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    Travis Scott Has No. 1 Album, After Close Loss to Sabrina Carpenter

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    The “Days Before Rodeo” rerelease is the rapper’s fourth title to reach the top.Three weeks ago, a photo finish on the Billboard album chart saw Sabrina Carpenter edge out Travis Scott by a margin of less than a thousand copies. Now — after challenging those results — Scott has finally snagged No. 1, thanks to vinyl sales.After opening at No. 2, Scott’s mixtape “Days Before Rodeo,” which came out in 2014 and was rereleased last month for its 10th anniversary, slipped down the Billboard 200 chart in successive weeks, falling all the way to No. 106 last week. Now it leaps to No. 1, becoming the Houston rapper’s fourth title to reach the top. It had the equivalent of 156,000 sales in the United States, 149,000 of them from shipments of vinyl LPs that fans had ordered on Scott’s website. After a month in wide release, the album’s streams were minimal, just eight million for the week.But the victory was hard fought by Scott. After Billboard certified a victory for Carpenter, who had released her “Short n’ Sweet” on the same day as “Days Before Rodeo,” the rapper’s team revealed that they had sent a four-page letter in the days before the chart — which would credit Carpenter with 362,000 sales and Scott with 361,000, in rounded numbers — was finalized. The letter called the chart process “unreliable and incomplete.”The letter also complained that Billboard and Luminate, its data partner, had not counted 1,291 copies sold in the final minutes of the tracking week; in such a tight race, those sales would have tipped the scales in Scott’s favor. Luminate defended the accuracy of its numbers, and the chart was not changed. Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” held the top spot for three straight weeks and now falls to No. 2, with the equivalent of 108,000 sales.Also this week, Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” holds at No. 3, Post Malone’s “F-1 Trillion” is No. 4 and Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” is No. 5. More

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      Sabrina Carpenter Beats Travis Scott to No. 1 by a Hair

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      The pop singer and songwriter’s “Short n’ Sweet” debuts atop the Billboard 200 with the equivalent of 362,000, the third-best opening of the year.In an extraordinarily close contest on this week’s Billboard album chart that left the music industry biting its collective nails with anticipation over the holiday weekend, the pop singer Sabrina Carpenter triumphed over the veteran rapper Travis Scott to clinch the No. 1 spot — but just barely.Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet,” her sixth studio LP, featuring infectious tracks like “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste” that have dominated streaming and radio playlists this year, opens at the top with the equivalent of 362,000 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate. That is the third-best opening week of the year, behind only Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, and it is Carpenter’s first time at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.But Carpenter, who released “Short n’ Sweet” on Aug. 23, came close to losing her big moment to a 10-year-old mixtape by Scott, “Days Before Rodeo,” which was rereleased on the same day. Scott’s album was credited with 361,000 sales — meaning the race came down to a margin of only about 1,000 copies, give or take a few. (Luminate’s publicly announced numbers are rounded.)Carpenter, 25, who began her career as a Disney Channel actress, has been releasing music for a decade. But she has been a major pop contender only for the last couple of years, with a string of bubbly and smart singles, like “Feather,” that have been pop-culture bulls-eyes; this year and last, she also performed as an opening act for a number of dates on Swift’s Eras Tour. She was widely expected to open on the chart with a big splash — until the rerelease announcement a few days earlier by Scott, who in addition to his popularity as a rapper is a master direct-to-consumer marketer.Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” garnered 233 million streams in the United States. According to the formula that Billboard uses to reconcile streams with album sales, that means that clicks on streaming services gave her the equivalent of 176,000 album sales, nearly half Carpenter’s total for the week. She also sold 184,000 copies of the LP as a complete package.Scott’s “Days Before Rodeo,” revisited almost exactly 10 years from its initial release, had never been released commercially before, nor had it been widely available on all streaming services, according to Billboard. Yet streaming ended up being a relatively small part of its total consumption, with about 41 million clicks, equivalent to about 30,000 album sales.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More