Return of the Tender Lover

"Return of the Tender Lover" is the tenth studio album from American R&B singer Babyface. It was released December 4, 2015 on Def Jam Recordings. The album pays homage to his classic 1989 triple-Platinum sophomore album, Tender Lover and serves as the follow-up to his last album Grown & Sexy (2005). It is his first solo album of new studio material in 10 years. Return of the Tender Lover received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In the United States, the album debuted at number 39 on the Billboard 200 with 19,000 first-week sales.