Music Thread #1 For 11/19/09: For The 2nd Straight Week, No Urban Albums In The top 10

For the second consecutive week, there is no Rap or R&B album on the Billboard Top 10. Added insult to injury is the fact that "The Blueprint 3" is the only album in the Top 20 in the urban category (and that's if you don't include Michael Jackson's "This Is It" album at #4).

More sobering news is the fact that Wale, who I documented earlier this week his weird shipping situation/strategy, is the ONLY other rapper in the Top 100 (28,000 sound on his first week).

And for final insult to injury, Maxwell is the only non-Beyonce' R&B artist even in the Top 100, at #86.

Poor or mishandled promotion (in the case of Wale) and/or mediocre to worse songs is more of a cause for this then downloading in my mind.

You enhance the values of downloading by furthering the progression of just unexciting music.

Club hits just don't translate anymore. And really, playing big money to producers just isn't smart economics in these miserable times for sales in general.

But especially, in the urban world.