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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.
