Kanye West‘s impressive streak of consecutive number one albums has been broken by none other than Taylor Swift after his and Ty Dolla $ign‘s Vultures 2 debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.

Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department returned to the highest spot on the chart for its 14th non-consecutive week on Sunday (August 11) after promoting 142,000 equal models over the previous week, bringing its whole to over 5.3 million.

Vultures 2 moved 107,000 equal models in its first week, per Billboard, and would have turn out to be Kanye’s twelfth consecutive primary album if it had landed in pole place.

It is technically the primary Kanye album to not debut atop the Billboard 200 since his landmark debut The College Dropout in 2004.

Kids See Ghosts, his 2018 joint effort with Kid Cudi, beforehand missed out on the highest spot however that album was credited to their duo of the identical title and didn’t bear Kanye West’s title.

2012’s Cruel Summer additionally debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 however that challenge additionally doesn’t rely as a Kanye album because it was billed as a G.O.O.D. Music compilation.

Taylor Swift has formally ended Kanye West’s streak of #1 albums on the Billboard 200.

All of his initiatives credited to ‘Kanye West’ since ‘Late Registration’ had debuted at #1. pic.twitter.com/jjvVhZhfx8

— chart knowledge (@chartdata) August 11, 2024

Despite lacking out on a primary debut, Vultures 2 nonetheless far outsold its preliminary projections.

The much-delayed challenge was initially anticipated to earn round 68,000 first-week models however noticed a late burst of streams and purchases within the second half of the week as Ye and Ty made continuous modifications to the album and rolled out numerous digitial deluxe editions that includes totally different bonus songs.

Comparatively, Vultures 1 topped the Bilboard 200 with 148,000 first-week models in February, with the Playboi Carti and Rich The Kid-assisted “Carnival” additionally reaching the highest spot on the Hot 100.

The tune marked two main milestones for the Chicago rap legend, making him the primary rapper in historical past to prime the Hot 100 in three totally different a long time (2000s, 2010s and 2020s), in addition to having the longest run of primary hits amongst rappers, a streak that dates again to 2004 with “Slow Jamz.”

If Vultures 2 had matched the success of the primary collaborative challenge, then Kanye would have moved as much as joint fourth all-time on the checklist of artists with most primary albums on the Billboard 200.

The Beatles are within the lead with 19, whereas Swift and JAY-Z each have 14 and Drake follows carefully behind with 13.

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Despite the relative industrial success of the Vultures albums, each initiatives are beneath risk of being faraway from streaming providers by Atlantic Records/, in line with Kanye West.

In a textual content message shared on social media final week, Ye’s supervisor John Monopoly wrote: “Co-head of Atlantic Julie Greenwald just called me. She just got fired. She said the new head is not going to give us a grace period to handle Atlantic’s compensation.

“She suggested that I let Too Lost and Create know that 40% of all revenue from V1 and V2 needs to be paid to Atlantic. She’s saying that if we don’t handle immediately Atlantic will issue take downs for both albums. Pls advise.”

Blasting the label, Kanye wrote over the screenshot: “This is what ‘they’ do to independent artists.”

While Vultures 1 and Vultures 2 have been each launched independently by way of Kanye’s YZY imprint, the dispute stems from Ty Dolla $ign being signed to Atlantic as a solo artist, that means they’ve rights to his work.

Both albums are nonetheless out there on Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL as of writing.