![]() Shortly after, new Utopia billboards began to appear across Los Angeles featuring a clock and a lock that fans speculated at a Jrelease date. On June 27, Scott updated his website with the Utopia logo and a decoded pre-order link. On June 15, 2023, Scott was seen leaving Abbey Road Studios with his bodyguards, recreating the cover art for the Beatles' eleventh studio album, Abbey Road (1969). Record producer and audio engineer Mike Dean also shared his involvement in completing the record with an Instagram post later that day. In May 2023, photos of Scott wearing an unreleased Air Jordan 1 Low shoe with the presumed Utopia logo and his bodyguard holding a Utopia labelled briefcase surfaced online. In December, it was reported that the album and a world tour would be scheduled for early 2023. On August 2, 2022, Scott announced a one-week-long residency in the Zouk Nightclub in Las Vegas, known as the Road to Utopia from September 17 to September 24. In February 2023, Scott revealed at the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend event in Salt Lake City that Utopia would be released after Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, and SoFaygo, who are his artists signed to Cactus Jack Records, would release their respective projects. In an interview with Women's Wear Daily in June, Scott described the sound of Utopia, stating that he is "in this new album mode where it's like psychedelic rock". In May 2021, record producer and audio engineer Mike Dean stated that Scott was recording music that was alike to that from his debut mixtape, Owl Pharaoh (2013), for Utopia. In a February 2021 interview with i-D, Scott said he had been collaborating with new artists while attempting to expand his sound and making songs on his own instrumentals that he had created. Recording for the album began in 2019 with Scott posting updates throughout recording sessions on social media. In October, Scott continued to tease the album in a series of tweets. ![]() On August 3, 2020, he further teased the title of the album in a thank you letter to fans on the second anniversary of his third studio album, Astroworld (2018). On July 8, 2020, Scott first revealed the title of the album when he posted a picture on Instagram with its name, which would later be revealed to be the title. Commercially the album became Scott's first number one album in the United Kingdom, reaching the top also in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden charts. The album was promoted with a launch event, which initially was scheduled to be livestreamed from the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt, but due to construction issues was moved to the Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy. The album also has four alternative cover arts with different versions to each, in which Scott posted all of them to his Instagram profile in the days leading up to its release. ![]() ![]() The album was supported by three singles, " K-pop", " Delresto (Echoes)", and " Meltdown", and is a concept record that was accompanied by a film, Circus Maximus, which was released the day before the album. All 19 songs from the album debuted in the Billboard Hot 100, making Scott the 15th artist in the chart’s history to log 100-plus career entries. Utopia received generally positive reviews from music critics and debuted at number one on Billboard 200 chart, in which it earned 496,000 album-equivalent units, of which 252,000 units were pure album sales. The album serves as the follow-up to Scott's third studio album, Astroworld (2018), as well as JackBoys (2019), his compilation album that was released in collaboration with his record label Cactus Jack (also known as JackBoys). The names of the other artists on the album were initially hidden on streaming services, but Scott credited them four days after it was released. Production was handled by a variety of record producers, including Scott and James Blake themselves, WondaGurl, Kanye West, Allen Ritter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Wheezy, Pharrell Williams, Beyoncé, Buddy Ross, Vegyn, 30 Roc, John Mayer, Jahaan Sweet, Boi-1da, Vinylz, Tay Keith, BNYX, Oz, Justin Vernon, the Alchemist, Dom Maker, Illangelo, DVLP, and Metro Boomin, among others. The album features guest appearances from Teezo Touchdown, Drake, Playboi Carti, Beyoncé, Rob49, 21 Savage, the Weeknd, Swae Lee, Yung Lean, Dave Chappelle, Young Thug, Westside Gunn, Kid Cudi, Bad Bunny, SZA, Future, and James Blake. It was released through Cactus Jack and Epic Records on July 28, 2023. Utopia is the fourth studio album by American rapper Travis Scott. ![]()
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