J. Cole Has a Big ‘Off-Season’ | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (5/29/21): J. Cole has one of the biggest launches on the Billboard 200 in 2021 with The Off-Season. 

SCANNING THE CHARTS is just what it says it is.  I, the quirky founder and do-it-all at The Musical Hype scans through the Billboard Charts and picks out things that catch my eye. This column isn’t extensive, but rather short and sweet.  This week, I picked out SEVEN notable observations from the Billboard 200 📉 ,  and FIVE observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉 , with 🎙  J. Cole dominating both the Billboard 200 (💿  The Off-Season) and Hot 100 (numerous songs from The Off-Season, including four in the top 10).

Billboard 200 📉 

💭  🏆  Grammy-winning rapper 🎙  J. Cole debuts robustly at no. 1 with his sixth studio album, 💿  The Off-Season.  Per Keith Caulfield of Billboard, The Off-Season moved 282,000 units.

💭  🎙  Nicki Minaj debuts in the runner-up spot with the release of her mixtape, 💿  Beam Me Up Scotty, which features a trio of new songs.

💭  🎙  The Black Keys launch at no. 6 with their latest LP, 💿  Delta Kream.

💭  🎙  Alan Jackson lays claim to the final new debut in the top 10 as 💿  Where Have You Gone launches at no. 9.

💭  🎙  St. Vincent secures a top-20 debut with 💿  Daddy’s Home which starts at no. 16.  The final debut to grace the top-20 belongs to 🎙  ENHYPEN with 💿  Border: Carnival (EP) at no. 18.

💭  🎙  Kodak Black gets into the top echelon debut action as 💿  Haitian Boy Kodak bows at no. 25.

💭  The final two debuts in the top half of the Billboard 200 belongs to 🎙  Phoebe Bridgers and 🎙  Young Nudy respectively. Bridgers’ 💿  Copycat Killer (EP) (featuring 🎙  Rob Moose) debuts at no. 78 while Nudy’s 💿  DR. EV4L lands at no. 93.

Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭  🎙  Olivia Rodrigo earns her second no. 1 single (and second debut at no. 1), following the awesome 🎵  “drivers license”, with 🎵 “good 4 u”.  Both appear on her debut album, 💿  SOUR, released on Friday, May 21.

💭  In addition to his success on the Billboard 200, 🎙  J. Cole experiences massive success on the Hot 100 with four singles debuting in the top 10 alone.  Those four singles are 🎵  “my.life” (featuring 🎙  21 Savage and 🎙  Morray), 🎵 “amari”, 🎵 “pride.is.the.devil” (featuring 🎙  Lil Baby) and my personal favorite, 🎵  “95.south” at nos.  2, 5, 7, and 8 respectively.

💭  Like Cole, 🎙  Nicki Minaj also experiences success on the Hot 100. Her top debuting single from 💿  Beam Me Up Scotty is 🎵  “Seeing Green” featuring 🎙  Drake and 🎙  Lil Wayne (no. 12)

💭  🎙  Migos debut at no. 38 with their advance single from the highly anticipated 💿  Culture III, 🎵 “Straightenin”.  

💭  🎙  Bella Poarch launches at no. 58 with her eyebrow raising single, 🎵  “Build a Bitch”.

J. Cole Has a Big ‘Off-Season’: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 21 [📷 : Brent Faulkner, Dreamville, Geffen, The Musical Hype, Olivia Rodrigo, Roc Nation]