Congrats to Cole, Dreamville & Roc Nation
One week after the surprise release of his fifth studio album, J. Cole can finally celebrate with official numbers being revealed today. Today, Billboard formally announced that J. Cole’s KOD logged the biggest week of the year in overall units for any genre and third-largest streaming week ever.
The Dreamville rapper managed to move 397,000 album sales (174,000 in physical copies) in his first week and scored a no. 1 position on the Billboard 200. According to Nielsen Music, the album is also the biggest releases for a hip-hop album since Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN project of 2017.
In the breakdown sales, Jermaine scored 215,000 streaming equivalent units, with a total 322 million on-demand audio streams across services. This shattered the Migos previous streaming record for 2018, as their CULTURE II album generated 224 million streams back in February.
[Source]