Kanye West‘s streak of 11 number one albums has ended, as his album Vultures 2 with Ty Dolla Sign debuted in the number two spot – as it was bested by Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department.
The latest release from Swift, 34, ended a long-running streak for West, 47, TMZ reported Sunday.
West, whose career has dipped amid a torrent of antisemitic remarks since the fall of 2022, sold an estimated 107,000 equivalent album units in its first week, Billboard reported Sunday.
The record was West’s 13th to occupy one of the top two spots on the chart in his career, Billboard reported.
Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department topped the chart this week with sales of 142,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. for the week ending August 8, Luminate reported.
The album has had the top spot for 14 weeks since its release this past April.
Prior to Swift, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time had spent 19 weeks (nonconsecutively) in a timeframe spanning March of 2023 to March of 2024.Â
The last female artist to achieve the feat with Adele’s hit album 21, which was in the top spot for 24 weeks (nonconsecutively) between 2011-2012.
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THE HIGHEST ALBUM SALES
For the week, The Tortured Poets Department led all album sales, while it trailed only Wallen’s One Thing at a Time on the Top Streaming Albums chart.
According to Billboard, Swift’s album sales were elevated by multiple promotional drivers including a series of five digital album variations that Swift sold for a brief time online.
The variations included the record’s 16 songs with single bonus tracks available for $4.99 apiece.
The tracks included a ‘first draft phone memo’ for Swift’s My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, and four live tracks from The Eras Tour.
