Travis Scott has damaged information along with his fourth studio album ‘UTOPIA’, which is now deemed the largest hip-hop launch of the 12 months up to now.
On July 28, the Houston-born rapper dropped his highly-anticipated album, that includes Beyoncé, Teezo Landing, Drake and extra on the star-studded 19-track album. It was the follow-up to the ‘Antidote’ rapper’s Grammy Award-nominated third album ‘Astroworld’.
‘UTOPIA’ has damaged many information because it dropped. In its first week, the album offered 496,000 album models and amassed over 650 million streams globally, topping the charts in 17 nations. This succeeds the success of Lil Uzi Vert‘s ‘The Pink Tape’, which was the highest-grossing hip-hop album earlier than ‘UTOPIA’, promoting 167,000 models in its first week.
The album’s bodily gross sales reached 252,000 models, making it the second-biggest first-week bodily gross sales for an album this 12 months. Taylor Swift‘s ‘Converse Now (Taylor’s Model)’ has the largest first-week gross sales of 2023 up to now with 716,000 album-equivalent models, together with 507,000 album gross sales.
Additionally, Apple Music and Spotify declare that the album earned the very best first-day streams for an album in 2023 on the platform. The latter confirmed that the file was streamed 128 million instances on its first day and 79 million on its second day, which is greater than the primary day of some other rap album in 2023. In line with Scorching New Hip Hop, the Drake-assisted ‘MELTDOWN’ at present accounts for 10% of all ‘UTOPIA’‘s streams.
‘UTOPIA’ is the second. 😤
The brand new @trvisXX undertaking had essentially the most first day streams for an album launched on Apple Music up to now in 2023.
Run it again: https://t.co/WaVf2gLKDc pic.twitter.com/oHb9vbJFqx
— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) July 31, 2023
In a three-star evaluate of the file, NME stated, “Whereas ‘Astroworld’ was the proper theme for Scott’s music… in making an attempt to navigate a lofty idea like discovering utopia, his ambitions have led him again to somebody who was much more formidable at it.”
Accompanying the album, the 32-year-old introduced a particular one-off gig on the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt however was ultimately cancelled because of manufacturing points. As an alternative, Scott carried out on the iconic Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy earlier this week (August 7). All 60,000 tickets for the live performance have been offered in two days. On stage, he introduced out his as soon as mentor Kanye West to carry out ‘Reward God’ and ‘Can’t Inform Me Nothing’.
Travis Scott WELCOMES KANYE WEST TO UTOPIA IN ROME OMGG pic.twitter.com/Ni54si7Ytj
— Ye Streams (@kanyestreams1) August 7, 2023
CIRCUS MAXIMUS additionally was launched in help of ‘UTOPIA’. Written and co-directed by Travis Scott, the movie premiered on July 31 in sold-out film theatres throughout the US.
Final month, regardless of the live performance being cancelled, followers held a celebration in Egypt on the pyramids in honour of ‘UTOPIA’s launch.
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