{"id":3850,"date":"2023-08-07T20:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:45:46","slug":"travis-scott-lands-third-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-with-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"Travis Scott Lands Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 with\u00a0\u2018Utopia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Plus: Post Malone nets his fifth consecutive top 5-charting effort with No. 2 debut of\u00a0<em>Austin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/travis-scott\">Travis Scott<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;blasts in at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart (dated Aug. 12), capturing the third-biggest week of 2023 for any album and the largest for any R&amp;B\/hip-hop or&nbsp;rap release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The star-laden hip-hop effort bows with 496,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 3, according to Luminate. Among the guests featured on\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0are 10 acts who have all topped the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0on their own: 21 Savage, Bad Bunny, Beyonc\u00e9, Drake, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, SZA, The Weeknd and Young Thug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;is Scott\u2019s third No. 1 and first solo album since 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Astroworld<\/em>, which started atop the chart. In between&nbsp;<em>Astroworld<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>, the Jackboys supergroup \u2013 led by Scott \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/travis-scott-led-jackboys-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-as\/\">notched<\/a>&nbsp;a No. 1 with its self-titled release in early 2020.&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;has been teased for years, as Scott first shared the album title in a series of social media posts in the summer and fall of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/post-malone\/\">Post Malone<\/a>&nbsp;clocks his fifth consecutive top five-charting effort as&nbsp;<em>Austin<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 12, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Aug. 8. For all chart\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/news\/\">news<\/a>, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>\u2019s 477,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 3, SEA units comprise 243,000 (equaling 330.68 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set\u2019s 19 total songs \u2013 the second-biggest streaming week of 2023), album sales comprise 252,000 (the second-largest sales week of 2023) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Streaming activity comprises nearly half (49%) of\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u2019s first-week activity, with almost all of the remainder generated by album sales. The set\u2019s streaming activity was so robust that the album would have been No. 1 from only its SEA units (and still have twice the\u00a0<em>total<\/em>\u00a0units of the No. 2 album on the chart, Post Malone\u2019s\u00a0<em>Austin<\/em>). The most-streamed song on the\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0album, by official on-demand streams, is \u201cMeltdown,\u201d featuring Drake. It accounted for nearly 10% of the album\u2019s streams during the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;was preceded by its first single, \u201cK-POP,\u201d with The Weeknd and Bad Bunny, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Aug. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0is available with three different track lists: a standard 18-song edition through all major digital retailers (including the iTunes Store and Amazon), a 19-song set at digital retail and streamers (which includes the song \u201cMeltdown,\u201d featuring Drake), and a 19-song version available on CD, vinyl and a \u201cFirst Edition\u201d digital album sold through Scott\u2019s webstore (that includes the song \u201cAye\u201d with Lil Uzi Vert). All of the standard digital retail release\u2019s 18 songs are on both 19-song expanded versions. The \u201cFirst Edition\u201d digital album was released at the end of the tracking week, in the closing hours of Aug. 3, and sold for just $4.99. The \u201cFirst Edition\u201d variant sold exceptionally well, due to fan speculation as to the set\u2019s track list, which was not advertised by Scott\u2019s webstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Utopia<\/em>\u2019s sales were also enhanced by its availability across five CD variants (each with a different cover), five vinyl LP variants (with different covers and color vinyl), 15 deluxe boxed sets \u2013 each containing a piece of branded clothing and a copy of the album on CD or vinyl, six zine\/CD deluxe editions (where a copy of the CD is housed inside a magazine-like package branded to the album), and two Fan Pack\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/billboard-fan-packs-album-charts\/\">offers<\/a>\u00a0in which customers could choose to purchase a copy of the CD or vinyl LP with a piece of branded merchandise for a discounted price. Initially, the assorted CD and vinyl album cover art was not displayed to customers on Scott\u2019s webstore. When fans placed orders, they selected one of five covers, not knowing what the final design would look like. Eventually, closer to street date, the cover art for all variants was revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All physical formats of the album are exclusively sold through Scott\u2019s official webstore. It has not been announced when, or if, any of the physical versions of the album will be released wide to any other retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott drove customers to his webstore during&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>\u2019s pre-order campaign and during its first-week thanks to frequent new merchandise releases. Alongside merch drops, the webstore promoted discounted pricing on the&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;album \u2013 going as low as $4.99 for its digital album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0sold 252,000 copies in its first week. Of that sum, digital downloads comprise 111,000 (with 79% of that sum from the \u201cFirst Edition\u201d variant), CD sales comprise 63,000 (80% of that figure were CDs housed in boxed sets and zine packages) and vinyl sales comprise 79,000 (30.5% were vinyl housed in boxed sets). Of the album\u2019s 252,000 sold across all formats (digital download, CD and vinyl), deluxe boxed sets and zine packages combined to sell 30% of that figure (about 75,000 of 252,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Utopia<\/em>\u2019s vinyl sales were so big, they mark the largest sales week for an R&amp;B\/hip-hop or rap album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. Notably, Scott sold 55,000 copies of the vinyl edition of&nbsp;<em>Utopia<\/em>&nbsp;as individual purchases \u2013 those not contained inside a deluxe boxed set with merch. That figure would still represent the largest week for an R&amp;B\/hip-hop or rap set on vinyl in the Luminate era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Post Malone scores his fifth consecutive and total top five-charting set as\u00a0<em>Austin<\/em>\u00a0launches with 113,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 78,000 (equaling 101.14 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 18 songs), album sales comprise 34,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Austin<\/em>&nbsp;was led by a trio of charting songs on the Hot 100: \u201cChemical\u201d (No. 13 peak in April), \u201cMourning\u201d (No. 36 in June) and \u201cOverdrive\u201d (debuted at No. 47 on the July 29-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Austin<\/em>&nbsp;is absent any guest stars and presents a sonic shift for Post Malone, focusing more on pop and alternative sounds and guitar-based tunes instead of hip-hop. (Post Malone\u2019s four previous albums all hit No. 1 on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Albums chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set was available to purchase across five CD variants (four with alternative covers, one of which includes a bonus track), three vinyl LPs (including a Target-exclusive color variant), a cassette tape, four digital download variants (each with a different cover, exclusive to his official webstore), and two Fan Pack offers. In addition, the album was issued in a deluxe version in the middle of its first tracking week, with a new bonus track added, \u201cJoy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Austin<\/em>&nbsp;sold about 11,500 copies on vinyl \u2013 marking Post Malone\u2019s biggest week ever on vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, shifting 96,000 equivalent album units (down 7%). It\u2019s the first time the album has fallen below 100,000 units in a single week, in its 22nd week on the chart. The set earned in excess of 100,000 equivalent album units in its first 21 chart weeks, the most weeks of 100,000-plus units since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December of 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em>\u00a0film soundtrack dips 2-4 in its second week with 91,000 equivalent album units (down 28%), Taylor Swift\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0falls 4-5 with 66,000 units (down 16%), NewJeans\u2019\u00a0<em>2nd EP \u2018Get Up\u2019<\/em>\u00a0falls 1-6 in its second week with 55,000 units (down 56%) and Peso Pluma\u2019s\u00a0<em>G\u00e9nesis<\/em>\u00a0slips 5-7 with 50,000 units (down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three former No. 1s round out the top 10, as Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0backtracks 6-8 with 49,000 (up less than 1%), Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0falls 7-9 with nearly 49,000 (down 5%) and Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0holds steady at No. 10 with 43,000 (up 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3850\" data-postid=\"3850\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3850 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Post Malone nets his fifth consecutive top 5-charting effort with No. 2 debut of\u00a0Austin. 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