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Playboi Carti captures his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his latest studio project, MUSIC, debuts atop the tally dated March 29. The set debuts with 298,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate. That marks the biggest week of 2025 for a rap album. It also arrives with the biggest streaming week for a rap set since 2023.
Playboi Carti previously topped the chart with his last release, Whole Lotta Red, which debuted atop the ranking dated Jan. 9, 2021. MUSIC is the artist’s third top 10-charting set, as he previously visited the region with 2018’s Die Lit, which reached No. 3.
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Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, LE SSERAFIM collects its fourth top 10-charting project, as 5th Mini Album HOT debuts at No. 9.
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 March 29, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 25. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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; it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 14,500 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 500.
With 298,000 units earned in its first week, MUSIC lands the biggest week in 2025 for a rap album, and the second largest overall among all albums — only the debut of The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow was bigger so far this year, when it launched with 490,000 units (Feb. 15 chart). Further, as MUSIC’s songs tallied 384 million on-demand official streams combined, that marks the biggest streaming week for any album in nearly a year, since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department collected 428.54 million clicks for its songs in its second week (May 11, 2024, chart). MUSIC nets the largest streaming week for any rap album since Drake’s For All the Dogs debuted with 514.01 million (Oct. 21, 2023, chart).
MUSIC was officially announced on Sept. 12, 2024, and went up for pre-order the same day. However, the set’s March 14 release date wasn’t announced until just two days before its arrival (March 12).
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 also 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.
Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM falls to No. 2 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 74,000 equivalent album units (down 66%). The next six titles on the list are all former No. 1s. Kendrick Lamar’s GNX drops 2-3 (71,000; down 13%), PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U dips 3-4 (66,000; down 15%), SZA’s SOS slips 4-5 (62,000; down 9%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is steady at No. 6 (57,000; down 7%), Tate McRae’s So Close To What falls 5-7 (52,000; down 18%) and Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos is a non-mover at No. 8 (50,000; down 4%).
LE SSERAFIM collects its fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as 5th Mini Album HOT starts at No. 9 with 45,500 equivalent album units earned. 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).
Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 One Thing at a Time, which falls 9-10 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).
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Ecuadorians Jombriel, Alex Krack and Jøtta earn their first No.1 on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 chart as the remix of “Parte y Choke,” with Ryan Castro, rises 2-1 on the March 22 dated ranking.
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The buzzy song’s rise, which was originally released Nov. 5 on La Sangre Nueva and debuted at No. 33 last December, takes the lead after the release of the remix by the Colombian singer-songwriter.
“Parte y Choke’s” popularity driver also leans on TikTok activity with support from fans and artists alike. Nicki Nicole went viral after the Argentinian shared a clip of her dancing to Jombriel’s song, which has since registered over 16 million views and more than two million likes.
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“Parte y Choke” trades places with La T y La M’s “Amor de Vago,” featuring Malandro, which dips 2-1 after 10 weeks in charge, the most in 2025.
Emilia and Luísa Sonza’s “Bunda” rises 5-4 for its new peak and Sonza’s highest ranking to date.
Notably, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars earn their first top 10 through “Die With A Smile” which advances 13-10. It’s the second simultaneous song from Lady Gaga’s No. 1 album, Mayhem, after “Abracadabra” climbs 37-26.
CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso take the Greatest Gainer honors of the week thanks to “#TETAS,” as the song surges 98-50. The Argentinians also take the Hot Shot debut of the week with “El Día Del Amigo” at No. 68. Plus, a third song from their newly-released EP Papota debuts: “Dumbai” at No. 77.
Four other debuts arrive this week, starting with two entries by Shakira, “Inevitable” at No. 72 and “Dia De Enero” at No. 96. Meanwhile, Zell, DUKI and Neo Pistea’s “Starboy Remix” opens at No. 80.
Lastly, Mon Laferte returns to the chart through “Tu Falta de Querer” at No. 98. It’s the Chilean’s first entry in over six years. since “El Beso” debuted and peaked at No. 98 in 2018.
