“Utopia,” Scott’s first new solo album in five years, and the first since his Astroworld Festival in 2021, where 10 people were crushed to death, holds the top spot on the Billboard 200 with the equivalent of 147,000 sales in the United States. According to the tracking service Luminate. That total includes 146 million streams and 37,000 copies of the LP sold as a complete package.
With fewer rap albums topping the charts these days country, pop, R&B and Latin have been more in favor. “Utopia” is the first in over a year to notch more than a single week at No. 1. In April 2022, Tyler, the Creator’s “Call Me if You Get Lost” logged its second time at the top, thanks to the delayed release of that album’s vinyl version. (“Call Me” had opened at No. 1 nine months before.) The last rap album to spend at least its first two weeks at No. 1 was Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” in September 2021; it held at the top for three weeks, then later returned for another two.
Wallen’s album “One Thing at a Time” is No. 2, while his song “Last Night,” a monster hit on streaming services and pop radio, holds at No. 1 on the Hot 100. With 16 weeks atop the singles chart, “Last Night” is on a rare streak, tying Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” from 2017, and “One Sweet Day,” by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, from 1995. Only Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” with 19 weeks in 2019, had a longer run at the top. Utopia however, outstands all these and as been the top for some weeks now.