The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 R&B Album Chart
for the Week of Sep 18, 2021
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Gold-Diggers Sound | Leon Bridges | Columbia | Soul |
| ▲ | 2 | 4 | WE ARE | Jon Batiste | Verve | Soul |
| - | 3 | 3 | Collapsed in Sunbeams | Arlo Parks | Transgressive | R&B |
| ▲ | 4 | 6 | See Me | Leela James | BMG | Soul |
| ▼ | 5 | 2 | Welcome 2 America | Prince | NPG | Soul |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | When It's All Said and Done... Take Time | Giveon | Epic | Soul |
| ▲ | 7 | 10 | Back of My Mind | H.E.R. | RCA | Neo-Soul |
| ▲ | 8 | 11 | Missunderstood: the Diaries | Queen Naija | Capitol | Soul |
| ▲ | 9 | 12 | Back Home | Trey Songz | Atlantic | Soul |
| ▼ | 10 | 8 | Where Do We Go from Here | Dumpstaphunk | Mascot | Funk |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | Rebirth | Ruff Endz | Chance | Soul |
| ▲ | 12 | 16 | On Earth, and in Heaven | Robin Thicke | Lucky Music / EMPIRE | Soul |
| ▲ | 13 | 15 | Moments in Between | Ruth B. | Downtown | Soul |
| - | 14 | 14 | Blood on the Vinyl | Guordan Banks | Bank On It | Soul |
| ▲ | 15 | 17 | B7 | Brandy | eOne | Soul |
| ▲ | 16 | - | Wide Nose Full Lips | SuCh | Arc Sai | Soul |
| ▲ | 17 | 19 | The Wild Card | Ledisi | Listen Back | Soul |
| *NEW* | 18 | - | Made in Lagos: Deluxe Edition | WizKid | Starboy | Soul |
| ▼ | 19 | 9 | Nicollette | Nicollette Sullivan | For Artists | R&B |
| *NEW* | 20 | - | TEMPORARY HIGHS in the VIOLET SKIES | Snoh Aalegra | Artium | Soul |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Private Space | Durand Jones & The Indications | Dead Oceans | Soul |
| *NEW* | 22 | - | One on One | Paul Carrack | Self-Release | Disco |
| ▼ | 23 | 5 | Have a Seat | Maggie Rose | Starstruck | R&B |
| ▼ | 24 | 23 | Spell My Name | Toni Braxton | Island | Soul |
| *NEW* | 25 | - | Jam & Lewis, Vol. 1 | Jam & Lewis | Flyte Tyme | Soul |
| ▼ | 26 | 22 | Love Always Wins | Kem | Motown | Soul |
| ▼ | 27 | 18 | Freedom is Love | The Freedom Affair | Sunflower Soul | Soul |
| ▲ | 28 | - | Hard Up | The Bamboos | Pacific Theatre | Soul |
| ▲ | 29 | - | Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 | The California Honeydrops | Tubtune | Soul |
| ▲ | 30 | 43 | Soul Side of Town | Tower of Power | Artistry Music | R&B |
| ▲ | 31 | - | 20th Century Masters - the Millennium Collection: the Best of Kool & the Gang | Kool & The Gang | Island Mercury | Soul |
| ▼ | 32 | 25 | Blackbirds | Bettye LaVette | Verve | Soul |
| ▲ | 33 | - | Canoga Madness | Mestizo Beat | California Soul Music | Funk |
| ▼ | 34 | 26 | It is What It is | Thundercat | Brainfeeder | Soul |
| ▼ | 35 | 27 | The Devonns | The Devonns | Record Kicks | Motown |
| ▲ | 36 | - | Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone | Soul |
| ▼ | 37 | 24 | Nqaba Yam | Zahara | Warner | R&B |
| ▼ | 38 | 33 | The Power of the One | Bootsy Collins | Sweetwater Sounds | Funk |
| ▲ | 39 | - | Crying for Hope | George Porter Jr. and Runnin' Pardners | Mascot | Funk |
| ▲ | 40 | - | Indian Ocean | Frazey Ford | Nettwerk | R&B |
| ▼ | 41 | 34 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | Nonesuch | Soul |
| ▲ | 42 | - | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Bottleneck | Soul |
| ▲ | 43 | - | Good Things | Aloe Blacc | Stones Throw | Funk |
| ▲ | 44 | - | Soul Time! | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone Records | R&B |
| ▲ | 45 | - | 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! | James Brown | Polydor | Funk |
| ▲ | 46 | - | Everybody Want Sum | Dumpstaphunk | Dumpstaphunk Records | R&B |
| ▼ | 47 | 36 | World Wide Funk | Bootsy Collins | Mascot | Funk |
| ▼ | 48 | 37 | I Learned the Hard Way | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone Records | Soul |
| ▼ | 49 | 39 | Talking Book | Stevie Wonder | Universal Motown Records | R&B |
| ▼ | 50 | 44 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Thirty Tigers | Soul |
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