From Paul Grein's Chart Watch blog:

Lionel Richie's Tuskegee, which drops from #20 to #67 in its 23rd week, tops the 1 million mark in sales this week.

It's the third album to hit that milestone so far this year.

It follows Adele's 21 (3,912,000) and One Direction's Up All Night (1,158,000).

[Edited 9/6/12 10:34am]

If there's an upside to forsaking your R&B/funk roots, this must be it. I find most of the re-worked material on Lionel's album unbearable to sit through.

Identity said:

If there's an upside to forsaking your R&B/funk roots, this must be it. I find most of the re-worked material on Lionel's album unbearable to sit through.

I would not listen 2 that cd if u paid me.

Identity said:

If there's an upside to forsaking your R&B/funk roots, this must be it.

Ronnie Milsap started out as a soul/R&B singer in the 1960's. I've never heard anyone complaining about him leaving it to sing country music in the 1970's.

Graycap23 said:

Identity said:

If there's an upside to forsaking your R&B/funk roots, this must be it. I find most of the re-worked material on Lionel's album unbearable to sit through.

I would not listen 2 that cd if u paid me.

You know damn well you would listen to that CD for 500 million dollars

mjscarousal said:

Graycap23 said:

I would not listen 2 that cd if u paid me.

You know damn well you would listen to that CD for 500 million dollars

That is about how much it would take 4 me 2 insult my ears.

Fuck the people hating on Lionel

Go Lionel kicking some major ass.

Gunsnhalen said:

people hating on Lionel

Well there's people that say that Phil Collins "ruined" Genesis after Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett left and made them pop. Like Phil is the only person in the group. He wasn't a member of Mike + The Mechanics, and that doesn't sound like early Genesis and neither does Peter's solo music.

MickyDolenz said:

Gunsnhalen said:

people hating on Lionel

Well there's people that say that Phil Collins "ruined" Genesis after Peter Gabriel & Steve Hackett left and made them pop. Like Phil is the only person in the group. He wasn't a member of Mike + The Mechanics, and that doesn't sound like early Genesis and neither does Peter's solo music.

So true!, i can respect both sides of Genesis , Just as i can like Lionel in The Commodores & solo as well

And as for Genesis... you are right! the other guys had a part in the sound. It wasn't phil playing every instrument & coming up with every idea

Gunsnhalen said:

Fuck the people hating on Lionel

Go Lionel kicking some major ass.

Hell Yea!

Graycap23 said:

mjscarousal said:

You know damn well you would listen to that CD for 500 million dollars

That is about how much it would take 4 me 2 insult my ears.

mjscarousal said:

Graycap23 said:

That is about how much it would take 4 me 2 insult my ears.

There isn't anybody in Lionels camp checking for gray to listen to shit for free let alone a couple bucks

Gunsnhalen said:

mjscarousal said:

There isn't anybody in Lionels camp checking for gray to listen to shit for free let alone a couple bucks

Good cause they would be wasting their time.

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Gunsnhalen said:

Just as i can like Lionel in The Commodores & solo as well

It's not like The Commodores records after Lionel left were funk either.

MickyDolenz said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Just as i can like Lionel in The Commodores & solo as well

It's not like The Commodores records after Lionel left were funk either.

Don't speak to much truth, you might get fishslaped by some peeps

Dude was always a pop act. C'mon y'all. Be happy for the man!

Timmy84 said:

Dude was always a pop act. C'mon y'all. Be happy for the man!

Exactly!

And Commodores had countryesque tracks...

And of course his solo albums had country tracks... so people saying Lionel sold out to Country

He probably bought half of the million copies sold.

Gunsnhalen said:

Timmy84 said:

Dude was always a pop act. C'mon y'all. Be happy for the man!

Exactly!

And Commodores had countryesque tracks...

And of course his solo albums had country tracks... so people saying Lionel sold out to Country

Yeah he was doing it since "Three Times a Lady" lol

Identity said:

He probably bought half of the million copies sold.

Identity said:

He probably bought half of the million copies sold.

Someone that ancient selling a million copies of an album in 2012 is amazing no matter what.

I didn't think the album was bad at all. I'm happy 4 him. I'm still playing this one.

daPrettyman said:

I didn't think the album was bad at all. I'm happy 4 him. I'm still playing this one.

Note 2 self.................do NOT click this link.

Hudson said:

Someone that ancient selling a million copies of an album in 2012 is amazing no matter what.

Hudson said:

Someone that ancient selling a million copies of an album in 2012 is amazing no matter what.

Didn't Tony Bennett have a popular duets album recently? His first record came out in the 1950's.

Identity said:

He probably bought half of the million copies sold.

You're underestimating the middle American audience. The Eagles' 2007 album sold a lot and it was exclusively sold in Wal Mart, although some record stores bought copies of the album there and resold it at a higher price.

Gunsnhalen said:

Timmy84 said:

Dude was always a pop act. C'mon y'all. Be happy for the man!

Exactly!

And Commodores had countryesque tracks...

And of course his solo albums had country tracks... so people saying Lionel sold out to Country

Okay those of us that lived it know the Commodores had the occasional countrified

ballad but we also know that before they started that there were a hell of a lot

more soulful ballads like This Is Your Life, Sweet Love, Just To be Close To You,

High On Sunshine and we won't even talk about the plethora of funk jams they used to have. I'm happy for Lionel. If you can get your money this way vs pop music

anymore then i'm all for it. I don't have to listen or purchase. My problem with Lionel

has never been his diversity, it's just that he never came back to what put his ass

in the door. If he can go out and perform all his ballads that went over to pop audiences

why can't he sing his soulful ballads that r&b fans knew before pop audiences accepted

him.

MickyDolenz said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Just as i can like Lionel in The Commodores & solo as well

It's not like The Commodores records after Lionel left were funk either.

They wanted the same money Lionel was getting as they were great songwriters

just as Lionel were. After the success of Nightshift why wouldn't they wanna keep

getting it. The truth is they did have one more moderate successful funk jam

Goin To the Bank.

Hudson said:

Someone that ancient selling a million copies of an album in 2012 is amazing no matter what.

Whats amazin is that no other new release reached a million in 2012.