Taylor Swift'S The Tormented Poets Division has earned its 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making Kanye West — who now goes by “Ye” — and Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures 2 from a chart-topping debut.
Billboard reported on Sunday that Swift's TTPD moved 142,000 equal album items within the U.S. final week. The outlet notes that Morgan Wallen's One factor at a time was the final album to high the chart for 14 weeks, finally spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at primary over the course of a 12 months. Earlier than that, Adele's 21 spent 24 non-consecutive weeks at number one between 2011 and 2012.
Swift, 34, and Ye, 47, have a long-standing and well-documented public feud.
Again in February — the rapper pleaded with Swift's followers that he’s “not an enemy,” whereas the Swifties began a social media motion to assist him Beyoncé'Texas Maintain 'Em' in an try to stop West's songs from reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart. On the time, West was selling the discharge of Vultures 1, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart.
“Final 12 months was extremely difficult for me, my spouse, my youngsters, family and friends. I used to be banned from inns, thrown out of companies and even banned from consuming in some eating places. Everybody noticed Vultures 1 being deplatformed to restrict our numbers within the first week. This jogs my memory of the mistreatment of my folks due to the colour of our pores and skin,” West wrote in a since-deleted Instagram publish on the time.
He continued: “Do you keep in mind after I was on Taylor's aspect when Scooter [Braun] purchased her masters behind her again. She and Beyoncé are large inspirations to all musicians. We at all times say they each have offered out excursions and flicks. And I do know for a incontrovertible fact that I’ve helped Taylor Swift's profession greater than I’ve harm it. To all of the Taylor Swift followers on the market, I’m not your enemy. Uh, I’m not your pal both LOL.”
The difficult dynamic between West and Swift dates again to 2009, when the rapper rose to fame when he stormed the stage and interrupted her speech of thanks through the MTV Video Music Awards to honor Beyoncé.
West and Swift seemingly reconciled in 2015 when the pop star offered him with an award, however their relationship soured once more the next 12 months when West talked about her in his music “Well-known.” Swift subsequently publicly objected to his lyrics about her and West's then-wife, Kim Kardashiana secretly recorded cellphone name between the artists was leaked.
Swift launched a fiery revenge monitor in 2017, “Look What You Made Me Do,” from her Status album. In December 2023, she known as the incident a “utterly fabricated body job” in an interview with Time.
In April, the “Karma” singer appeared to take goal at Kardashian once more together with her TTPD music, “thanK you aIMee.”
Swift will conclude the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour in London with 5 nights at Wembley Stadium, beginning on August 15. It will likely be her first present since a thwarted terrorist assault led to the cancellation of her deliberate performances in Vienna, Austria, earlier this month.
She is going to return to the stage on October 18 to kick off a brand new North American leg on the Exhausting Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
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