Travis Scott‘s re-released 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo is on course to outsell most other Hip Hop albums from 2024.
Released commercially for the first time last week to celebrate the project’s 10th anniversary, Days Before Rodeo is estimated to sell 217,000 equivalent units in its first week, according to HITS Daily Double.
The mixtape is competing for the number one spot on the Billboard 200 and in most other weeks would easily top the chart. However, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet is currently tracking at over 300,000 equivalent sales and is expected to pip Travis to the post.
HITS Daily Double reports that the Houston rapper still has an outside chance of topping Carpenter, though, as he is known for putting up big physical and digital sales numbers.
US chart preview (via @HITSDD):
#1 Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) 317K
#2 Travis Scott (@trvisXX) 217K
#3 @PostMalone 119K
#4 @ChappellRoan 74K
#5 @taylorswift13 61K
#6 @MorganWallen 59K
#7 @billieeilish 51K
#8 @LaineyWilson 50K
#9 Zach Bryan (Bar Scene) 42K
#10 @charli_xcx…— chart data (@chartdata) August 27, 2024
While Days Before Rodeo was released on streaming services, a deluxe edition featuring five bonus songs is exclusively available to purchase on the rapper’s website, along with vinyl copies.
If the estimates are correct, Days Before Rodeo would have the third biggest first-week sales of any rap album this year, behind only Eminem‘s The Death of Slim Shady (281,000) and Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Don’t Trust You (251,000).
The 10-year-old mixtape would outsell major releases like Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, J. Cole‘s Might Delete Later, 21 Savage‘s American Dream and Gunna‘s One of Wun.
Travis Scott has even teased putting together a tour dedicated to Days Before Rodeo.
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Last week, La Flame performed his critically acclaimed second mixtape in full for an intimate crowd in Atlanta where he hinted at more to come.
“I might have to do a whole tour of this right here, man!” he told the crowd.
The follow-up to 2013’s Owl Pharaoh, Days Before Rodeo was Travis Scott’s second mixtape after signing with T.I.’s Grand Hustle and served as the precursor to his debut album Rodeo.
The mixtape featured appearances from Young Thug, Big Sean, Metro Boomin, Migos, Rich Homie Quan, Peewee Longway and British rock band The 1975.
It spawned several fan-favorite tracks including “Drugs You Should Try It,” “Skyfall” and “Mamacita” — the latter of which was recently crowned a “classic” by Kanye West.
