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 revealed 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 a fair 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 think about 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 an alternative of the standard Friday. As well as, it was met with a number of hiccups on streaming companies due to a discrepancy with its preliminary distributor, FUGA.
The album was quickly faraway from streaming companies 5 days after its launch as a consequence of a grievance from FUGA.
“On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA consumer delivered the album Vultures 1 by means of the platform’s automated processes, violating our service settlement,” the corporate mentioned. “Due to this fact, FUGA is actively working with its DSP companions and the consumer to take away Vultures 1 from our techniques.”
The album was rapidly reinstated on streaming platforms after Kanye and Ty discovered one other distributor, Label Engine, who had beforehand launched the singles “Vultures” and “Speaking/As soon as Once more.”
Regardless of the problems, Vultures 1 debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 148,000 album-equivalent items.
Kanye is now stage 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 prime 10 following 2020’s That includes Ty Dolla $ign.
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Ye reacted to the information by issuing a quick assertion to Advanced saying: “It’s an exquisite time.”
Launched on February 10, Vultures 1 boasts uncredited appearances from Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, Lil Durk, Chris Brown, Freddie Gibbs, YG, Quavo, Wealthy The Child and others.
Bodily 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.
