Best Selling R&B / Hip Hop CDs

Despite what these people might tell you about Home Brew being burdens on society, or advocates for drug dependency, you gotta respect the integrity of their independence and the diligence of their work effort.. In the last year they've been involved in three 5 star releases (At Peace, Max Marx, ...

Personnel: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Wendy, Dez Dickerson (vocals, guitar); Bonnie Boyer (vocals, Hammond organ); Rosie Gaines (vocals, organ); Lisa Coleman (vocals, keyboards); Sheila E. (vocals, drums, percussion); Sheena Easton, Camille, Tony M. (vocals); Levi Seacer Jr. (guitar, bass...

Tuskegee is the city in Alabama where Lionel Richie grew up. His first musical influences came from the area, which has a rich history in gospel, R&B, and country. This record explores these influences in new takes on 13 of his most revered “anthems of our day”, inviting some of his favourite artist...

This excellent compilation features 19 smash hits and fan favourites from disco/dance queen, Donna Summer. Includes "Love To Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "On The Radio" and more.

Our Version of Events is the upcoming debut studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé. The album is currently set for release in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2012 through Virgin Records. Work on the album began in early 2010 following Sandé's signing with Virgin, with the song "He...

The first posthumous compilation album by English recording artist Amy Winehouse. The album features unreleased songs and demos picked by producers Mark Ronson, Salaam Remi and Winehouse's family, including the first single, "Body and Soul", with Tony Bennett. The album is being released in ...

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Greatest Hits - You would think that Enrique Iglesias has nothing left to prove. After all, the Madrid-born, Miami-raised singer has sold 40 million albums in little over a decade, becoming one of the most successful artists in the history of popular music. Then again, Enrique i...

'Back To Black' is the second album from London-based chanteuse Amy Winehouse. Combining a strong, jazzy vocal style with often frank lyrical content recounting tales of love and loss, Winehouse is a truly talented songwriter with a good ear for melody.. Includes the singles 'Rehab' & ‘Tears Dry on ...

Tuskegee is the city in Alabama where Lionel Richie grew up. His first musical influences came from the area, which has a rich history in gospel, R&B, and country. This record explores these influences in new takes on 13 of his most revered “anthems of our day”, inviting some of his favourite artist...

Since her debut in 2000, P!nk (Alecia Moore) has successfully paved her way on her own terms as a talented singer/songwriter/performer. Most recently, she raised the bar with her astonishing acrobatic Grammy 2010 performance of her sleeper hit “Glitter In The Air.” Over the past two ye...

Eternal E is a compilation album of E's work that appeared late in 1995 after his untimely demise in March of that year This digitally re-mastered version contains 2 bonus tracks.

Superstar rapper and hip hop icon Snoop Dogg readies for his highly anticipated album "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment" releasing on November 21, 2006 through Doggystyle/Geffen. Early buzz from industry insiders promise a classic album complete with the reunion of Snoop and DR. DRE with three b...

Finding the perfect weighting between depth and frivolity, rap and pop, madness and effortless cool, PNC brings his signature fluid flow, catchy style and charismatic writing for a varied, and of course, ‘balanced’ album.   From the menacing ‘Murderer’ to the merry &...

Cee Lo Green, the hip-hop, funk, r&b artist from Atlanta releases a Platinum Edition of the successful ‘The Lady Killer’. With the big album tracks such as ‘Bright Lights, Bigger City’ (reached #4 All Airplay) and ‘F U’ (reached #3 All Airplay) featuring on the album. The Platinum Edition fea...

NME's 'Queen of All Pop 2008', Santigold, returns with the release of her eagerly anticipated sophomore album 'Master of My Make Believe'. Recorded in Los Angeles, Jamaica and New York, the album features collaborations with Major Lazer producer Switch, Q-Tip, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, Yeah Y...

The Drifters: Bobby Hendricks, Ben E. King, Johnny Lee Willimas, Rudy Lewis, Johnny Moore, Charles Thomas, Doc Green, Eugene Pearson, Elesbeary Hobbs, Tommy Evans (vocals). Additional personnel includes: Billy Davis, Phil Spector (guitar); Dee Dee Warwick, Dionne Warwick, Doris Troy, Cissy Housto...

Since starting out in 1993 Salmonella Dub have evolved over the course of four studio albums and one remix album into one of New Zealand's most acclaimed groups Their previous two albums, Killervision (1999) and Inside the Dubplates (2001), are platinum and triple platinum respectively. Their rec...

'Raw Footage' is the 9th solo album from one of the true living legends of the rap game -- Ice Cube. After more than 20 years at the forefront of music & film, Cube needs little introduction. Since being one of the founding forces in NWA, one of the most notorious acts in music history, he has s...

Battlefield is the second studio album by American Idol Season 6 winner, R&B and pop artist Jordin Sparks On this album Sparks has worked with previous producers and hitmakers Stargate and Claude Kelly as well as experimenting with new sounds with successful songwriters and producers such as ...

This British compilation brings together the best of the Commodores, one of the best funk/R&B acts of the 1970s and early '80s. The set includes "Three Times a Lady," "Lady (You Bring Me Up)," "Easy," and the dance-floor classic "Brick House."

