{"id":2275,"date":"2021-05-23T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","slug":"j-cole-collects-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-the-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole Collects Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with \u2018The Off-Season\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Nicki Minaj, The Black Keys and Alan Jackson debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J. Cole<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;barges in at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart with 2021\u2019s biggest week for a hip-hop release, as the set launches with 282,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 20, according to MRC Data.&nbsp;<em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;was released via Dreamville\/Roc Nation\/Interscope on May 14 and also scores the year\u2019s largest streaming week for any album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nbsp;multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 29, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on May 25. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>The Off-Season<\/em>\u2019s 282,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 20, SEA units comprise 243,000 (equaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 37,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of total units earned,\u00a0<em>The Off-Season<\/em>\u00a0has the largest week of 2021 for a hip-hop album, and the second-biggest overall to only the debut frame of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0with 291,000 units (April 24-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;starts with 243,000 SEA units, totaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 12 tracks \u2014 that sum marks the biggest streaming week for an album in 2021. It surpasses the previous high-water mark for the year, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;debuted with 240.18 million streams for its&nbsp;30&nbsp;songs in its first week (chart dated Jan. 23).&nbsp;<em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;keeps up J. Cole\u2019s hot streak on the chart, as all six of his studio albums have reached No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;follows the chart-topping&nbsp;<em>KOD<\/em>&nbsp;(2018),&nbsp;<em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em>&nbsp;(2016),&nbsp;<em>2014 Forest Hills Drive<\/em>&nbsp;(2014),&nbsp;<em>Born Sinner<\/em>&nbsp;(2013) and&nbsp;<em>Cole World: The Sideline Story<\/em>&nbsp;(2011). (All but&nbsp;<em>Born Sinner<\/em>&nbsp;also debuted at No. 1.&nbsp;<em>Born<\/em>&nbsp;bowed at No. 2, and then rose to No. 1 a week later.) J. Cole\u2019s only chart entry to miss the top slot was a live album, 2016\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Forest Hills Drive: Live<\/em>, which reached No. 71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/nicki-minaj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nick Minaj<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Beam Me Up Scotty<\/em>&nbsp;mixtape debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 80,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 63,000 (equaling 85.57 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 11,000 and TEA units comprise 6,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Beam Me Up Scotty<\/em>\u00a0is Minaj\u2019s fifth album to reach the top two on the Billboard 200 \u2013 the entirety of her charting efforts.\u00a0<em>Beam Me Up Scotty<\/em>\u00a0was initially released for free in 2009, but was not commercially issued or distributed to streaming services until May 14, 2021. The new version of the album houses most of the tracks from the 2009 release and adds three new cuts: \u201cSeeing Green,\u201d with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-wayne\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Wayne<\/a>, \u201cFractions\u201d and \u201cCrocodile Teeth\u201d (remix) with Skillibeng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/moneybagg-yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moneybagg Yo<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Gangsta\u2019s Pain<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-3 in its fourth week on the chart, earning 55,000 equivalent album units (down 10%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;dips 2-4 with 53,000 units (up 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, but posts a 14% gain in equivalent album units earned to 41,000. Its surge is owed mostly to vinyl LP sales, as of its nearly 7,000 total albums sold for the week (up 261%), vinyl LPs represent 5,000 of that sum (up 841%). (The album\u2019s expanded deluxe edition, dubbed The Moonlight Edition, was issued on vinyl on May 14.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-black-keys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Black Keys<\/a>&nbsp;nab their fifth top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as the duo\u2019s new blues covers project&nbsp;<em>Delta Kream<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 6 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 30,000, SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.22 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Justice<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-7 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dj-khaled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DJ Khaled<\/a>\u2019s previous leader&nbsp;<em>Khaled Khaled&nbsp;<\/em>descends 4-8 with 32,000 units (down 30%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/alan-jackson\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Jackson<\/a>\u00a0captures his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as his new studio effort\u00a0<em>Where Have You Gone<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 9. The set earned just under 32,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 6.04 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 is\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>, falling 8-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billoard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2275\" data-postid=\"2275\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2275 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Nicki Minaj, The Black Keys and Alan Jackson debut in top 10. J. 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