J. Cole is opening at No. 2 on this week’s Billboard 200 with Might Delete Later.
His surprise release earns 115,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 105,000 in streaming equivalent album units (137.95 million on-demand streams of the songs), 9,000 in album sales and 1,000 in track equivalent album units. Might Delete Later, which includes the now-deleted diss track “7 Minute Drill” aimed at Kendrick Lamar, marks Cole’s seventh album to enter the top two slots on the chart.
Also making its debuts on this week’s chart is TOMORROW X TOGETHER with Minisode 3: TOMORROW at No. 3, and Benson Boone’s at No. 6.
Elsewhere on this week’s top 10 is Beyoncé, whose COWBOY CARTER logs a second week at No. 1, as well as Future and Metro Boomin at No. 4 and Morgan Wallen at No. 5. Making up the bottom half are Ariana Grande at No. 7, Noah Kahan at No. 8, Olivia Rodrigo at No. 9 and SZA at No. 10.