This is part of Chess' 50th Anniversary Collection series.Personnel includes: Etta James (vocals); Harvey Fuqua, Sugar Pie DeSanto.All tracks have been digitally remastered.What the critics say...Down Beat (8/97, p.60) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...this one is a keeper.... over the course of a 20-song ...

This lavishly packaged, Limited Deluxe Edition 2 disc set contains the original ‘Frank’ album plus a bonus disc including previously unreleased BBC performances, b-sides, rare mixes and demos and is a wonderful companion to the Back to Black Deluxe Edition. Years before Amy Winehouse ...

Australian Idol winner Stan Walker is set to release his 3rd album Let The Music Play, containing the 2 huge hits "Loud" and "Light It Up"!

Bruno Mars’ debut ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ is officially PLATINUM in New Zealand!!! Bruno has scooped up quite a list of awards since Doo-Wops & Hooligans was first released, including: Winner - Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for 'Just the Way You Are' at the 2011 Grammy Awards!!! To help celeb...

 Absolute Epoch’ is the second and final studio album from Red Eye Society. It’s honest, hard-hitting, hip-hop laced in their native Onehunga slang and relayed over sinister production. This is what makes ‘Absolute Epoch’ one of the best hip-hop albums to ever surface ...

The hotttest album release of this year is now double platinum in New Zealand and has sold over 34000 copies. The new Deluxe Edition package will be a 2 disc digipack with a 12 page booklet that will have 2 pages of tracing paper in it, like you find in a photo album, dividing the photos. A bo...

EMI are releasing the long awaited sophomore Tommy Ill album ‘New Hat And A Haircut’ on 2 April. “I am so stoked that we are finally putting this album out. James, Buck, Kelvin and I have been working on it for pretty much our whole lives and now that it’s coming out we will have to find new things ...

Jewels In The Crown is a duets compilation album by American Soul singer Aretha Franklin. It was released in 2007 by Arista,[2] and comprises a combination of classic duets spanning Franklin's career, and two newly recorded duets with Fantasia and John Legend. It also contains two live duets, one fr...

Sir T is an exciting newcomer to the New Zealand Hip Hop scene. The Auckland-based rapper creates music packed full of insane rhymes, killer beats, catchy hooks and best of all - real life stories that his ever-growing legion of fans can relate to. His debut album, WALK WITH ME, is executively pr...

The definitive collection of classic tracks and more from the pioneering hip-hop icon Nas. Reprises 12 essential cuts culled from the artist's monumental Columbia Records catalog -- from 1994's Illmatic, one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history, through 2004's double disc masterpiece S...

When we last caught up with the intrepid inter-galactical pop visionaries KIDZ IN SPACE it was some time ago. The trio of Josh Fountain, Ashley Hughes and Matt Neshat landed on earth in early 2009 after a chance encounter somewhere beyond the edge of this galaxy, and after discovery a mutual interes...

Rap super group Westside Connection was formed in 1993 by West Coast rappers Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10. 18 of the platinum-selling group’s best tracks have been collected for the first time The album features appearances by Nate Dogg, Master P and Butch Cassidy and includes a rare out of print...

It's the end of an era, as for over half a century, Etta James has all but defined the role of the quintessential rhythm & blues vocalist. The album features her one-of-a-kind renditions of Otis Redding's "Cigarettes and Coffee" and Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Dreamer" to Ray Charles' "In the Evening" ...

Smashproof first burst onto the scene in 2005 with the explosive Juse-produced ‘Ride Til' I Die’, which quickly infected clubs across New Zealand and Australia. Now ‘Brother’, the amazing first single off their forthcoming album The Weekend, has hit #1on the NZ music charts! ...

In 2011, after a 10 year hiatus, Sade returned to the U.S. for a 54-date tour in support of the platinum selling album Soldier Of Love (Epic Records), which became one of last year's top 10 grossing tours. The tour, directed by the renowned Sophie Muller, will now be available on DVD/CD, featuring 2...

2Pac is the top-selling rap artist of all time, selling nearly 40 million albums in the U.S. alone, where he has claimed 11 Platinum-or-better awards. Eight of those are for posthumous releases. Each of these compilations contains one previously unreleased recording and one new remix along with n...

Basically a best of Prince up until 1993. Included here are also some of Prince's brilliant B-sides that never made it on to the albums. Contains "Erotic City", the awesome "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" which is an outtake from the 'Dirty Mind' sessions, "Shockadelica", "Horny Toad", "God" and two...

Welcome to the first of two releases from Edsel that serve to chronicle the eternally great Stax recordings of Sam Moore and the late Dave Prater – ‘Sam and Dave’ as they will always be known to their legion of fans. Along with Aretha Frank- lin, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave virtually...

Wu-Tang Clan: Prince Rakeem "The RZA" (rap vocals, programming); The Method Man, U-God, Rebel Ins, Shallah Raekwon, Ghost Face Killer, Ol' Dirty Bastard, The Genius "The GZA," Masta Killa (rap vocals). Additional personnel: The 4th Disciple (scratches). Recorded at Firehous...

2001, also known as The Chronic 2001, is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Dr. Dre, released November 16, 1999 on Interscope Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1997 to 1999, and production was handled by Dr. Dre, Mel-Man, and Lord Finesse. It is the follow-u...