Tyler, The Creator, performing throughout the Coachella Pageant in Indio, California, on April 13, 2024, introduced his eighth album, Chromakopia, just a bit greater than per week earlier than releasing it on Monday, October 28.
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Some long-awaited volatility sweeps over the pop charts this week: Tyler, The Creator’s new album, Chromakopia, debuts at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200, though it got here out on a Monday and solely loved a four-day window of eligibility. The rapper’s success additionally shakes up the Scorching 100 singles chart — which makes room for all 14 of the album’s songs, together with two within the prime 10. In the meantime, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” returns to No. 1 after per week away for a brand new complete of 16 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart, which ties a document for this decade.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, the rapper Yeat stormed the Billboard 200, notching his first-ever No. 1 album with the debut of Lyfestyle. This week, he plunges again all the way down to earth, because the album slides all the way in which to No. 70. Taking his place on this week’s chart is the debut of a document that reveals hints of getting extra endurance: Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia.
Chromakopia had an oddly timed launch: The rapper didn’t announce its title or drop date till Oct. 17, and it got here out a mere 11 days later, and on a Monday. Albums usually drop on Fridays, and Billboard’s seven-day window of chart eligibility is about as much as mirror that reality, which implies Chromakopia had solely 4 days (none of them on the weekend) to compete with everybody else’s seven. It was an act of supreme confidence from an artist who has all the time appreciated to invert his viewers’s expectations. And it was a check of energy — one he greater than handed — in a market the place artists usually make aggressive strategic strikes (a number of vinyl variants, discounted pricing) to maximise their first-week numbers.
The album did blockbuster enterprise: In the event you took simply its gross sales numbers or simply its streaming numbers, both would have counted sufficient to raise the document to No. 1. And, provided that streaming is what tends to feed chart longevity nowadays — and that Tyler’s songs have been streamed sufficient to propel two of them into this week’s prime 10 — he appears to be in for a good run. (The audacious, electrical, steadily experimental document has gotten terrific critiques, which may’t damage.)
Tyler, The Creator isn’t the one artist to submit a powerful Billboard 200 debut this week. Fueled largely by gross sales — together with the now-standard variant editions and on-line reductions — Halsey’s The Nice Impersonator enters this week’s chart at No. 2, whereas nation singer Kelsea Ballerini bows at No. 4 with Patterns.
Elsewhere within the prime 10, Eminem takes a steep climb from No. 44 to No. 6, because of the discharge of The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) on vinyl. That makes 4 recent entries within the prime 10, every of which displaces a latest debut — by Yeat, Jelly Roll, SEVENTEEN and BigXthaPlug — and sends just a few standbys slipping down the chart, if solely slightly bit: Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy is the week’s prime holdover from final week, sliding from No. 2 to No. 3, whereas Rod Wave’s Final Lap dips from No. 4 to No. 5.
Rounding out the highest 10, Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us climbs from No. 8 to No. 7 as followers proceed to stream its new deluxe version — and as she continues to open for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour. Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time drops from No. 6 to No. 8, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Mushy holds at No. 9 and GloRilla’s Wonderful slides from No. 7 to No. 10.
TOP SONGS
Final week may need been the second when Shaboozey’s “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” tied the longest run at No. 1 this decade, set final yr when Morgan Wallen’s “Final Night time” sat on the prime spot for a powerful 16 weeks. Wallen had different concepts, nevertheless, as his new music “Love Anyone” debuted at No. 1, leaving Shaboozey on the skin wanting in for the primary time in months.
This week, Shaboozey will get his sixteenth week in spite of everything, as “A Bar Tune” returns to No. 1 and “Love Anyone” slides to No. 8. It’s a exceptional milestone for “A Bar Tune,” which is now tied with three songs — “Final Night time,” “Despacito” (by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with Justin Bieber) and “One Candy Day” (by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Males) — for the second-longest run at No. 1 within the historical past of the Scorching 100, which dates again to 1958. As famous a pair weeks in the past, its days at No. 1 are numbered, as the vacation season guarantees to ship “All I Need for Christmas Is You” and different requirements storming to the highest of the charts. However the all-time document of 19 weeks — set by Lil Nas X’s “Outdated City Highway,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus — is a minimum of again within the realm of risk.
Shaboozey had some severe competitors this week, too: Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars made a run for No. 1 after they launched three alternate variations of their hit “Die With a Smile” — two instrumentals and one subtitled “Dwell in Las Vegas” — and provided every of the 4 variations of the music for a reduced 69 cents on the iTunes Retailer. However their bid for No. 1 fell quick, because the music climbed from No. 4 to a brand new peak at No. 2. (In the meantime, Gaga’s new single, “Illness,” debuts at No. 27.)
The opposite massive strikes within the prime 10 got here as a reverberation from Tyler, The Creator’s blockbuster chart debut with Chromakopia. With all 14 of its songs touchdown comfortably within the Scorching 100, two of them — “St. Chroma (feat. Daniel Caesar)” and “Noid” — enter this week’s prime 10, as the previous debuts at No. 7 and the latter climbs from No. 43 to No. 10.
Rounding out this week’s prime 10, Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” holds at No. 3, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” climbs from No. 5 to No. 4 (“Style” additionally holds at No. 9), Put up Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Assist” rises from No. 6 to No. 5 and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” ticks up from No. 7 to No. 6 — within the course of extending his run within the prime 10 to 42 weeks, the third-longest run within the prime 10 ever posted. (The Child LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Keep” charted within the prime 10 for 44 weeks in 2021-22, whereas The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” had a 57-week run in 2020-21.)
WORTH NOTING
As famous above, we’re simply weeks away from a surge of vacation requirements overwhelming the Billboard charts. Assume “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” and their cheerful ilk, all storming the highest 10 concurrently. This week, nevertheless, there’s a special type of vacation surge.
The charts that simply dropped mirror a window of eligibility that spanned the ultimate week of October, and if you happen to’re on the lookout for affirmation of which tracks have develop into Halloween streaming requirements, it’s proper there: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” re-enters the Scorching 100 at No. 20, Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters” is shut behind it at No. 28, Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers’ “Monster Mash” staggers in at No. 30, The Residents of Halloween’s “This Is Halloween” pops up at No. 38 and Rockwell’s paranoid basic “Anyone’s Watching Me” resurfaces at No. 50.
The Billboard 200 albums chart displays an identical Halloween boomlet, because the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas soars from No. 123 to No. 28, Jackson’s Thriller climbs from No. 71 to No. 29, Pickett’s The Authentic Monster Mash (in case you favor “Monster Mash” in album type) re-enters at No. 110, Andrew Gold’s Halloween Howls: Enjoyable & Scary Music (little doubt a favourite of those that prefer to stream spooky music for trick-or-treaters) reveals up at No. 112, Ray Parker Jr.’s Best Hits (sure, folks, the person has had different hits) is at No. 135 and Michael Jackson’s Scream lands at No. 172.
Subsequent week? Search for all of ’em besides Thriller (the album, not the music) and perhaps The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas to drop off the charts and re-enter the crypts from whence they got here.
