D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' Track List Revealed & Title Explained
Next week?s second biggest debut will likely be D?Angelo?s surprise album release, Black Messiah. Credited to D?Angelo and The Vanguard, the set could sell around 100,000 copies in its first week. The album -- D?Angelo?s first studio effort in nearly 15 years -- arrived nearly out of thin air at 12 a.m. on Dec. 14 via digital retailers. A CD version of the album appeared in brick and mortar stores the next day. (A vinyl edition of the album will be released on Feb. 10, 2015.)
D?Angelo?s last studio album, Voodoo, was released on Jan. 25, 2000. It debuted atop the Billboard 200, selling 321,000 in its first week. It spawned the R&B singer?s biggest radio hit, ?Untitled (How Does It Feel),? which reached No. 17 on the Radio Songs chart. The album later won the Grammy Award for best R&B album, while ?Untitled? took home the trophy for best male R&B vocal performance. The album has sold 1.7 million to date.
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