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How Did Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia’ Score the Best Debut for a 2024 Rap Album With Just a Half-Week Release?

Tyler, the Creator's 'Chromakopia' debuts at No. 1 with his career's best first-week number and of all rap in 2024 -- despite only half a sales week.

While scoring a career-best equivalent album units total in half a week is a stunning achievement in a vacuum, Tyler, the Creator’s popularity has recently exploded to such a degree that I am not remotely surprised to see him earn the year’s biggest hip-hop debut or approach the 300,000 mark. From 2017’s Flower Boy, Tyler has used each new studio album to level up the narrative and conceptual worlds of his LPs, his stage show, his overall aesthetic, and most importantly, his fans’ trust in his ability to consistently put out quality work and products that are worth buying with their hard-earned money. “Darling, I,” another Chromakopia standout, comes close: Like much of Tyler’s work, it’s off-kilter in a tough to articulate way, but it’s a traditionally structured song with a total earworm of a hit and an exciting guest turn, from Teezo Touchdown.

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