Travis Scott's 'UTOPIA' Is the First Rap Album in Five Years To Spend Its First Month at No. 1
Since Drake’s ’Scorpion.’
Travis Scott continues to make history with UTOPIA as it logs its fourth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
His ASTROWORLD followup earned a total of 161,000 equivalent album units, including 92,000 in album sales, 69,000 in streaming equivalent album units and the rest in track equivalent album units. UTOPIA is now the first album in five years to spend its first four weeks atop the chart, following Drake’s Scorpion in 2018.
Other new entries on this week’s top 10 are Hozier with Unreal Unearth, which debuts at No. 3 with 62,000 equivalent album units, and J-Hope’s year-old Jack in the Box reappearing at No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units.
Elsewhere on the chart, Morgan Wallen and the Barbie soundtrack stay at No. 2 and No. 4, respectively, followed by Taylor Swift at Nos. 5, 7 and 8. Peso Paluma moves down to No. 9 while Wallen a second time closes out at No. 10.
In related news, UTOPIA hit 1 billion Spotify streams in just a month.
