A$AP Rocky’s “Punk Rocky” First-Day Streams Revealed

A$AP Rocky’s newest single, “Punk Rocky,” was streamed 1.6 million occasions on Spotify throughout its first day of monitoring, in keeping with Kurrco. The launch comes as he gears as much as drop his long-awaited fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb, later this month. The challenge has already amassed over 500k pre-saves on the platform.

Rocky shared “Punk Rocky” on Monday together with a music video that includes appearances from Winona Ryder, Danny Elfman, Thundercat, and A$AP Nast. On the monitor, he croons about falling in love and the fears that include doing so. “I wanna fall in love, don’t need no damaged coronary heart / Don’t wanna develop aside,” he sings on the refrain.

Unless there’s one other last-minute delay, A$AP Rocky will probably be dropping Don’t Be Dumb on January 16. Since 2024, Rocky has dropped a number of singles supposed for the challenge. They embody “Highjack”, “Tailor Swif”, “Ruby Rosary,” and “Pray4DaGang” in addition to “Punk Rocky.” Rocky nonetheless hasn’t confirmed a tracklist for the album, so it is unclear whether or not all of them will make the minimize. Last month, he revealed that filmmaker Tim Burton designed the duvet paintings.

Rocky lately teamed up with the monetary firm, Bilt, to launch an unique vinyl model of Don’t Be Dumb. In a press launch for that announcement, the corporate supplied some perception as to what followers can anticipate from the album. “The 15 monitor, 2LP vinyl strikes by genres the way in which you’d transfer by a metropolis—Jazz, Hip-Hop, Metal, Indie, R&B—every monitor capturing a special block, temper, or second. It’s Rocky in full vary,” it reads.

Along with the bodily launch, Rocky additionally labored with Bilt to assist cover the cost of January’s rent for each tenant in an house constructing he lived in as a young person in Harlem, New York City.

“For me, it’s at all times been about your neighborhood and neighborhood. Harlem made me who I’m, from uptown to downtown, and that connection to put is all the pieces,” Rocky stated in a press launch obtained by Realtor.com. “When Bilt stated they wished to cowl hire for everybody in the identical constructing the place I grew up, that hit totally different. That’s not simply enterprise, that’s understanding what neighborhood actually means.”