This week on the R&B/Hip Hop single sales chart, The Weeknd knocks Bruno Mars off the top, J. Cole takes a pretty huge hit, and Gucci Mane comes in very high up with the help of Drake.
Huge Drop For J. Cole
Just last week, a grand total of five tracks from J. Cole’s latest album 4 Your Eyez Only were sitting in the top 20, including three new entries. One week later, all five have dropped out of the top 20, with four of them dropping past 30 and lower. It’s a huge decline in sales, with “Deja Vu” the highest ranked at 21.
Gucci Mane Lands Strong
The hype around The Return of the East Atlanta Santa has been very real. With that in mind, it’s not so surprising the single “Both” featuring Drake has done so well. The track has entered the Hip Hop charts in fourth. We wonder if this will convince Cole to use some big name features next time around.
The Weeknd Takes Top Spot
The Weeknd’s “Star Boy” has been floating around the top of the charts for no less than 14 weeks now, and last week it overtook Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” to claim the top spot. The single saw a massive 49 percent increase in sales from the previous week, and is now fewer than 3,000 sales short of going platinum.
#1. The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk – “Starboy” – 85,928 (997,837)
#2. Bruno Mars – “24K Magic” – 68,937 (724,254)
#3. Rae Sremmurd – “Black Beatles” – 61,918 (845,800)
#4. Gucci Mane ft. Drake – “Both” — 52,233 (52,233)
#5. Machine Gun Kelly f. Camila Cabello – “Bad Things” – 47,574 (281,696)
#6. Drake – “Fake Love” – 46,370 (339,630)
#7. Aminé – “Caroline” — 41,276 (351,250)
#8. Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert — “Bad and Boujee” — 30,638 (105,226)
#9. D.R.A.M. ft. Lil Yahcty – “Broccoli” — 29,842 (915,487)
#10. Rihanna – “Love On The Brain” – 29,354 (353,440)
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Cole’s album wasn’t made for hit singles. It was made for something much deeper than that. It wasn’t meant to be commercial, so the fact that the singles fell in the charts doesn’t change the fact that it’s one of the most profound, well-crafted hip-hop albums of our time. There are some things charts and numbers can’t capture.
Long time Cole fan here but lol at this post. The album really doesn’t deserve the word profound dude. I mean Cole fans really do go over the top sometimes.
This ” Cole Fans are too fanatic” narrative had to die. Every musicians fan base is the same. My girl is a die hard Drake fan. Same with her friends. Every Drake album isn’t the greatest but they rep him hard. All fan bases are the same !!!! Just like 2016 wasn’t actually the worst year for celebrity deaths. Stop believing these memes.
This album was dope and it was literally on a level off his journey and those showing love to Cole as a collective are not over the top its the same love we show to those we follow and support , I think what he dropped was essential and beautiful and you have to have understood the journey to understand it’s a work that is more to be appreciated and understood than to be depicted by numbers , he stands for more than that I love dreamville and J Cole broadens my depth of understanding listen to him