Tyler The Creator Sets Another New Career Mark With "CHROMAKOPIA" Just Three Months Later

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Tyler, the Creator performs during the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., April 20, 2024. © Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
What certification status do you see "CHROMAKOPIA" getting to by the end of 2025?

Tyler The Creator is setting a lot of new career marks with CHROMAKOPIA. For example, he still managed to sell just under 300,000 album equivalent units in its first week (the most ever for him) despite the unorthodox release on Monday, October 28. However, it proved itself quickly that it was here to stay. In its second week on the charts, the California rapper managed to move 160,000 more copies, a number that some can't hit even in their debut. That kept it at the top spot on the Hot 200, also a new career high. Now, it's looking like Tyler The Creator will be able to live off his eighth studio LP for the remainder of 2025 as well.

According to a tweet from the NFR Podcast, CHROMAKOPIA has just recently hit one million units. That means that it's now officially eligible for platinum certification status. Because of this rapid growth, this Tyler The Creator project is the fastest to reach this mark. Overall, this is quite the feat and it might have been bound to happen all along. After all, according to Billboard, "Streams and sales were so strong for the set, it would have been No. 1 off streams alone, or solely on sales."

Tyler The Creator's CHROMAKOPIA Milestone Leads To Surprising Backlash

However, T is not getting met with a ton of praise as you might expect. That is at least in this Twitter thread. Overall, folks are quite flabbergasted. Some are going as far as to label it "bad." Others are even adding that they didn't find "anything special" about it. "This is kinda surprising since I’m positive he’s had bigger albums," another similarly echoes. One more adds, "People are still listening to this?"

Well, the sales are clearly very indicative that it's still thriving and it's going to be fascinating to see just how big it gets. Given that CHROMAKOPIA has sold another 540.5K units since its second week at number one which was November 10-11 roughly, it wouldn't be unrealistic to see it hit at least three times platinum by year's end. Even if you are in the camp above, you have to respect Tyler's pull in the game.

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Zachary Horvath is one of the Music Freelance News Writers at HotNewHipHop and has held that title since August 2023. Prior to this position, he held another freelance gig covering local high school football, girls and boys varsity basketball, in addition to recapping Cleveland Cavaliers games remotely. He's taken the previous experience and used it to become a jack of all trades at HotNewHipHop. Zach has thoroughly enjoyed tackling some of the trending topics in sports, with a larger focus on hip-hop and pop culture. Some of those include Bronny James's draft stock, a multitude of angles swirling around the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef, as well as Diddy's arrest and lawsuits. Separate from the headlines that everyone wants to hear about, he was fortunate enough to help spread Zaytoven's current thoughts at the time around mid-December in 2023. Even though being able to give his expertise on these stories is fulfilling, being able to share his passion for releases trumps that ever so slightly. Having the chance to express his excitement indirectly about what he thinks our readers should be checking out/revisiting grows his passion for writing that much more.

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