Trey Songz says the success of his new “Chapter V” — his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 — is a validation of what he considers an against-the-grain musical approach these days.

“People were in need of real R&B and really appreciated this body of work from me when there aren’t a lot of your favorite R&B artists giving you R&B albums,” Songz tells Billboard. “It’s not even that it’s real R&B or fake R&B; it’s that you have a lot of your favorite R&B singers making pop music right now. And in this time it was very important for me to stay true to myself and stay true to the music that’s gotten me to the point where I am right now.”
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