Travis Scott added one more profession triumph to his lengthy listing this week when “Goosebumps” turned his second music to be licensed Diamond by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America (RIAA).
On Wednesday (August 28), the Kendrick Lamar collaboration from 2016’s Birds within the Entice Sing McKnight vaulted over the ten million mark in gross sales — the usual for Diamond — and jumped from its earlier certification of 8 million again in 2021 all the way in which to 13 million.
“Goosebumps” is now Scott’s second Diamond monitor, following “Sicko Mode,” which reached the ten million mark in 2020 (and likewise on Wednesday obtained further certifications, pushing it as much as 14 instances platinum).
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Travis Scott will get second-ever diamond single with ‘Goosebumps’ pic.twitter.com/4hAF9IlOvD
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) August 28, 2024
Going Diamond once more wasn’t Scott’s solely good gross sales information of the week. His lately re-released 2014 mixtape Days Earlier than Rodeo is on track to outsell most different Hip Hop albums from 2024.
Launched commercially for the primary time final week to rejoice the mission’s tenth anniversary, Days Earlier than Rodeo is estimated to promote 217,000 equal models in its first week, in keeping with HITS Day by day Double.
The mixtape is competing for the primary spot on the Billboard 200 and in most different weeks would simply prime the chart. Nevertheless, Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief N’ Candy is at the moment monitoring at over 300,000 equal gross sales and is anticipated to beat Travis.
HITS Day by day Double stories that the Houston rapper nonetheless has an out of doors likelihood of topping Carpenter, although, as he’s identified for placing up large bodily and digital gross sales numbers.
Whereas Days Earlier than Rodeo was launched on streaming providers, a deluxe version that includes 5 bonus songs is completely obtainable to buy on the rapper’s web site, together with vinyl copies.
If the estimates are appropriate, Days Earlier than Rodeo would have the third greatest first-week gross sales of any rap album this 12 months, behind solely Eminem’s The Loss of life of Slim Shady (281,000) and Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Belief You (251,000).
The ten-year-old mixtape would outsell main releases like Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, J. Cole’s Would possibly Delete Later, 21 Savage’s American Dream and Gunna’s One in every of Wun.
Travis Scott has even teased placing collectively a tour devoted to Days Earlier than Rodeo.