It’s been a long journey for Playboi Carti to I Am Musi c after announcing the project in 2022. His last album, Whole Lotta Red, arrived on Christmas Day in 2020 and debuted atop the Billboard 200 for his first No. 1 album, which earned 100,000 equivalent album units.

Playboi Carti came to play with his new album Music. On Friday, the same day the rapper dropped his long-awaited third studio album, he also broke a Spotify record. The audio streaming giant shared on Saturday that Music became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 so far.

One of the most exciting musical figures in American pop culture at the moment has finally delivered his mission statement in album form, I AM MUSIC. Indeed, after years of edging fans, both with scrapped tour plans and (more recently) a shrewdly tradition-bucking release strategy for a string of well-received loosies ,