Lil Wayne has been on the Billboard charts for over 20 years in a row now that he’s on Tyler, The Creator’s new record.
If Tyler’s song “Sticky” makes it into the Hot 100 this week, Wayne will have been on the Billboard tracks chart every year from 2004 to the present, a span of 21 years.
The run started with two songs from 2004: “Go DJ” and “Soldier” by Destiny’s Child. Both Weezy and T.I. made guest spots on “Soldier.”
This is the third time that Tyler and Wayne’s song “Sticky” has made the chart. The first was “Martians vs. Goblins” from The Game in 2011, and the second was “Hot Wind Blows” from Tyler’s project Call Me If You Get Lost in 2021.
“Sticky” wasn’t Tyler’s only recent hit on the charts.
Not only did his new record Chromakopia put him at the top of the Billboard album chart, it also gave him top 10 singles, which he had never had before.
“St. Chroma” and “Noid,” two songs from the project, made it to the top 10 of Billboard’s November 9 Hot 100 singles list. Daniel Caesar is on the first one, which came out at No. 7. After falling to No. 43 last week, “Noid” jumped all the way to No. 10 this week.
Tyler has now had his first top 10 songs. “Earfquake,” his 2019 single, peaked at No. 13 and was his previous highest-charting song.
Billboard says that Chromakopia launched at the top of the album chart after selling 299,500 equivalent units.
157,000 of those came from on-demand streams, which added up to 212.55 million, and 142,000 came from album buys. The last 500 came from TEA units, which stand for “track equivalent album.”That means Chromakopia has the second most sales of any rap album this year, after Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo mixtape, which came out in 2014 and sold 361,000 copies.
That number also makes Tyler’s biggest first week ever, beating out fellow chart-toppers IGOR (165,000 units) and Call Me If You Get Lost (169,000 units).
Chromakopia had a short tracking week because it came out on a Monday instead of the usual Friday. This makes the album’s sales even more amazing.