Playboi Carti has secured his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as MUSIC debuts atop the chart dated March 29. The extremely anticipated mission opened with 298,000 equal album items within the U.S. for the week ending March 20, based on Luminate. This marks the most important debut for a rap album in 2025 and the biggest streaming week for a rap mission in practically two years.
MUSIC follows Carti’s 2021 chart-topping Complete Lotta Crimson and turns into his third top-10 entry, alongside 2018’s Die Lit (No. 3). Of its first-week whole, 283,000 items got here from streaming, with the album producing 384 million on-demand official streams throughout its 30-track version. It additionally debuted at No. 1 on the Prime Streaming Albums chart. Conventional album gross sales accounted for 14,500 items, touchdown it at No. 3 on Prime Album Gross sales, whereas track-equivalent album (TEA) items contributed 500.
The one album to put up an even bigger debut in 2025 to date is The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, which launched with 490,000 items in February. Moreover, MUSIC logged the most important streaming week for a rap album since Drake’s For All of the Canines amassed 514 million streams in October 2023.
