J. Cole’s latest studio album, KOD, has officially reached platinum status without a single feature aside from Cole’s alter-ego, Kill Edward. Chart Data tweeted the announcement on Thursday morning (December 20).
KOD was released in April and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with roughly 397,000 total album equivalent units sold in its first week. It also broke streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify with over 1 billion streams combined.
The RIAA included KOD on its list of 2018’s Best RIAA Gold & Platinum Awards. Other platinum albums that made the list are Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy, Post Malone’s beerbongs and bentleys, Travis Scott’s Astroworld, Eminem’s Kamikaze and Black Panther: The Album.
A total of 33 albums and 151 songs were certified gold or platinum this year.
KOD served as Cole’s follow-up to 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only, which also hit the Billboard 200 at No. 1. With approximately 492,000 total album equivalent units sold in its first week, it marked the Dreamville boss’ fourth No. 1 album at the time.
HipHopDX called KOD “one of the most important rap albums ever” and gave the album a 4.6 rating out of 5.0.
This dude might be the most over hyped rapper of all time
U just mad your GED ass dont understand him..stick to migos and kodak..they more your speed…
I’m a huge Cole fan but the last couple projects were subpar. I’d love for him to get back to Born Sinner or 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Facts…..FROM YO MOUTH TO GODS EARS….OVER RATED
LOL This RIAA chart describes america’s current state. Migos and Post Malone have more sales than Eminem, Kendrick and J Cole. That’s fuckin sad, man
I APPRECIATE THE MESSAGE OF THIS ALBUM, BUT ITS OVERRATED AND HAS POOR EXECUTION.
Not many muthafuckas can achieve platinum status without features. That’s what makes an artist a true artist.
Lol, streaming an album 10 times counts as a sale now… The way it works is, stupid kids click top ten and play. So, popular stuff doesn’t even have to be good to sell.
Streams should have never counted as sales… Because any killer album will still sell millions of physical albums. Example, good kid mad city.
Going “Platinum”these days via streaming is the equivalent of selling 250k physical units. Solid accomplishment but it ain’t REALLY platinum. Sorry.
Love j cole love the album but this fake platinum is getting out of hand
Making music for teenage girls. That’s the route radio rappers take. Lame. I remember before Cole was famous… He used to be raw hip-hop. So was Kendrick.
I don’t like either of there music these days. Sad.
one of the very few dope albums that got released in 2018