Cyrus Langhorne
Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West is out here proving a little controversy sells. The hip-hop veteran’s new Ye album has reportedly sold well over 200,000 copies in its opening week.
Based on reports, the Yeezy album has secured a chart-topping debut after seven days of availability.
Kanye West zooms to #1 on this week’s HITS Top 50 chart with his seven-song Ye (G.O.O.D./Def Jam), scoring 210k+ all in. Republic’s Post Malone falls just short of another six-figure week with 99k, good for #2 for the platinum beerbongs and bentleys. (HITS Daily Double)
This week, Kanye quietly updated a lyric off his “I Thought About Killing You” song.
On ‘I Thought About Killing You’, there is a new line that can be heard on the last verse of the song. After “If I wasn’t shinin’ so hard, wouldn’t be no shade,” the rapper now rhymes, “Sorry but I chose not to be no slave.” Interestingly, this change has only appeared on the clean version of the song on almost all platforms — the dirty version of the song still doesn’t feature the line. (Hip Hop N More)
Earlier in the week, reports emerged about the 7-track project doing ridiculous numbers on various streaming giants.
Kanye West’s album, “Ye,” is already crushing numbers … and it’s only been available for a few days. Numbers for the 7-song project are astounding — Kanye’s filled the top 7 song spots on both Spotify and Apple Music — and the album’s already accumulated over 100 million streams total.
To add to those stats …
— #1 iTunes Album in 63 countries.
— #1 Spotify global peak position.
— #1 Apple Music album in 83 countries. (TMZ)
On Saturday, Kanye went to Twitter to give fans an opportunity to create their own version of his album cover and also show love to day one supporters.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1003046107125968896
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1003055635317993472
