Travis Scott’s “Days Before Rodeo” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard 200

Travis Scott’s 2014 mixtape days before the rodeo reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated September 28) and climbs to No. 106 of 1 after the vinyl editions, sold exclusively on the artist’s web store, were shipped to customers. According to Luminate, the set achieved 156,000 equivalent album units (up 1,295%) in the US for the tracking week ending September 19.

Of that, 150,000 are traditional album sales (making it the best-selling album of the week; it’s No. 1 in Top Album Sales). Of that, 149,000 were vinyl sales – Scott’s biggest vinyl week ever. It is also the biggest week on vinyl for a rap album, as well as the sixth-biggest week on vinyl across all genres since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.

days before the rodeo is Scott’s fourth number 1, all awarded consecutively. He previously topped the list Utopia (2023), Astroworld (2018) and Birds in the trap sing McKnight (2016).

days before the rodeo was originally a free release in 2014. On August 23, it was first released commercially and officially made its wide streaming debut. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 on September 7, selling 361,000 units in the week ending August 29, largely due to strong album sales (331,000 – primarily through digital download album sales). The album then fell to number 30 in its second week of release and then to number 106 before jumping to number 1 in its fourth week of release.

The vinyl sales, which took Scott to No. 1, generated pre-orders through his official webstore before the album was released via streamers as a digital download and on CD on August 23rd. It was available in two vinyl variants (a standard edition and a deluxe edition in expanded packaging), as well as in two box sets (one with a hoodie and the standard vinyl and one with a t-shirt and the deluxe vinyl) and in two fan pack offerings (one with a hoodie and the standard vinyl record and one with a t-shirt and the deluxe vinyl record).

A widespread retail release beyond Scott’s webstore for physical formats of the album has not been announced.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States based on multi-metric consumption, measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit represents one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription-based on-demand audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new table from September 28, 2024 will be published in full at billboard‘s website on Tuesday, September 24th. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of the 156,000 corresponding album units earned by days before the rodeo In the most recent tracking week, album sales were 150,000 (up 4,608%), SEA units were 6,000 (down 25%, representing 7.94 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs), and TEA units were making a negligible sum (minus 30%). .

days before the rodeo is the second album of 2024 to reach No. 1 without debuting at the top of the charts. Toby Keith’s 35 greatest hits was re-entered at No. 1 on the chart after his death on February 17; The album had already debuted in 2008 and peaked at number 2. Before Keith and Scott was the last album to go to No. 1 without having debuted at No. 1 Encanto Soundtrack, which debuted at number 197 on the December 11, 2021 chart and then rose to number 1 on the January 15, 2022 list, spending nine non-consecutive weeks at number 1.

days before the rodeo also has the biggest jump to No. 1 since the April 30, 2022 chart; as Tyler, the Creator Call me if you get lost returned to the top spot by a margin of 120 to 1 following its release on vinyl.

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short and sweet slides to No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 (108,000 equivalent album units; down 8%) after spending the first three weeks at the top of the chart. It remains at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart for a fourth week.

Chappell Roans The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess is a non-mover at No. 3 (64,000 equivalent album units; up 13%); Post Malone’s former No. 1 F-1 trillion declines of 2-4 (60,000; down 16%); Morgan Wallen’s chart-topper One thing at a time falls 4-5 (52,000; up less than 1%); and Taylor Swift’s former leader The Tortured Poets Department decreases by 5-6 (51,000; less than 1% less).

Eminem’s chart-topper The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) returns to the top 10 with a 42-7 lead following its deluxe reissue and CD release. The album was reissued with bonus tracks on September 13 via digital download services and streamers, while the original standard album was released in two CD variants on the same day. In the tracking week that ended September 19, The death of Slim Shady earned 48,000 equivalent album units (up 180%). Of these, 24,000 are from album sales (up 3,328%), 23,000 are from SEA units (up 43%; equivalent to 31.64 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs), and 1,000 are from TEA units (up 210%).

Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is Billie Eilish Hit me hard and soft (6-8 with 44,000 corresponding album units; down 5%), Noah Kahan’s Embroidery season (8-9 with 38,000; up 2%) and Zach Bryan’s The great American bar scene (7-10 with almost 38,000; down 1%).

Luminate, the independent data provider for billboard Charts conducts a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate verifies and authenticates data. In partnership with billboardData deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed based on established criteria before final chart calculations are performed and published.