{"id":483881,"date":"2026-02-16T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:14:13","slug":"billboard-200-j-coles-the-fall-off-debuts-at-1-with-biggest-hip-hop-week-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483881\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard 200: J. Cole\u2019s &#8216;The Fall-Off&#8217; Debuts at #1 with Biggest Hip-Hop Week in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/02\/billboard-200-j-coles-the-fall-off-debuts-at-1-with-biggest-hip-hop-week-in-year\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jcole-2026-tgj-600x406.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hip-Hop heavyweight <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/j-cole\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J. Cole<\/a> has returned to the summit of the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>The GRAMMY winner secures his seventh #1 album on the coveted count as <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/02\/stream-j-coles-the-fall-off-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018The Fall-Off\u2019<\/a> storms in atop the chart.<\/p>\n<p>Full story below\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the latest iteration of the count, the set opens with a commanding 280,000 equivalent units in its first week, marking the biggest frame for any R&amp;B or Hip-Hop release in nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of that total, streaming led the charge. The project pulled in 166,500 streaming accrued units, powered by 169.5 million on-demand streams of its tracks. Pure sales were equally impressive, clocking 113,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vinyl played a defining role. Roughly 80,000 copies were sold on wax, accounting for about 71% of total sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notably, this marks the first time one of the rapper\u2019s albums has been available on vinyl at the same time as its digital release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The result is his biggest vinyl week ever and the largest vinyl sales week for any R&amp;B or Hip-Hop album in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone extends a streak that includes previous #1s like \u2018KOD,\u2019 \u20182014 Forest Hills Drive,\u2019 and \u2018The Off-Season.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop heavyweight J. Cole has returned to the summit of the Billboard 200. The GRAMMY winner secures his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,48100,134,6994,45017,136,240959],"class_list":{"0":"post-483881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-billboard-200","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hip-hop","13":"tag-j-cole","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-the-fall-off"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}