Playboi Carti debuts at #1 on BB200 with 298k units

[Teletubby 159,895]

1. Playboi Carti's MUSIC - 298,000
Of MUSIC’s 298,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 283,000 (equaling 284 million on-demand official streams of the 30 songs on the streaming edition of the album), album sales comprise 14,500 and TEA units comprise 500.
MUSIC debuts on the Billboard 200 largely from streaming activity, as it was available to purchase only as a digital download — as a widely available standard 30-song set, as well as three variants exclusive to the artist’s official webstore (the variants each have between one or two bonus tracks).
MUSIC will be issued on CD in May (across at least eight variants available to pre-order in his webstore) in the coming weeks.  The album will in the future profit in the future from sales generated by an array of deluxe boxed sets (containing branded merch and a CD) that have been available to pre-order on his webstore since last September.
2. Lady Gaga's Mayhem - 74,000
3. Kendrick Lamar's GNX - 71,000
4. PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake's $ome $exy $ongs 4 U - 66,000
5. SZA's SOS - 62,000
6. Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet - 57,000
7. Tate McRae's So Close To What - 52,000
8. Bad Bunny's Debi Tirar Mas Fotos - 50,000
9. LE SSERAFIM's 5th Mini Album 'Hot' - 45,500
Of that sum, album sales comprise 38,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.42 million on-demand streams of the five songs on the streaming edition of the album) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Sales of the set were bolstered by its availability across more than 20 CD variants (all containing collectible paper ephemera, some randomized).
10. Morgan Wallen's One Thing At A Time - 42,000

[27monster27 15,514]

3 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

MUSIC debuts on the Billboard 200 largely from streaming activity, as it was available to purchase only as a digital download — as a widely available standard 30-song set, as well as three variants exclusive to the artist’s official webstore (the variants each have between one or two bonus tracks).MUSIC will be issued on CD (across at least eight variants available to pre-order in his webstore) in the coming weeks.  The album will in the future profit in the future from sales generated by an array of deluxe boxed sets (containing branded merch and a CD) that have been available to pre-order on his webstore since last September.

bruh

[pachinko 10,701]

Is this a threat to Mayhem?

[bionic 50,110]

4 minutes ago, pachinko said:

Is this a threat to Mayhem?

Gaga just posted on Instagram that the era is cancelled  

[elegidadedios 4,465]

Great numbers but not as much as I thought according to what I read here through some ppl  like...........is this what we were afraid of

[CautiousLurker 19,654]

So, Mayhem back to Nr1 next week? 

 

[Rat Boy 43,831]

Well deserved

[StarstruckIllusion 53,448]

??? did t he have 6 months of preorders? Why is 99% of the sales from streams ☠️ Did he really only secure 14k in 6 months bc that’s sad… ☠️

[Monstermilo 5,430]

kinda crazy he had more first week sales than mayhem......

[Nickypie101 1,589]

5 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

kinda crazy he had more first week sales than mayhem......

Makes me sad tbh…

[Monstermilo 5,430]

1 minute ago, Nickypie101 said:

Makes me sad tbh…

i didnt think carti was that big........

[Illuminati 15,959]

Glad they didn't release on the same week

[RenegAde 20,237]

Didn't he have taylor level streams in the first 12hours how did it only do 290k?

[Sepsami 20,380]

I didn't even know who he was, I though this was a Cardi B release at first  

[CautiousLurker 19,654]

26 minutes ago, Sepsami said:

I didn't even know who he was, I though this was a Cardi B release at first  

Me too actually
First time I heard the name I was like 'oh, I didn't realise the B in Cardi B stood for Boi'