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.

Playboi Carti showed some love to Kim Kardashian‘s Skims on his new Music album, and the shapewear brand shout-out made it onto the reality mogul's radar. Kardashian returned the favor by reposting Carti's "Fine Sh–" lyrics to her Instagram Story on Monday (March 17).

After one more slight delay early Friday morning, Playboi Carti finally dropped his new album. The LP is called Music, though the cover art sports what was thought to be the original title, I Am Music.

Playboi Carti brought out the Weeknd, Skepta and others to perform with him during his headlining set closing out the Rolling Loud California festival.

Playboi Carti explosively shut down the final night of Rolling Loud on Sunday (March 16), bringing out The Weeknd for a jaw-dropping closing set. Following the blockbuster release of his highly anticipated new album Music on Friday (March 14),

The two-day festival included performances from Sexyy Red, GELO, Dom Kennedy, Blxst, Destroy Lonely, and more.