While this is quite the feat, it doesn't stand as Ye's best-selling album. Updated on September 23, 2021, by Michael Chaar: In 2004, Kanye West released his very first album, The College Dropout, which would go on to sell a whopping 441,000 album units in its first week. Despite the hype surrounding his latest album, Kanye caught some competition when Drake released his Certified Loverboy, So, how did Kanye's album sell in its first week? Let's dive in!

With the release of Donda, Ye's newest album, it's never a better time to look back at his impactful discography and rank each album based on their first-week album unit sales. Related: Kanye West 'Donda Chant' Blasted As Satanic As He Debuts New Video Up to this writing, West has nine albums in his catalog, which have generated a total of 140 million in sales worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. The rest is history, and considering the success, he's had in the industry, it's clear he's also made history, too. Before rapping, West started his career as a producer, working with the likes of Eminem, Jermaine Dupri, Jay-Z, and others, until the latter signed West to Roc-A-Fella records. 2, 5 and 10 with Whitney: The Greatest Hits, The Bodyguard soundtrack and her self-titled album.It's not exaggerating to say that Kanye Omari West is one of the most influential hip-hop stars of all time. 1 and 7 with 21 and 19, while Houston was Nos. If we exclude instances where an act debuted two new albums or returned to the chart with newly reissued product, then we have to scroll back to March 17, 2012, when both Adele and Whitney Houston (in the wake of her death) each had multiple titles in the top 10. Before that, Led Zeppelin did it (with three albums) on Jwhen reissues of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin III reentered the list at Nos. 18, 2014-dated list ( Art Official Age at No. ItвЂ™s been more than a year since an artist last had two concurrent top 10 albums, when Prince debuted two titles in the region on the Oct. 21 is also the tenth-largest selling album of the Nielsen era, with 11.2 million sold. 1 on the chart -В the most weeks atop the list for an album by a woman in history. 1 all-time album on the Billboard 200 chart.Дў1 previously spent 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. Greatest Billboard 200 Albums & Artists of All Time: AdeleвЂ™s вЂ™21вЂ™ & The Beatles Are TopsДў1 has now spent 82 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10. 21 was last in the top 10 on the March 16, 2013-dated list, when it ranked at No. It climbs 25-9 with 46,000 units (up 125 percent) and 34,000 in pure album sales (up 163 percent). 1 album, and follows the chart-topping 21, which returns to the top 10 for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years, and to its highest rank in over three. (All of 25вЂ™s streaming units come from streams of the single вЂњHello,вЂќ as it is the only song from the album available on streaming services.)Дў5 is AdeleвЂ™s second No. 1.)Дў5вЂ™s overall equivalent unit figure is comprised mostly of pure album sales, along with 96,000 in track equivalent album units, and another 8,000 in streaming equivalent album units. (A week ago, Justin Bieber set the former record of 649,000 units, when his Purpose album debuted at No. It almost goes without saying that 25вЂ™s equivalent album unit figure of 3.48 million is also the largest registered since the chart began tracking weekly popularity based on overall units in December of 2014.

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