Travis Scott’s latest studio album, Utopia, has quickly risen to become the most commercially successful hip-hop album of the year, with nearly 500,000 album equivalent units and 650 million global streams in its first week of release.
Per Vibe, according to Apple Music, Utopia dismantled the first-day streaming record for 2023. Based on a report from Spotify, the album amassed the most streams on its first day on the platform, topping out at over 128 million. The album’s second-day streaming metrics of 79 million plays on Spotify eclipsed the first-day streaming totals of any other album.
Despite being another major successful album with the emergence of Utopia, the record fell short of the number of records he sold with his previous effort, Astroworld, which moved 537,000 album-equivalent units, roughly 40,000 more than Utopia. Astroworld earned 270,000 pure album sales, while Utopia garnered 252,000.
Officially dropped on July 28, Utopia debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making it Scott’s third consecutive chart-topping album. Arriving almost five years to the date after Astroworld, Utopia has a world-class assortment of features: Drake, Playboi Carti, Beyoncé, Rob49, 21 Savage, The Weeknd, Swae Lee, Yung Lean, Dave Chappelle, Westside Gunn, Young Thug, Kid Cudi, Bad Bunny, SZA, Future, Teezo Touchdown and James Blake.
According to a report from Pitchfork, Scott will tour later this year, his first since the Astroworld festival tragedy in November 2021. He’ll hit arenas and venues in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and many more, starting on September 25 in Chicago and ending on November 27 in Miami.
In conjunction with this report, Scott posted on his Instagram that he would go on tour, adding, “I MISS THE ROAD I MISSS YALLLL,” in the caption.
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