| Cover | | Date
 | Title  Album | Points
 | US peak | UK peak | US AC peak | US dance peak | US R&B peak | Comment |
|---|
| 1. | 1986 | | 2
 | | | | 39 dance | | written by John Smith  |
 | 2. | 03/1986 | | 273
 | 3 US | 2 UK | 38 AC | ✫1 dance | 2 R&B | [songwriter #1 hit] [Atlantic 89446] written by John Smith  |
 | 3. | 07/1986 | | 60
 | 28 US | 48 UK | | ✫1 dance | 36 R&B | [songwriter #5 hit] [Atlantic 89392] written by John Smith & Valerie Day |
|
| 4. | 1988 | | 17
 | | | | 2 dance | | written by John Smith & Valerie Day |
| 5. | 04/1988 | | 22
 | 41 US | | | | 17 R&B | [Atlantic 89108] written by John Smith & Valerie Day |
| 6. | 10/1989 | | 95
 | 9 US | | | | 37 R&B | [songwriter #4 hit] [Cold Chillin' 22784] written by Warryn Campbell, Harold Lilly, Biz Markie & John Smith  |
| 7. | 05/1994 | | 9
 | 82 US | | | | 41 R&B | [Wing 855 762] written by John Smith & Raphael Saadiq (as Raphael Wiggins) |
| 8. | 1997 | | 3
 | | | | | 38 R&B | [R&B chart position is for R&B airplay charts] [Mercury album cut] written by Jimmy Jam (as James Harris), Terry Lewis & John Smith (sample)  |
 | 9. | 02/2001 | | 9
 | | | | 11 dance | 74 R&B | [LaFace album cut] written by Toni Braxton, Keith Crouch, Samuel Gause, Mechalie Jamison & John Smith  |
| 10. | 07/2001 | | 55
 | 26 US | 59 UK | | | 7 R&B | [J 21084 J] written by Warryn Campbell, Harold Lilly & John Smith  |
| 11. | 04/2002 | | 41
 | | 19 UK | | | | featuring Femme Fatale written by John Smith  |
 | 12. | 05/2002 | | 188
 | 4 US | 18 UK | | | 4 R&B | [songwriter #2 hit] [J 21150] written by Warryn Campbell, Harold Lilly, Biz Markie & John Smith  |
 | 13. | 03/2003 | | 2
 | | 187 UK | | | | featuring Femme Fatale [R] written by John Smith  |
| 14. | 2004 | | 1
 | | | | | 68 R&B | written by Missy Elliott, Nisan Stewart, Craig Brockman & John Smith  |
 | 15. | 12/2006 | | 124
 | | 2 UK | | | | [songwriter #3 hit] written by Tweet (as Charlene Keys), Nisan Stewart & John Smith  |
| Top 100 hits | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 10 | |
| Top 40 hits | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | |
| Top 10 hits | 3 | 2 | | 3 | 3 | |
| ✫ #1 hits | | | | 2 | | |
| US | UK | AC | dance | R&B | |