 Pages — Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong 1979 PURE YACHT 92
21 Westpoint — Joanie 1983 PURE YACHT 92
22 Maxus — Don't Try To Stop Me Now 1981 PURE YACHT 92
23 Page 99 — Did You Mean That 2023 PURE YACHT 91
24 Boz Scaggs — Jojo 1980 PURE YACHT 91
25 Randy Crawford — Don’t Come Knockin 1982 PURE YACHT 91
26 Marc Jordan — Generalities 1979 PURE YACHT 91
27 Jeff Lorber — It's a Fact 1982 PURE YACHT 91
28 David Roberts — Never Gonna Let You Go 1982 PURE YACHT 91
29 Djavan — Transe † 1984 PURE YACHT 91
30 Toto — 99* 1979 PURE YACHT 91
31 David Diggs — Holding On To Love 1984 PURE YACHT 91
32 Alain Chamfort — Let Me Try It Again 1979 PURE YACHT 91
33 Lee Ritenour — Cross My Heart 1982 PURE YACHT 90
34 Randy Crawford — Secret Combination 1981 PURE YACHT 90
35 State Cows — Emily 2022 PURE YACHT 90
36 Pages — The Sailor's Song 1979 PURE YACHT 90
37 Sarah Dash — City Boy 1981 PURE YACHT 90
38 Doobie Brothers — You're Made That Way 1977 PURE YACHT 90
39 Atlanta Rhythm Section — Alien 1981 PURE YACHT 90
40 Pages — Tell Me 1981 PURE YACHT 90
41 Maxus — Your Imagination 1981 PURE YACHT 90
42 Kingo Hamada — Sentimental Moment 1981 PURE YACHT 90
43 Lauren Wood — In The Dark 1981 PURE YACHT 90
44 Leon Ware — Slippin' Away 1982 PURE YACHT 90
45 Dionne Warwick & Johnny Mathis — Got You Where I Want You 1982 PURE YACHT 90
46 The Gap Band — The Way 1980 OPEN WATER 89
47 Christopher Cross — All Right 1982 OPEN WATER 89
48 Luther Vandross — Bad Boy/Having A Party 1982 OPEN WATER 89
49 Steve Cropper — Fly 1981 OPEN WATER 89
50 John Klemmer — Hummingbird Bay 1981 OPEN WATER 89

