The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 R&B Album Chart
for the Week of May 19, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Whatever It Takes | The James Hunter Six | Daptone | Soul |
| - | 2 | 2 | Good Thing | Leon Bridges | Sony | Soul |
| - | 3 | 3 | If All I Was Was Black | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
| ▲ | 4 | 12 | Dirty Computer | Janelle Monae | Atlantic | Soul |
| ▼ | 5 | 4 | Everybody | Logic | Def Jam | Soul |
| ▼ | 6 | 5 | Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 | The California Honeydrops | Tubtune | Soul |
| ▼ | 7 | 6 | The Hits / the B-Sides | Prince | Universal | R&B |
| ▲ | 8 | 9 | Sex & Cigarettes | Toni Braxton | Def Jam | Soul |
| ▲ | 9 | 10 | Love Signals | Freddie Jackson | Climax | Soul |
| ▼ | 10 | 8 | Outcast | Liz Brasher | Fat Possum | Soul |
| ▼ | 11 | 7 | Durand Jones & the Indications | Durand Jones & The Indications | Self-Release | Soul |
| ▲ | 12 | 13 | Bluebird of Happiness | Tamar Braxton | LoganLand | Soul |
| ▲ | 13 | 14 | Electric Café | En Vogue | En Vogue | Soul |
| ▲ | 14 | 15 | Girl Disrupted | Sevyn Streeter | Atlantic | R&B |
| ▲ | 15 | 16 | Freudian | Daniel Caesar | Golden Child | Soul |
| ▲ | 16 | 17 | Introducing Stokley | Stokley | Concord | R&B |
| ▲ | 17 | 18 | 11:11 Reset | Keyshia Cole | Epic | R&B |
| ▲ | 18 | 19 | Long Song Away | Kevin Ross | Motown | Soul |
| ▲ | 19 | 20 | Feel the Real | Musiq Soulchild | eOne | Soul |
| ▲ | 20 | 21 | The Rise of the Phoenix | Chanté Moore | CM7 | R&B |
| ▲ | 21 | 22 | A Moment of Madness | Izzy Bizu | Epic | Soul |
| ▼ | 22 | 11 | Face Your Fear | Curtis Harding | Anti | Soul |
| - | 23 | 23 | Summer with Friends | DaniLeigh | Def Jam | Soul |
| - | 24 | 24 | Trip | Jhené Aiko | Def Jam | Soul |
| - | 25 | 25 | Eric Benét | Eric Benét | BMG | Soul |
| - | 26 | 26 | Strength of a Woman | Mary J. Blige | Capitol | Soul |
| - | 27 | 27 | Did It for Love | Leela James | BMG | Soul |
| ▲ | 28 | 32 | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Bottleneck | Soul |
| ▲ | 29 | 33 | An American Troubadour:Songs of Steve Forbert | Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers | Blue Rose | R&B |
| ▼ | 30 | 29 | The Spectrum | Daley | BMG Rights Management | Soul |
| ▼ | 31 | 30 | Soul of the Bayou | Gregg Martinez | Louisiana Red Hot | Soul |
| ▲ | 32 | 35 | Soul Street | Ron Artis II & the Truth | Self-Release | Soul |
| ▼ | 33 | 31 | Go All in | Mike Biggar | Busted Flat | Soul |
| ▲ | 34 | 36 | Got Soul | Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Masterworks | Soul |
| ▼ | 35 | 34 | Game Winner | Joey Dosik | Secretly Canadian | Soul |
| ▲ | 36 | 38 | Play It All Day | Terry Blersh | Self-Release | Soul |
| ▲ | 37 | 39 | Natural | Andrea Marr | Only Blues Music | Soul |
| ▲ | 38 | 48 | HEAVN | Jamila Woods | Jagjaguwar | R&B |
| ▲ | 39 | 49 | Take Me Apart | Kelela | Warp | Soul |
| ▲ | 40 | - | You've Got to Feel It! | Chris Pierce | Calabma | Soul |
| ▲ | 41 | 45 | Adam Robert Thomas | Adam Robert Thomas | Self Release | Soul |
| ▲ | 42 | 47 | Deliverance | Prince | Rouge Music Alliance | Soul |
| ▲ | 43 | - | A Strange Arrangement | Mayer Hawthorne | Stones Throw | R&B |
| ▼ | 44 | 40 | Sea of Noise | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Records LLC | Soul |
| ▲ | 45 | - | Interpretations: the British Rock Songbook | Bettye LaVette | ANTI | Soul |
| ▼ | 46 | 41 | S.O.S.: Save Our Soul | Marc Broussard | Vanguard Records | Soul |
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