Ye (previously often called Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s joint venture Vultures 1 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 24), giving Ye his eleventh chief and Ty his first. The set earned 148,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 15, in accordance with Luminate, following its launch on Feb. 10.
Plus, Usher scores his highest charting album on the Billboard 200 in over a decade, as his newest studio launch Coming House bows at No. 2 with 91,000 models earned.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Feb. 24, 2024-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Feb. 21, in the future later than regular, owed to the Presidents’ Day vacation within the U.S. on Feb. 19. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often called Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Vultures 1’s 148,000 models earned within the monitoring week ending Feb. 15, SEA models comprise 129,000 (equaling 167.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album gross sales comprise 18,000 and TEA models comprise 1,000.
Vultures 1 was solely initially out there through streaming providers and as a digital obtain album for buy. The unique 16-track set was out there via all main streamers, and bought via main digital retailers, in addition to Ye’s personal official webstore. Bodily variations of the album on CD and vinyl are anticipated to be launched at a later date, and Ye’s retailer is accepting pre-orders for each presently. The set’s first-week gross sales have been boosted by aggressive sale pricing.
The album boasts appearances from collaborators Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chris Brown, although none are given billed artist credit score on the tracklist. Ye’s 10-year-old daughter North additionally contributes vocals to the set’s “Speaking.”
Vultures 1 is the primary studio album for each Ye and Ty launched outdoors of the key label system, and arrived on Feb. 10 through Ye’s personal label YZY after quite a lot of delays (it was initially slated for launch final October). Vultures 1 is Ye’s first album since his string of hate speech and antisemitic remarks, which resulted in corporations like Adidas and Def Jam Recordings distancing themselves from Ye. (Def Jam launched all of Ye’s earlier studio albums, together with his final broadly launched album, 2021’s Donda.)
Vultures 1 was issued on Feb. 10 and had a bumpy first-week within the market. Its preliminary impartial distributor, FUGA, took down the venture on Feb. 15. The set then discovered a house with one other indie, Label Engine (a part of Create Music Group), that identical day.
In the meantime, one in all tracks initially included on the Vultures 1 — “Good (Don’t Die)” — was faraway from the streaming version of the album on Feb. 14 on Spotify, after which different streamers and digital retailers on Feb. 15. The music seems to interpolate parts of Donna Summer time’s 1977 single “I Really feel Love,” which Summer time’s property claimed West used with out permission and alleged “copyright infringement.” On Feb. 15, with “Good” faraway from the album’s tracklist, the album was not purchasable in digital retailers just like the iTunes Retailer and Amazon. (It was, nonetheless, nonetheless in the stores, with “Good” intact, via Ye’s official webstore.)
Ye ties Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand with 11 No. 1s every. Forward of them are solely The Beatles (a document 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z (14), Drake and Taylor Swift (every with 13). Vultures 1 is Ye’s eleventh consecutive charting album to debut at No. 1, essentially the most of any artist. (General, Jay-Z has essentially the most debuts at No. 1, with 14, however they weren’t consecutive.)
For Ty, Vultures 1 brings him his first chief and second prime 10-charting effort. He’s logged a complete of eight entries on the listing, going as excessive as No. 4 in 2020 with That includes Ty Dolla $ign.
Vultures 1 was preceded by the only “Vultures,” that includes Bump J, which reached No. 38 on the Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in December.
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Usher achieves his highest-charting album in over a decade, as his new studio set Coming House begins within the runner-up slot. The album was launched on Feb. 9 and earned 91,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 15. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 53,000, SEA models comprise 34,500 (equaling 45.82 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA models comprise 3,500.
Coming House’s launch date was introduced final September, sizzling on the heels of stories that Usher would headline the 2024 Tremendous Bowl halftime present on Feb. 11.
The 2024 Tremendous Bowlitself was the most-watched broadcast in American TV historical past, with 123.4 million viewers throughout CBS and the sport’s simulcasts throughout Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount+ and different digital platforms. Usher didn’t carry out any materials from the brand new album in the course of the halftime present, focusing as an alternative on acquainted favorites from the previous, reminiscent of “My Boo” (with Alicia Keys), “U Received It Dangerous” (with H.E.R.) “OMG” (with will.i.am) and the show-closing “Yeah!” (with Lil Jon and Ludacris).
Coming House marks Usher’s ninth prime 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 and his highest-ranking set since Trying 4 Myself debuted at No. 1 in June of 2012. He then charted with Exhausting II Love (No. 5 in 2016) and the collaborative set A with Zaytoven (No. 31 in 2018).
Coming House is Usher’s first independently distributed album after a profession with majors BMG and Sony (via the labels LaFace, Arista and RCA). The brand new venture was launched through mega (Usher’s personal firm in partnership with L.A. Reid) and Gamma (helmed by Larry Jackson), and distributed by Vydia (a part of the Gamma group).
Coming House was out there to buy in its first week as an ordinary digital obtain, an ordinary CD, 5 completely different vinyl variants, two deluxe boxed units and a deluxe digital album with a bonus monitor and different cowl artwork. The latter was promoted as a SKIMS unique (alongside Usher’s new starring function in a SKIMS marketing campaign) and bought for a restricted time through SKIMS’ official retailer and Usher’s personal webstore. Like Vultures 1, the Coming House digital album was deeply discounted throughout its first week.
Coming House was preceded by the only “Good Good,” with Summer time Walker and 21 Savage. The monitor peaked at No. 25 on the all-genre Billboard Scorching 100 in November, marking Usher’s first prime 40 since 2017, and highest-charting monitor since 2015, when “I Don’t Thoughts,” that includes Juicy J, reached No. 11.
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 5-3 on the Billboard 200, matching its peak rank, spurred by the discharge of its new deluxe version. Stick Season surges with 85,000 equal album models earned (up 74% — its finest week but by models earned), following the bow of a deluxe version of the album on Feb. 9 with 9 extra tracks. That deluxe iteration is dubbed Stick Season (Ceaselessly) and added collaborations with Put up Malone, Kacey Musgraves and others. The unique Stick Season album debuted in 2022 with 14 tracks, was deluxed final June with a further seven tracks (which prompted its soar from No. 100 to No. 3), after which deluxed once more on Feb. 9 with 9 extra tracks. All variations of the album are mixed for monitoring and charting functions.
The remainder of the highest 10 on the brand new Billboard 200 is comprised of former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time falls 2-4 (64,000 equal album models earned; down 1%); SZA’s SOS dips 3-5 (51,000; down 4%); Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) rises 8-6 (50,000; up 3%); Swift’s Lover strikes 9-7 (48,000; up 7%); Swift’s Midnights falls 5-8 (46,000; down 9%); Toby Keith’s 35 Greatest Hits tumbles 1-9 (46,000; down 31%); and Drake’s For All of the Canines descends 6-10 (45,000; down 8%).
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