After countless delays, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign finally dropped their album Vultures 1 and made quite a splash on the Billboard 200 chart. The hip-hop duo’s joint album hit No. 1 during its first week, becoming West’s eleventh chart-topping album and Ty Dolla $ign’s first.
Vultures 1 earned 148,000 album equivalent units during its first week on the chart, including 129,000 SEA units (equaling 167.78 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), plus 18,000 in album sales and 1,000 in TEA units.
These numbers are pretty impressive considering the album’s unorthodox rollout. Vultures 1 was released as a digital album and hit streaming services on February 10 through West’s YZY brand after several major delays. Its CD and vinyl versions are expected to be released at a later date.
The success of Vultures 1 was boosted by its star-studded tracklist, which featured a total of 16 songs, including collaborations with Freddie Gibbs, Quavo, Playboi Carti, Travis Scott, Lil Durk, and Chris Brown.
As for the rest of the Billboard 200 chart for this week, Usher scored his highest charting album in over a decade with Coming Home at No. 2. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbed to No. 3 following the release of a deluxe edition, ahead of former No. 1s Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time and SZA’s SOS.
