The Senior

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(60/100)[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Blender	[5]
Drowned in Sound	(7/10)[6]
Entertainment Weekly	C[7]
People	(mixed)[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]
Rolling Stone	[10]
Vibe	[11]

The Senior received generally favorable reviews from music critics, averaging a 60 out of a 100 among averaged reviews on Metacritic.[5] Allmusic editor John Bush wrote the album "finds the R&B jack-of-all-trades attempting to get in on the game with tracks that mine urban lingo for potential hit combinations [...] As before, Ginuwine rises above most of his dozens of imitators in the contemporary R&B realm, with a set of productions that fit his voice perfectly and rate as slightly edgier than the norm."[1] Entertainment Weekly's Craig Seymour found that "on the finest tracks of his fourth set, R&B balladeer Ginuwine delivers cliched slow jams with convincing emotion. But too much of the album skews toward the dance floor rather than the bedroom, with Ginuwine’s vocals lost in a routine groove. He calls this The Senior, but it’s sophomoric, at best."[7] Vibe magazine remarked that "not much has changed for Ginuwine since his debut. He's still racing R. Kelly to see who can sing the ladies out of their panties first."[11]

The Senior debuted and peaked at number six on the US Billboard 200, selling 122,000 copies in its first week, a little shy of the 152,000 copies Ginuwine's 2001 album The Life had debuted with.[12] On Billboard's component charts, it became his first album to top the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[12] The Senior was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for the shipment of over 500,000 copies in the United States.[12] By November 2005, the album had sold over 863,000 units, according to Nielsen Soundscan.[12]

Notes

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• ^{^[b]} denotes co-producer

• The Senior at Metacritic