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Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia has shot to number one on the Billboard 200 with considerable first-week sales.
The Odd Future founder’s eighth album debuted atop the chart after earning 299,500 equivalent units, according to Billboard.
Of that figure, 157,000 came from on-demand streams (which totaled 212.55 million), while album sales accounted for 142,000. The remaining 500 was from TEA (track equivalent album) units.
It means Chromakopia has the second highest tally of any rap album this year, behind only the commercial release of Travis Scott‘s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo (361,000).
The figure also represents the biggest first week of Tyler’s career, eclipsing fellow chart-toppers IGOR, which opened with 165,000 units, and Call Me If You Get Lost, which moved 169,000.
Making Chromakopia’s sales all the more impressive is the fact that the album had a short tracking week due to it being released on a Monday instead of the customary Friday.
Elsewhere on this week’s Billboard 200, Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) made a big jump, shooting from number 44 to number six after the album was released on vinyl, months after it originally dropped.
Rod Wave’s Last Lap is still placed within the top five, while GloRilla’s debut album Glorious slides from number seven to number 10.
After releasing Chromakopia, Tyler, The Creator revealed his favorite moment on each of the album’s 14 songs, highlighting various specific sounds and behind-the-scenes details from the critically acclaimed LP.
“[A]t 1:54 of ST CHROMA, that siren and low end together feels like a blast wave after an explosion,” he wrote on X (formery Twitter). “[T]he ’20 thousand on me…’ part of RAH TAH TAH, the delivery is from a dumb joke of mine but i couldnt get it outta my head, why not record it.”
He added: “[T]hat JUDGE JUDY bridge…..what! the synth lead out of it? donalds decending harmonies on the last verse? the ending keeps transposing up, this my favorite song, its very tyler coded with every sound ive always used.
“STICKY really love how the brass only comes in on the last hook, that climax pays off. and it feels so much bigger cause wayne whispers right before it charges in.”
After continuing to nerd out over the remaining tracks, Tyler signed off with a message of gratitude to his fans: “[T]hank you all for listening.”
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