Benson Boone achieves his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart, as “Beautiful Things” rises a spot to the top of the survey dated March 29. The song leads in its 55th week on the chart, wrapping the longest climb to No. 1 in the list’s history. (The Adult Contemporary chart ranks songs by […]
The Kendrick Lamar parade atop Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart extends for another week, as “30 for 30,” the rapper’s collaboration with SZA, rallies 5-1 to crown the list dated March 29. The track replaces Lamar’s two-week leader “TV Off,” featuring Lefty Gunplay, which itself captured the summit from Lamar and SZA’s other active radio-promoted single, “Luther.” By linking three successive No. 1s, Lamar becomes only the fourth artist to achieve the feat in the 31-year history of the radio ranking.
“30 for 30” surges to No. 1 as the most played song on U.S. panel-contributing mainstream R&B/hip-hop radio stations in the tracking week of March 14-20, according to Luminate. The song added 14% more plays in the latest tracking window compared to the prior week; the swell gives “30 for 30” the chart’s weekly Greatest Gainer honor, awarded to the song with the largest play increase. Southern stations led the final push, with four of the five stations that recorded the most “30 for 30” plays this week — WQBT-FM (Savannah, Ga.), WHXT-FM (Columbia, S.C.) WHZT-FM (Montgomery, Ala.) and WZGB-FM (Louisville, Ky.) — from the region.
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The Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 70 mainstream R&B/hip-hop (also known as urban) radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
With “30 for 30,” SZA banks her fourth No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. She previously ruled twice in 2023, with “Shirt” and “Snooze,” and added her third, “Luther,” another Lamar collaboration, earlier this month.
For Lamar, “30 for 30” gives the rapper his ninth career No. 1 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. To rundown his collection:
“Swimming Pools (Drank),” nine weeks at No. 1, beginning Dec. 8, 2012
“F–kin Problems,” A$AP Rocky feat. Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar; two, Feb. 9, 2013
“Humble.,” nine, June 3, 2017
“Love.,” feat. Zacari; six, Dec. 30, 2017
“Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin; three, June 1, 2024
“Not Like Us,” 12, June 22, 2024
“Luther,” with SZA; one, March 8, 2025
“TV Off,” feat. Lefty Gunplay; two, March 15, 2025
“30 for 30,” with SZA; one (to date), March 29, 2025
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Further, by linking three successive No. 1s without interruption on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, Lamar is only the fourth artist — and first entirely in lead or co-lead capacities — to achieve the feat since the chart launched in 1993. On the overall list, he joins:
50 Cent in 2005, through one lead role (“Candy Shop,” feat. Olivia) and two featured roles, both on tracks by The Game (“How We Do” and “Hate It or Love It”)
Lil Wayne in 2011, through one lead role (“How to Love”) and two featured roles (Kelly Rowland’s “Motivation” and DJ Khaled’s “I’m on One,” also with features from Drake and Rick Ross)
Drake in 2018, through two lead roles (“God’s Plan” and “Nice for What”) and one featured role (BlocBoy JB’s “Look Alive”)
Elsewhere, “30 for 30” repeats at its No. 5 high on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, which ranks songs by combined audience totals from adult R&B and mainstream R&B/hip-hop stations. Despite no change in rank, the song improved 9% to 13.2 million in weekly audience at the format.
All charts dated March 29 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, March 25.
Playboi Carti has landed his first-ever No. 1 album in the U.K. with Music (March 21).
It marks Carti’s first LP in just more than four years, following December 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, which peaked at No. 17. The Atlanta rapper, born Jordan Terrell Carter, also previously saw success on the Official U.K. Albums Chart with 2018’s Die Lit (No. 27).
The sprawling 30-track effort features cameos from an all-star guestlist, including Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert and Jhené Aiko. The record was announced less than a week prior to its release, following years of development purgatory — from its title changing multiple times to a protracted recording process.
Two songs from Music also appear in the top 10 — “Evil J0rdan” (No. 7) and “Rather Lie” with The Weeknd (No. 10), taking Carti’s all-time Top 10 tally to four. Upon release, it became Spotify‘s most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 so far.
