A COLE-POWERED TOP 15
J. Cole will easily top both our SPS and album charts next week. 4 Your Eyez Only will open with the year’s third biggest debut, behind only Drake (1.04m) and Beyoncé (653k). A Pentatonix Christmas and That’s Christmas To Me will both chart in the Top 5 on our SPS chart. PTX numbers are projected without adding any lift from tomorrow night’s television special. We will update as warranted on Thursday.
SPS
1. *J. Cole (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope) 530-540k
2. The Weeknd (XO/Republic) 132-137k
3. Pentatonix (RCA) 127-132k
4. Pentatonix, That’s Christmas To Me (RCA) 53-58k
5. Bruno Mars (WMG) 48-52k
6. Metallica (Blackened) 46-50k
7. Moana (Walt Disney) 43-47k
8. Michael Bublé (Reprise) 41-45k
9. Hamilton Mixtape (Uptown) 40-44k
10. *Tech N9ne (Strange Music) 39-42k
11. *Post Malone (Republic) 38-41k
12. Garth Brooks (Pearl) 37-40k
13. Hamilton (Uptown) 34-37k
14. Childish Gambino (Glassnote) 33-36k
15. The Rolling Stones (Interscope) 30-33k
SALES
1. *J. Cole (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope) 370-380k
2. Pentatonix (RCA) 115-120k
3. Metallica (Blackened) 43-47k
4. The Weeknd (XO/Republic) 42-46k
5. Pentatonix – That’s Christmas To Me (RCA) 39-42k
6. Garth Brooks (Pearl) 37-40k
7. *Tech N9ne (Strange Music) 33-36k
8. Bruno Mars (WMG) 30-33k
9. The Rolling Stones (Interscope) 28-31k
10. Hamilton Mixtape (Uptown) 28-31k
11. Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood (Pearl) 27-30k
12. Moana (Walt Disney) 25-28k
13. Michael Bublé (Reprise) 23-26k
14. Trolls (RCA) 21-24k
15. Hamilton (Uptown) 19-21k
*DEBUTS
NEW RELEASES: HERE COMES THE COLE TRAIN (UPDATE)
J. Cole will easily top both our SPS and album charts this week. 4 Your Eyez Only will open with the year’s third-biggest debut, behind only Drake (1.04m) and Beyoncé (653k).
J. Cole (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope)
525-575k SPS, 365-390k album
Tech N9ne (Strange Music)
38-43k, 27-321
Post Malone (Republic)
38-43k, 17-20k
The hip-hop star sits atop the iTunes album chart and has two tracks on the singles Top 20.
NEW RELEASES: HERE COMES THE COLE TRAIN
J. Cole will easily top both our SPS and album charts next week. 4 Your Eyez Only will open with the year’s third-biggest debut, behind only Drake (1.04m) and Beyoncé (653k).
J. Cole (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope)
550-575k SPS, 400-425k album
Tech N9ne (Strange Music)
40-45k, 28-32k
Post Malone (Republic)
30-35k, 17-20k
The hip-hop star sits atop the iTunes album chart and has three tracks on the singles Top 10, with more songs making their way up.
ALL EYEZ ON J. COLE
The freshly released J. Cole set, 4 Your Eyez Only (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope) looks set to bow with a boom on next week's charts, with early forecasts in the 400k-500k region, including a robust streaming component and a nice chunk from single sales. Preorders can fairly be described as "blockbuster," driving expectations that Cole will outpace the bow by another recent UMG Q4 giant, The Weeknd.
Eyez flew to #1 at iTunes immediately upon release, while track "Deja Vu" moved into the Top 5 (it's currently parked behind two Cole tracks that don't appear on the album). The album also occupies the top two spots (in explicit and clean versions) on Apple Music's streaming albums chart, while tracks occupy the Top 10 spots on the Top Songs leaderboard.
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