Playboi Carti threw shade at the official first-week numbers for his latest project, MUSIC.
Billboard reported that Carti’s third album landed at #1 with 298,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. But Carti disputed this figure in a response tweet.
He claimed MUSIC actually debuted with 320,000 equivalent album sales and thanked the Kurrco platform on X for sharing his post. Despite the disagreement, the rapper scored the biggest week for a hip-hop album in 2025 and the highest streaming week for a rap project in two years with MUSIC. It also became the most-streamed album in a single day on Spotify so far this year.
This isn’t the first time Carti’s beefed with sales figures for his new project. He previously fired back at initial chart projections from HITS Daily Double. The outlet predicted Carti would move 250,000 units first week, but didn’t include physical sales, despite various CD editions and merch bundles being available on his official site.
The Atlanta rapper reshared the projection after news aggregator Hip Hop All Day called out the missing physical sales as “odd.” Carti himself commented, “IT IS ODD.”
Carti’s first Billboard #1 album was his 2020 release Whole Lotta Red, which pulled 100,000 album-equivalent units its first week. MUSIC marks Carti’s third Billboard 200 top 10 album, following Die Lit which hit #3 in 2018.
MUSIC dropped March 14 via AWGE and Interscope Records. The massive 30-track project features Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Jhené Aiko, Skepta, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Ty Dolla Sign, and Young Thug.
