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Tyler, the Creator scores his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his new studio effort, CHROMAKOPIA, arrives atop the tally (dated Nov. 9). The set launches with 299,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 31 — his best week ever in terms of units. Its starting sum — the sixth-largest debut of 2024 — is also notable because the album arrived on an off-cycle Monday (Oct. 28), and thus only had four days of activity in its first chart tracking week. (Most albums are released on a Friday, giving them a full seven days of activity in their opening chart week.)
The album was announced on Oct. 17, slightly more than 10 days before its release on Oct. 28.
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CHROMAKOPIA also claims Tyler, the Creator’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and largest sales week ever — again, after only four days of availability. Streams and sales were so strong for the set, it would have been No. 1 off streams alone, or solely on sales.
He previously hit No. 1 on the chart with his last two releases, Call Me If You Get Lost (in 2021) and Igor (in 2019). In total, CHROMAKOPIA marks his seventh top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 — the entirety of his charting efforts.
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Halsey logs her fifth top two-charting set as The Great Impersonator debuts at No. 2, Kelsea Ballerini achieves her highest-charting album ever as Patterns opens at No. 4 and Eminem’s chart-topping The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) vaults 44-6 after its vinyl release.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 9, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday, Nov. 5. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of CHROMAKOPIA’s 299,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 157,000 (equaling 212.55 million on-demand official streams of the 14 songs on the streaming edition of the album, his best streaming week ever; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 142,000 (his best sales week ever; it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart) and TEA units comprise 500 units. Vinyl sales accounted for 66,000 of the album’s first-week number, which is Tyler, the Creator’s best week ever on vinyl, and the third-biggest debut week on vinyl for a rap album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.
CHROMAKOPIA was issued as an 11-song standard digital download album, a 14-song album on CD and vinyl, and a 14-song digital deluxe and streaming album. (The two 14-song editions each had three additional songs versus the standard 11-song album. The 14-song CD and vinyl added “Mother,” “Sticky” (featuring Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne) and “Thought I Was Dead” (featuring Santigold). The 14-song digital and streaming edition added “Balloon” (featuring Doechii), “Sticky” (featuring GloRilla, Lil Wayne and Sexyy Red) and “Thought I Was Dead” (featuring ScHoolboy Q and Santigold).
Album sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across six deluxe collectible CD boxed sets (each containing a CD, poster and another branded merch item) and a green-colored vinyl pressing. The boxed sets and vinyl were exclusively sold via the artist’s official webstore. A stand-alone CD was available to pre-order, exclusively, in the same store, but has yet to be shipped to customers. All physical editions of the album are only available via the artist’s webstore.
The standard 11-song digital download album, as well as the 14-song deluxe digital edition, was widely available through the iTunes Store and similar services (but were not sold on the artist’s webstore).
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Halsey’s The Great Impersonator debuts with 93,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 81,000, SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 16.05 million on-demand streams of the songs on the streaming edition of the album) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The Great Impersonator is the fifth top 10-charting set for Halsey, all of which have debuted in the top two positions of the list.
The album’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across many permutations: a dozen deluxe collectible CD boxed sets (each containing a CD and branded merchandise), a standard CD, a standard signed CD, four alternative cover CDs (each signed) and eight vinyl variants (including one signed edition). Most of the offerings were exclusively sold in Halsey’s official webstore. The album was also released as a standard digital album, and via seven alternative digital download albums (each with one to three exclusive bonus tracks unique to each of the seven editions) — all of which sold for a discounted $4.99.
The vinyl sales added up to just over 26,000 copies — Halsey’s best week on vinyl ever.
Sabrina Carpenter’s former leader Short n’ Sweet falls 2-3 on the new Billboard 200 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).
Kelsea Ballerini’s Patterns bows at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, marking the artist’s highest-charting album ever and second top 10-charting set. It arrives with 54,000 equivalent album units earned — her best week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 35,000 (her second-largest sales week), SEA units comprise 19,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Ballerini had previously gone as high as No. 7 on the Billboard 200 with Unapologetically in 2017.
The new album was preceded by the song “Cowboys Cry Too,” with Noah Kahan, which reached the top 20 on the Hot Country Songs chart in July.
The set’s first-week sales were encouraged by its availability across eight vinyl variants (including one signed edition), three digital download editions (a standard set, one with bonus commentary tracks and one with two bonus song tracks), and two CDs (including one signed variant). Her vinyl sales totaled 12,000 for the week — Ballerini’s best week ever on vinyl.
