Cyrus Langhorne
Roc Nation star J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive solo album will dominate its competition on the sales chart next week with increased estimates.
According to the latest projections, Cole’s newest release will easily sell over 300,000 copies.
J. Cole is “Apparently” (to borrow his single title) headed for a boffo bow; he’s due to unseat Taylor Swift for #1 on next week’s chart. Here are this week’s key releases, with album reads first, followed by Sales Plus Streaming (SPS): J. Cole (Roc Nation/Columbia) 320-350k sales / 335-360k SPS (HITS Daily Double)
Check out these early estimates right here…
Cole gave his take on the initial sales projections on social media Wednesday (December 10).
I dont believe in their projections. And I dont believe in their reviews. Good or bad. I believe in God, in myself, in the music and in you.
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) December 10, 2014
Early estimates had the album possibly selling up to 270,000 copies.
COLE IN YOUR STOCKING: Early, early reads suggest that Roc Nation/Dreamville/Columbia’s J. Cole is on track to move a whopping 240-270k in his opening week with album 2014 Forest Hills Drive. The set is currently #1 at iTunes on its first day of release; single “Apparently” is just impacting radio now. Again, these are very early assessments; stand by for updates. (HITS Daily Double)
Music producer Timbaland had already called the release a classic.
Social activism and white fanbase
J cole is a good artist and I see there’s always someone haten on somebody who is doing good in life smh
Reality is facts. Facts are not hate.
And yes. He is a good artist.
No doubt
Dude this really just makes me smile man. I love to see stand up niggas winning. Congrats Cole I’m coping my copy Saturday.
Cole in debt to the label if theyre the reason for the increased sales
I didn’t even know he had a project coming out
Hadn’t heard a single or nothing
bad promotion or something
Def gon check it out tho since I think he’s a dope emcee
He deliberately chose to release the album “Beyonce style.” He knows he has a strong core fanbase, dude stopped caring about selling millions of records after the Nas thing,
No the release setup was more similar to Ye and Hov.
That’s support from showing up to the Ferguson demonstration
good karma!!!
COLE FOR THE WIN!!!! he deserves it i wanna hear more from his label dreamville he should sign emanuel scott dope lyricist and he makes dope songs too his song girls that don’t smoke is a banger and “dream robbin” is dope dude so unique i hope he gets on tde or dreamville or a lil indie label he’s too good for mainstream
i love his shit he pretty dope wit it my cousin showed me him on youtube his song Space is my shit but that hangover mixtape and girls that don’t smoke is crazy rite now his flow is the illest if u hear plastic rap u u know wat i mean he’s next up lol
meanwhile the Wu have sold 25k their first week and that number is of course expected to drop… thanks a lot Rza for disappointing YOUR core fan base with your cheesy experiment… smh
Yeah that album wasn’t that good, but check out that new Ghostface.
cole dat dude, i would let him hit