Taylor Swift ends Kanye’s streak of #1 albums

[queenursula]

Kanye West’s streak of 11 consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 has been ended after debuting behind Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department.’ pic.twitter.com/W2l84PRedy
- Pop Base (@PopBase) August 11, 2024

Kanye’s new album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 behind Taylor’s after 11 consecutive #1 albums.

How does your brand new album get

Comments

[inkstainedlips]

Normally I find her chart obsession annoying, but I'll allow this, Kanye is a vile person.

[screamingintune]

on one hand, Kanye is vile, on the other hand, she rush-released new variants this week mere hours after canceling her show because of a terrorism plot in an effort to block Kanye, so

[slaughtermatic]

so...?

[screamingintune]

so we can hate them both? obviously Taylor is nowhere on the same level as Kanye but he releasing those variants hours later was tacky

[slaughtermatic]

the man is a antisemitic misogynistic, trump supporting piece of shit and you think this comment is even necessary? girl could release another hundred variants called fuck you kanye west edition and it wouldnt touch it, can yall give it a rest for a single sec.

[screamingintune]

I'm a multitasking hater, I can hate on big and small levels at the same time

like Kanye can be way worse and it can STILL be pretty gross that she had such tacky timing??

being irritated is not a zero-sum game

[slaughtermatic]

your brains got too much time if you can see anhthing about kanye and then go "but variants". we know about the variants, no one forcing her fans to buy them, no one forcing any of these artists to release 16 versions of the same record. I dont even know wherebyoure getting rushed from, these ones were planned for a while when we all knew kanyes shitty record was coming out. he politically backed a rapist and then tried to become him. lets give one hatred the respect it deserves and let her breathe a lil before we return to taylor for releasing a little over double the amount of physical variants billie did.

[screamingintune]

all right dude. I never said "rushed" but you obviously feel a lot more strongly about this than I do

my brains do got too much time. I'm on disability, so yeah, I got literally nothing but time and there's a pandemic out there so it's not like I can go out in the world. sorry that my one comment on this social media site got you this upset.

[mishey22]

You said she "rush-released" in your first comment on this thread

[arabian]

Thank you. So what if she's releasing variants. Ppl are buying them. 99.9% of artists today would do the same thing if they could. They wouldn't make the sales she does. Ppl are buying them.

[trowa]

our multi-tasking queen

[madhler]

Dear god. You’re talking about rushing a release “to block Kanye.” Can we talk about Kanye sexually harassing employees by forcing them to watch porn? Or Hiring and platforming white supremacists?? Professing his love for Hitler? Using his social media profiles to abuse his family members? This is just a partial list, by the way. I could definitely keep going.

[tube_fiend]

Plus this:
“Tortured” is at No. 1 with 142,000 equivalent album units earned as the first album since Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” to spend at least 14 weeks at the peak, per Luminate. “One Thing” previously hit a total of 19 total non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the span of a year.

Tbh, I find all these chart "records" and streaks to just be silly and random observations. Like who cares who is at number one the longest, or the most often, or the first in February? But if you can deliver some kind of word salad that implies she is making Kanye West and Morgan Wallen a little unhappier today - get it, girl. Make 'em seethe.