Tyler, the Creator scores his third No. 1 album with “Chromakopia,” which tops the Billboard 200 after simply 4 days of gross sales within the monitoring week.
The rapper introduced the album on October 17 and dropped it on October 28, along with his eighth studio report incomes 299,500 equal album models. Chromakopia was launched throughout the off-cycle of typical album releases, eschewing Friday avenue dates in favor of Monday ones. Regardless of the shortened monitoring week, he nonetheless had his greatest streams and largest gross sales week ever, and would prime the charts based mostly on streams alone.
To place issues into perspective, Chromakopia has 157,000 streaming equal album models, in addition to 142,000 album gross sales and 500 monitor equal album models. His vinyl report gross sales reached 66,000, which was his largest first-week gross sales for a vinyl report and the third-highest first-week gross sales for any rap vinyl report since 1991. Vinyl drives album gross sales.
Following “Chromakopia” is Halsey’s “The Nice Impersonator,” which debuts at No. 2, her fifth album to debut within the prime two. The album earned 93,000 equal album models, together with 81,000 album gross sales and 12,000 streaming equal album models. On vinyl, Halsey recorded the format’s best-ever gross sales week, promoting 26,000 copies.
Elsewhere, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Brief n’ Candy” slips from No. 2 to No. 3, adopted by Kelsea Ballerini’s “Patterns” and Rod Wave’s “Final Lap.” Eminem’s “The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” surges from No. 44 to No. 6, forward of Gracie Abrams’ “The Secret of Us” and Morgan Wallen’s “One” Factor at a Time” and Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Onerous and Delicate” and GloRilla’s “Superb.”
