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R. Kelly’s Double Up may be a bit out there, but it’s still on target to be the No. 1 album on this week’s Billboard 200. The final tallies come out tomorrow, but now’s your chance to guess how many people will want to embark on R.’s interplanetary sexasaurus-powered ride:
How Many Record Buyers Are Crazy For R. Kelly?
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This will actually be a good test of just how deeply R&B/hip-hop sales have imploded. They’ve gotten hit harder than almost any genre over the last two years.
Geoff Mayfield in Billboard had an interesting column last week in which he pointed that if you isolate R&B records from hip-hop - in other words, people who sing vs. people who rap - R&B is actually up strongly in ‘07 (Akon, Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke, C.B. Rae, etc.) – by, like, almost 20%. It’s actual rap that’s hurting badly right now. But separating the two genres (again, what is Akon? sure, he doesn’t rap exactly, but…) is a bit of a canard nowadays.
Plus, Kells is a hybrid act who sells to ballers and babymamas alike - he’s a little bit R&B and a little bit hip-hop – which makes him harder to predict in this climate.
Best of Both Worlds/Unfinished Business, Part 3. Both Kells and Hova need it, right?