Monday, 19 December 2016

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J. Cole Ties Drake and DMX With Fourth #1

(AllHipHop News) Rapper J. Cole has scored his fourth number one album on the U.S. albums chart with 4 Your Eyez Only.

The hitmaker earned the third-largest debut of 2016 on the Billboard 200, selling 492,000 units in its first week of release.

Only Drake’s Views and Beyonce’s Lemonade bested the 31-year-old’s 4 Your Eyez Only with 1.04 million and 653,000 units sold, respectively.

J. Cole also joins DMX and Drake as one of only three rappers to have their first four studio albums debut at number one on the chart.

Meanwhile, Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas climbs one spot to number two on the new countdown, while The Weeknd’s Starboy slips to three.