The big news this week is that country ingénue Taylor Swift topped the Billboard album chart for a tenth week with her album "Fearless" But for me, the biggest news is that former Gap band front man Charlie Wilson's album "Uncle Charlie" which debuted at #2.
While the teenaged Swift has all of country music and mainstream outlets like VH1 behind her, "Fearless" sold 62,000, while Wilson whose only support comes from adult urban radio sold 53,000.
This is an amazing feat for the 56 year old Wilson, who recently conquered prostate cancer. At this stage of his musical career, you probably won't see on VH1’s Top 20Countdown or the youth infused 106 & Park on BET.
Nope, Wilson debuted at the #2 the old fashioned way, making good music.
His latest single "There Goes My Baby" is a sweeping R&B ballad that is classic enough thrill the old heads and current enough for young folks to give it a listen.
Though his funky Gap Band days are gone, Charlie Wilson's feat proved that you can be over 50 years old and still be musically relevant. Did you hear that “Real Hip Hop & RB stations”.
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