Kanye West finally released The Life Of Pablo to non-Tidal streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify last week, and it’s been a huge hit - so huge, in fact, that it’s on track to become the first album to top the chart with virtually zero sales. In America, The Life of Pablo debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming Kanyes seventh consecutive number one album on the chart and the first album to reach the top spot primarily. Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is the first album to top the Billboard charts with the majority of its 'sales' derived from streaming, an achievement you can chalk up to the album's unorthodox. Now we may be on the verge of an even crazier statistical phenomenon. Overnight Celebrity TWISTA (ATLANTIC) Freek-A-Leek PETEY PABLO (JIVE).
Thanks to TEA and SEA, that week’s actual bestselling album, Hymns by Christian country duo Joey + Rory, was stuck way down at #4 on the chart behind ANTI plus Adele’s 25 and Justin Bieber’s Purpose. Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo has set a new album chart record. USHER lARISTA) All Falls Down KANYE WEST (ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM/IDJMGI Game Over. Until recently, the new rules affected only minor adjustments in the chart rankings, but last month Rihanna saw ANTI become the lowest-selling #1 album in history, with 17,000 in sales bolstered by 37,000 equivalent units.
Artists are now awarded the equivalent of one album sale for every 10 track purchases (track equivalent albums aka TEA) or every 1,500 track streams (streaming equivalent albums aka SEA). While most Yeezy fans are aware that Kanye was influenced by at least one Pablo on TLOP, this new revelation explains that Kanye sees himself as a student of all three menthe Escobar of the.
So, controversially, in late 2014, Billboard adjusted the tabulation system for its primary albums chart, the Billboard 200, to account for streaming data in addition to sales. Despite its unconventional route to the top of the Billboard 200, The Life of Pablo marks West's seventh consecutive Number One album, following Late Registration, Graduation, 808s & Heartbreak. With streaming on the rise and album sales on the decline, simply counting up the number of albums sold every week no longer seems like an accurate way to measure the most popular albums in America. UPDATE: Billboard confirms that The Life Of Pablo will debut at 1 on the Billboard 200.