When next week's charts are released, R&B singer Usher will likely have his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. According to industry prognosticators, the singer's "Looking 4 Myself" is currently on pace to move about 125,000 copies in the tracking week that ends Sunday.
That total will easily place "Looking" on top, but is less than half of the 329,000 copies Usher's last album, "Raymond v. Raymond" sold when it debuted in 2010. In fact, despite being sufficient to put the album on top of the Billboard chart, the projected sales total for "Looking" will be Usher's smallest first-week sales for a record since "My Way" launched with 67,000 copies sold peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard chart.
The lead single from "Looking 4 Myself," titled "Climax," has already enjoyed some success of its own, landing at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for a ninth consecutive week on Wednesday.