Tyler, The Creator’s ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ Earns No. 1 Debut
Tyler, the Creator is on top.
The rapper’s latest album, CHROMAKOPIA, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, dated for the week ending on Saturday (Nov. 9). According to the outlet, the album counted 299,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 31. A total of 142,000 count as pure album sales, with 66,000 vinyls also flying off the shelves, marking Tyler, the Creator’s best week ever on vinyl, and the third-biggest debut week on vinyl for a rap album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.
The California rapper notably earned the impressive sales figures with only four days of tracking, as he intentionally released CHROMAKOPIA on a Monday, verses the modern tradition of Friday releases. Per Billboard, the album would have reached No. 1 off streams alone, or solely on pure sales.
In his career thus far, CHROMAKOPIA now stands as the 33-year-old’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and largest sales week ever, even with No. 1 releases in Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) and Igor (2019).
CHROMAKOPIA features Daniel Caesar, Teezo Touchdown, Sexyy Red, GloRilla, Lil Wayne, ScHoolboy Q, Santigold, LaToiya Williams, Lola Yoing, and Doechii across 14 tracks. Ahead of it’s official release, the Grammy winner premiered the work to thousands of fans in his hometown at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
“The album just kind of turned into me taking a bunch of sh*t my mom told me when I was a kid. Now that I’m 33, all of that stuff is like, ‘Oh, that’s what f**k she was talking about! Oh, I’m not the guy that I was at 20! Oh sh*t!’” he explained during the listening event.
“People are getting older. Folks having kids and families. And all I got is a new Ferrari and it does feel kind of weird after a while. I’m gaining weight. I got a grey hair on my chest.”
Tyler, the Creator is set to take CHROMAKOPIA on the road with a global tour kicking off in February 2025. Stops include Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York and Toronto.
Take a listen to Chromakopia below.
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