Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Division has earned its 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, blocking Kanye West — who now goes by “Ye” — and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 from a chart-topping debut.
Billboard reported on Sunday that Swift’s TTPD moved 142,000 equal album unites within the U.S. final week. The outlet notes that Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time was the final album to spend 14 weeks on the high of the chart, finally spending 19 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 over the course of a yr. Earlier than that, Adele’s 21 clocked 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 spot between 2011 and 2012.
Swift, 34, and Ye, 47, have a long-running and nicely documented public feud.
Again in February — the rapper pleaded with Swift’s followers that he is “not your enemy” because the Swifties started a social media motion to help Beyoncé‘s “Texas Hold ‘Em” in an effort to maintain West’s songs from reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart. On the time, West was selling the discharge of Vultures 1, which did debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
“Last year was incredibly challenging for me, my wife, my children, friends and family. I’ve been banned from hotels, kicked out of companies, and not even allowed to eat in some restaurants. Everyone saw Vultures 1 get taken off of platforms to limit our first week numbers. This reminds me of the mistreatment of my people because of the color of our skin,” West wrote on the time in a since-deleted Instagram put up.
He continued, “Remember I was on Taylor’s side when Scooter [Braun] bought her masters behind her back. She and Beyoncé are big inspirations to all musicians. We always say how both sell out tours and movies. Also, I’m sure I’ve been far more helpful to Taylor Swift’s career than harmful. To all Taylor Swift fans, I am not your enemy. Um, I’m not your friend either though LOL.”
West and Swift’s difficult dynamic dates again to 2009 when the rapper famously crashed the stage and interrupted her acceptance speech in the course of the MTV Video Music Awards to reward Beyoncé.
West and Swift appeared to have mended fences in 2015 when the pop star offered him with an award, however the relationship soured once more the next yr when West referenced her in his track “Famous.” After that, Swift publicly objected to his lyric about her and West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, leaked a secretly recorded telephone name between the performers.
For her half, Swift emerged in 2017 with a blistering revenge observe, “Look What You Made Me Do,” off her Popularity album. In December 2023, she known as the incident a “fully manufactured frame job” in an interview with Time.
In April, the “Karma” singer appeared to take goal at Kardashian once more together with her TTPD observe, “thanK you aIMee.”
Swift is ready to wrap up the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour in London with 5 nights at Wembley Stadium, starting August 15. It is going to be her first present since a thwarted terrorist assault led to the cancellation of her deliberate performances in Vienna, Austria, earlier this month.
She’s going to once more return to the stage on Oct. 18 to kick off one other North American leg on the Arduous Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.
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