 "The Hamilton Mixtape" debuted at number one on the "Billboard" 200 with 187,000 album-equivalent units, of which 169,000 were pure album sales.It marks the largest sales in a week for a compilation album since "Cruel Summer" by GOOD Music in 2012, and is the first compilation album to reach number one since "Now 50" in 2014.According to Nielsen Music, the cassette version of the album sold just under 3,000 units in the year of 2017, in conjunction with the increase of overall cassette sales increasing by 35 percent the same year.