Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ debuts at No. 1 with 2021’s greatest first-week numbers

By IANS

NEW YORK: Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ has grow to be his tenth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200.

The huge 27-track effort topped the chart with the most important gross sales week of any album this yr, incomes 309,000 equal album items for the week ending September 2, based on Billboard.

These numbers embody 357.4 million on-demand streams and 37,000 in pure gross sales. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ beforehand held the file for the charting week ending June 5 with 295,000 equal album items. Kanye’s newest providing additionally earned the most important streaming week of the yr for an album, surpassing J. Cole’s ‘The Off-Season’, which earned 325.05 million on-demand streams throughout its May debut week.

Kanye’s tenth No. 1 album makes him the primary artiste who debuted this century to attain, properly, 10 No. 1 albums.

It additionally makes him the seventh artiste in historical past to have 10 chart-topping albums. The Beatles have probably the most with 19, Jay-Z is not too far behind with 14, and Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Streisand, Eminem, and Elvis Presley even have 10 or extra. Drake and Taylor Swift each have 9, with Drizzy anticipated to match Kanye’s accomplishment with ‘Certified Lover Boy’, because it’s projected to chart subsequent week with 575,000-625,000 album-equivalent items as talked about in Complex.com.