🏜️ Driest land

#SongYearVerdictScore
1 Motörhead — Enter Sandman † 2023 LANDLOCKED 0
2 Rita Lee — Vitima (Morganna Remix) † 2021 LANDLOCKED 0
3 Som Imaginário — Banda Da Capital (Live At Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro) † 2023 LANDLOCKED 0
4 Donica — Ain't What I Expected (Richard "Humpty" Vission Mix) † 2001 LANDLOCKED 0
5 Tvng — X † 2026 LANDLOCKED 0
6 Kassin — Vaca loca † 2009 LANDLOCKED 0
7 Kassin — Papo Cafajeste † 2009 LANDLOCKED 0
8 Kassin — Mais alto † 2009 LANDLOCKED 0
9 Victor Biglione — Abc Paulista (Parque Industrial) † 2016 LANDLOCKED 0
10 Victor Biglione — Baiao Rio / Montreux † 2013 LANDLOCKED 0
11 Musicians of the Subulaku Village — Tarian Gong - Gong Dance † 2002 LANDLOCKED 0
12 Nivaldo Ornelas — Dois Engenhos † 2022 LANDLOCKED 0
13 Tavito — Gray † 2023 LANDLOCKED 0
14 Joâo De Aquino — Cactus † 2021 LANDLOCKED 0
15 Leila Pinheiro — Delicadeza † 2007 LANDLOCKED 0
16 Dom Salvador — O Tempo Será Tua Paz † 1969 LANDLOCKED 0
17 Lulu Santos — Cybéria (feat. Alex & Sacha) † 1995 LANDLOCKED 0
18 Wagner Tiso — Fantasia de Wagner Tiso sobre Mandu-Çarará de Villa Lobos † 2007 LANDLOCKED 0
19 Robson Jorge — Avise Ao Coração † 2022 LANDLOCKED 0
20 Azymuth — Quest (Electric Soul Remix) † 1999 LANDLOCKED 0
21 Friends From Rio — Super Legal (Flytronix Remix) † 2010 LANDLOCKED 0
22 Gal Costa — Balancê (Eu Quero Dançar Com Você) † 2015 LANDLOCKED 0
23 John Cage — 4'33'' † 2010 LANDLOCKED 0
24 Zas — Va Por Vos, Para Vos 1982 LANDLOCKED 0
25 Dane Donohue — High Life Dream 2024 LANDLOCKED 0
26 Bad Brains — Sailin' On 1982 LANDLOCKED 0
27 Stephanie Mills — Sweet Sensation 1980 LANDLOCKED 0
28 Rubel — Não Vou Reclamar de Deus 2023 LANDLOCKED 1
29 Air — Talisman 1998 LANDLOCKED 1
30 Macklemore — Fucked Up 2025 LANDLOCKED 1
31 Heat — Whatever It Is 1980 LANDLOCKED 1
32 Rita Lee & Gui Boratto — Mutante (Gui Boratto Rework) 2021 LANDLOCKED 1
33 John Oates Feat. Laurence — Enough Is Enough 2025 LANDLOCKED 1
34 America — Horse With No Name 1972 LANDLOCKED 1
35 Steve Goodman — Just Lucky I Guess 1979 LANDLOCKED 1
36 Matthew L. Gordon — A Tear For E.B. 2005 LANDLOCKED 1
37 Radiohead — Bloom † 2011 LANDLOCKED 1
38 Panflöten Träume — Didgeridoo Meditation † 2023 LANDLOCKED 1
39 Gal Costa — Maria Bethânia (Ao Vivo) † 2014 LANDLOCKED 1
40 Gal Costa — Segunda (Live) † 2013 LANDLOCKED 1
41 Simone — Diga Lá, Coração / Espere por Mim Morena (Citação) (Ao Vivo) † 2021 LANDLOCKED 1
42 Silva — Carinhoso (Ao Vivo) † 2020 LANDLOCKED 1
43 João Bosco — Caça à Raposa (Live At Rio Montreux Jazz Festival) † 2025 LANDLOCKED 1
44 João Bosco — Sinhá (Live At Rio Montreux Jazz Festival) † 2025 LANDLOCKED 1
45 Dick Farney — Love Walked In (Ao Vivo) † 1956 LANDLOCKED 1
46 Mind Games — Lost Song (Live) † 2021 LANDLOCKED 1
47 Grupo Um — Velho Mundo Novo † 2016 LANDLOCKED 1
48 Som Imaginário — Os Cafezais Sem Fim (Live At Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro) † 2023 LANDLOCKED 1
49 Jonathan Wilson — Lilia † 2024 LANDLOCKED 1
50 Chitãozinho & Xororó — Morro Velho † 2023 LANDLOCKED 1

Scores are the model's own predictions: cross-validated for songs in the training corpus, live for everything else. † scored by a visitor — not in the rated corpus.

🇧🇷 Brazilian Yacht Rock

Brazil spent the late '70s and '80s perfecting its own strain of smooth — boogie, MPB and jazz-funk with the same Rhodes pianos, session players and immaculate production the yacht canon is built on. This board started as a question to an AI: "which 100 artists were most likely to have made something that sounds like yacht rock?" Then every song those artists have on Deezer was pulled — their full catalogues, deep cuts and all — and each 30-second preview was scored by the exact same model as everything else on this site: 21,418 recordings in all. The same song often appears across albums, remasters and compilations; each keeps its best-scoring recording, collapsing the pool to 14,079 distinct songs; the year shown is the earliest release seen for the song. These are the 50 that sailed highest.

