{"id":6798,"date":"2020-05-22T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:08:02","slug":"everything-album-by-brooklyns-kota-the-friend-debuts-at-1-on-itunes-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/everything-album-by-brooklyns-kota-the-friend-debuts-at-1-on-itunes-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"EVERYTHING Album by Brooklyn&#8217;s KOTA The Friend Debuts At #1 on iTunes Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent hip-hop artist and Brooklyn native, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kotathefriend\/\"><strong>KOTA the Friend<\/strong><\/a>, released his sophomore album, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/0cMxALtiABnT1kIuA1wgsQ\"><strong>EVERYTHING<\/strong><\/a> at 12am Friday May 22. The album quickly shot to #1 on the iTunes Top 40 hop-hop albums and #5 on the Top 200 Charts for all music genres.<\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING includes features by <strong>Joey Badass<\/strong>, <strong>Bas<\/strong>, <strong>Braxton Cook<\/strong> and an interlude by Academy Award winning actress, <strong>Lupita Nyong&#8217;o<\/strong> (Black Panther, Star Wars)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6799\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Everything-number-1-on-itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Everything-number-1-on-itunes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Everything-number-1-on-itunes-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/eastnewyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/Everything-number-1-on-itunes-440x787.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING follows <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6RBVbvHUbdAnUWm4GjyY7A\"><strong>FOTO<\/strong><\/a>, his first album, which has over 100 million streams and continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>If there was ever any doubt that KOTA is one of the top Independent hip-hop artists in the industry, this album and charting at #1 puts that to rest. KOTA has been compared to Chance the Rapper because of his total independence, skyrocketing growth and global fan base, His music is loved by <a href=\"https:\/\/artists.spotify.com\/?_ga=2.59754797.1626039669.1590145491-1510649159.1588311188\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a>, the global music service, as they have him as their Featured Artist. Listen to EVERYTHING and FOTO. Checkout his video interview below, from <a href=\"http:\/\/todayshiphop.com\/\">TodaysHipHop.com<\/a>. KOTA talks about his independence and his journey.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/everything\/1512695664\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAOUBlXgU7y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAOUBlXgU7y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pre Order \u2018EVERYTHING\u2019 today! *LINK IN BIO . ________ Video credit : @todays.hiphop<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kotathefriend\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> KOTA<\/a> (@kotathefriend) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-05-15T21:31:04+00:00\">May 15, 2020 at 2:31pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent hip-hop artist and Brooklyn native, KOTA the Friend, released his sophomore album, EVERYTHING at 12am Friday May 22. 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