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Tyler the Creator Just Had His Best Charts Week Ever, But How He Pulled It Off is BEYOND CRAZY · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler the Creator might have been a familiar name in
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  Speaker 2: rapping hip hop for about a decade and a half,
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  Speaker 2: but he just had the best debut album of his
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  Speaker 2: career with his new album Chromacopeia. But it's how he
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  Speaker 2: did it that makes it even more impressive. Normally, new
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  Speaker 2: albums arrived on Fridays at midnight Eastern, but Tyler's arrived
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  Speaker 2: on a Monday at six am, earning more than three
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  Speaker 2: days before its tally even started. It was still enough
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  Speaker 2: time for Tyler to debut at number one on Billboard's
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  Speaker 2: Albums two hundred with more than three hundred thousand units,
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  Speaker 2: more than double his previous personal best, and to claim
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  Speaker 2: the best first week of any rap album in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, even beating Eminem's The Death of Slim Shady.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler sold one hundred and forty two thousand physical copies
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  Speaker 2: of the I'm Mostly on vinyl, on top of the
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty seven thousand units that came from streaming.
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  Speaker 2: What's particularly shocking about that if you only count physical
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  Speaker 2: sales or streaming, and not both, Tyler would have still
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  Speaker 2: finished first.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,