This is a “Smooth R&B Edition” of The Numbers Game seeing that the only new releases this week are from Ne-Yo & Charlie Wilson.
If feels like Ne-Yo fell off. Maybe I’m wrong but at one point he was on the front lines leading new R&B, but now not so much. But he’s back with his sixth album titled Non-Fiction. I don’t have much to say because all I did was quickly skip through this album (It wasn’t terrible). But hey, all of Ne-Yo’s album have debuted in the Top 10 so that’s something. Non-Fiction lands at #5 and sells 59,000 units.
Uncle Charlie keeps on moving and releasing new music. He dropped his latest album, Forever Charlie, last week and it lands at #17 and does 25,000 in sales. At 62, Charlie Wilson still got fans. I’ll ask my aunt how this album sounds next time I see her.
#5 Ne-Yo – Non-Fiction (Last Week: N/A) – 59,400; Total: N/A [Debut]
#8 Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint (Last Week: #6) – 48,400; Total: 466,400 [7 Weeks]
#14 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive (Last Week: #16) – 28,900; Total: 728,200 (Gold) [8 Weeks]
#17 Charlie Wilson – Forever Charlie (Last Week: N/A) – 25,200; Total: N/A [Debut]
#26 Pitbull – Globalization (Last Week: #32) – 16,800; Total: 105,100 [4 Weeks]
#27 Rae Sremmurd – SremmLife (Last Week: #24) – 16,300; Total: 59,200 [4 Weeks]
#37 Lupe Fiasco – Tetsuo & Youth (Last Week: #14) – 12,900; Total: 50,100 [2 Weeks]
#41 Joey Bada$$ – B4.DA.$$ (Last Week: #5) – 12,500; Total: 64,200 [2 Weeks]
Hip-Hop + R&B album sales for the week of January 27th (Top 50 & New Releases)