Travis Scott’s Utopia is officially the No. 1 album in the country.
Per the latest update to the Billboard 200 albums chart, the long-awaited La Flame entry did 496,000 album-equivalent units, with pure sales accounting for 252,000 of those. Billboard notes that it marks the second-highest sales week of the year so far. Estimates last week hovered around 400K.
Meanwhile, Post Malone's Austin—released the same day as Scott's Utopia—landed at No. 2 with 113,000 units, pure sales accounting for 34,000.
Every song from Utopia hit the Billboard Hot 100, with the Drake-featuring “Meltdown” landing the highest at No. 3. “FE!N” with Playboi Carti also cracked the top 10, landing at No. 5.
Here’s how the rest of the tracks performed, ranging from No. 11 ("I Know?") to No. 53 ("Parasail"):
This gives Travis 111 songs on the Hot 100 in his career, making him only the 15th artist to notch more than 100 entries. Billboard also notes that Utopia yielded Dave Chappelle, Westside Gunn, Yung Lean, and Rob49 their first appearances on the Hot 100. The magazine adds that Utopia moving 79,000 vinyl copies marks "the largest sales week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991."
Utopia arrived five years after Scott’s blockbuster Astroworld, which itself debuted in the top spot and was later certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA. Shrewdly, instead of giving fans Astroworld 2.0 with the follow-up, Scott instead took a decidedly Yeezus-esque turn.
But Utopia is not entirely without its Astroworld callbacks. “Meltdown,” for example, sees Scott and Drake together again after their massive “Sicko Mode” success. The track was among the first from the album to spur headlines of its own, most notably due to Drake's lines referencing his issues with Pusha T.
Possibly next on the horizon for La Flame fans, despite prior remarks pointing to its low likelihood, is a collaborative project with Kid Cudi. As fans will note, the project has been the subject of numerous reports over the years. Per the latest from Cudi, the project is "def happening at some point."
