Flume gets major breakthrough in the US

Flume’s Skin has become a major breakthrough in the United States. Having already debuted at #8 there on the Billboard Top 100, it has entered the Dance/Electronic Albums chart at #1.

It has had the biggest first-week sales for the chart for 2016, beating Norwegian DJ and producer Kygo.

Skin shifted 18,000 units Stateside in in its first week, according to Nielsen Music. Kygo’s Cloud Nine set the bar at 17,000 in early June in its first frame. Skin also beat Kygo in Australia with 17,708 sales.

Billboard reports that Skin had 6.8 million US streams, up 17% from the week before. It also sold 16,000 downloads in its first tracking week, and has since hit 204,000.

Flume also has five tracks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, the highest being the Australian triple Platinum single Never Be Like You (featuring Kai) at #5 (it’s also entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #46 and hit a new peak on US pop radio at #22). 

Smoke & Retribution (featuring Vince Staples and Kucka) has re-entered the US chart at #18, with 768,000 streams. In February, when first released, the track had peaked at #19.

Three new tracks entered the chart this week: Wall F**k at #29, Lose It (featuring Vic Mensa) at #30, and Tiny Cities (featuring Beck) at #31. It is the first time that alt-rock artist Beck has made it into any EDM chart.

Skin debuted at #1 in Australia and New Zealand and #8 in Canada. Flume is the 44th most listened to artist on Spotify globally. Say It (featuring Tove Lo) is now Platinum in Australia and #5 on the ARIA single charts.

In the meantime, tickets for his Australian tour with Vince Staples and Sophie continue to perform strongly. These now total seven shows, between November 25 and December 16.

This morning Chugg Entertainment, which is co-promoting with Laneway Presents, announced that Flume’s Brisbane Riverstage show has sold out, with a second show on Friday December 2.

A limited amount of GA lawn tickets will also be released for his two sold-out shows at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. “All other shows are selling fast,” Chugg Entertainment noted.

This morning Flume posted on his Facebook page: "Blown away by the support the new record has received and how big these Australian shows have become. Really happy to be finishing my world tour at home in Australia!" 

Flume’s world tour has now sold 230,000 tickets from 70 shows. Thirty of these have sold out.