Playboi Carti reigns supreme on this week’s Billboard 200 thanks to his latest album Music, but he doesn’t agree with the final sales tally.
According to Billboard, Carti’s long-awaited third LP, which was finally released on March 14, has debuted at number one on the chart after earning 298,000 equivalent units in its first week.
Streams accounted for the vast majority of that figure, with 384 million on-demand streams equating to 283,000 units. The remaining 15,000 came from pure album sales and TEA (track equivalent album) units.
With these stats, Music marks the biggest rap debut of 2025 and the second largest among all genres, behind only The Weeknd‘s Hurry Up Tomorrow which opened with 490,000 sales.
