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Tyler, the Creator’s ‘CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’ Returns To No. 1, Logs Largest Vinyl Sales Week for Any Hip-Hop Album in History
Tyler, the Creator’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST is making an impressive No. 1 return on this week’s Billboard 200 thanks to its historic vinyl sales. According to Billboard, the album experienced a 507% surge and jumped from No. 120 straight to No. 1. CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST earned a total of 59,000 equivalent album units including 8,000 in streaming equivalent album units, a ”negligible sum” in track equivalent album units and a whopping 51,000 in traditional album sales. The sum of album sales is mostly made up of vinyl sales from Tyler’s webstore, selling 49,500 copies and logging that largest vinyl sales week for any hip-hop album or solo male album in history. Elsewhere on the chart, Morgan Wallen, Lil Durk, the Encanto soundtrack and Olivia Rodrigo can be found from Nos. 2 to 5. Ma...
Inside Mad World, the U.K. Record Label Championing Club Culture
In late 2019, London-based duo God Colony began thinking about establishing a record label, formalizing the ideas and projects they had been working on. Over the next few months, founders Thomas Gorton and James Rand were joined by producer Raf Rundell and art director Jacob Chabeaux, and Mad World was born. Almost immediately, though, lockdown measures were announced globally and nightclubs everywhere were forced to close. The culture that had inspired Mad World suddenly faced a more uncertain future than ever before. “I think it made us more compelled to make it really happen,” Gorton tells HYPEBEAST. “Two years on Zoom and having your temperature checked at the pub drives a man mad – you end up doing totally unnecessary things like starting a record label. It was strange to start and th...
Kendrick Lamar Joins Baby Keem at Coachella 2022
Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar Deliver First Collaborative Single “family ties” The lead single from Keem’s upcoming album, ‘The Melodic Blue.’ Aug 27, 2021 9,909 Hypes Baby Keem Drops Anecdotal “16” Music Video Off his latest album, ‘The Melodic Blue.’ Feb 24, 2022 1,966 Hypes Baby Keem Unveils ‘The Melodic Blue’ Tour Dates The 21-year-old rapper will hit the road this spring. Jan 26, 2022 8,396 Hypes
Pusha T Explains What Happened To His Madlib-Produced Album
Pusha T gave fans a clear explanation of what happened to his supposed Madlib-produced album during the premiere of his It’s Almost Dry Radio show on Amp. Moderator Noah Callahan-Bever revealed on Twitter that the record was put in the back burner because King Push wanted a “more hands on” approach in order to surpass DAYTONA. Push said he got sent a folder of dope loops from Madlib, kinda like, ‘do your thing!’ But he felt like the only way to top Daytona was to allow himself to really be produced in a more hands on way, so he decided to go in a different direction (sitting with Ye and P) for this 1,” Callahan-Bever tweeted. Elsewhere in the episode, Push also revealed the origins of It’s Almost Dry, “The project got started from me playing “Hear Me Clearly” for Pharrell…And he told me th...
Post Malone Teases New Collabs for Upcoming Album ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’
Post Malone is gearing up for the release of his upcoming album Twelve Carat Toothache, teasing fans of the collaboration they can expect when it is released. In his recent Instagram Live, Posty gave fans a preview of his major collabs with artists including Doja Cat, Robin Pecknold, The Kid LAROI and Roddy Ricch. The artist played quite a few songs on the livestream and even told fans, “I would love to play this entire record and I just want to say hey to everybody that’s hanging out. Honestly, I’ve been working so f***ing hard and I would love to play y’all a couple more records if y’all got time. We’ve got a lot of cool stuff going on.” In his song with Pecknold, titled “A Love/Hate Letter To Alcohol,” Post Malone seemingly details his “struggle with alcohol” and hopes “it touches someb...
Megan Thee Stallion Discusses Alleged Tory Lanez Shooting in First TV Interview: ‘I Was So Scared’
Megan Thee Stallion is sitting down for her first television interview about allegedly being shot by rapper Tory Lanez. In a preview clip of her emotional interview with CBS Mornings, which airs Monday (April 25), the Houston rapper recounts the July 2020 incident in which she claims Lanez shot her in the foot following a party in the Hollywood Hills. “It was an argument, because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go. But that’s, like, normal friend stuff,” Megan tells co-host Gayle King. “We fuss about silly stuff all the time. But I never put my hands on anybody. I never raised my voice too loud. Like, this was one of them times where it was, like, it shouldn’t have got this crazy.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Lanez, who...
