J. Cole Debuts at No. 1 With Best First Week for an R&B/Hip-Hop Album in Nearly a Year; Bad Bunny Hits a New Sales Peak After Super Bowl

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• Cole); Getty (Bad Bunny) In the week after the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny had a super week as far as consumption of his recorded music.
• On the new Billboard 200 album chart, he has two albums in the top 10 for the first time, as his recent hit “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is joined in those ranks by a four-year-old release that’s back on the rise, “Un Verano Sin Ti.” And the newer album enjoyed its best sales week to date.
• But the chart action was at least that super for J.