J. Cole’s long-anticipated studio album The Fall-Off debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200. As reported by Billboard, the LP opens with 280,000 equivalent album units in the United States. The figure marks the largest week for any R&B or hip-hop album in nearly a year and secures Cole’s seventh career No. 1 on the chart.
The achievement places The Fall-Off alongside an elite run that includes Cole World: The Sideline Story, Born Sinner, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only, KOD and The Off-Season.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, momentum shifts defined the top tier. Bad Bunny holds at No. 2 with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, earning 250,000 units following a widely viewed Super Bowl halftime performance. The album posts its strongest week yet, fueled by both streaming gains and a new vinyl pressing. In addition, his 2022 project Un Verano Sin Ti also surges back into the top 10, marking the first time the artist has placed two albums simultaneously in that region.
K-pop powerhouse ATEEZ enters at No. 3 with GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4, delivering 200,000 units and the group’s biggest week by volume. Joji lands at No. 5 with Piss In the Wind, while Don Toliver drops to No. 4 in his second week.
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