Britney Spears Says She’s Going on a Social Media Hiatus ‘For a Little While’
It might be a little while before fans see new Instagram videos or pregnancy updates from Britney Spears. The pop has star announced that she’s taking a step back from social media. “I’m going on a social media hiatus for a little while !!!” Spears wrote on Instagram on Sunday (April 24). “I send my love and God bless you all,” she added. Along with the news of her break from social media, the pop star posted a silly video of a baby lounging next to a mini vanity set, wearing a robe, sunglasses and hair rollers. “I obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have,” she noted at the time. She also spoke candidly about her previous experience with perinatal depression — “I have to say it is absolutely horrible … women di...
Pusha T’s ‘It’s Almost Dry’ Projected To Debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200
Pusha T is looking to debut at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 with It’s Almost Dry. According to HITS Daily Double, the DAYTONA followup is expected to earn a total 50,000 to 55,000 equivalent album units, including 4,000 to 6,000 in album sales. The only project that could block its chart-topping debut is Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album after he released the stand-alone track entitled “Don’t Think Jesus.” King Push’s 12-track effort arrives almost four years after DAYTONA and is produced entirely by Pharrell and the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Also joining Push on the tracklist are guest appearances from JAY-Z, Kid Cudi, NIGO, Lil Uzi Vert, Don Toliver, Labrinth and Push’s brother Malice. Elsewhere in music, Tyler, the Creator’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST T...
Consequence Shares Kanye West’s Handwritten ‘Late Registration’ Tracklist
Consequence treated fans to a piece of hip-hop history as he unveiled Kanye West‘s handwritten tracklist for Late Registration. The photo of the tracklist was posted on Consequence’s Twitter, and he revealed that he actually has the tracklists of both The College Dropout and Late Registration. “Look what I found today…” he captioned the photo, which also showed scribbles as Ye removed and added different tracks to the album. “The handwritten tracklisting for ‘Late Registration.’ Peep the ‘Dropout’ bear at the top. So I have both ‘The College Dropout’ + ‘Late Registration’ tracklisting as collector’s items given to me by Kanye West. Amazing.” The two rappers have had a long-lasting professional and personal relationship; Consequence contributed to Late Registration and appeared on “Gone” wi...
Lorde Calls Viral Video of Her Shushing Crowd at Shows a “Dramatic Ass Move”
Hush now, Lorde has something say about that viral video of her shushing her fans during a recent concert on her “Melodrama Tour.” The “Solar Power” singer and famously social media-averse star’s response came courtesy of a fan account on Saturday with the caption “Lorde just wanted me to share this video with y’all.” “OK, I just woke up. I just wanted to talk about this thing of me shushing people at my shows,” she says in the clip from bed while wearing a sleep mask above her eyes. “That was something I did in that one song, a couple of times, when I wanted to sing it a capella and/or off the microphone so people could hear me, and because I wanted to try something different. If you come to my shows, you know it’s like an hour and a half of all of us singing and screaming together.” Adve...
Mick Jagger Touts Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly as the Future of Rock Music
Mick Jagger has seen the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and their names are Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. “In rock music you need energy, and there have not been a lot of new rock singers around. Now there are a few,” The Rolling Stones frontman said in a new interview with Swedish radio station P4 as reported by The Independent. “You have Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. That kind of post-punk vibe makes me think there is still a bit of life in rock and roll.” Yungblud, who most recently released single “The Funeral” as a follow-up to 2020’s Weird!, has cited Jagger in the past as an inspiration for the type of career longevity he hopes to have, telling NME back in 2019, “I’m not arsed about being about for 10 minutes, have a hit song, get a fucking mansion, do too many drugs and kill myself. ...
Tyler, the Creator’s ‘CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST’ Tour Dethrones J. Cole’s Tours as Highest-Earning Post-Pandemic Hip-Hop Tour
Tyler, the Creator‘s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST tour has officially dethroned J. Cole‘s The Off-Season and Millennium tours as the highest-earning hip-hop tour of the post-pandemic era. According to reports, Tyler’s 32-city engagement earned a total of $32.6 million USD from 389,000 tickets sold. His March 31 Los Angeles show at the Crypto.com Arena was the biggest night of the tour as it raked in $1.6 million USD from 14,757 tickets; the tour also earned $2.9 million USD from his two-night performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City from March 13 to March 14. On average, the hip-hop star earned $1.02 million USD and sold 12,155 tickets per show — more than twice the number of his IGOR tour in 2019 which averaged $442,000 USD and 7,786 tickets per show. The CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST t...
