Chart News: HDD: #1 J. Cole 400-500k

The freshly released J. Cole set, 4 Your Eyez Only (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope) looks set to bow with a boom on next week’s charts, with early forecasts in the 400k-500k region, including a robust streaming component and a nice chunk from single sales. Preorders can fairly be described as "blockbuster," driving expectations that Cole will outpace the bow by another recent UMG Q4 giant, The Weeknd.

Eyez flew to #1 at iTunes immediately upon release, while track "Deja Vu" moved into the Top 5 (it’s currently parked behind two Cole tracks that don’t appear on the album). The album also occupies the top two spots (in explicit and clean versions) on Apple Music’s streaming albums chart, while tracks occupy the Top 10 spots on the Top Songs leaderboard.