J. Cole’s second album, Born Sinner, has finally reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart after two weeks stuck at No. 2. The album sold significantly less copies than it did in previous weeks, but a slow week in the music industry helped him rise to the top.
Born Sinner sold just 58,000 copies, a whopping 32 percent drop from last week, notes Billboard. It debuted three weeks ago with 297,000 copies, which wasn’t enough to top Kanye West’s Yeezus. Last week, Whale’s The Gifted kept Cole out of the No. 1 spot.
Billboard notes that Born Sinner had the sixth smallest sales total of any No. 1 album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for the magazine in 1991. The lowest-sales total record for a No. 1 album is still held by Amos Lee’s Mission Bell, which sold just 40,000 when it debuted in February 2011.
The Gifted slid to No. 2 with 50,000, while Yeezus hit No. 3 with only 39,000 copies sold. Yeezus is currently at 431,000 copies sold in total, while Born Sinner is at 439,000.
Imagine Dragons' Night Visions climbed to No. 4 with 36,000 copies and Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times came in at No. 5 with 32,000 copies.
According to USA Today, the only debut in the Top 10 this week was Joe’s Doubleback Evolution of R&B with 31,000 sold. It held the No. 6 spot.
The rest of the top 10 includes Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (28,000); Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' The Heist (24,000); Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox (22,000) and Blake Shelton's Based On a True Story . . . (22,000).
Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” sold another 423,000 downloads, keeping the No. 1 slot on the Digital Songs chart.
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