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 ,

After years of anticipation, and weeks of hype, Playboi Carti's third album "Music" finally arrived. It is the rapper's first album since "Whole Lotta Red" came out in 2020. In the world of hip hop, that's a pretty lengthy space between albums.