Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ Debuts With the Second Biggest Streaming Numbers of 2023
08.08.2023 - 00:17
/ variety.com
Thania Garcia Travis Scott’s features-loaded “Utopia” tops the albums list this week at No. 1, touting the third-biggest week of 2023 for any album (behind Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift) and the second-largest streaming week of the year. The 19-song set expands on Scott’s discography after several years of hiatus between this and his last full-length, 2018’s “Astroworld.” That album and Scott’s image at the time were badly tarnished by the deaths that occurred at his 2021 Astroworld festival and he remained relatively low-key — appearing as a featured artist on other songs and limiting his live appearances.
However, the prospect of “Utopia” had already been circulating online, since Scott had been teasing the album in the year prior. That anticipation was reflected in its opening stats: 496,000 units earned in the U.S., plus two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100, 331 million streams and the biggest vinyl sales week for a hip-hop or rap album since Luminate (the data company behind the Billboard charts) began tracking sales in 1991. Scott also has two top five songs on Billboard’s singles chart including “Meltdown,” featuring Drake at No.
3, and “Fe!n,” featuring Playboi Carti, at No. 5. The songs racked up 32.2 million and 25.6 million streams, respectively.
With this, Playboi Carti earns the first top-five hit of his career, surpassing his feature on Drake’s “Pain 1993” in 2020. Before that, “Utopia’s” “K-pop,” with the Weeknd and Bad Bunny, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Elsewhere, Post Malone earns his fifth consecutive top-five-charting album with the No. 2 entrance of “Austin.” The set collected 113,000 units earned and 101 million streams. Like “Utopia,” “Austin’s” vinyl sales made a
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