Ty Dolla $ign seemingly believes that Vultures 2 is the primary album within the nation — however he’s sadly mistaken.
In a video that surfaced on social media on Monday (August 12), the California crooner might be seen acting at a membership when he celebrates what he thought was his second joint album with Kanye West topping the charts.
“Primary motherfucking album, man,” he says to the gang earlier than diving into “Promotion,” the Vultures 2 monitor that includes Future.
The challenge really debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, which has now spent 14 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart.
Ty Dolla was mocked on-line for making the error, with one individual joking: “Previous head noticed himself #1 on Apple Music and thought it was billboard.”
One other mentioned: “[B]ut they went #1 in bulgaria and fucking turkmenistan so its okay.”
he thinks they received the #1 💀 pic.twitter.com/TUfeNF5quZ
— GoodAssSub (@GoodAssSub) August 13, 2024
Vultures 2 failing to prime the Billboard 200 ended Kanye West‘s streak of 11 consecutive primary albums.
The LP bought 107,000 equal items in its first week and technically grew to become West’s first album since his 2004 debut The School Dropout to not prime the chart.
Youngsters See Ghosts, his 2018 joint effort with Child 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’s title.
2012’s Merciless Summer time additionally debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 however that challenge additionally doesn’t depend as a Kanye album because it was billed as a G.O.O.D. Music compilation.
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Regardless of 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 items however noticed a late burst of streams and purchases within the second half of the week as Ye and Ty made continuous adjustments to the album and rolled out varied digitial deluxe editions that includes completely different bonus songs.
Comparatively, Vultures 1 debuted at No. 1 with 148,000 first-week items in February, with the Playboi Carti and Wealthy The Child-assisted “Carnival” additionally reaching the highest spot on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
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 listing of artists with most primary albums on the Billboard 200.
The Beatles are at the moment within the lead with 19, whereas Swift and JAY-Z each have 14 and Drake follows intently behind with 13.
