J. Cole continues his blockbuster week on Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 21), as 21 songs from his new album, The Fall-Off, debut on the Billboard Hot 100. With the influx, he boosts his career total from 90 to 111 entries, becoming the 22nd act to chart at least 100 titles.
The Fall-Off launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 280,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Feb. 6-12, according to Luminate — the biggest week for any album in 2026, and the largest since Stray Kids’ DO IT opened with 295,000 units (Dec. 6). J. Cole earns his seventh No. 1 and first since The Off-Season in 2021.
With seven No. 1s, J. Cole moves out of a tie with Nas for the sixth-most No. 1 albums among rappers, after Drake and Jay-Z (14 each), and Eminem, Future and Ye (11 each).
Here’s a rundown of J. Cole’s tracks on this week’s Hot 100 (all of which are debuts):
- No. 16, “Two Six”
- No. 29, “Safety”
- No. 30, “Poor Thang”
- No. 32, “Who TF Iz U”
- No. 33 “Run a Train,” with Future
- No. 34, “Bunce Road Blues,” with Tems & Future
- No. 36, “Legacy,” with PJ
- No. 43, “The Let Out”
- No. 46, “Drum N Bass”
- No. 52, “Bombs in the Ville/Hit the Gas”
- No. 53, “29 Intro”
- No. 59, “39 Intro”
- No. 64, “Old Dog,” with Petey Pablo
- No. 68, “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable”
- No. 72, “The Villest,” with Erykah Badu
- No. 73, “Life Sentence”
- No. 75, “Lonely at the Top”
- No. 78, “Only You,” with Burna Boy
- No. 83, “I Love Her Again”
- No. 99, “Man Up Above”
- No. 100, “Quik Stop”
Notably, “29 Intro” samples James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind,” a No. 67 Hot 100 hit in 1970. It sets up the autobiographical nature of The Fall-Off, with J. Cole having grown up in Fayetteville, N.C. Other notable samples on the album include Ludacris’ “What’s Your Fantasy,” featuring Shawnna, on “Bombs in the Ville/Hit the Gas”; Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It” on “Man Up Above”; the Isley Brothers’ “Love Put Me on the Corner” on “And the Whole World Is the Ville” and Common’s “The Light” on “I Love Her Again.”
Of J. Cole’s 111 Hot 100 hits, 54 have reached the top 40, 13 have hit the top 10 and one has gone to No. 1 — Drake’s “First Person Shooter,” on which he’s featured, in 2023. He first appeared on the chart in June 2010 with “Who Dat.”
Below is an updated look at every act with at least 100 career Hot 100 entries, dating to the chart’s 1958 launch. Thanks to his 21 debuts this week, J. Cole ties 21 Savage for the 16th most.
- 362, Drake
- 276, Taylor Swift
- 226, Future
- 207, Glee cast
- 195, Lil Wayne
- 161, Ye
- 158, Lil Baby
- 149, Nicki Minaj
- 132, Travis Scott
- 123, Justin Bieber
- 121, Chris Brown
- 117, The Weeknd
- 114, Lil Uzi Vert
- 113, Bad Bunny
- 112, Eminem
- 111, 21 Savage
- 111, J. Cole
- 110, YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- 109, Elvis Presley (whose career predates the Hot 100’s start)
- 107, Morgan Wallen
- 106, Beyoncé
- 105, Jay-Z
J. Cole is the first artist to surpass 100 Hot 100 visits since Morgan Wallen reached the milestone last year upon the chart debut of his album I’m the Problem. Before that, Bad Bunny joined the club in January 2025 after releasing Debí Tirar Más Fotos, becoming the first act who primarily records Latin music to reach the mark.
While triple-digit Hot 100 totals were once rare, they’ve become more common in the streaming era. Since the chart began incorporating streaming data in 2007, high-profile album releases have frequently generated simultaneous entries, reflecting modern consumption habits. That dynamic contrasts with earlier decades, when artists typically promoted one single at a time in a physical-only and radio-driven marketplace, limiting the total number of songs that an act could chart at once.