{"id":408,"date":"2016-12-19T08:23:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:49:36","slug":"j-cole-scores-his-fourth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-third-largest-debut-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole Scores His Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart, With Third-Largest Debut of 2016"},"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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/276541\/j-cole\/chart\">J. Cole<\/a>\u2019s <em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> bounds in at No. 1 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart, granting the rapper his fourth chart-topper and notching the third-largest debut of 2016, according to Nielsen Music. The set earned 492,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 15. Only the bows of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1490118\/drake\/chart\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s <em>Views<\/em> (1.04 million units) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/281569\/beyonce\/chart\">Beyonce<\/a>\u2019s <em>Lemonade<\/em> (653,000) were larger this year.<\/p>\n<p>Of J. Cole\u2019s overall 492,000 unit start, 363,000 were in traditional album sales &#8212;\u00a0the third-biggest weekly sales sum for a single album this year. Again, it trails only the arrivals of <em>Views<\/em> (852,000 sold in its first week) and <em>Lemonade<\/em> (a 485,000 sales launch).<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks\">multi-metric consumption<\/a>, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 31-dated chart (where <em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> opens at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard\u2019s Websites on Tuesday, Dec. 20.<\/p>\n<p><em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> also logs a big streaming week\u00a0as it tallied 118,000 in SEA units (equaling 51.7 million streams of the album\u2019s songs), which is the second-largest streaming debut ever for an album. It trails only the bow of Drake\u2019s <em>Views<\/em>, which launched with 163,000 streaming units in its opening frame (equating to 245.1 million streams of songs from the album that week). <em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> is just the third album to surpass 100,000 streaming equivalent album units in a single week, following <em>Views<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/419413\/weeknd\/chart\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s <em>Starboy<\/em> (with its opening frame of 117,000 in SEA units).\u00a0<em>Views<\/em>\u00a0actually did it three times: during its debut week, along with its third (124,000) and fourth (111,000) frames.<\/p>\n<p><em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> is J. Cole\u2019s fourth studio album, and all four have debuted at No. 1. He joins Drake and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/300046\/dmx\/chart\"><strong>DMX<\/strong><\/a> as the only rap acts to debut at No. 1 with their first four full-length studio efforts. Drake did it with his first six, starting with 2010\u2019s <em>Thank Me Later<\/em> (and including his collaborative set with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/302577\/future\/chart\">Future<\/a>, <em>What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, in 2015). DMX saw his first five full-length studio sets all enter atop the list, between 1998 and 2003.<\/p>\n<p>J. Cole first hit No. 1 with his debut album, <em>Cole World: The Sideline Story<\/em>, in 2011, when it launched with 217,000 copies sold. He followed it in 2013 with <em>Born Sinner<\/em> (297,000 sold in its first week) and then the following year with <em>2014 Forest Hills Drive <\/em>(354,000 first week sales). Thus, J. Cole has achieved an infrequent feat: each of his successive albums has started with a larger debut sales week than the previous set, as his new album bows with 363,000 sold.<\/p>\n<p>Other acts that have shown steady gains with the opening frames of their recent albums include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/298455\/bruno-mars\/chart\">Bruno Mars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/278035\/adele\/chart\">Adele<\/a> (both with their first three studio sets) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/371422\/taylor-swift\/chart\">Taylor Swift<\/a> (with her first five studio efforts).<\/p>\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 is a surging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1490043\/pentatonix\/chart\">Pentatonix<\/a>, with <em>A Pentatonix Christmas<\/em>. The set earned 156,000 units for the week (up 22 percent). The group\u2019s previous holiday album, <em>That\u2019s Christmas To Me<\/em>, returns to the top five, as it climbs 8-5 with 65,000 units (up 24 percent). Pentatonix is the first act to chart a pair of albums concurrently in the top five since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/351039\/prince\/chart\">Prince<\/a> on the May 21-dated chart, following an outpouring of support for his music following his death on April 21. Previous to Prince, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/300407\/david-bowie\/chart\">David Bowie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/431329\/whitney-houston\/chart\">Whitney Houston<\/a> also scored the feat, in 2016 and 2012, respectively &#8212;\u00a0but again, only after their deaths. The last living act to notch a pair of albums in the top five at the same time was Adele on the March 3, 2012-dated chart. That week\u2019s chart reflected impact from the 2012 Grammy Awards, where Adele\u2019s <em>21<\/em> took home multiple trophies, including the award for album of the year. The set held at No. 1 on the list, while her previous album, <em>19<\/em>, jumped 9-4.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, The Weeknd\u2019s <em>Starboy<\/em> slips 2-3 with 109,000 units (down 28 percent in its third week) and Bruno Mars\u2019 <em>24K Magic<\/em> rises 6-4 with 74,000 units (up 27 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Singer\/songwriter\/rapper <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/6671466\/post-malone\/chart\">Post Malone<\/a> <\/strong>sees his debut studio album, <em>Stoney<\/em>, bow at No. 6 with 58,000 units (19,000 in album sales). The album had a particularly robust number of streams for the week (51.7 million streams, equating to 34,000 SEA units), as the set garnered the third-most streams for its tracks among any album on the chart for the week (behind <em>4 Your Eyez Only<\/em> and <em>Starboy<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Stoney<\/em> features Post Malone\u2019s breakthrough smash single \u201cWhite Iverson,\u201d which reached No. 3 on the Hot Rap Songs chart in January.<\/p>\n<p>The original Broadway cast recording of <em>Hamilton<\/em> returns to the top 10, as it climbs 11-7 with 48,000 units (up 7 percent). Its rise comes as its spin-off album, <em>The Hamilton Mixtape<\/em>, tumbles 1-14 in its second week with 36,000 units (down 81 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Moana<\/em> movie soundtrack slips one rung to No. 8 with 48,000 units (down 10 percent) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/310724\/michael-bubl\/chart\"><strong>Michael Buble\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> <em>Christmas<\/em> jumps 13-9 with a little more than 43,000 units (up 1 percent). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/419005\/rolling-stones\/chart\">The Rolling Stones<\/a>\u2019 <em>Blue &amp; Lonesome<\/em> rounds out the top 10, as it descends 4-10 in its second week with 43,000 units (down 65 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-408\" data-postid=\"408\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-408 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. 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