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Sabrina Carpenter vs. Travis Scott Round II: Will ‘Days Before Rodeo’ Lasso the No. 1 This Time?

With the vinyl shipping for Travis Scott's 'Days Before Rodeo' rerelease, it again challenges Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short n Sweet' for the No. 1 album.

The set should continue to slide in its fourth week, but only slowly – the album still holds four of the top 10 spots on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs USA chart and three on the Apple Music real-time update, with fan favorite “Bed Chem” slowly rising towards the territory of the set’s top-charting trio: “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste.” SnS may also benefit some from Carpenter’s well-received debut performance on the VMAs mainstage last Wednesday (Sept. 11), where she played a medley of those three hits (and made out with an alien), while also picking up the song of the year Moonperson for “Espresso.” 106 on the Billboard 200, and the rapper already pulled out many of the stops with the digital reissue of his beloved 2014 mixtape during its first week of re-release, he had not yet pushed the button on shipping out any vinyl copies of the album. Though the streaming presence of Days Before Rodeo is fairly minimal compared to the album-wide dominance of Short n’ Sweet, that sales advantage might be massive enough – with Scott’s fanbase long proven to be willing to shell out for his physical releases – to get it back in the hunt on the Billboard 200 this week, and very possibly over the top for the first time.

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