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J. Cole Has This Week's No. 1 Album

J. Cole’s The Off-Season debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, claiming the highest on-demand streams and second-highest album sales total for the week.

J. Cole Has This Week's No. 1 Album

By FYI Staff

J. Cole’s The Off-Season debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, claiming the highest on-demand streams and second-highest album sales total for the week.


With close to 19,000 total consumption units, it is the fourth-highest one-week total so far in 2021, behind only Justin Bieber, Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift. It is Cole’s third straight chart-topping album, following 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only and 2018’s KOD.

Justin Bieber’s Justice drops to 2nd place, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia edges 4-3, and The Weeknd’s The Highlights falls to 4th place.

Nicki Minaj’s Beam Me Up Scotty, the re-release of her 2009 mixtape featuring three new songs, debuts at No. 5. This is her first charted release since Queen reached No. 2 in August 2018.

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The Black Keys’ Delta Kream debuts at No. 12, scoring the highest album sales for the week. It is their first charted album since 2019’s Let’s Rock peaked at No. 4.

Alan Jackson’s first album in six years, Where Have You Gone, debuts at No. 33, and St. Vincent’s Daddy’s Home, her first album since 2017, enters at 48.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch.

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Live Nation British Columbia cites "border crossing issues" for the rapper's removal in a statement released ahead of the first Vancouver show tonight (July 15).

It looks like Playboi Carti fans in Canada will have to wait a little longer to see him live.

Live Nation British Columbia released a statement on its Instagram Stories this morning (July 15) confirming that the Atlanta rapper will no longer be opening for the Vancouver and Edmonton shows on The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn tour "due to border crossing issues." The promoter apologized for any inconvenience.

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