The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 R&B Album Chart
for the Week of Dec 8, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Good Thing | Leon Bridges | Sony | Soul |
| - | 2 | 2 | Dyna-Mite | Jon Cleary | Thirty Tigers | Soul |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | Black Velvet | Charles Bradley | Daptone | R&B |
| ▼ | 4 | 3 | Unstoppable | Candi Staton | Beracah | Soul |
| ▼ | 5 | 4 | Caution | Mariah Carey | Epic | Soul |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | Silver & Stone | Mike Farris | Compass | Soul |
| ▼ | 7 | 5 | Dirty Computer | Janelle Monae | Atlantic | Soul |
| - | 8 | 8 | Sex & Cigarettes | Toni Braxton | Def Jam | Soul |
| ▲ | 9 | 10 | Whatever It Takes | The James Hunter Six | Daptone | Soul |
| ▲ | 10 | 11 | Into the Purple Valley | Ry Cooder | Reprise | Soul |
| ▲ | 11 | 12 | Ready | Ella Mai | 10 Summers | Neo-Soul |
| ▲ | 12 | 13 | Decade of a Love King | Raheem DeVaughn | BMG | Neo-Soul |
| ▲ | 13 | 15 | Oxnard | Anderson .Paak | Aftermath Entertainment | Soul |
| ▲ | 14 | 25 | Play It All Day | Terry Blersh | Self-Release | Soul |
| ▲ | 15 | 19 | Reflections | The Temptations | UMG | Soul |
| - | 16 | 16 | Freudian | Daniel Caesar | Golden Child | Soul |
| ▼ | 17 | 14 | Love Signals | Freddie Jackson | Climax | Soul |
| - | 18 | 18 | Electric Café | En Vogue | En Vogue | Soul |
| ▼ | 19 | 17 | Strength of a Woman | Mary J. Blige | Capitol | Soul |
| ▲ | 20 | 29 | An American Troubadour:Songs of Steve Forbert | Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers | Blue Rose | R&B |
| - | 21 | 21 | Summer with Friends | DaniLeigh | Def Jam | Soul |
| ▼ | 22 | 9 | Neville Jacobs | Neville Jacobs | Harmonized | Funk |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | The Hits / the B-Sides | Prince | Universal | R&B |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Bottleneck | Soul |
| ▲ | 25 | 26 | Got Soul | Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Masterworks | Soul |
| ▲ | 26 | 30 | If All I Was Was Black | Mavis Staples | Anti | Soul |
| ▲ | 27 | 31 | Never Twice | Nick Waterhouse | Innovative Leisure | Soul |
| ▲ | 28 | 32 | South of I-10 | Sonny Landreth | BMG | R&B |
| ▲ | 29 | 33 | Love in the Wind | The Sha La Das | Daptone | Soul |
| ▼ | 30 | 27 | My Southern Soul | Donnie Ray | CDS | Soul |
| ▲ | 31 | - | Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 | The California Honeydrops | Tubtune | Soul |
| ▲ | 32 | 35 | A Change is Gonna Come | Leela James | Warner Bros | Soul |
| ▲ | 33 | 36 | Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Columbia | Soul |
| ▲ | 34 | 37 | I Learned the Hard Way | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Daptone Records | Soul |
| ▲ | 35 | 38 | Swept Away | Diana Ross | Capitol | Motown |
| ▼ | 36 | 24 | Don't Give Up on Love | Don Bryant | Fat Possum | Soul |
| ▲ | 37 | - | Soul Flowers of Titan | Barrence Whitfield & the Savages | Bloodshot | R&B |
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