KOD BY J. COLE DEBUTS AT #1 IN CANADA

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KOD BY J. COLE DEBUTS AT #1 IN CANADA

 

 

 

ALBUM EARNS THIRD-BIGGEST STREAMING WEEK IN HISTORY & SCORES TOP STREAMING WEEK FOR FOR 2018

 

01 May 2018 (Toronto, ON) — J. Cole’s fifth studio album KOD has debuted at #1 in Canada, and #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking his fifth consecutive #1 album. Released via Dreamville with distribution through Roc Nation/Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, KOD has earned the third-biggest streaming week ever for an album. It has also scored the biggest streaming week for an album so far in 2018. Stream/purchase KOD online now.

 

In its first week, KOD reached 21,309 consumption in Canada, including 1,307 physical units, while its songs amassed 322 million audio streams around the world. That makes J. Cole only the third artist in history to surpass 300 million audio streams in its debut week—an achievement that’s especially remarkable considering that KOD only contains 12 songs.

 

Hailed as “one of the most important rap albums ever” by HipHopDX, the new album follows up J. Cole’s critically acclaimed, platinum-selling 2016 album, 4 Your Eyez Only.

 

Coinciding with the album’s release, the premiere of the second video from KOD, “Kevin’s Heart” arrived last week, starring Kevin Hart and directed by J. Cole and Scott Lazer. The video arrived as follow up to the previously released video for, “ATM”, also directed by J. Cole and Scott Lazer.

 

A North Carolina native, J. Cole was the first artist signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label, which released his official debut Cole World: The Sideline Story in 2011. To date, he’s received five Grammy Award nominations including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album (for 2014’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive). Arriving in December 2016, 4 Your Eyez Only received platinum certification in Canada in just four months. In addition to debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the album earned acclaim from outlets like The New York Times (who praised it as “spartan but sumptuous, emotionally acute but plain-spoken…one of the year’s most finely drawn [albums]”). 4 Your Eyez Only marked J. Cole’s first release for Dreamville, the label he launched in 2007.

 

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KOD – Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. KOD 
3. Photograph
4. The Cut Off (feat. kiLL edward)
5. ATM 
6. Motiv8 
7. Kevin’s Heart
8. BRACKETS
9. Once an Addict (Interlude)
10. FRIENDS (feat. kiLL edward)
11. Window Pain (Outro)
12. 1985 (Intro to “The Fall Off”) 

 

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