SOS is the first female R&B album to spend its first 3 weeks at #1 since BEYONCÉ

[Green]

 

It's been 9 years since that

[yonsé]

Icons!

[Armani?]

[wehavetostan]

lol it was also the first female R&B album to spend its first 2 weeks at #1 since BEYONCÉ. Female R&B deserves so much more it’s crazy

[lover.]

After years of gaslighting us into thinking we’re getting new music, Miss Solana came through and dropped a critical and commercial success. 

[Dreajae]

That's crazy. Congrats.

[slw84]

The state of r&b is the pits. We need more juggernauts. Sza, Summer...H.E.R. and a few more but we need more male r&b artists consistently and about 5 more female r&b artists that are consistent when others. are in between eras. 

 

congrats to Sza. This will be her biggest album. Happy about that

Edited January 2, 2023 by slw84

[Bloodflowers.]

I miss when R&B girls were dominanting. Ashanti, Alicia Keys, Amerie, Ciara ughhh

[Pheromosa]

Not 10 years later 

[family.guy123]

I mean how many albums spend their first 3 weeks at #1 in the first place? I’d guess not many. What was the last female country album to spend it’s first 3 weeks at #1?

[Iyanla, Fix Me]

1 hour ago, family.guy123 said:

I mean how many albums spend their first 3 weeks at #1 in the first place? I’d guess not many. What was the last female country album to spend it’s first 3 weeks at #1?

I get what you're trying to say but R&B is like the the 3rd or 4th most popular genre at least in the US. This post highlights the lack of mega R&B stars in comparison to the early 00s where female R&B singers were dominating the charts. 

[EdgeofTeeth]

deserved, proud of her

[Armani?]

1 hour ago, Iyanla, Fix Me said:

I get what you're trying to say but R&B is like the the 3rd or 4th most popular genre at least in the US. This post highlights the lack of mega R&B stars in comparison to the early 00s where female R&B singers were dominating the charts. 

I don't think many R&B singers were spending multiple weeks at #1 on Billboard 200 in the early 2000s either 

 

Not even Beyonce did

 

Only Usher with Confessions & Alicia Keys??

[Iyanla, Fix Me]

6 minutes ago, Armani? said:

I don't think many R&B singers were spending multiple weeks at #1 on Billboard 200 in the early 2000s either 

 

Not even Beyonce did

 

Only Usher with Confessions & Alicia Keys??

Fair enough! Yes I think Usher, AK, and maybe Mary? But all of them had #1 albums in the same calendar year while I'm pretty sure only Rihanna and Beyonce have gone #1 as R&B females since 2013 until this year with SZA and Lizzo (if you consider either of them really R&B)

 

Edit: I forgot Summer Walker has been very successful but overall the 00s were better to R&B artists in terms of chart runs/peaks. 

Edited January 2, 2023 by Iyanla, Fix Me

[Armani?]

5 minutes ago, Iyanla, Fix Me said:

Fair enough! Yes I think Usher, AK, and maybe Mary? But all of them had #1 albums in the same calendar year while I'm pretty sure only Rihanna and Beyonce have gone #1 as R&B females since 2013 until this year with SZA and Lizzo (if you consider either of them really R&B)

 

Edit: I forgot Summer Walker has been very successful but overall the 00s were better to R&B artists in terms of chart runs/peaks. 

Emancipation of Mimi got 2 weeks too

 

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Jhene Aiko's last album also debuted #1 but it didn't stay on top 2nd week

[Iyanla, Fix Me]

1 minute ago, Armani? said:

Jhene Aiko's last album also debuted #1 but it didn't stay on top 2nd week

"The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 152,000 album-equivalent units in its first week."

 

Yea it was very successful but never went #1. It was the highest peaking R&B female album since Lemonade, which lowkey proves my point lol. No female R&B album went #1 between May 2016 and Oct 2021. Still Over It - "debuted atop the US Billboard 200, becoming Walker's first number-one album, and the highest charting album from a female R&B artist since Beyoncé's Lemonade (2016)." At least a few would've gone #1 if this was 2004-2010. Jhene is massive tho!

[Armani?]

2 minutes ago, Iyanla, Fix Me said:

"The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 152,000 album-equivalent units in its first week."

 

Yea it was very successful but never went #1. It was the highest peaking R&B female album since Lemonade, which lowkey proves my point lol. No female R&B album went #1 between May 2016 and Oct 2021. Still Over It - "debuted atop the US Billboard 200, becoming Walker's first number-one album, and the highest charting album from a female R&B artist since Beyoncé's Lemonade (2016)." At least a few would've gone #1 if this was 2004-2010. Jhene is massive tho!

Nnn, I thought it went #1 Who blocked her that week?

 

Edit - Nvm, it was Lil Uzi's comeback album

[kandicha]

Good for SZA, but that makes me sad that it’s been nine years since Beyoncé accomplished the same and makes me miss the days of R&B dominance from when I was a kid.

[Soda Pop Queen]

9 hours ago, wehavetostan said:

lol it was also the first female R&B album to spend its first 2 weeks at #1 since BEYONCÉ. Female R&B deserves so much more it’s crazy

All facts.