After an early leak of the album hit the Internet last week, first week sales projections are in for J. Cole’s 2014 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’s Shady 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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Very impressive, especially without any pre-album singles like Power Trip.
Thank God for cole. Music that people can relate to, not that fantasist trash that some rappers keep keep releasing.
cheating..hows he outselling ariana grande by 100,000 copies …label probably bought 150,000 copies…soundscan is rigged
Bad year for hiphop so far omg.
considering the market and climate…270,000 copies in the first week is pretty good…thats solid…
LOL DON’T BE HATING ROBERT J.COLE IS ABOUT TO PROVE Y’ALL WRONG SOME OF Y’ALL SAYING HE WAS GOING TO FLOP AND BOMB IN SALES NEXT WEEK DOING ONLY 50K OR SO BUT NOW J.COLE ABOUT TO MAKE Y’ALL EAT YOUR WORDS AND LOOK STUPID FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE SAYING R.I.P TO ALL OF J.COLE’S HATERS LOL BOY I GET A KICK OUT OF Y’ALL HATING ON J.COLE IT’S TO HILARIOUS Y’ALL BE SAYING SOME OUTRAGEOUSLY STUPID OFF THE WALL SHIT ABOUT J.COLE FAILING BUT U JUST CAN’T EXPECT THE FACT THAT J.COLE IS IN HIS PRIME RIGHT NOW DESPITE NOT MAKING MUCH NOISE IN ABOUT A YEAR THE MAN CAN DO IT ON HIS OWN WITH NO PROMOTIONS OR GIMMICKS HE GOT A BIG FAN BASE THAT IS LOYAL AND THEY RIDE FOR MY MOTHERFUCKIN NIGGA J.COLE AND WOULD PROBABLY DEAD FOR THAT MOTHERFUCKIN NIGGA THAT’S WHY J.COLE GOING TO SELL 250,000 OR PROBABLY EVEN SELL 285,000 COPIES FIRST WEEK AND IN A MONTH’S TIME WITH REACH GOLD AND BE COLE’S THIRD CERTIFIED GOLD ALBUM J.COLE NEVER FLOPPED AND PROBABLY WON’T FOR ALONG TIME BECAUSE HE STAYS TRUE AND KEEPS IT REAL SO DON’T BE MAD BE GLAD THAT ROC NATION IS IN THE HOUSE
every album hater say: oh Roc Nation bought those copies. SMH accept it….the kid is NICEEEE and his fanbase is loyal!!!! Album of the year
I’m not mad, I just find these numbers suspecious. Eminem couldn’t sell 150k OW with shady XV. So how come J Cole is selling 250k? It had little promotion and no singles. That’s why I believe J Cole and Roc Nation bought at least 200k of those copies.
J Cole with hardly any promotion is selling more than the self proclaimed boss, officer ricky, who had gimmicks, heavy promotion, and tons of guests. Keeping it real can get you further than gimmicks Even at 240k, its higher than any ross OW sales.
Considering the climate and the market ….240,000-270,000 is pretty damn good…thats solid..
PEOPLE WANT REAL ALBUMS REAL MUSIC WILL ALWAYS MOVE UNITS ITS NOT THE MARKET OR THE CLIMATE ITS THE MUSIC THAT SHIT IS A BIG EXCUSE
J Cole gave an exclusive interview about his relationship with roc nation. He reported that he was getting treated like shit over there (lack of support, taking maybe 2 percent of the sales). Yet he couldn’t complain because roc nation could end his career with a lawsit. When asked about his thoughts about wayne wanting out of cash money, he said that wayne should have been a lot more greatful considering he was getting well paid with 80% of royalties. J cole is planning a diss song about wayne being a bitch.
All of that is a lie you made up.
Quit dickriding wayne. You were hating on him hard before but now youre dickriding him?
“Quit dickriding wayne. You were hating on him hard before but now youre dickriding him?”
Not dickriding anyone. You were the Wayne dickrider and now you’re his biggest hater. If anything, you should stop dickriding Birdman.
If your friend stabbed you in the heart, I guarentee you will show nothing but hate.
^ Nobody got stabbed in the heart, though.