As the Short n’ Sweet Tour continues to roll through the U.K. and Europe, Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth LP lands at No. 2 this week. The 2025 BRITs Global Success award winner first topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart in September 2024, with Short n’ Sweet going on to become the third-biggest album of last year in the country.Songwriter and Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson follows at No. 3, matching his previous solo career-best with eighth studio collection The Overview. Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM slips three spots to No. 4, while Tate McRae rounds out the Top 5 with So Close To What.
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Following its release on Blood Records white powder-filled vinyl, Charli XCX’s Brat remix LP makes its Top 40 debut this week (No. 40). Titled Brat & It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, the collection’s initial streaming release in November 2024 pushed its parent album to No.1 in the U.K. for the first time.
After taking this week’s No. 1 single with “Ordinary,” breakout U.S. singer-songwriter Alex Warren is on the cusp of his first-ever Top 40 album with You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1). Initially released in September, the record has jumped 13 spots to a new No. 41 peak.
Influencer-turned-musician Alex Warren has secured his first No. 1 single in the U.K. with the viral hit “Ordinary” (March 21). The song ends the week as the most-streamed track in the country (5.6 million streams).
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It knocks Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” from the summit, which hit No. 1 on March 7, almost five years after its initial release in 2020. The track gave Roan her first-ever chart-topper in the U.K., besting her previous high of No. 2 with “Good Luck, Babe!” in 2024.
Warren, meanwhile, is on something of a hot streak in his musical journey. Having started his career in the mid 2010s as a YouTuber before becoming a co-founder of the collaborative TikTok group The Hype House during lockdown, the 24-year-old made his debut on the Official U.K. Singles Chart last year with “Before You Leave Me” (No. 80), and by the close of 2024, he’d netted two top 40 hits — “Carry You Home” (No. 23) and “Burning Down” (No. 33).
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“Ordinary,” his first release of 2025, began its ascent at the start of March after catching fire on TikTok. “Thank you to the U.K. for the No. 1 single of the week. I promise I won’t let you down — I’ll make you proud,” Warren said in a statement issued via the Official Charts Company.
Warren also appears twice more further down the chart. The aforementioned “Carry You Home” climbs to No. 20, while “Burning Down” finishes at No. 28.
Elsewhere, Roan scores this week’s highest new entry with “The Giver” landing at No. 2. The country-pop bop becomes her fourth U.K. top 10 single, and her first to debut inside the top 10 upon release.
Doechii’s “Anxiety” scales a new peak at No. 3, marking the rapper’s highest charting single in the U.K. to date. Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” follows at No. 4, while Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” rounds out the top five. Other notable appearances include alt-metal group Sleep Token, who celebrates its first-ever entry into the chart as “Emergence” hits No. 17. Following her first BRIT Awards win as a solo act, JADE’s “FUFN (F–k You for Now)” debuts at No. 25, while Ravyn Lenae’s breakout hit “Love Me Not’ earns a new peak of No. 26.
Balu Brigada’s first song on a Billboard chart is a No. 1, as “So Cold” rises to the top of the March 29-dated Alternative Airplay survey.
“So Cold” debuted on the list in October, marking the New Zealand act’s first appearance on any Billboard ranking.
Balu Brigada is signed to ARRO, an imprint co-founded by Twenty One Pilots’ Tyler Joseph and the Ohio duo’s manager, Chris Woltman, through a joint venture with Atlantic Records. Balu Brigada is currently opening for Twenty One Pilots on tour.
“So Cold” marks the third song to top Alternative Airplay in 2025 by an act scoring a first No. 1 on the chart. It follows Justice and Tame Impala’s “Neverender” (the first ruler for both) earlier in March and Almost Monday’s “Can’t Slow Down” in February. Of those, Justice also led with its first Alternative Airplay entry, like Balu Brigada.
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That said, since Justice had made multiple Billboard lists prior to the success of “Neverender,” Balu Brigada is the first act to hit No. 1 on Alternative Airplay with a first charted song overall since Dexter and the Moonrocks, whose “Sad in Carolina” led for eight weeks beginning in December.
Concurrently, “So Cold” bullets at No. 9, after reaching No. 7, on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.2 million audience impressions earned in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate.
