J. Cole’s “The Fall-Off” first week sales are in.
The first week numbers for J. Cole’s new album “The Fall-Off” are here, and the Dreamville boss topped the Billboard charts with the project. The new album moved 280,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending Feb. 12, according to Luminate.
According to Billboard, the sales SEA units comprise 166,500 (equal to 169.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks – it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 113,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), and TEA units comprise 500.
This is J. Cole’s seventh number 1 album on the US Billboard 200. This is the largest first-week sales for any R&B or hip-hop album, since Playboi Carti’s “MUSIC”, which moved 298,000 in March 2025. In the opening week, the album earned 140 million streams on Spotify.
Billboard 200: #1(new) J. Cole (@JColeNC), The Fall-Off 280,000 [169.5 million on-demand streams | 113,000 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) February 15, 2026
‘The Fall-Off’ marks J. Cole’s seventh #1 album on the Billboard 200. pic.twitter.com/dmOy0bdd0Y
— chart data (@chartdata) February 15, 2026
