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A Decade-Old Travis Scott Mixtape Nearly Bucked Sabrina Carpenter


How Short n’ Sweet just barely hit No. 1.

That plan would lead to one of the closest chart battles in years, which ended today with Short n’ Sweet claiming the top spot on the Billboard 200 by fewer than 1,000 album units. Since Scott wouldn’t be earning meaningful new streams for Days Before Rodeo — the tape has been available for free on SoundCloud for the past ten years — his numbers would depend on album sales. Scott sold Days Before Rodeo on vinyl too, but unlike Short n’ Sweet, his records haven’t been shipped to fans yet, and they won’t count on the charts until they do.

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