New R&B Albums: January 2009 Edition

What's new in R&B during January 2009? Not a lot. January and July are typically the slowest months of the year for new R&B and Soul music, and it looks like 2009 won't be an exception to that. There's just five 'new' albums coming out, but one is a remix album (Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad - The Remixes), one's a collection of Mariah Carey's best ballad's and one's a live album. So that makes two albums of new material, and of those two, one (Heather Headley's Audience of One), is a Gospel album by an R&B singer. So if you add it all up, there's really just one all-new R&B album: Syleena Johnson's Labor Pains. For full details, check out the full list of January 2009 R&B albums.