The accolades keep rolling in for Tyler, the Creator.
After landing at the top of the Billboard album chart with Chromakopia, Tyler now has earned his first top 10 singles, Billboard reports.
Two songs from the album, “St. Chroma” featuring Daniel Caesar and “Noid,” cracked the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. “St. Chroma is currently number seven, and “Noid” jumped from No. 43 last week to No. 10.
Previously, Tyler’s highest charting single was “Earfquake” which peaked at 13 on the charts in 2019.
As for the album chart, Chromakopia debuted at the top after earning 299,500 equivalent units, according to Billboard.
157,000 of the sales came from on-demand streams (which totaled 212.55 million), while album sales accounted for 142,000. The remaining 500 came from TEA (track equivalent album) units.
With those numbers, Chromakopia became the second-highest-selling rap album released this year. Only Travis Scott‘s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo sold more at 361,000 equivalent units.
Chromakopia is also the biggest first-week sales in Tyler’s career. IGOR debuted with 165,000 units in 2019. Call Me If You Get Lost, moved 169,000 units in 2021.
Following the release of the project, Tyler took to social media to share his most memorable moments from each track.
“[A]t 1:54 of ST CHROMA, that siren and low end together feels like a blast wave after an explosion,” Tyler posted on X (formerly Twitter). “[T]he ’20 thousand on me…’ part of RAH TAH TAH, the delivery is from a dumb joke of mine but I couldn’t get it outta my head, why not record it.”
Along with the success of the album, Tyler announced “Chromakopia: The World Tour.” He plans to make stops in North America, Europe, and Oceania.
The American leg of the tour begins on February 4, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and ends on September 4 in Perth, Australia. Lil Yachty and Paris Texas will be the openers for most of the tour.
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