This week we have two albums by former bad boys Eric Benet and Bobby Brown. The veteran singers have soften their public persona over the course of the years, while dropping new records that do not attempt to jump on current music trends.

After the long holiday weekend, we only have one new album dropping on our R&B radar; Rebecca Ferguson's 'Heaven.'

The pipeline for new albums is hitting a bottleneck as artists wait for the summer and end of the year to release new studio albums. In addition, musicians are giving away more free mixtapes than dropping commercial albums. This week we have one R&B project hitting stores, Angela Johnson's 'Revised Edited & Flipped'.

Yes, the UK soul scene seems to be dominating the R&B genre with names like Adele, Alice Russell, Emeli Sande, Jamie Woon, Szjerdene; but don't count the United States out.

R&B singer/songwriter Arika Kane released her 2nd studio album on April 17th titled Substance. Dubbed one of the latest “blue-eyed soul” singers to hit the music world, the Connecticut native is the first artist on BSE Recordings.

This week, a set of new albums offering a diverse range of music from soul to Latin-inspired 70's grooves to smooth jazz hit stores.

Independent releases lead this week's new albums including new CDs from veteran R&B group SWV and son of the Motor City, K'Jon.

Sade fans can brace themselves if they were unable to attend one of her 54 shows last year in support of her platinum-selling album ‘Soldier of Love’.

Starting the year off strong, Kevin Cossom is finally gearing to release his much-hyped follow-up to the 2009 project with the second installment of his ‘Hook vs Bridge’ EP. After much delay and many pushbacks, the singer/songwriter will be releasing the project in just a matter of weeks, on April 18th.

Ryan Leslie created a buzz last year when he released the first track "Glory," from his highly anticipated third studio album 'Les Is More.' Even with the hype, the Grammy nominated producer/entertainer pushed his release date back about a year, finally confirming the drop date for June 5th, 2012 on Twitter.