J. Cole claims second Irish Number 1 album and biggest opening week of 2021 so far with The Off-Season

Congratulations to J. Cole who claims his second Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with The Off-Season.

The North Carolinian rapper’s sixth record was the most streamed of the week, picking up 2021’s biggest opening week of chart sales so far in the process.

The Off-Season joins 2018’s KOD as chart-topping albums in Ireland for J. Cole and marks his fifth charting album since 2013.

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Paul Weller racked up the most physical sales this week with his sixteenth studio album Fat Pop which debuts at Number 2, his highest chart position this century. Also in the top flight, St. Vincent collects her third Top 10 album with Daddy’s Home, new at Number 7.

Named after Skellig Michael, the island west of County Kerry, David Gray’s new album Skellig makes its first Top 50 appearance at 22, ahead of the Black Keys’ covers album Delta Kream at 23, their fifth Top 50.

Finally, following its first-time streaming release featuring three new songs, Nicki Minaj’s 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty makes an extra-terrestrial debut at Number 32.

See the full Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50

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