On the Charts: J. Cole Scores Best-Selling Week of 2018 With ‘KOD’
J. Cole recorded the biggest sales week of 2018 so far as the rapper’s surprise new LP KOD debuted at Number One, marking the fifth straight J. Cole album to top the Billboard 200.
KOD opened with 397,000 total copies, including 174,000 traditional albums and 215,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs). Only Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods sold more debut week traditional copies than KOD this year, but KOD‘s first-week streaming totals, the third-best ever since the Billboard 200 began measuring streams, pushed the album to 2018’s best sales week, Billboard reports. More
