J. Cole’s “2014 Forest Hills Drive” is now the 5th longest-charting rap album on Billboard.
J. Cole has now reached another milestone with his classic “2014 Forest Hills Drive” album. Jermaine’s third studio album has now spent over 400 weeks on the Billboard Charts since its release in 2014 and has never left the chart. The project now becomes the 5th longest-charting hip-hop album of all time.
J. Cole’s ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive’ has now been charting for 400 weeks on Billboard! 💿📈
It is the 5th longest charting hip hop studio album of all time and it has never left the charts since it’s release… CLASSIC. pic.twitter.com/rBobfvwQ4m
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) August 8, 2022
The album dropped on December 9, 2014, through ByStorm Entertainment, Columbia Records, Dreamville Records and Roc Nation. The project debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 353,000 copies in its first week. It received album of the year at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards and Top Rap Album at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards, with the single “Apparently” earning a nomination for Best Rap Performance.
In an interview with Complex, Cole discussed the album’s concept: That’s exactly what it is. It’s crazy that I chose to record it in Hollywood because it’s such a “f**k Hollywood” album. Being out there maybe contributed to [me thinking], “I’m bugging. There’s some s**t that’s way more important than how many albums I sell and if I’m the best.”
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Kendrick Lamar’s 2012’s second studio album “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” is the longest charting hip-hop studio album, as it spent over 500 weeks. Overall, Eminem’s greatest hits album “Curtain Call: The Hits” is the longest charting hip-hop album with over 580 weeks on the chart.
Longest charting hip hop studio albums EVER 🤯
510w – GKMC
492w – Take Care
433w – NWTS
418w – The Eminem Show
400w – 2014 Forest Hills Drive
325w – Views
322w – Recovery
279w – Birds In The Trap
277w – DAMN
267w – More Life
258w – Luv Is Rage 2
241w – 17Simply classics.
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) August 8, 2022
