Travis Scott got here inside just a few hundred items of taking a ten-year-old challenge to the highest of the charts, in a nail-bitingly shut race.
Scott’s Days Earlier than Rodeo, initially launched at no cost in 2014 however seeing its business launch a decade later, is quantity two on the brand new Billboard 200 chart, behind Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy.
The race was so shut — Carpenter ended up with 362,000 album equal items, whereas Scott had a bit over 361,000 — that information supplier Luminate reportedly delayed the discharge of the winner with the intention to ensure that the ultimate numbers have been right.
All however about 30,000 of Scott’s tally got here from album gross sales, almost all of which have been digital downloads. This was sparked by Scott providing eight totally different variations of the challenge, with all kinds of bonus tracks and remixes. Lots of the variants have been accessible solely via his webstore. The “Sicko Mode” rapper’s 300,000 digital downloads gave him the most important obtain gross sales week of any album launched in 2024.
General, Days Earlier than Rodeo had the fourth-biggest week of any 2024 challenge, and the most important first week of any Hip Hop album launched this yr.
The battle for the highest spot between Scott and Carpenter acquired contentious, with Carpenter seemingly responding straight to Scott’s choice to launch the variant variations of his album.
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Various the variants have been launched on August 30. The transfer didn’t go unnoticed by Carpenter who wrote on X (previously Twitter): “That is for Nicki,” a reference to Scott beating out Nicki Minaj to primary in 2018 along with his Astroworld album.
Minaj then returned the like to the pop star, saying on Instagram Stay: “Shout out Sabrina Carpenter, shout out all of the Sabrina Carpenter followers.”
Minaj was famously crushed to the highest of the Billboard 200 in 2018 by Scott along with her not taking second place effectively, accusing the “Goosebumps” rapper of gaming the system along with his bundle provides.
On Queen Radio, she ranted: “What we’re not gonna do is have that Auto-Tune man promoting fucking sweaters. Telling you he offered half one million albums, as a result of he fucking didn’t. You silly fuck. You bought your fucking homeboy speaking for you and you bought your girlfriend promoting tour passes. Cease it. Knock it the fuck off.”
