Sadly, Ty Dolla $ign is wrong when he suggests that Vultures 2 is the best record in the nation.
The California crooner is seen performing at a club in a video that went viral on social media on Monday, August 12, as he celebrates what he believed to be his second collaborative album with Kanye West topping the charts.
He addresses the audience, saying, “Man, this is the best motherfucking album ever,” before launching into “Promotion,” a Future song from Vultures 2.
The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift, which has now spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, exactly where the project originally started.
Online users made fun of Ty Dolla for the error, writing things like, “Old head saw himself #1 on Apple Music and thought it was billboard.”
“[But they went #1 in bulgaria and fucking turkmenistan so its ok,” another person remarked.
Kanye West’s run of 11 straight number one albums came to an end when Vultures 2 failed to debut at the top of the Billboard 200.
With 107,000 equivalent units sold in its first week, The College Dropout officially became Kanye West’s first album to not peak at number one on the list since his 2004 debut.
His 2018 collaboration with Kid Cudi, Kids See Ghosts, was not signed to Kanye; instead, it was credited to the pair of the same name. The album had previously fallen short of the number one spot.
Although Cruel Summer (2012) also made its debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, it is not considered a Kanye album because it was promoted as a compilation of G.O.O.D. music.
Even if Vultures 2 didn’t have a number one debut, it nevertheless sold far more than anticipated.
The much-delayed project witnessed a late surge of streams and purchases in the second half of the week as Ye and Ty continued to make revisions to the album and released separate digitial deluxe editions with different bonus songs. Originally, it was projected that the project would earn about 68,000 first-week units.
In contrast, Vultures 1 debuted at No. 1 with 148,000 first-week units in February. The song “Carnival,” which features Playboi Carti and Rich The Kid, also peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Kanye would have risen to joint fourth place all-time on the list of musicians with the most number one albums on the Billboard 200 if Vultures 2 had achieved the same level of success as the first collaborative endeavor.
At the moment, The Beatles lead with 19, followed closely by Drake with 13, JAY-Z and Swift with 14, and The Beatles with 19.
