Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Call Me’ Sets 3-Year Record on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Written by djfrosty on April 13, 2023
Tyler, the Creator carves out a piece of chart history this week as his album, Call Me If You Get Lost, re-enters at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart dated April 15. The set rebounds after the arrival of its deluxe edition, Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale. As the album returns, it becomes the first project to rule the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in three separate calendar years.
The deluxe edition of Call Me If You Get Lost was released March 30 and adds eight new songs to the original tracklist. Three days before the deluxe release, Tyler, the Creator announced the impending project on social media and tweeted, in part, “Some of those songs I really love, and knew they would never see the light of day, so Ive decided to put a few of them out.”
In the latest tracking week of March 30 – April 6, Call registered 68,000 equivalent album units according to Luminate, a 617% swell from the prior week. (All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.)
Streaming contributes the bulk of activity, with 57,000 of Call’s total from that sector, equaling 77.97 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Call also sold 11,000 copies, including digital download and CD editions of the new deluxe version – though the CD is currently only sold through the rapper’s webstore. A negligible amount of activity derived from track-equivalent sales. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)
As mentioned, Call becomes the first project to lead the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in three different calendar years. It first reigned for one week in July 2021 upon its original release, and returned to the summit in April 2022 for another week in the top slot after the arrival of its vinyl editions powered nearly 50,000 sales.
Call’s high streaming activity causes several of the new songs to debut or climb on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “Dogtooth” leads the pack and jumps 24-11 in its first full week of tracking, after its March 27 release allowed for only three days of activity for the prior tracking week. The song is the most-streamed Call title this week, with 11.7 million official U.S. streams. As “Dogtooth” ascends, it becomes the rapper’s fourth-best showing on the chart and second as a lead act. Tyler, the Creator reached No. 5 twice, with “Earfquake” in 2019 and, with 21 Savage as featured acts on Pharrell Williams’ “Cash In Cash Out” in 2022. “Wusyaname,” with YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Ty Dolla $ign, meanwhile, peaked at No. 6 in 2021.
With “Dogtooth” on top, here’s a look at all Tyler, the Creator’s placements on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs this week:
- No. 11, “Dogtooth”
- No. 16, “Sorry Not Sorry”
- No. 28, “Wharf Talk,” featuring A$AP Rocky
- No. 37, “Heaven to Me”
- No. 38, “What a Day”
- No. 39, “Stuntman,” featuring Vince Staples
- No. 43, “Boyfriend, Girlfriend (2020 Demo),” featuring YG