| The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1994 |
| TOP 50 R&B ALBUMS (As published in the December 31, 1994, issue) |
| POS | TITLE – Artist (Label) |
| 1 | 12 PLAY – R. Kelly (Jive) |
| 2 | TONI BRAXTON (LaFace) |
| 3 | I’M READY – Tevin Campbell (Qwest/Warner Bros.) |
| 4 | AGE AIN’T NOTHING BUT A NUMBER – Aaliyah (Blackground/Jive) |
| 5 | DOGGYSTYLE – Snoop Doggy Dog (Death Row/Interscope) |
| 6 | DIARY OF A MAD BAND – Jodeci (Uptown/MCA) |
| 7 | ABOVE THE RIM – Original Soundtrack (Death Row/Interscope) |
| 8 | REGULATE... G FUNK ERA – Warren G (Violator/RAL) |
| 9 | MUSIC BOX – Mariah Carey (Columbia) |
| 10 | THE TRUTH – Aaron Hall (Silas/MCA) |
| 11 | GEMS – Patti LaBelle (MCA) |
| 12 | LETHAL INJECTION – Ice Cube (Priority) |
| 13 | SOUTHERNPLAYALISTICADILLACMUZIK – OutKast (LaFace) |
| 14 | GET UP ON IT – Keith Sweat (Elektra) |
| 15 | FOR THE COOL IN YOU – Babyface (Epic) |
| 16 | FUNKDAFIED – Da Brat (So So Def/Chaos) |
| 17 | SOMETHIN’ SERIOUS – Big Mike (Rap-A-Lot/Priority) |
| 18 | NUTTIN’ BUT LOVE – Heavy D & The Boyz (Uptown/MCA) |
| 19 | BLACKSTREET (Interscope/Atlantic) |
| 20 | CREEPIN ON AH COME UP – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ruthless/Relativity) |
| 21 | VERY NECESSARY – Salt-N-Pepa (Next Plateau/London) |
| 22 | II – Boyz II Men (Motown) |
| 23 | JANET. – Janet Jackson (Virgin) |
| 24 | HUMMIN’ COMIN’ AT ’CHA – Xscape (So So Def/Columbia) |
| 25 | WE COME STRAPPED – MC Eight featuring CMW (Epic Street) |
| 26 | RHYTHM OF LOVE – Anita Baker (Elektra) |
| 27 | GROOVE ON – Gerald Levert (EastWest America) |
| 28 | THE FUNKY HEADHUNTER – Hammer (Giant/Reprise) |
| 29 | PRONOUNCED “JAH-NAY” – Zhane (Motown/Illtown) |
| 30 | GET IN WHERE YOU FIT IN – Too Short (Jive) |
| 31 | DOMINO (OutBurst) |
| 32 | CHANGING FACES (Big Beat/Atlantic) |
| 33 | ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 Chambers) – Wu-Tang Clan (Loud/RCA) |
| 34 | READY TO DIE – The Notorious B.I.G. (Bad Boy) |
| 35 | ILLMATIC – Nas (Columbia) |
| 36 | SONGS – Luther Vandross (Epic/LV) |
| 37 | MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS – A Tribe Called Quest (Jive) |
| 38 | ALL-4-ONE (Blitzz/Atlantic) |
| 39 | ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN – Eightball & MJG featuring MC Breed (MJG/Suave) |
| 40 | JASON’S LYRIC – Original Soundtrack (Mercury) |
| 41 | IT’S ON (Dr. Dre) 187UM KILLA – Eazy-E (Ruthless/Relativity) |
| 42 | NINETEEN NINETY QUAD – 69 Boyz (Rip-It/Downlow) |
| 43 | THE ICON IS LOVE – Barry White (A&M) |
| 44 | GREATEST HITS (1980-1994) – Aretha Franklin (Arista) |
| 45 | PROJECT: FUNK DA WORLD – Craig Mack (Bad Boy) |
| 46 | JUST FOR YOU – Gladys Knight (MCA) |
| 47 | ANGELA WINBUSH (Elektra) |
| 48 | SONS OF SOUL – Tony Toni Tone (Wing/Mercury) |
| 49 | MURDER WAS THE CASE – Original Soundtrack (Death Row/Interscope) |
| 50 | GANGSTA LEAN – D.R.S. (Capitol/Roll Wit It) |