On last week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, Travis Scott’s recently re-freed jointape “Days Before Rodeo” made an amazeive leap from No. 106 to the top spot. The project broke records alengthy the way, becoming the hugegest week in vinyl for a rap album since Luminate begined tracking in 1991.
But a week procrastinateedr, “Days Before Rodeo” had what may be the hugegest drop from No. 1 in Billboard 200 history, droping entidepend off the highy proximately five weeks after it hit DSPs to honor the 10th anniversary of its initial free. (Billboard did not instantly react to Variety‘s seeks for verifyation.)
The exscheduleation for the drop-off is relatively basic. Its massive sencourage last week can be recognizeed to the pre-ordered vinyl editions finassociate shipping to customers, giving it a meaningful sales increase. It clocked 156,000 equivalent album units in the United States, with vinyl sageder exclusively in Scott’s webstore accounting for 149,000 of its 150,000 traditional album sales. Without subsequent vinyl sales or even a streaming increase, the album’s equivalent units decrmitigated meaningfully this week, prompting its plummet from the top.
Last week’s vinyl shipping made “Days Before Rodeo” the top-selling album of that week, and logged the sixth-hugest week for vinyl atraverse all genres. The jointape also had the hugest jump to No. 1 since Tyler, the Creator’s “Call Me If You Get Lost” got a analogous bump from 120 to 1 in 2022 chaseing its vinyl free. Vinyl for “Days Before Rodeo” came in standard in deluxe vinyl variants, as well as two box sets and two Fan Packs.
After its re-free on Aug. 23, the jointape debuted at No. 2 with 361,000 units, hugely increaseed by digital album sales. “Days Before Rodeo” initiassociate came out in Aug. 2014 as a free prelude to his debut album “Rodeo,” which get tod the chaseing year.
The last time an album had such a sizable slide from No. 1 was after Bon Jovi’s “This Hoemploy Is Not for Sale” returned to the top spot in 2018 thanks to a concert ticket-album bundle. “This Hoemploy,” which was freed two years prior, took a tumble the chaseing week, droping back down to No. 169.