Rod Wave’s Last Lap dips 4-5 on the Billboard 200 with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (down 24%), while Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) jumps 44-6 with 49,000 units (up 193%) after its release on vinyl and cassette. The latter was issued across five vinyl editions (mostly color variants) which combined to sell 31,000 copies in the tracking week — Eminem’s best week ever on vinyl.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the new Billboard 200: Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us rises 8-7 (49,000 equivalent album units earned; down less than 1%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time falls 6-8 (46,000; down 9%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is steady at No. 9 (nearly 46,000; down 5%) and GloRilla’s Glorious falls 7-10 (45,000; down 11%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
In this episode of ‘Billboard Unfiltered,’ Billboard staffers Carl Lamarre, Trevor Anderson, Kyle Denis and Damien Scott discuss the significant role hip-hop artists have played in the upcoming election by being vocal about their endorsements. They also react to Tyler, the Creator’s ‘CHROMAKOPIA,’ Lil Durk’s arrest, and the reasons more rappers are ending up in jail, and more!
Carl Lamarre:
I know you’ve said he’s in your Big 3. I think this has solidified it.
Kyle Denis:
I mean, last two albums won Grammys, he’s going to probably lock up another No. 1, hopefully, with this one.
Carl Lamarre:
I don’t think Ari got that kind of time or the patience to really try to play this indie game.
Trevor Anderson:
You really trying to put somebody away for, you know, charges that are going to be murder. You know it’s got to be multi-decade sentences, life sentences. All these kinds of things.
Damien Scott:
It really feels like rap kind of gave up this election. We kind of sat this one out.
Carl Lamarre:
Hey guys what’s going on and welcome to another episode of ‘Billboard Unfiltered.’
Damien Scott:
What’s good?
Carl Lamarre:
Gentleman!
Trevor Anderson:
What’s up?
Kyle Denis:
Yo, yo, yo.
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And we’re back again, let’s close out this week in a good way. We got some music on Monday from a certain cat called Tyler, the Creator. His seventh studio album, ‘CHROMAKOPIA.’
Damien Scott:
I enjoyed the Monday release. I enjoyed the Monday morning-
Carl Lamarre:
It feels good right?
Damien Scott:
I enjoyed going to work, listening to a new album in the morning, on a Monday morning, starting the week with new music. I liked that, we should try more of that.
Kyle Denis:
If more releases are as good as this one, I am all for Monday’s.
Carl Lamarre:
You know, we could be on to something.
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Incredibly, it’s been twenty years since JC Chasez released his debut solo album, Schizophrenic — his first and only solo foray following his time in *NSYNC. But after all that time — during which Chasez has explored various creative outlets, from judging America’s Best Dance Crew to, more recently, reuniting on two songs with his former bandmates — Chasez is back with an unexpected release.
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Playing With Fire is the concept album for a musical based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which Chasez co-wrote with longtime collaborator Jimmy Harry — and the singer stopped by Billboard News to discuss the project and how it pushed him creatively.
“We knew we wanted to write a musical, we just didn’t know what about,” says Chasez of the seeds of the project. “[Jimmy and I] come from pop music — we write different styles of pop music, but essentially our strengths are in pop music. [But] we’re more mature, we have more ideas than just the typical pop song, and this gave us the opportunity to express those ideas — to do something that’s bigger than three minutes and is a bit more focused but allows us to dream in different ways.”
Chasez is a deep theater fan who admits, “I could go to a show every night if I was lucky enough,” and he says Jesus Christ Superstar was their biggest inspiration for Playing With Fire. “They started with a concept album, and that’s kind of what inspired us to release it as an album first. If someone as smart and talented as Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks [it’s a good idea] is to release the music for a show first, why don’t we give it a shot?”
He also opens up about reuniting with *NSYNC for both “Better Place” (from Trolls Band Together) and “Paradise” from Justin Timberlake’s Everything I Thought I Was. “We’re all great friends, and we’re always talking,” says Chasez. “The conversation has been a little more open — right now I’m focusing on Playing with Fire, Justin’s on tour, Joey’s about to do & Juliet [on Broadway], but we’re always talking and anything’s possible in the future. It’s always gotta be for the right reasons.”
And speaking of potential reunions, he speaks about celebrating the 25th anniversary of fellow former Mouseketeer Christina Aguilera’s debut album with her — and the potential for them to do a duet someday: “If it was the right thing and organic, I’d be happy to sing with her anytime,” he says with enthusiasm.
Watch the full interview — including the story behind “Better Place,” how *NSYNC’s performance with Timberlake earlier this year in Los Angeles came together, and how Playing With Fire pushed Chasez vocally — above.
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Steve Earle’s son, John Henry, was diagnosed with autism when he was 19 months old, while the singer/songwriter was on tour in Australia. He received a phone call with the news from his then-wife, country singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.
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“That was the beginning of me trying to figure out what John Henry needed,” says Earle, “and I got lucky.”
John Henry, now 14, is enrolled in the Keswell School in New York City. The year-round school nurtures and educates students with autism ages 3 to 22, with a teacher-to-student ratio of 1:1 for “pretty intense” therapy, says Earle. John Henry is non-verbal, with a diagnosis of a sensory processing disorder.