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“So Cold” is currently a stand-alone single. Balu Brigada released another track, “The Question,” earlier this year.
All Billboard charts dated March 29 will update Tuesday, March 25, on Billboard.com.
Morgan Wallen rolls up his 19th top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as “I’m the Problem” rises two spots to No. 9 on the tally dated March 29. It gained by 7% to 19 million audience impressions March 14-20, according to Luminate. The song follows “Love Somebody,” which became Wallen’s 16th Country Airplay No. […]
Sabrina Carpenter claims her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Bed Chem” cozies up to the top spot on the radio ranking dated March 20.
The song, released on Island Records and promoted to radio by REPUBLIC, follows Carpenter’s “Taste,” which ruled Pop Airplay for six weeks in December-January; “Please Please Please” (two weeks, September); “Espresso” (three weeks, July); and “Feather” (one week, April).
With “Bed Chem,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” all from Carpenter’s 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, the set becomes the first to spin off at least four Pop Airplay No. 1s in nearly a decade — since Taylor Swift’s 1989 generated five in 2014-15. (Carpenter opened for 25 dates on Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023-24.)
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Since the Pop Airplay chart originated in 1992, a select five albums have yielded four or more No. 1 singles each. Here’s a recap.
Albums With 4 or More No. 1s on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart:
Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet, four: “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” “Taste,” “Bed Chem” (2024-25)
Taylor Swift, 1989, five: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar), “Wildest Dreams” (2014-15)
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream, six: “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “The One That Got Away” (2010-12) (*The album’s The Complete Confection reissue generated an additional No. 1, “Wide Awake.”)
Lady Gaga, The Fame, four: “Just Dance” (feat. Colby O’Donis), “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” “Paparazzi” (2009)
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds, four: “SexyBack,” “My Love” (feat. T.I.), “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” “Summer Love” (2006-07)
“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons,” Carpenter mused to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe ahead of the album’s release. “It was not because I’m vertically challenged [“5 feet, to be exact,” she confirms in “Taste”]. It was really, like, I thought about some of [my] relationships, and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had, and they affected me the most.”
Meanwhile, Carpenter has collected all her Pop Airplay No. 1s in her five most recent trips up the chart. She links the longest streak of leaders since Swift’s five from 1989 in 2014-15. The longest uninterrupted runs of No. 1s — six each — belong to Katy Perry with her haul from Teenage Dream, and Lady Gaga, whose four from The Fame were followed by two in 2010: “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé).
The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
All charts dated March 29 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 25.
Playboi Carti has landed his first-ever No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with Music, the rapper’s third studio album and most ambitious release to date.
The 30-track project not only marks his first chart-topper in Australia, but also his first entry into the ARIA top 10, following previous peaks at No. 49 with Die Lit (2018) and No. 15 with Whole Lotta Red (2020).
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Music features an all-star lineup of guest collaborators, including Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Future, Young Thug, and Jhené Aiko, adding to the hype that’s surrounded the long-anticipated release.
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Over on the Singles Chart, Doechii rises to No. 1 with “Anxiety,” marking her first-ever chart-topper in Australia. The viral hit samples Gotye and Kimbra’s 2011 smash “Somebody That I Used To Know,” which itself spent eight weeks at No. 1. Doechii also places at No. 23 with “Denial Is A River,” and is featured on Sleepy Hallow’s version of “A N X I E T Y,” currently at No. 41.
Australian singer-songwriter Mia Wray makes an impressive debut, landing at No. 26 on the albums chart with her first full-length release Hi, It’s Nice To Meet Me.
The Melbourne-based artist, who won the People’s Choice Award in the 2012 Telstra Road To Discovery program, has previously toured with acts like Vance Joy, The Rubens, The Teskey Brothers, and Maisie Peters.
Elsewhere on the Singles Chart, Alex Warren jumps into the top 5 for the first time as “Ordinary” rockets up the chart. Chappell Roan also continues her breakout run with “The Giver,” debuting strong, while her earlier single “Pink Pony Club” hits a new peak this week.