List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2009

This page lists the albums that reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts in 2009. The Rap Albums chart partially serves as a distillation of rap-specific titles from the overall R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

The top-selling R&B/hip-hop album for the year was I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, which was released in November 2008.

Chart history

Key

†	Indicates best-performing albums of 2009[1][2]

Issue date	R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	Artist(s)	Rap Albums	Artist(s)	Refs.
January 3	A Different Me	Keyshia Cole	Da REAList	Plies	[3]
January 10					[4]
January 17					[5]
January 24					[6]
January 31	Notorious	Soundtrack / The Notorious B.I.G.	Notorious	Soundtrack / The Notorious B.I.G.	[7]
February 7	A Different Me	Keyshia Cole			[8]
February 14			Da REAList	Plies	[9]
February 21	Intuition	Jamie Foxx			[10]
February 28	The Rebirth	Bobby V	Paper Trail	T.I.	[11]
March 7	Uncle Charlie	Charlie Wilson			[12]
March 14	Intuition	Jamie Foxx			[13]
March 21					[14]
March 28	Love vs. Money	The-Dream			[15]
April 4			Don't Feed da Animals	Gorilla Zoe	[16]
April 11	In a Perfect World...	Keri Hilson	Pray IV Reign	Jim Jones	[17]
April 18	LOtUSFLOW3R / MPLSound / Elix3r	Prince / Bria Valente	UGK 4 Life	UGK	[18]
April 25	The Last Kiss	Jadakiss	The Last Kiss	Jadakiss	[19]
May 2	Forever in a Day	Day26			[20]
May 9	Deeper Than Rap	Rick Ross	Deeper Than Rap	Rick Ross	[21]
May 16					[22]
May 23	Epiphany	Chrisette Michele			[23]
May 30	Crime Pays	Cam'ron	Crime Pays	Cam'ron	[24]
June 6	Relapse	Eminem	Relapse	Eminem	[25]
June 13					[26]
June 20					[27]
June 27	The E.N.D.	The Black Eyed Peas			[28]
July 4					[29]
July 11	A Man's Thoughts	Ginuwine			[30]
July 18	Jeremih	Jeremih	If Tomorrow Comes...	Maino	[31]
July 25	BLACKsummers'night	Maxwell	Relapse	Eminem	[32]
August 1			Category F5	Twista	[33]
August 8					[34]
August 15	Loso's Way	Fabolous	Loso's Way	Fabolous	[35]
August 22	I Get Around	K'Jon			[36]
August 29	BLACKsummers'night	Maxwell			[37]
September 5	Turn Me Loose	Ledisi	Imperial Blaze	Sean Paul	[38]
September 12	Lady Love	Letoya	Loso's Way	Fabolous	[39]
September 19	I Look to You	Whitney Houston	Pitbull Starring in Rebelution	Pitbull	[40]
September 26	The Blueprint 3	Jay-Z	The Blueprint 3 †	Jay-Z	[41]
October 3					[42]
October 10					[43]
October 17	Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel	Mariah Carey			[44]
October 24	The Blueprint 3	Jay-Z			[45]
October 31					[46]
November 7					[47]
November 14	Michael Jackson's This Is It	Michael Jackson			[48]
November 21					[49]
November 28					[50]
December 5	Before I Self Destruct	50 Cent	Before I Self Destruct	50 Cent	[51]
December 12	Rated R	Rihanna			[52]
December 19	Untitled	R. Kelly			[53]
December 26	Graffiti	Chris Brown	The State vs. Radric Davis	Gucci Mane	[54]

See also

• 2009 in music
• 2009 in hip hop music
• List of number-one R&B/hip-hop songs of 2009 (U.S.)
• List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2009