Despite greater than a decade since LL COOL J final launched an album, the rapper picks up proper the place he left off. His new undertaking, THE FORCE, debuts at No. 9 on the Top Rap Albums chart, giving the hip-hop legend his fifth consecutive high 10 consequence on the record, which started in 2004.

THE FORCE, launched via LL COOL J’s self-titled imprint and the Def Jam Recordings document label, earned 16,000 equal album models in the monitoring week of Sept. 6 – 12, in line with Luminate. Of that sum, conventional album gross sales contributed 11,500 models, making THE FORCE the top-selling rap title of the week. 4,000 models derive from streaming exercise, with the remaining 500 coming via track-equivalent album models. (One unit equals the next ranges of consumption: one album sale, 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a music on the album.)

Robust gross sales probably hint to LL COOL J’s flurry of promotional performances through the monitoring week, together with an interview on CBS Mornings and a efficiency to have fun the Def Jam label’s fortieth anniversary through the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the place the MC delivered a medley of his hits akin to “Headsprung,” (*10*) and “Bring the Noise.”

Released Sept. 6, THE FORCE marked the primary undertaking since 2013 for LL COOL J, the hip-hop pioneer who turned one of many style’s earliest crossover stars and, in 2017, turned the primary rapper to obtain the Kennedy Center Honors. The album, largely produced by one other rap icon, Q-Tip, of A Tribe Called Quest, boasts a powerful supporting lineup, with Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and Nas among the many visitor stars. Saweetie options on the set’s present single, “Proclivities,” which climbs 36-31 in its second week on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, whereas an Eminem characteristic on the album’s “Murdergram Deux” powers it to develop into the week’s top-selling (2,500 downloads) and most-streamed (2.3 million official U.S. streams) music on THE FORCE.

As famous, THE FORCE is the fifth consecutive top-10 effort for LL COOL J on Top Rap Albums. The streak started with The DEFinition, which reigned for one week in 2004, and adopted with Todd Smith (No. 2, 2006), Exit 13 (No. 2, 2008) and Authentic (No. 4, 2013).

On the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, which started in 1958 and encompasses the rapper’s whole profession, THE FORCE launches at No. 11. It turns into his fifteenth album to seem on the record, courting to his debut LP, Radio, in 1985.