“Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste.

” The mixtape may also benefit from Carpenter’s performance on the VMAs main stage 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.

”If Carpenter thought she had vanquished Scott for good during their showdown for the top spot three weeks earlier – where she edged out Scott for No.

1 by a margin of under 1,000 units, one of the year’s closest races – she may have to think twice next week.

While Scott’s album has already fallen from No.

2 to No.

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.

That changes this week, as the vinyl edition of the mixtape has begun to ship to fans—both the vinyl LP (in its standard and deluxe version, with different packaging between the two) and its two deluxe vinyl boxed sets (one with a branded hoodie and an album, and one with a branded T-shirt and an album).

Though the streaming presence of the mixtape is fairly minimal compared to the album-wide dominance of Carpenter’s mixtape, 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.

Speaking of last week’s VMAs – they were led by MTV icon, who reassembled the Slim Shady Army from his classic 2000 performance of “The Real Slim Shady” for his show-opening performance of current hit “Houdini.

” That song’s parent album, his career-bookending mixtape, should see a small bump from that performance next week – but will be helped out even more by a new deluxe edition of the mixtape, which reached digital retailers and streamers on Friday, as well as the release of the album’s CD version, both in a wide general release, and as a D2C-exclusive version with an alternate album cover.

Always good to get a new LP from the country great, who has reached the Billboard 200’s top 10 with each of her last seven unaccompanied solo sets – most recently with the No.

4-charting album in 2021.

The album is available for sale on CD and vinyl, with signed copies also purchasable of both through her webstore.