*Jill Scott has scored her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, “Woman,” debuts on top of the list.
The set starts at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 15 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 30, according to Nielsen Music.
“Woman” is Scott’s fifth studio album, and it sold 58,000 in pure album sales. It follows her chart-topping “The Light of the Sun,” released in 2011 (133,000 copies sold in its first week). “Woman” was released on Scott’s Blues Babe imprint, through Atlantic Records.
Scott is the first solo woman to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in nearly five months. The last to do so was Kelly Clarkson, on the chart dated March 21, when her “Piece By Piece” album debuted at No. 1.
Further, “Woman” ends a dry spell for female R&B singers at the top of the chart. Scott is the first R&B songstress to lead the list in a year and seven months, since Beyonce’s self-titled album spent its third and final week at No. 1 (on the chart dated Jan. 11, 2014).
Scott’s second No. 1 comes almost exactly 15 years after she debuted on the Billboard 200 with her first album, “Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1.” It debuted on the Aug. 5, 2000-dated chart at No. 168, on its way to a No. 17 peak the following year (March 24, 2001).
Last week’s No. 1, Future’s “DS2,” slips to No. 2 in its second week with 52,000 units (down 65 percent).
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