R&B is not dead! and for the genre’s remaining fixtures who don’t want to compromise in their craft or their sound it appears to be paying off.

Following Tamia receiving her highest charting album with Love Life after nearly 20 years on Billboard‘s various charts as we told you HERE, now her R&B counterpart Tyrese has received some amazing news for his recent project which just dropped last week. According to Billboard:

Singer/actor Tyrese is set for his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Industry forecasters suggest the entertainer’s new Black Rose effort — released July 10 on his own Voltron Recordz (distributed through Universal Music) — could earn 70,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 16.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 1) is scheduled to see its top 10 revealed on Billboard’s Web sites on July 18.

The Aug. 1-dated chart is the first to reflect Nielsen Music’s new sales tracking week, which now runs Friday through Thursday (instead of Monday through Sunday).

Tyrese, who co-stars in this year’s blockbuster film Furious 7, has visited the top 10 of the Billboard 200 twice previously. His last album, 2011’s Open Invitation,debuted and peaked at No. 9 off a 76,000 sales start. Before that, he reached the top 10 with his second album, 2001’s 2000 Watts (No. 10 debut and peak; 92,000 in its first week).

The Billboard 200’s current No. 1, Meek Mill’s Dreams Worth More Than Money, will likely slide to the runner-up slot.

Tyrese has made it very clear via his social media posts below that he was not wiling to compromise his musical integrity just for popular opinion and for lovers of true R&B like myself we thank him! Kudos to Tyrese on the big feat. Hopefully record labels will take notice and begin putting their money back into their urban/R&B acts as they did in the 90’s and early 2000’s when R&B dominated the charts.

#BlackRose is #1 on The R&B Billboard Charts, it’s also #1 on the TOP 200 charts…. Wow wow wow!! We did it!!! I LOVE being GROWN!!! I’m Not trying to keep up….. Don’t wanna be cool… I actually told #TeamVoltron that I wanted my album and single and creative direction to be irrelevant- I don’t twerk… And I don’t know anybody name Nay Nay lol – it’s #GrownFolkSeason it’s real #RnBSeason – My voice is deep, I love sex, I love the ART of love and love making – I ove to mentally stimulate that woman’s mind and smell her perfume, I love a woman who’s been through some heavy shit and she’s still in tune with her “Femininity” I don’t wear backpacks with cartoon characters on it – I’m GROWN and I actually LOVE being grown…. Ladies I singing to that – cause I WANT that… R&B music has no race, has no boundaries, MAINSTREAM RADIO you’re on notice…. I want some answers….. Boundaries and racism shows UP in many forms…. #SHAME is #2 on Billboard in only 6 weeks…. And I’m ASKING that you stop creating limits on my audience and REACH…… Black people are NOT just supported by BLACK PEOPLE… Urban AC RADIO and Urban Mainstream radio I LOVE YOU FOR KEEPING BLACK MUSIC ON THE RADAR AND HELPING US TO FEED OUR FAMILIES AND TOUR…. Without YOU we literally wouldn’t be anything….. #SHAME ft Jennifer Hudson needs to be HEARD by ALL the WORLD!!!! And I won’t rest until we get there….#King #VoltronRecordzChairman – I don’t get dropped – I drop the label ” – …. Jay-Z Link in the bio…. Download and support #BlackRose HMV, BEST BUY, TARGET, AND ALL THE INDEPENDENT RETAILERS….

A photo posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jul 15, 2015 at 7:00am PDT

Not trying to keep up….. Don’t wanna be cool… I actually told #TeamVoltron that I wanted my album and single and creative direction to be irrelevant- I don’t twerk… And I don’t know anybody name Nay Nay lol – it’s #GrownFolkSeason it’s real #RnBSeason – My voice is deep, I love sex, I love the ART of love and love making – I don’t wear backpacks with cartoon characters on it – I’m GROWN and I actually LOVE being grown…. Ladies I singing to that – cause I WANT that… R&B music has no race, has no boundaries, MAINSTREAM RADIO you’re on notice…. I want some answers….. Boundaries and racism shows UP in many forms…. #SHAME is #2 on billboard in only 6 weeks…. And I’m ASKING that you stop creating limits on my audience and REACH…… Black people are NOT just supported by BLACK PEOPLE… Urban AC RADIO and Urban Mainstream radio I LOVE YOU FOR KEEPING BLACK MUSIC ON THE RADAR AND HELPING US TO FEED OUR FAMILIES AND TOUR…. Without YOU we literally wouldn’t be anything….. #SHAME ft Jennifer Hudson needs to be HEARD by ALL the WORLD!!!! And I won’t rest until we get there….#King #VoltronRecordzChairman – I don’t get dropped – I drop the label ” – …. Jay-Z Link in the bio…. Download and support #BlackRose HMV, BEST BUY, TARGET, AND ALL THE INDEPENDENT RETAILERS….

A photo posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jul 14, 2015 at 7:11pm PDT