“I’m not mad, I just find these numbers suspecious. Eminem couldn’t sell 150k OW with shady XV. So how come J Cole is selling 250k? It had little promotion and no singles. That’s why I believe J Cole and Roc Nation bought at least 200k of those copies.”
You’re obviously mad if you lie. There’s nothing suspicious about J Cole doing 250K when his previous albums all did more than 200K. Why do you keep bringing up Eminem and Shady XV, which isn’t a solo Eminem album, so it doesn’t count? Even with little promo and no singles, Cole is still doing huge numbers and no copies are being bought by either Roc Nation or Cole. The guy just has a loyal fanbase who actually buys his records.
Em’s album was a compilation/greatest hits. If it was a studio album he would have put up way bigger numbers like he did with MMLP2
A fan base full of teen girls and gay wads.
“A fan base full of teen girls and gay wads.”
No, that’s YMCMB’s fanbase. Cole’s fanbase are all hip-hop heads.
No guy from my street is copping j cole. Just their wives, girlfriends, or even teen sisters that listen to taylor swift as well
“No guy from my street is copping j cole. Just their wives, girlfriends, or even teen sisters that listen to taylor swift as well”
You don’t know anyone on your street, so all of the guys are buying J Cole’s album while their wives, girlfriends, and teen sisters are copping K Michelle, not J Cole, whose album doesn’t appeal to them.
In the target store I work for, only females were buying j coles crap. The fact he is going to have the top selling hiphop album points to a very dark age for hiphop going forward
Your male neighbors probably listen to that wack ass Migos, Rae Sremmurd, and Young Thug or they don’t listen to hip-hop at all.
@ Bob”In the target store I work for, only females were buying j coles crap. The fact he is going to have the top selling hiphop album points to a very dark age for hiphop going forward”
dentalbitch (or Dan), I know that’s you. You don’t work at Target and both males and females are copping Cole’s album. The fact he is going to have the best selling hip-hop album actually points to a very bright age for hip-hop because talent is being appreciated over gimmicks.
J cole shows hardly any talent whatsoever.
^ You’re obviously either deaf or weren’t paying attention because Cole shows off a lot of talent.
J. Cole (Roc Nation/Columbia) 320-350k
Carrie Underwood (19/Arista Nashville) 85-90k
K. Michelle (Atlantic) 75-80k
Smashing Pumpkins (BMG) 17-19k
Damn, a lot of teen girls are buying it.
You mean a lot of hip-hop heads are buying it. Teenage girls don’t listen to hip-hop.
J cole is in no way hiphop. These numbers look suspect. Why is j cole bigger than rick ross?
With holiday sales, there is a chance cole will go platinum
“J cole is in no way hiphop. These numbers look suspect. Why is j cole bigger than rick ross?”
J Cole is a rapper making hip-hop music, so he is hip-hop in every way. His numbers aren’t suspect considering the sales of his previous. Cole is bigger than Ross because Cole is rising while Ross is falling (look at the flop that is Hood Fraud).
J. Cole outselling Slim Gaydy! Hip Hop has corrected itself.
uh what? that was a compilation album. and slim gayday? wow now i remember why i stopped coming here
Ignoring the faggot trolls, 320-350K first week!!!!!!
Do you think he may get platinum this time?
Needs a song like Wet Dreamz to become a major hit, then yeah it could see it
haha all these record execs talking about numbers bbottom line is cole put out a real album thats it
artist and labels dont buy back albums if they did no way on earth would rick ross do 90k in 2 weeks its not the “market or climate” its the music
^ Nobody got stabbed in the heart, though. Figure of speech idiot.
Either way, it didn’t happen,
Wow, that’s excellent. Very little promo, minus the “Fire Squad” controversy. This proves that Cole has a loyal fanbase.
It’s more like 320-350K…
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im a little disappointed aside from
aside from No role Models and Wet Dreams, you cant compare this to born sinner and his ability as a rapper
No bruh, this blows Born Sinner away and everyone knows it. Just stop
Either way, it didn’t happen, That would mean wayne wouldn’t be complaining about cash money. Facts are facts and wayne pretty much threw his whole career down the shitter by biting the hand that was feeding him.
