Also enjoying a fast start is J. Cole’s The Off-Season (Interscope), new at No. 2. The Off-Season clocks up the most album streams in a single week of 2021, and gives the U.S. rapper his third Top 10 album in the U.K., equaling the peak of his previous album, 2018’s KOD. Three tracks from The Off-Season this week enter the Top 20 on the national singles chart.
Meanwhile, Rag’n’Bone Man’s Life By Misadventure (Columbia) dips 1-3 on the albums survey, while alternative pop hero St Vincent starts at No. 4 with Daddy’s Home (Loma Vista), for her highest-peaking LP in the U.K.
The Top 5 is rounded out by the Black Keys’ Delta Kream (Nonesuch). It’s new at No. 5, for the blues-rockers’ fourth U.K. Top 10.
Over on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, Tion Wayne & Russ Millions’ “Body” (Atlantic) enters a third week at No. 1. “Body” is showing no signs of slowing. It racks up 71,000 chart sales in the most recent seven-day span, including 10.4 million streams, finishing almost 15,000 chart sales ahead of the No. 2-ranked track, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” (Geffen).
Rodrigo misses out on top spot, but her latest track is the week’s highest charting new release. “Good 4 U” appears on Rodrigo’s new album Sour, which dropped Friday and features the No. 1 hit “Drivers License.”
