Usher’s ‘Coming Home’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums Chart

Usher’s ninth album, Coming Home, arrives at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart this week.

It’s the R&B superstar’s second consecutive No. 1, following 2016’s Hard II Love, since the chart launched in 2012. 

Coming Home isn’t Usher’s only album charting this week. Following his Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show performance, which drew in 129.3 million viewers, his streams surged across Apple Music and Spotify, as well as digital sales.

His 2004 groundbreaking album Confessions moves to No. 4, a new peak, on the Top R&B Albums chart. Raymond v Raymond (2010) debuts at No. 9 on the same chart, while 8701 makes its first appearance at No. 20. 

Coming Home sold 91,000 equivalent units in its opening week, a 139% lift from Hard II Love’s 38,000. Of Home’s total equivalent units, 53,000 were in pure sales, putting the album at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales and Top Current Albums charts. 

Elsewhere on the charts, Coming Home bows at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, behind Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s Vultures 1, which sold 148,000 equivalent units.

Here is a breakdown of all the Usher albums on the Billboard 200 this week (dated Feb. 24):

• Coming Home, No. 2 (debut)
• Confessions, No. 15 (No. 1 peak)
• Raymond v Raymond, No. 68 (No. 1 peak)
• 8701, No. 122 (No. 4 peak)
• My Way, No. 197 (No. 4 peak)

Coming Home was released Feb. 9 via mega/gamma, two days before his Super Bowl performance.

The 20-track album includes the singles “Good Good” featuring Summer Walker and 21 Savage, “Risk It All” with H.E.R., and “Ruin” featuring Pheelz. The former track, produced by Mel & Mus, spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart. 

Coming Home includes additional appearances from The-Dream, Latto, Burna Boy, and Jung Kook. 

“COMING HOME is an ode to going back to your roots, whatever or wherever that may be,” said Usher. “I’m COMING HOME to where I’m comfortable in being exactly who I am right now. My hope is that you identify with the new album no matter where you are or what you’re going through, too.”

This summer, Usher will take Coming Home on the road on his Past Present Future Tour.

The massive North American leg kicks off Aug. 14 in Atlanta, Georgia, at State Farm Arena. Usher hit major cities for multiple nights, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Toronto, Denver, Los Angeles, and more. The first leg will conclude Nov. 30 in Houston, Texas, at Toyota Center. 

On April 1, 2025, Usher will kick off the Europe/UK leg of the Past Present Future Tour in London and will wrap up May 1 in Berlin. 

This Friday (Feb. 23), Usher will release Coming Home (Expanded Edition), which includes two new tracks: “Naked” and “Believe.”