Playboi Carti has his first No. 1 Billboard 200 album. According to Billboard, the Georgia-bred rapper’s highly-anticipated Whole Lotta Red topped the chart with over 100,000 total album-equivalent units earned in its opening week.
The album’s sales were mostly driven by streaming, earning more than 90,000 streaming equivalent album units thanks to 126 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs. With the Christmas release, Carti officially holds the title of being the first artist to have a No. 1 album in 2021.