After an early leak of the album hit the Internet last week, first week sales projections are in for J. Cole’s2014 Forest Hills Drive.
With a big opener already underway, J. Cole is slated to sell between 240,000 and 270,000 copies of 2014 Forest Hills Drive in its first week in stores according to Hits Daily Double. Cole’s third album quickly jumped to the #1 spot in iTunes and despite a quiet promo lead-up, the song “Apparently,” which was just furnished as a video single yesterday, seems to be the album’s first serviceable radio look.
While the predictions for the album are still early, the numbers would place Cole firmly at the top of the year’s biggest first-week performances for a Hip Hop artist after Rick Ross’Mastermind managed to sell 179,000 in the rapper’s most recent #1 debut and Eminem’sShady XV pushed 130,000 in a single week last month. Still, the latest numbers would fall short of Cole’s first week sales achievements for Born Sinner last year, his sophomore release that sold a total of 297,000 for a first-week debut at #2 on the Billboard Top 200.
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