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"Top of the charts, back in their hearts."
Tyler, The Creator could be on the verge of something unprecedented. His latest album Chromakopia is projected to go No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The 33-year-old rapper released the project on Monday (Oct. 28) and it looks like it will rack up between 250,000 and 300,000 album-equivalent units, per HITS Daily Double. This would be Tyler’s biggest first-week sales performance of his career, outpacing his 2021 LP Call Me If You Get Lost and 2019 LP IGOR. Both albums went No. 1, selling 169,000 units and 165,000 units, respectively.
This is an especially impressive projection given the fact he limited the number of days for sales to be amassed with the Monday release. Friday album releases became the standard a decade ago, and Tyler is one of the few artists to go against the grain and release on a different day. Listen to Chromakopia below.
Tyler, The Creator’s success with Chromakopia comes in a year where not too many rap albums or rap artists have topped the charts. Most recently, Yeat went No. 1 with his new album Lifestyle. Travis Scott also went No. 1 with the re-release of his 2014 mixtape, Days Before Rodeo. Future and Metro Boomin earned back-to-back No. 1’s with We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You.
Chromakopia features Lil Wayne, GloRilla, Sexyy Red, Daniel Caesar, Teezo Touchdown, Doechii, ScHoolboy Q, and more. So far, Tyler has released visuals for “St. Chroma,” “Noid,” and “Thought I Was Dead.”
He will hit the road in support of the album in February 2025, with stops in major cities such as Los Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York and Toronto. He will also travel overseas to Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, London, and Sydney. Lil Yachty and Paris Texas will be the supporting acts for Chromakopia: The World Tour.
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