Thanks to Vinil, Tyler, the creator returns to #1 on the album chart

Tyler, the Creator, returned to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time since its number one debut in July of 2021, due to “Call Me If You Get Lost” appearing too late on vinyl after 10 months on digital release.

“Call Me” in LP format counted 49,500 copies, which Luminate says is the largest number of vinyl pieces sold in a week of any hip-hop record since he began keeping rolls in 1991. (Luminate, which recorded the data, is a descendant of Soundscan, which started in collecting sales numbers for 31 years.) It is also the largest one-week vinyl record for a male solo artist.

The biggest gross for any artist for a week on vinyl remains Taylor Swift’s “Red (Taylor version)”, which sold 114,000 LPs when it debuted last November.

You might think this was good news for record stores – and you’d be wrong. Tyler, the Creator chose to bypass retail entirely with the vinyl release and only sell it as a direct-to-consumer product via their web store. In fact, retailers didn’t have any version of the album to sell in stores, as Tyler’s website also kept exclusives on CD and cassette versions, according to Billboard. So it is still unlikely that the rapper will follow in Swift’s footsteps and be named a Record Store Ambassador for 2023.

The total equivalent number for this week’s “Call Me If You Get Lost” album was 59,000 units. Of that total, there were 51,000 in traditional album sales, and all but 1,500 of that sales number were vinyl. It’s not like fans have given up on the album’s stream and rushed one by one onto their turntables, though: The album earned 11.5 million on-demand streams during the week, too.

Other than that, there wasn’t much turnover at the top of the Billboard 200. Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” ranked second with 50,500 album equivalent units, followed by Lil Durk, the soundtrack for “Encanto”, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, Doga Cat, and the Weeknd. Jonah and Lil Bibi.

On the Billboard Hot 100, Harry Styles’ “As It Was” is back in the lead, after being knocked out by Jack Harlow’s “First Class” last week. Having a second week in first gives Styles his first multiple week #1, surprisingly. Harlow only slips one point to second place.

Morgan Wallen “Don’t Think Jesus” achieved the highest chart appearance this week, at number 7. It’s his third top 10 single on the Hot 100. The new song was released on April 15, and it was the best-selling single of the week, Ranked No. 1 on the digital song sales chart with 21,500 copies sold. Per Billboard, it was the third highest-streamed song of the week, at 18.1 million.

Wallen’s new song’s popularity among country fans — it debuted at number one on the Hot Country charts as well — comes as no surprise, considering that his latest single from “Dangerous” topped the country broadcast chart. “Don’t Think About Jesus,” his first new single since the racial slur scandal early last year, made 557,000 radio impressions in its first week.

The Glass Animal “heat wave” stood in third, followed by Lato, Imagine Dragons/JID and Kid Larroy/Justin Bieber at No. 4-6, and Doga Cat, Kodak Black and Bieber at No. 8. 10.



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