Tyler, The Creator ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ tops Billboard 200

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The new chart dated July 10, 2021 (where Call Me debuted at number one) will be published in full on Billboard’s website on Wednesday, July 7 (one day later than usual, due for the Monday holiday after July 4 in the US on July 5 ). For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram.

Of Call Me If You Get Lost the equivalent of 169,000 album units acquired in the tracking week ending July 1, SEA units consisted of 114,000 (equivalent to 152.96 million on-demand streams of album tracks), and album sales consisted of 55,000 (up to Large selection of deluxe chest sets sold exclusively (via the artist’s web store) and featuring less than 1,000 TEA units.

Call Me was released on June 25 as a 15-track record digital download album, as well as a 16-track deluxe digital release and a streaming version with one additional track (“Safari”). The 16-track physical version of the album, on CD and cassette, added a different bonus track (“Fish Tail”). Of the total sales of Call Me albums for the week, 40,000 were CDs, 10,000 were cassettes, and 5,000 were digital downloads. A vinyl LP release has yet to be announced.

The CD and cassette were sold exclusively via the artist’s web store and sold out within a day. They were available to order, as well as in four limited-edition luxury box sets that sold for $25 each. (Box sets included a CD, T-shirt and label or tape, T-shirt and label.) It was not announced if any other CDs, tapes or pack sets would be manufactured, nor if they would be available to any other retailers.

While Call Me sales were strong, it’s worth noting that the album would have reached number one without any sales thanks to strong streaming numbers. It hit 114,000 SEA units — which would have been enough to make it #1 with nearly 5,000 units on this week’s second title, Doja Cat’s new studio album, Planet Her.

Planet Her debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 109,000 equivalent album units. It’s a rapper’s best week in terms of units earned, and highest chart effort to date, overtaking the #9 peak on her latest release, and previous top ten singer, Hot Pink. The new album features the top-five chart-topping Billboard Hot 100 song Kiss Me More, featuring SZA, as well as guest roles from The Weeknd and Ariana Grande.

Of Planet Her’s initial total of 109,000 units, SEA units consisted of 96,000 (equivalent to 132 million on-demand streams of album tracks), album sales comprised 10,000 and TEA units comprised 3,000.

Planet Her was initially released as a 14-track record album on June 25. This was followed by a digital and streaming deluxe release on June 27, adding five additional tracks. Of the 10,000 albums sold this week, 6,000 were sold via digital download and 4,000 via CD. (The CD had limited compression and was only available via Doja Cat’s webstore.)

A quartet of #1 followed previously on the Billboard 200: Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (down 1-3 gaining 93,000 equivalent album units; down 11%), Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s The Voice of the Heroes (3-4 with 52,000 units.; down 9%), Polo G Hall of Fame (2-5 with 49,000 units; down 27%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (5-6 with 47,000 units; down 3%).

Migos’ Culture III drops 4-7 with 37,000 album equivalent units (down 31%), Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) is up 9-8 with 32,000 units (up 4%), and Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia is down 7-9 With 31,000 units (less than 1%).

Justin Bieber’s Justice is back in the top ten, with a high of 14-10, thanks to its vinyl release on June 25. The former #1 had 30,000 units for the week (up 20%), with album sales comprising 7,000 of that amount (up 618%), of which LP vinyl sales equaled 6,000.

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