Usher has a new album, titled "Raymond vs Raymond", to be released on March 30th. I hope that does not really happen because I think it will be career suicide for him. I do recall that earlier this year, amongst other things, he had a laptop of unreleashed songs stolen from his car. So I'm hoping he pulls an 8701 with this album. Remember that album was pushed back and later released on 8/7/01 back in 2001. Ushers last album "Here I stand" did not do very well at all, like his leading single, selling copies of that CD was like "Moving Mountains". Currently there has to be at least 10 songs leaked from this forthcoming album, which would be over half an album! Most are featuring another artist, in fact I have only come across 2 leaked songs that did not feature another artist. He might as welled names the album "Usher featuring...", better yet "Featuring Usher" and only do hooks and ad-lib's.

USHER DON'T DO IT!! rename the album 8710

***UPDATE***

The album actually ended being released 5 days sooner, on March 26, 2010,for digital download when you pre-ordered the physical album. Since the release day was on my birthday I went ahead and ordered it from the usher website. I loved this album when it came out then as it seemed to capture the moment of life and music for the millennial generation, IMO. 

My favorite song was a tie between "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)" and "There Goes My Baby" but I would mostly listen to the entire album for the first month of owning it. I also feel that the albums closing song "Making Love (Into the Night)" was slept on heavily.

Also I loved the song "Okay", I felt that he was making his preliminary EDM/Trap transition with that song. This is in hindsight, of course, especially when you pair that song with the albums lead single "OMG" (which was one of my fav songs too).

***another UPDATE***

Five months later a Deluxe Edition version of this album was released on August 24, 2010. This edition of the album was a double disc set, with the 2nd disc consisting of 8 additional songs. These 8 songs - particularly "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love feat. Pitbull", "Hot Tottie feat. Jay-Z", and "Somebody to Love feat. Justin Bieber" - cemented Ushers hiatus from R&B and into the EDM/Trap sub-genres, IMO of course.

Raymond V Raymond Deluxe Version - stream digital copy