For the past decade, Earle has used his acclaimed artistry and career-long friendships to raise funds to help the school with an annual must-see performance.
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On Monday (Nov. 4), at Town Hall in New York, the 10th annual John Henry’s Friends Benefit will feature Earle with Jackson Browne, along with singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy and the husband-and wife duo of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams.
The show is a rare opportunity to see Browne in a small venue. “Jackson and I have been showing up for each other’s causes for a long time,” says Earle. Glaspy is a New York-based singer/songwriter whose latest album Echo the Diamond was released last year. Earle has been friends for decades with Williams and Campbell, the latter the Grammy-winning producer/singer/guitarist known for his tours with Bob Dylan and as the musical director of Midnight Rambles with the late Levon Helm of The Band.
Presented by Earle and City Winery, the benefit will feature a guitar pull format, “all four artists on stage at the same time, just kind of swapping songs and telling stories,” he says. “It’s a unique experience for the audience.” Earle will draw from his repertoire of classics like “Guitar Town” and “Copperhead Road,” which he recently re-recorded live for his new solo acoustic concert album Alone Again (Live).
The community spirit of the benefit show reflects what Earle has learned about parenting an autistic child, beginning immediately after that very first phone call, he recounted recently.
In Australia, in early 2012, he was playing festivals with Crosby, Stills and Nash. “I’d never really met Stephen [Stills] before that week,” says Earle. But he knew Stills and his wife Kristen have a now-grown autistic son, Henry. (Henry Stills was featured in the 2007 HBO documentary Autism: The Musical, for which his mother was an executive producer.) “I just made a beeline for Stephen and he put me on the phone with Kristen,” recalls Earle.
Connection with others facing the challenge of autism is crucial, he says. Earle, who has overcome addiction to heroin and cocaine, recalls: “There was a guy in my twelve-step group that had a kid, who was a young teenager by that time, who had autism, and [that father] was the one that showed me the ropes in New York City.”
(Although Earle recovered from his addiction, his first-born son Justin Townes Earle, 38, died in August 2020 of an accidental overdose. “I’ve had two of the worst bits of news a parent can receive,” says Earle. “One is your child has autism and the other, my son [was found] deceased on the floor of his apartment.” Earle subsequently released J.T., an album of his son’s songs on Jan. 4, 2021, which would have been Justin’s 39th birthday.)
“Everything that can happen has happened to me,” says Earle, who nevertheless responded to John Henry’s diagnosis with his instincts as an activist. “I have skin in this game,” he says. “I have something I could offer that might be able to raise some funds.”
Earle has become an advocate for those with autism, dismissing misinformation and offering guidance where he can. “It is an epidemic and, yeah, we don’t know what causes it,” he says. “Whatever else you think about vaccinations, it doesn’t cause autism.”
Earle notes that federal disability laws state that “if your public school system can’t provide what your child needs — and that’s any special needs child — then the school system has to fund that education” in a private school setting. “But you have to lawyer up,” says Earle. “You have to litigate to get those funds, even though there’s a federal law, because it’s an unfunded law. There’s a lot of those on our books.”
Earle also sought legal advice to set up what’s known as a special needs trust to provide for John Henry’s future. “It’s something you definitely need to do,” says Earle, while acknowledging that John Henry also will benefit from a strong extended family. The singer’s son, Ian, will care for John Henry when his parents are gone.
“That was decided early on,” says Earle. “I didn’t force that on him or anything. And I think my grandkids will step into the breach,” he adds. “They’ve just been raised that way. We’re that kind of family.”
Federal government support for autism crosses party lines. A renewal of the Autism CARES Act, which will provide $2 billion over the next five years for autism research and healthcare training benefiting individuals with autism, passed both the House and the Senate in September. And yet, “the truth is, any kind of services provided by the government are in danger in an election like this,” says Earle.
Perhaps surprisingly, this self-described “hard-core lefty” does not criticize those who have previously supported Donald Trump. “There’s some people whose lives just didn’t get any better in the administration before and they voted for something different. That’s heartbreaking, but it is the way that it is.”
But on this Election Day, he says, “we have a candidate on one side that really isn’t concerned about anything but lowering his taxes and [the taxes for] people like him and keeping himself out of jail.” On Monday, Earle will be focused on helping the school that has done so much for his son.
“John Henry’s improved a lot,” says Earle. “He’s still non-verbal. He navigates an iPad fairly well.” He also enjoys a wide range of music, Early explains, helping his father develop an appreciation for classical compositions and opera.
“He understands way more than we ever know,” says Earle. But he also will not respond, due to his autism — or perhaps due to him simply being a teenager.
“I’m his father, and there are other times when he understands exactly what I’m saying, and he ignores me,” Earle says with affection. “So that’s not autism. That’s just like any other 14-year-old.”