Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia has shot to number one on the Billboard 200 with considerable first-week sales.
The Odd Future founder’s eighth album debuted atop the chart after earning 299,500 equivalent units, according to Billboard.
Of that figure, 157,000 came from on-demand streams (which totaled 212.55 million), while album sales accounted for 142,000. The remaining 500 was from TEA (track equivalent album) units.
It means Chromakopia has the second highest tally of any rap album this year, behind only the commercial release of Travis Scott‘s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo (361,000).
The figure also represents the biggest first week of Tyler’s career, eclipsing fellow chart-toppers IGOR, which opened with 165,000 units, and Call Me If You Get Lost, which moved 169,000.
