Ye & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 2’ Debuts at No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart

Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 has debuted triumphantly at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, dated Aug. 17. Initially slated for a March 8 release, the album arrived on Aug. 3 and racked up 107,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week spanning Aug. 2 to Aug. 8, according to Luminate.

Of those first-week totals, 60,500 units came from traditional album sales. This figure was notably bolstered by multiple versions of the album available in the market. Fans could choose from a standard explicit edition, a clean edition released later in the week, and five other explicit variants available exclusively on Ye’s official webstore. Each webstore edition, which included one exclusive studio bonus track per album, sold at $5, while the widely available editions were discounted to $4.99 on Apple’s iTunes Store. This strong sales performance also catapulted Vultures 2 to No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart.

Streaming activity contributed 46,000 units, equating to 59.4 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs, and helped the release debut at No. 6 on the Top Streaming Albums chart. Track-equivalent album activity made up the remaining 500 units. In industry terms, one unit represents one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from the album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.

With Vultures 2, Ye has now achieved his 12th No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, tying with R. Kelly for the fifth-highest number of chart-toppers since its inception in 1965. The Temptations lead with 19 No. 1 albums, followed by Drake and Future with 15 each, and Jay-Z with 14. Ye’s impressive streak began with his 2004 debut album, The College Dropout, with only his 2016 album, The Life of Pablo, peaking at No. 2.

Ty Dolla $ign also secured his second No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with Vultures 2, following the initial success of the first installment, Vultures 1, which dominated the chart for five consecutive weeks between February and March.

Additionally, Vultures 2 debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200. This marks the end of Ye’s remarkable streak of 11 consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200.

Nine tracks from Vultures 2 entered the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, led by “Field Trip” featuring Playboi Carti, Kodak Black, and Don Toliver at No. 10. The track was the album’s most-streamed song of the week, amassing 9.5 million official U.S. streams.

Here’s a full list of Vultures 2 tracks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart:

No. 10, “Field Trip,” featuring Playboi Carti, Kodak Black & Don Toliver
No. 21, “Promotion,” featuring Future
No. 24, “Fried,”
No. 25, “Slide”
No. 32, “River,” featuring Young Thug
No. 37, “530”
No. 38, “Dead,” featuring Future & Lil Durk
No. 39, “Time Moving Slow”
No. 41, “Lifestyle,” featuring Lil Wayne

Source: Billboard