After years of teasing ‘MUSIC’ with multiple snippets and countless rumored release dates, when Playboi Carti finally dropped his third studio album, the seismic impact was felt worldwide. Although for a minute or two it looked like fans reached their saturation points and they would give up any second, Carti’s chart reputation with ‘MUSIC’ completely said otherwise. However, even with the ball in his court, the rapper recently fell a leg short of the top spot on a US chart to another icon aiming for the stars.

In fact, following weeks of chart battle for the best, Carti’s crown has been snatched, and that too, by a name the fans know all too well.

According to Hits Double Daily’s final US Albums chart update, despite Playboi Carti’s making a home out of the charts with ‘MUSIC’ aka ‘I AM MUSIC,’ the rapper could not clinch the leading spot. Instead, Ariana Grande summoned the musical nightmare for Carti, by leaping to the forefront with ‘eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead’ with 137K units sold. Carti’s album stands at #2 with 92k units sold.

NAV’s ‘OMW2 REXDALE’ (83K) ranks 3rd followed by Lil Durk’s ‘Deep Thoughts’ (65K) and PartyNextDoor & Drake’s ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ (59K) on 4th and 5th, respectively. SZA’s ‘SOS’ (57K) and Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ (57K) follows next on positions 6th and 7th with Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ (50K) ranked at 8th. Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing At a Time,’ (46K) and Bad Bunny’s ‘Debi Tirar Mas Fotos,’ (45K) round out the Top 10 albums US chart.

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Although Ariana Grande and Playboi Carti were vying for the zenith for weeks, it comes hot on the heels of the latter’s endorsement of the Wicked actress.

Whenever two artists engage in a fierce competition for the top spot, some inevitable bad blood is spilled. Although Ariana Grande’s cinematic leap almost had fans convinced she was giving up on performing for good, ‘eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead,’ turned the tables on all such speculation once and for all. However, amidst the cutthroat contest for supremacy, Carti took the world aback with a gesture of sportsmanship, championing the Oscar-nominee publicly.

Carti recently shared Grande’s photoshoot from ‘eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead’ on his Instagram story, leaving fans and critics in a surprise. While chart battles never really go down this sweet and gracious, especially when both have been engaged in a fierce rivalry for the apex, Carti’s gesture stood out, making even this loss look not so defeating.

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