{"id":4533,"date":"2025-03-30T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2025-03-30T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:22:47","slug":"playboi-cartis-music-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4533","title":{"rendered":"Playboi Carti\u2019s \u2018MUSIC\u2019 Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard\u00a0200"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Plus: Selena Gomez and benny blanco&#8217;s &#8220;I Said I Love You First&#8221; debuts at No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/playboi-carti\">Playboi Carti<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>MUSIC<\/em>\u00a0spends a second week at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart (dated April 5), after debuting atop the list a week earlier with the year\u2019s biggest week for a rap title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its second week (ending March 27), the effort earned 131,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. (down 56%), according to Luminate. It opened with 298,000 first-week units. It\u2019s Carti\u2019s second No. 1, and first to spend more than week atop the list. He previously logged one week in the lead with his previous release,\u00a0<em>Whole Lotta Red<\/em>, in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/selena-gomez\/\">Selena Gomez<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/benny-blanco\/\">benny blanco<\/a>\u2019s first collaborative set,\u00a0<em>I Said I Love You First<\/em>, debuts at No. 2. It marks the seventh top 10 for Gomez and first for blanco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 5, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on April 1. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 131,000 equivalent album units earned by&nbsp;<em>MUSIC<\/em>&nbsp;in the week ending March 27, SEA units comprise 124,000 (down 56%; equaling 171.02 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it\u2019s No. 1 for a second week on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 7,000 (down 51%; it falls 3-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 60%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>MUSIC<\/em>\u2019s second week profited from the sales and streaming activity generated by the release of a deluxe edition of the project that added four additional cuts to the set\u2019s original 30-song runtime. Dubbed&nbsp;<em>MUSIC<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Sorry 4 Da Wait<\/em>, it was released on Tuesday (March 25) on Playboi Carti\u2019s official webstore and widely via streamers and digital retail. The four bonus songs on the deluxe (\u201cDifferent Day,\u201d \u201c2024,\u201d \u201cBackr00ms\u201d and \u201cFOMDJ\u201d) were initially released as cuts exclusively available on three different artist webstore-exclusive download variants of the album in its first week. As the four songs became available to stream via the&nbsp;<em>MUSIC<\/em>&nbsp;album on March 25, the album earned SEA for those four tracks on the final three days of the tracking week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selena Gomez and benny blanco\u2019s collaborative project&nbsp;<em>I Said I Love You First<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, scoring the superstar multi-hyphenate Gomez her seventh top 10-charting effort and hitmaking producer\/writer blanco his first. The project earned 120,000 equivalent album units in its first week \u2014 the largest week by units for both artists. (The Billboard 200 began ranking by equivalent album units in December 2014.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the album\u2019s 120,000 first-week units, album sales comprise 71,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 48,000 (equaling 64.04 million on-demand official streams of the streaming edition of the album\u2019s songs; it debuts at No. 6 on&nbsp; Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I Said I Love You First<\/em>&nbsp;is the first album pairing from the real-life couple, who announced their engagement in December. While this is the first full-length set from the duo, they\u2019ve teamed up for Billboard Hot 100-charting hit songs before this project. Blanco was a producer and writer on Gomez\u2019s \u201cSame Old Love\u201d (No. 5 peak in 2016), \u201cKill Em With Kindness\u201d (No. 39, 2016) and \u201cSingle Soon\u201d (No. 19, 2023). Gomez and Blanco shared artist billing, with Tainy and J Balvin, on \u201cI Can\u2019t Get Enough\u201d (No. 66, 2019), which blanco also co-produced and co-wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new album was preceded by the Hot 100-charting tune \u201cCall Me When You Break Up,\u201d billed to Gomez, blanco and Gracie Abrams. It debuted and peaked at No. 58 in March, and climbs into the top 20 on the Pop Airplay chart (dated April 5), rising 21-19. It\u2019s the 25th top 20-charting cut for Gomez on Pop Airplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening-week sales of&nbsp;<em>I Said I Love You First<\/em>&nbsp;were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl variants (different color editions, some with alternate covers; including a signed version), three CD versions (a standard CD, a signed edition, and a zine\/CD version with expanded packaging), a deluxe box set containing branded merch and a CD. (The album\u2019s vinyl sales totaled 21,000 for the week \u2014 the best sales week on vinyl for either Gomez or blanco.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the album was available in 10 different digital variations. First, there was a widely available standard album at streamers and digital retail. Then, through the set\u2019s opening week, nine additional download variants were issued, all initially exclusively available through Gomez\u2019s webstore, and each sold for $5. All of the variants included the standard album\u2019s 14 songs, plus bonus material. Five of the variants each had one bonus track (\u201cStained,\u201d \u201cTalk,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s What I\u2019ll Care [Seven Heavens Version],\u201d \u201cScared of Loving You [Live From Vevo]\u201d and \u201cHow Does It Feel To Be Forgotten [Live From Vevo],\u201d respectively) and one contained two bonus cuts (an acoustic version and extended version of the album single \u201cCall Me When You Break Up\u201d). There was also an\u00a0<em>Explained: Narrated by Selena Gomez<\/em>\u00a0edition (with 14 bonus tracks with Gomez providing commentary on each of the set\u2019s 14 songs), a\u00a0<em>Slowed &amp; Reverbed<\/em>\u00a0edition (with 14 bonus slowed and reverbed versions of the album\u2019s songs) and an Instrumentals edition (with 14 bonus instrumental versions of the tracklist).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All nine of the variants became available in the iTunes Store on Wednesday (March 26). The variants were only sold in the iTunes Store through March 27, the final day they were also sold in Gomez\u2019s store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 comprises former No. 1s. Nos. 3-5 are all non-movers, led by Kendrick Lamar\u2019s&nbsp;<em>GNX<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 3 (65,000 equivalent album units; down 8%) and followed by PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U&nbsp;<\/em>at No. 4 (61,000; down 7%), and SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 5 (60,000; down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 6 (54,000 equivalent album units; down 4%); Lady Gaga\u2019s&nbsp;<em>MAYHEM<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-7 (52,000; down 29%); Bad Bunny\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos&nbsp;<\/em>is stationary at No. 8 (49,000; down 2%); Tate McRae\u2019s<em>&nbsp;So Close To What&nbsp;<\/em>falls 7-9 (47,000; down 10%); and Morgan Wallen\u2019s<em>&nbsp;One Thing at a Time&nbsp;<\/em>holds at No. 10 (45,000; up 9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4533\" data-postid=\"4533\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4533 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Selena Gomez and benny blanco&#8217;s &#8220;I Said I Love You First&#8221; debuts at No. 2. 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