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New R&B Albums: January 2009

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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.

1. Chapter 4: Labor Pains, Syleena Johnson

Labor Pains came out on iTunes in late-December 2008, but powerful-voiced Syleena's fourth album of all-new music won't be in brick-and-mortar stores until Jan. 13.

Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Labor Pains
3. Where's the Love
4. Freedom
5. Is It Because I'm Black
6. Be Me
7. Interlude: Redstorm's Domestic Lesson
8. You Let Me Down
9. Shoo Fly
10 Maury Povich
11 It Is True
12 Your Love
13 My First
14 Personal Trainer
15 Go Home
16 Go
17 Outro

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2. Audience of One, Heather Headley

Heather's first two albums were R&B releases, but her new album, Audience of One, is a Gospel release. It drops Jan. 13.

Tracklisting:
1. Simply Redeemed
2. Ordinary Me
3. I Wish
4. Jesus Is Love
5. Medley (including "I Need Thee Every Hour," "I'd Rather Have Jesus")
6. Running Back To You
7. I Know The Lord Will Make A Way
8. Here I Am To Worship
9. Power of the Cross
10 Zion

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3. Good Girl Gone Bad - The Remixes, Rihanna

Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad lives on and on and on some more. A collection of remixes of the album's songs is due out Jan. 27.

Tracklisting:
1. Umbrella (remixed by Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel)
2. Disturbia - Jody den Broeder
3. Shut Up & Drive - The Wideboys
4. Don’t Stop The Music - Jody den Broeder
5. Take A Bow - Tony Moran & Warren Riggs
6. Breakin’ Dishes - Soul Seekerz
7. Hate That I Love You - K-Klassic
8. Question Existing - The Wideboys
9. Push Up On Me - Moto Blanco
10 Good Girl Gone Bad - Soul Seekerz
11 Say It - Soul Seekerz
12 Umbrella - Lindbergh Palace

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4. The Ballads, Mariah Carey

Mariah's former label, Columbia Records, will release this collection of Mariah's best slow jams on Jan. 20.

1. Hero
2. One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men)
3. Vision of Love
4. Without You
5. Can't Let Go
6. Love Takes Time
7. I'll Be There (feat. Trey Lorenz)
8. Thank God I Found You - Make It Last remix (feat. Nas and Joe)
9. Endless Love (feat. Luther Vandross)
10 I Still Believe
11 My All
12 The Roof
13 When You Believe (Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston)
14 Anytime You Need A Friend
15 Always Be My Baby
16 Dreamlover
17 How Much (feat. Usher)
18 Reflections

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5. The Real Thing (Live CD/DVD), Ashford & Simpson

This set of live music comes out Jan. 27 via Burgundy Records and will be available in two different formats: CD and DVD.

CD Tracklisting:
1. It's Much Deeper
2. Your Precious Love
3. Stay Free
4. Found A Cure
5. Still Such A Thing
6. Solid
7. Gimme Something Real
8. I'm Every Woman
9. I'm Not That Tough
10 Let’s Go Get Stoned
11 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
12 You're All I Need To Get By
13 Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)
14 Ain't
15 No Mountain High Enough

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