J. Cole has landed his sixth #1 album of his career as The Off-Season debuts at #1 on this week’s Billboard 200 chart. The Off-Season earned 282,000 equivalent album units with 325.05 million on-demand streams. This gives Cole not only the biggest Hip-Hop album of 2021 but the biggest overall streaming week so far this year as well.
Nicki Minaj‘s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape debuts at #2 on the chart. The mixtape was released for free back in 2009 but wasn’t available officially on streaming services or commercially until now. Moneybagg Yo‘s A Gangsta’s Pain is at #3, with Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album at #4. Future Nostalgia from Dua Lipa lands at #5.
The Black Keys have the third highest debut of the week, as their all-covers release Delta Kream arrives at #6. At #7 is Justin Bieber, followed by DJ Khaled at #8. The fourth Top 10 debut comes from Country great Alan Jackson and his latest record, Where Have You Gone. Pop Smoke rounds things out at #10.