No matter how you feel about him, whether he is MAGA or not, Kanye West will be remembered as an acclaimed artist. Mr West dropped his very anticipated album ‘YE’ a week ago. As of today, it has become his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and is the fifth-largest week for an album in 2018. With so much backlash that he has taken just within the last month, it is impressive to see his album do so well. However, we cant expect Ye to be surprised.
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Before getting into the larger details, for those who do not know the billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).In other how many times your song is being played and purchased. Well with Kanye achieving his eighth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, he tied Eminem for the second-most No. 1 albums among hip-hop acts in the history of the chart. Huge company, the only person that is in the lead is big brother, HOV (14). However, even more impressive is the fact that he did it 8 times in a row. Every album expect for his first one college dropout. This record ties The Beatles (1965-68) and Eminem (2000,-2018 still active) as the only acts to pump out eight straight No. 1 albums.