J. Cole Debuts at No. 1
J. Cole's new album "The Fall-Off" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 280,000 equivalent album units, marking the year's biggest R&B/hip-hop opening and Cole's seventh chart-topper. Bad Bunny, riding a Super Bowl surge, now has two albums in the Billboard 200 top 10, including his latest and the four-year-old "Un Verano Sin Ti." A Yahoo!/YouGov poll shows Bad Bunny is now more popular among U.S. adults than Donald Trump (42% vs. 39%) following his Super Bowl halftime performance.
- J. Cole now has an unbroken streak of seven consecutive studio albums debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, a run that includes *The Off-Season* (2021), *KOD* (2018), and *2014 Forest Hills Drive* (2014). - "The Fall-Off" is a double album that Cole has teased since 2018 and suggested may be his final project. The album's two discs are conceptually framed around him returning to his Fayetteville, North Carolina, hometown at age 29 and then again a decade later at age 39. - The poll numbers emerged after former President Donald Trump posted a strong critique of Bad Bunny's halftime show on Truth Social, calling it "one of the worst, EVER!" and stating that "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying." - The gap in the Yahoo!/YouGov poll was wider among political independents, who favored Bad Bunny over Trump by a margin of 46
