Playboi Carti had some ideas in regards to the first-week gross sales numbers for his newest album, MUSIC.
In line with Billboard, Carti’s third studio album debuted atop the 200 chart with 298,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. Nevertheless, Carti had a unique quantity, which he tweeted in response to the report.
Carti tweeted that MUSIC truly debuted at No. 1 with 320,000 equal album gross sales and thanked the Kurrco platform on X for sharing his publish. Whatever the numbers that each events shared, the rapper has the most important week for a rap album in 2025 and the biggest streaming week for a rap mission in two years with MUSIC. It additionally turned the most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 thus far on Spotify.
This is not the primary time that Carti had a difficulty with gross sales numbers for his new album. Carti beforehand responded to preliminary chart projections of his newest album reported by HITS Every day Double. The outlet claimed Carti would transfer 250,000 copies within the album’s first week of launch, however that quantity did not embody bodily gross sales, though varied CD editions and merch bundles are obtainable on Carti’s official web site.
The ATL native reposted the projection after information aggregator platform Hip Hop All Day posted in regards to the gross sales quantity lacking bodily gross sales, which they known as “odd.” Carti himself replied, “IT IS ODD.”
Carti’s first Billboard No. 1 album was his 2020 effort, Entire Lotta Purple, which earned 100,000 album-equivalent items in its first week. MUSIC can be Carti’s third Billboard 200 high 10 album, as his debut album Die Lit landed at No. 3 in 2018.
MUSIC was launched on March 14 by means of AWGE and Interscope Information. It has a whopping 30 tracks and visitor options from Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Jhené Aiko, Skepta, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Ty Dolla Signal, and Younger Thug.