No, it means that there was no betrayal from Wayne. He didn’t bite the hand that fed him at all. Nothing you said was a fact at all.
Dumbass. Wayne did indeed betray them.
Wayne didn’t betray anyone. If anything, you’re betraying your favorite rapper by talking shit about him
WOW HAHAHA I LAUGH IN THE FACE OF ALL YOU TROLLS HATING ON J COLE. YALL JUST MAD J COLE GOING STRAIGHT TO THE TOP WHILE YOUR FAVORITE RAPPER IS SELLING YOU LIES AND GIMMICKS YOU BUY INTO SO EASILY. IF YOU HATE ON J COLE YOU PROBABLY LIKE BOBBY SHMURDA, OT GENASIS, YOUNG THUG, RICH HOMIE QUAN, YMCMB, OFFICER RICKY ROSS, ETC. J COLE THE TYPE OF DUDE THAT WILL MARCH IN FERGUSON AND NY FOR ERIC GARNER WITHOUT ANY NEWS REPORTERS OR MEDIA OUTLETS BRINGING ATTENTION TO IT. HES THE SAME DUDE THAT BOUGHT HIS MOTHERS FORCLOSED HOME (2014 FOREST HILLS DR.) AND ALLOWING PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO LIVE THERE FOR FREE. HES THE SAME DUDE THAT MADE SONGS LIKE “BE FREE” AND “KENNY LOFTON” TALKING ABOUT REAL WORLD ISSUES. WHY WOULD “ONLY GIRLS” WANT TO BUY J COLE RAPPER WHO IS KNOWN FOR BEING A CONSCIOUS RAPPER WITH STORY TELLING SKILLS 2ND ONLY TO NAS. HE BRINGS SUBSTANCE TO A HIP HOP INDUSTRY WHICH IS TRYING TO TURN YOU IDIOTS INTO MINDLESS DRONES BOBBING YOUR HEAD IN THE CLUB TO “IM IN LOVE WITH THE COCO” AND YOU DONT EVEN REALIZE IT. 10 YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE THANKFUL FOR HIS MUSIC AND REALIZE HOW DUMB YOU WERE FOR NOT LIKING HIM ALL THESE YEARS. LISTEN TO THE WARM UP AND FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY HIS FANS RIDE SO HARD FOR HIM.
THIS IS REAL SHIT.
Yall hatin on this album just like yall hated on Kanye’s Graduation when it came out. I distinctly remember all you hiphopdx users being like “wtf is this shit”, “pop album”. This is a CLASSIC. Coming from a Kanye Stan, this album is a fucking CLASSIC.
Couldn’t have said it no better my nigga
It’s mainly white people buying J Cole’s album, especially suburban white females. They like light skinned/biracial looking black people, they make them feel comfortable. They’re kinds of people who say J Cole, Drake and Eminem are the only good rappers and all other rappers rap about drugs and money. lol Wale and Big Krit are on the same level as Cole in terms of raping, but they look too intimidating to whites, which is why they dont sell like J Cole does.
or it’s the community coming out to support the brother because he’s grounded and relates to them, and you’re some closeted weirdo who’s out of touch
The hate is real in this comment lol
Cole bout to do 350K+ tbh
Last weeks Haters: This nigga gonna sell 50K first week.. he bout to flop hard
(Projections:320-360K)
This weeks Haters: Rocnation Bought at least 150K albums
smh… take your L and walk away with some dignity. Wut I find hilarious is that these projections are so high, that saying Rocnation bought 150K albums means he’d still be doing over 200K first week lmao, but you guys were just saying he’d only do 50-100K.
R.I.P Cole haters
Wayne didn’t betray anyone. If anything, you’re betraying your favorite rapper by talking shit about him. Again, if your friend ever did some bitch shit like dissing his loyal fans, you would feel cheated and pissed off too.
You keep repeating that same shit andit doesn’t apply to this situation. GIVE IT A REST.
Dudes were so eager for that Cole record, they’ve been calling my Guitar Center tryna see if they can cop a copy
it was rick ross 7th consecutive #1 album under the hip hop category, not the 7th consecutive on billboard top 100 overall. juss sayin