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Cole&#8217;s &#8220;The Off-Season&#8221; was the leader in sales and overall consumption for the May 14-20 tracking period.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hits Daily Double, the album sold 39.3K US copies during its inaugural week of release. With units from track sales and streams included, it generated 288.5K in total first-week consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In its report on Sunday, Billboard may share slightly different numbers. The overall outcome will, however, be the same: &#8220;The Off-Season&#8221; at #1 for sales and overall units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Off-Season&#8221; becomes J. Cole&#8217;s sixth consecutive #1 solo studio album. He additionally had a principal role in the chart-topping Dreamville compilation album &#8220;Revenge Of The Dreamers III.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Off-Season&#8221; convincingly ranks as this week&#8217;s #1 album.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[422,14825],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>J. Cole&#039;s &quot;The Off-Season&quot; Wins US Album Sales Race, Earns #1 On Overall Chart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In recent weeks, the US album race has ended in a split-chart scenario. 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