Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’ Debuts Ahead of Halsey’s ‘The Great Impersonator’ on Album Chart
variety.comSteven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Tyler, the Creator has secured his third No. 1 album with “Chromakopia,” which bows atop the Billboard 200 after only four days of sales in the tracking week.
The rapper, who announced the album on Oct. 17 and dropped it on Oct. 28, scored 299,500 equivalent album units with his eighth studio record. “Chromakopia” arrived during the off-cycle for typical album releases, skirting a Friday street date in favor of a Monday one.
Despite the truncated tracking week, he earned his biggest streaming and largest sales weeks ever, and would have debuted atop the chart based solely on streams.
On a more nuanced scale, “Chromakopia” had 157,000 streaming equivalent album units, as well as 142,000 in album sales and 500 units in track-equivalent albums.
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