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Usher Quiz: Guess the Song & Test Your Trivia

An Usher quiz has one center of gravity: Confessions, the 2004 album that spun four number ones and outsold everything else he made. Guess the Usher song from 'Yeah!' and 'Burn' to 'My Boo' with Alicia Keys, then test your trivia on everything that album isn't: the ballads 'Nice & Slow', 'U Remind Me' and 'U Got It Bad' that came first, the club reinventions 'Love in This Club' and 'OMG' that came later, and the falsetto comeback 'Climax'. See how well you really know Usher past one 2004 record.

Main genrePop (R&B, dance-pop)
Best-known songs to guessYeah!, Burn, U Got It Bad, My Boo, OMG
Deep cuts fans missClimax, Good Kisser, Caught Up, Superstar
Eras in the quizMy Way slow jams (1997), 8701 ballads (2001), Confessions (2004), club-era crossovers (2008-2010)
Best-selling albumConfessions (2004), four number-one singles
Real nameUsher Raymond IV
AlsoR&B singer and dancer; mentored Justin Bieber; Super Bowl LVIII headliner (2024)
Quiz difficultyEasy on Confessions, hard on everything around it

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Name as many tracks as you can from short audio clips. The faster you answer, the more you score.

10 questions4 answers each

Guess the Usher Song, From Slow Jam to Club

His catalog swings between whispered bedroom ballads and peak-time club records, and both are in play here: the slow burn of 'U Got It Bad', the crunk snap of 'Yeah!'. Name each one from a short clip.

01

Yeah!

02

Burn

03

U Got It Bad

04

My Boo

05

OMG

06

Climax

07

Good Kisser

08

Caught Up

Usher Trivia: The Confessions Files

The details decide the close calls: how many copies Confessions moved in a week, how many number ones it spun off, and which of his hits actually came years before it.

His 2004 album Confessions sold more than a million copies in its first week in the United States, one of the biggest sales weeks in R&B history.
'Yeah!', featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, spent twelve weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2004 and helped define the crunk-and-B sound.
'My Boo', his duet with Alicia Keys, also topped the Hot 100, giving Confessions four number-one singles from one album.
Before Confessions he was already a hitmaker: 'Nice & Slow' from 1997 and the ballads 'U Remind Me' and 'U Got It Bad' from 2001 all reached number one.
He helped launch Justin Bieber's career, signing him alongside manager Scooter Braun, and in 2024 he headlined the Super Bowl halftime show.

How Well Do You Know Usher's Catalog?

His songs sort into tiers. Start with the Confessions number ones everyone knows, then the slow jams, then the club reinventions, and finally the comeback singles that only real fans place.

The Confessions four (where casual fans score)

The album everyone owned in 2004 hands out the easy points: 'Yeah!' with Lil Jon and Ludacris, 'Burn', 'Confessions Part II' and 'My Boo' with Alicia Keys. Four number ones from one record, and most players name them on the first note, so they open any Usher quiz.

The bedroom slow jams (still easy points)

Before the club hits, Usher was a balladeer. The spoken-intro 'Nice & Slow' and the number-one ballads 'U Remind Me' and 'U Got It Bad' all trade on the same low, unhurried delivery. Casual fans still catch these, most of them recorded before Confessions.

The club reinventions (where it gets tricky)

This is where the quiz opens up. 'Love in This Club' with Young Jeezy, the will.i.am-produced 'OMG' and the Pitbull team-up 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love' show Usher chasing each new dance sound, and they land far from the Confessions ballads that made him famous.

Beyond Confessions (where superfans pull ahead)

What sorts the diehards sits outside the juggernaut: the falsetto Grammy-winner 'Climax', the slow-build 'Good Kisser', the Confessions-era cut 'Caught Up' and the early 'You Make Me Wanna...'. Land these from a short clip and you have gone well past the one album most players stop at.

Usher Quiz FAQ

Which Usher songs are in the quiz?

The Confessions singles come up first, 'Yeah!', 'Burn', 'Confessions Part II' and 'My Boo', plus the slow jams 'U Got It Bad' and 'Nice & Slow' and later club hits 'Love in This Club' and 'OMG'.

How hard is the Usher quiz?

Confessions makes the start easy, since so many of his best-known songs come from that one 2004 album. It gets tricky once the quiz moves to his pre-Confessions ballads and his later club reinventions.

Is the Usher quiz just Confessions songs?

No. Confessions is the core, but the quiz reaches back to 'Nice & Slow' and 'U Remind Me' and forward to 'OMG', 'Climax' and 'Good Kisser', so knowing one album only gets you halfway.

What is Usher's real name and where is he from?

His full name is Usher Raymond IV. He was born on October 14, 1978, in Dallas, Texas, grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and came up as an artist in Atlanta, Georgia.

Is the Usher quiz free?

Yes. The Usher quiz is free to play on Songtrivia, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. Open the page and start naming songs.

📚 Sources & methodology

Sources consulted

Wikipedia · AllMusic · Pitchfork · Billboard · Songtrivia editorial team.

Our methodology

Each topic is curated by a Quiz Master with category expertise. Selection crosses cultural impact, chart performance, recognition potential and era variety.