Travis Scott for Days Before Rodeo (Courtesy of Epic Records)
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Today, Daily Hits Double reported that less than 1,000 equivalent album units separate Sabrina Carpenter’s sophomore adult effort, Short n’ Sweet album, from rapper Travis Scott’s hot re-release, Days Before Rodeo, from the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart. Amid this summer battle, Carpenter narrowly won the Billboard top spot, but find out if Scott went No. 1 on this week’s Trending Tracks chart!
Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
The summer of 2024 undoubtedly belongs to Miss Carpenter, the blonde blondeshell who seemingly transformed from Disney star to sex siren overnight. Well, really, it’s been a decade. Her self-proclaimed sophomore album, Short n’ Sweet, succeeds 2022’s emails I can’t send… in more than one way! From first-day streams, SNS nearly doubled emails, accumulating nearly 60 million streams on Spotify alone.
Although summer smash hits like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” are basically its heavy-hitting passive revenue of success, album tracks like the mellow “Bed Chem,” ABBA-influenced “Good Graces,” and the Jenna Ortega cameo in the “Taste” music video offer the SNS experience the right amount of mouth-watering freshness to clutch the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with 362,000 equivalent album units. Stream “Good Graces” by Sabrina Carpenter—off her new record, Short n’ Sweet—below!
Days Before Rodeo by Travis Scott
To celebrate ten years of his second mixtape, Houston-born rapper Travis Scott re-releases Days Before Rodeo, packaged as an anniversary edition with exclusive vault tracks and live performances. The original 2014 record featured collaborations with The 1975, Big Sean, Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug and more.
In anticipation of Scott’s upcoming South American and Australian leg of his Utopia—Circus Maximus Tour—he released archival footage of himself, Future, Metro Boomin and Thugger from the DBR era. Scott narrowly lost the No.1 spot atop the Billboard 200 chart, with 361k equivalent album units—the year’s fourth-largest debut and biggest week for any rap album. Stream “Drugs You Should Try It” by Travis Scott—the DBR fan favorite track just received a music video after a decade of release.
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