#SongYearVerdictScore
1 Djavan — Transe 1984 PURE YACHT 91
2 Djavan — Miragem 1984 OPEN WATER 88
3 Luiz Melodia — Destino Coração 2006 OPEN WATER 87
4 Djavan — Topázio 1986 OPEN WATER 86
5 Djavan — Lei 1986 OPEN WATER 86
6 Sandra De Sá — Filho 1984 OPEN WATER 86
7 Ivan Lins — Sonhos (Arrastão Dos Pescadores) 1986 OPEN WATER 85
8 Simone — Do Oiapoque ao Chuí 1984 OPEN WATER 85
9 Sergio Mendes — Here Comes The Sun 2005 OPEN WATER 85
10 Azymuth — Flame (O Amor E Chama) 2023 OPEN WATER 84
11 Djavan — Liberdade 1984 OPEN WATER 84
12 Sandra De Sá — Baticum 1984 OPEN WATER 84
13 Djavan — Infinito 1984 OPEN WATER 83
14 Djavan — Iris 1984 OPEN WATER 83
15 Tim Maia — Doeu Mais Que Doer 2018 OPEN WATER 83
16 Luiz Melodia — Menina Moça 2008 OPEN WATER 83
17 Gal Costa — São Coisas Nossas 2025 OPEN WATER 83
18 Same Mc — Tipo Bailarina 2024 OPEN WATER 82
19 Ivan Lins — Beijo Infinito 1986 OPEN WATER 82
20 Sandra De Sá — Entre Nós (feat. Michael Sullivan) 1986 OPEN WATER 82
21 Cesar Camargo Mariano — Novo Tempo 2015 OPEN WATER 82
22 Gal Costa — Musa Cabolca 1982 OPEN WATER 82
23 Gal Costa — Coisas Nossas (São Coisas Nossas) 2025 OPEN WATER 82
24 Sergio Mendes — Rainbow’s End 1983 OPEN WATER 82
25 Djavan — Lilás 1984 OPEN WATER 81
26 14 Bis — Linda Juventude 2005 OPEN WATER 81
27 Rita Lee — Fissura 2007 OPEN WATER 81
28 Rosa Passos — Rosa Morena (Live) 2000 OPEN WATER 81
29 Ivan Lins — Somos Todos Iguais Nesta Noite 1986 OPEN WATER 80
30 Djavan — Deixa o Sol Sair 1996 OPEN WATER 80
31 Emílio Santiago — Pot-Pourri: Chuê, Chuá... As Águas Vão Rolar!/ De Bar Em Bar, Didi um Poeta 2013 OPEN WATER 80
32 Sandra De Sá — Pé de Meia 1980 OPEN WATER 80
33 Marina Lima — Solidão 1979 OPEN WATER 80
34 Rita Lee — Tentação Do Céu 2007 OPEN WATER 80
35 Tunai — Voltando Pra Casa 2018 OPEN WATER 80
36 Gal Costa — Topázio 1984 OPEN WATER 80
37 Sandra De Sá — Cavalo Ferro 1980 SMOOTH SAILING 79
38 Jorge Ben Jor — Mona Lisa Mona Lisa (Ciúmes de Leonardo) 2014 SMOOTH SAILING 79
39 Leila Pinheiro — Quem Te Viu, Quem Te Vê / Tem Mais Samba / Canta, Canta Minha Gente (Medley) 2006 SMOOTH SAILING 79
40 Leila Pinheiro — O Mar No Maracanã / Música Incidental: Dora 2021 SMOOTH SAILING 79
41 Gal Costa — Baby 1968 SMOOTH SAILING 79
42 Gal Costa — Verbos Do Amor 1982 SMOOTH SAILING 79
43 Ed Motta — Conversa Mole 2002 SMOOTH SAILING 78
44 Cesar Camargo Mariano — A Todas As Amizades 2015 SMOOTH SAILING 78
45 Carlos Dafé — Venha... 1983 SMOOTH SAILING 78
46 Luiz Melodia — Um Toque 2006 SMOOTH SAILING 78
47 Gal Costa — A Verdadeira Baiana 1990 SMOOTH SAILING 78
48 Gal Costa — Que Maravilha 2001 SMOOTH SAILING 78
49 Gal Costa — Grande Final 2014 SMOOTH SAILING 78
50 Gal Costa — Ultimo Blues 1985 SMOOTH SAILING 78

A wide net, not a verdict: the artist list is the pool, the model is the judge — album tracks, live takes and B-sides all compete. Songs the hosts have actually rated use their cross-validated score here too.