Travis Scott’s ‘Days Before Rodeo’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Travis Scott rounds up his fourth consecutive No. 1 project on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Days Before Rodeo debuts atop the list dated Sept. 7. The mixtape, which received its first commercial and wide streaming release for its 10th anniversary, opens with 361,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the tracking week of Aug. 23-29, according to Luminate.
Of Days Before Rodeo’s starting total, 331,000 units come through album sales, giving the mixtape the best sales week for any R&B/hip-hop title (either that has appeared on or is eligible for Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums) in more than seven years, since Kendrick Lamar’s Damn. sold 353,000 copies in its debut week of April 14-20, 2017. It also rewriters Scott’s personal best sales week for an album, eclipsing Astroworld, which opened with 270,000 copies in 2018.
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The sales avalanche was aided by eight different editions of the Days Before Rodeo digital album, six of which were exclusively sold through Scott’s official webstore. Besides the standard 12-song version, the seven variants contained assorted bonus tracks, such as previously unreleased and teased studio cuts and chopped and screwed remixes of the album’s songs. All variants sold via Scott’s webstore were priced at $4.99, while versions available in the iTunes Store were also available for $4.99 at the end of the tracking week.
Thanks to its six-figure arrival, Days Before Rodeo launches at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Streaming activity contributes 30,000 units to Days Before Rodeo’s first-week sum, which represents 40.6 million official on-demand streams of the 12 songs on the album’s streaming edition. Track-equivalent albums comprise a negligible amount of activity.
With Days Before Rodeo, Scott lands his fourth straight chart-topper on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The streak began with 2016’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, a one-week leader, and continued with ASTROWORLD (five weeks, 2018) and Utopia (seven weeks, 2023). Of his five appearances, only Rodeo missed the top spot – debuting and peaking at No. 2 in 2015.
Days Before Rodeo was first released as a free mixtape on Aug. 18, 2014, and the 12-track set received its first commercial and official streaming release for its 10th anniversary, on Aug. 23. The night before the release, Scott celebrated with a concert at The Masquerade in Atlanta, where he performed 10 of the project’s songs among other tracks.
Elsewhere, Days Before Rodeo begins at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart, where it becomes Scott’s fifth champ – the entirety of his charting releases.
Seven Days Before Rodeo tracks reach the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by “Drugs You Should Try It” at No. 13. Here’s a full review of the cuts:
No. 13, “Drugs You Should Try It”
No. 26, “Mamacita,” featuring Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan
No. 28, “Skyfall,” featuring Young Thug
No. 36, “Days Before Rodeo: The Prayer”
No. 38, “Don’t Play,” featuring Big Sean + The 1975
No. 39, “Quintana Pt. 2”
No. 46, “Backyard”
Beyond his new additions, Scott appears on two more tunes on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs this week: “Parking Lot,” his collaboration with Mustard, slides 21-23 after previously getting to a No. 17 best, while prior No. 2 hit “Type Shit” with Future, Metro Boomin and Playboi Carti slips 15-16.
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