Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album)

Unpredictable debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, beaten to number-one by Mary J. Blige with The Breakthrough. It sold 597,000 copies in its first week.[1] In its second week, it climbed to number one, despite a 77% decrease, selling 139,000 copies. In its third week, it slipped to number 3, with a 29% decrease, selling 93,000 copies. In its fourth week of sales, it increased by 2%, selling 96,000 copies. However, the album slid another spot down to number 4. In its fifth week, it suffered a 21% decrease, sliding to number 10, selling 75,000 copies. To date, the album has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), with an excess of two million copies sold in the United States.

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	52/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
Blender	[4]
Robert Christgau	[5]
Entertainment Weekly	C-[6]
HipHopDX	[7]
Los Angeles Times	[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Paste	[10]
Vibe	[2]
The Village Voice	(favorable)[11]
The Guardian	[12]

Unpredictable received polarized reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 52, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 16 reviews.[2]

• E! Online – 7.5 out of 10 -"Whether he makes it all work via his musical skills or chameleonic acting ability, we don't know, but it does work."[2]
• Rolling Stone – 6 out of 10 – "When the album works, it's because of Foxx's easy charm and A-list confidence."[9]
• Paste- 3 out of 10 – "It's better to be the imitation Ray Charles than the poor man's R. Kelly."[10]
• Q magazine – 4 out of 10 – "The voice that set such a spark to West's Gold Digger should be capable of more than this exaggerated comedy sex routine."[13]
• Alex Petridis of The Guardian was also not impressed with the album, saying: "Unpredictable resembles another legendary thespian's venture into pop, William Shatner's 1968 opus The Transformed Man, in that you start to wonder whether Foxx is actually serious or not."[12]

Album – Billboard (US) actual sales 1,980,000

Singles – Billboard (US)

• https://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20051229/en_music_eo/18046
• http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60198/foxx-overtakes-blige-on-album-chart