Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign noticed seven figures in income from Vultures 1 in simply its first week.
Billboard did a numbers breakdown in a chunk printed on Wednesday (February 21). As beforehand reported, the album was launched independently by means of the distribution firm Label Engine, which advertises that purchasers get 82.5 p.c of income. With artists of this stature, it’s seemingly they labored out an excellent larger quantity within the realm of 95 p.c.
With that mentioned, Vultures 1 did 169 million on-demand streams in week one, which equates to round $892,000; plus roughly $145,000 from precise gross sales. This doesn’t even consider world streams and publishing. So the journal estimates the pair have generated nicely over 1,000,000 {dollars} already.
What’s extra spectacular is that the album didn’t also have a full week to do these numbers, because it arrived on a Saturday as a substitute of the standard Friday. In addition, it was met with a number of hiccups on streaming providers due to a discrepancy with its preliminary distributor, FUGA.
The album was briefly faraway from streaming providers 5 days after its launch because of a criticism from FUGA.
“On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement,” the corporate mentioned. “Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.”
The album was shortly reinstated on streaming platforms after Kanye and Ty discovered one other distributor, Label Engine, who had beforehand launched the singles “Vultures” and “Talking/Once Again.”
No matter the problems, Vultures 1 debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 148,000 album-equivalent models.
Kanye is now degree with Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand with 11 No. 1 albums to his title, with solely Drake and Taylor Swift (13), JAY-Z (14) and The Beatles (19) forward of him.
The album is Ty Dolla $ign’s first No. 1 and second high 10 following 2020’s Featuring Ty Dolla $ign.
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Ye reacted to the information by issuing a quick assertion to Complex saying: “It’s a beautiful time.”
Released on February 10, Vultures 1 boasts uncredited appearances from Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Lil Durk, Chris Brown, Freddie Gibbs, YG, Quavo, Rich The Kid and others.
Physical variations of the album on CD and vinyl are set to be launched at a later level, with Ye’s retailer presently accepting pre-orders.
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