Igor de Tyler, The Creator breaks record and puts the artist in select group

The album Igor (2019), from rapper and producer Tyler, The Creatorsurpassed the historical mark of five billion streams node Spotify This Wednesday, 1. The feat consolidates the artist as one of the only ten names of hip hop to reach such a mark on the platform.

Released in 2019, Igor He is acclaimed by critics and fans for his bold production and the narrative focused on the drama of a love triangle. The album, which debuted at the top of the parade Billboard 200marked a phase of stylistic transition to Tyler, The Creatormixing elements of R&B and Pop with your rap experimental. The album was an immediate commercial success and guaranteed the Tyler Your first Grammy de Best rap album in 2020.

Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Igor’ Has Now Surpassed 5 Billion Streams on Spotify. pic.twitter.com/bqyikw8vix

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Igor represented a point of inflection in the career of Tyler, The Creator. The artist used the starting character, Igor, with his blonde wig and sunglasses, to explore themes of love, desire and frustration in a more theatrical and much less aggressive way than in his previous works.

After the change in your style, Tyler even released three more albums and the latest, Don’t Tap The Glass (2025), is a work designed for the track, or for any space where body expression can flow without filters. In a post on Instagram, Tyler He revealed that the idea came to realize that his friends failed to dance in public for fear of being filmed and exposed on social networks. “I thought, hell, a natural form of expression became ghost,” he wrote. The singer is headliner in Lollapalooza 2026 Here in Brazil and performs on Sunday, March 22.

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