The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 R&B Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 18, 2020
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | We Get by | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | KIWANUKA | Michael Kiwanuka | Interscope | Soul |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | Work to Do | Marc Cohn | BMG | Soul |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Play Nice | Cass Clayton | Self-Release | R&B |
| ▲ | 5 | 7 | Oxnard | Anderson .Paak | Aftermath Entertainment | Soul |
| ▲ | 6 | 8 | Worthy | India.Arie | BMG | Soul |
| ▲ | 7 | 9 | Masterpeace | JamesDavis | Motown | Neo-Soul |
| ▼ | 8 | 3 | Jimmy Lee | Raphael Saadiq | Columbia | Soul |
| *NEW* | 9 | - | Kairos | Nicole Bus | Roc Nation | R&B |
| - | 10 | 10 | Ready | Ella Mai | 10 Summers | Neo-Soul |
| - | 11 | 11 | Homecoming: the Live Album | Beyoncé | Parkwood | Soul |
| - | 12 | 12 | Rouge | Yuna | Verve | R&B |
| - | 13 | 13 | Ella Mai | Ella Mai | 10 Summers | R&B |
| - | 14 | 14 | Caution | Mariah Carey | Epic | Soul |
| ▲ | 15 | 24 | Steel Hearts | Season Ammons | Cobalt Blue | R&B |
| - | 16 | 16 | Poetry in Motion | The Soul Rebels | Mack Avenue | Soul |
| ▼ | 17 | 4 | Athena | Sudan Archives | Stones Throw | R&B |
| ▼ | 18 | 17 | S.O.L.A.R. | Inayah | Inayahlator | Soul |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | CASE STUDY 01 | Daniel Caesar | Golden Child | Soul |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | REAL LIFE | Emeli Sandé | Virgin | Soul |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Over It | Summer Walker | Interscope | Soul |
| ▼ | 22 | 21 | Full Circle | Angie Stone | Cleopatra | Soul |
| ▼ | 23 | 22 | Dinah Jane 1 | Dinah Jane | Hitco | Soul |
| ▼ | 24 | 23 | Good Thing | Leon Bridges | Sony | Soul |
| - | 25 | 25 | West Coast Grooves | Guthrie Govan | Self-Release | Soul |
| - | 26 | 26 | GREY Area | Little Simz | Age 101 | R&B |
| - | 27 | 27 | Avalanche | Julian Taylor Band | Gypsy Soul | Soul |
| ▲ | 28 | 31 | Stay Good | Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Dorado | Soul |
| ▼ | 29 | 28 | Into the Purple Valley | Ry Cooder | Reprise | Soul |
| ▲ | 30 | 43 | Step into It | Funktion | Self-Release | Funk |
| ▼ | 31 | 29 | South of I-10 | Sonny Landreth | BMG | R&B |
| ▼ | 32 | 15 | Whatever It Takes | The James Hunter Six | Daptone | Soul |
| ▼ | 33 | 30 | Afroclectic | Plunky & Oneness | Self-Release | R&B |
| ▼ | 34 | 32 | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Bottleneck | Soul |
| ▼ | 35 | 33 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Columbia | Soul |
| ▼ | 36 | 34 | Guitar Gumbo | Tom Principato | Powerhouse | R&B |
| ▼ | 37 | 35 | American Griots | Louis York | Weirdo Workshop | Soul |
| - | 38 | 38 | Samsara | Los Coast | New West | Soul |
| ▲ | 39 | - | 99 Cent Dreams | Eli "Paperboy" Reed | Yep Roc | Soul |
| ▼ | 40 | 39 | Ventura | Anderson .Paak | Aftermath | R&B |
| - | 41 | 41 | Black Love & War | G&D | Someothaship | Soul |
| - | 42 | 42 | The Lion King: the Gift | Beyoncé | Sony | R&B |
| ▲ | 43 | 44 | Can I Tell You Something? | Mo Moshiri | URBNET | R&B |
| ▲ | 44 | 46 | H.E.R. | H.E.R. | RCA | R&B |
| ▲ | 45 | 64 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Thirty Tigers | Soul |
| ▲ | 46 | 47 | Dance with You | Chris Jasper | Gold City | R&B |
| ▲ | 47 | 49 | Indigo | Chris Brown | RCA | Soul |
| ▲ | 48 | 50 | Let Love | Common | Loma Vista | Soul |
| ▲ | 49 | 51 | Surfacing | R.Lum.R | Island | R&B |
| *NEW* | 50 | - | Timeless | Day Kornegay | 45 Riots | R&B |
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