{"id":113830,"date":"2018-06-08T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=113830"},"modified":"2018-06-10T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:50:11","slug":"report-kanye-wests-ye-wins-us-sales-race-will-claim-1-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/06\/08\/report-kanye-wests-ye-wins-us-sales-race-will-claim-1-billboard-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;ye&#8221; Wins US Sales Race, Claims #1 On Billboard 200 (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> Billboard has made the news official, revealing that Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;ye&#8221; debuts at #1 on the Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n<p>The album becomes West&#8217;s eighth #1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>According to Billboard, the album sold 85K pure US copies.  With TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) included, it generated 208K in overall consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The sales figure yields the #1 position on Top Album Sales, while the consumption tally drives the #1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;Beerbongs &#038; Bentleys&#8221; takes #2 on the Billboard 200, while Ghost&#8217;s &#8220;Prequelle&#8221; debuts at #3.  Luke Combs&#8217; &#8220;This One&#8217;s For You&#8221; (#4)** and Cardi B&#8217;s &#8220;Invasion Of Privacy&#8221; (#5) complete the Top 5.<\/p>\n<p><em>**Note: For the Combs album, Billboard is combining units from the original &#8220;This One&#8217;s For You&#8221; and the new &#8220;This One&#8217;s For You Too&#8221; re-issue.<\/em><br \/>\n====<br \/>\nKanye West&#8217;s 7-track &#8220;ye&#8221; album predictably claims first place in this week&#8217;s US sales and consumption races.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from Buzz Angle and Hits Daily Double, the album sold approximately 82,089 pure US copies this week.<\/p>\n<p>With TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) included, &#8220;ye&#8221; generated 210,328 in total consumption units.<\/p>\n<p>Due Sunday, Billboard&#8217;s more authoritative data may differ slightly from that reported by Hits.  The discrepancies will not, however, affect the overall outcome.  The pure sales total will yield a #1 bow on the Top Album Sales chart, while the consumption figure will position &#8220;ye&#8221; atop the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p><b>This week&#8217;s pure sales leaders (via Hits\/Buzz Angle):<\/b><br \/>\n1) Kanye West &#8211; ye (82K pure US sales)<br \/>\n2) Ghost &#8211; Prequelle (56K pure US sales)<br \/>\n3) The Greatest Showman &#8211; Soundtrack (25K pure US sales)<br \/>\n4) Luke Combs &#8211; This One&#8217;s For You Too (25K pure US sales)<br \/>\n5) Father John Misty &#8211; God&#8217;s Favorite Customer (22K pure US sales)<\/p>\n<p><b>This week&#8217;s total consumption leaders (via Hits\/BuzzAngle):<\/b><br \/>\n1) Kanye West &#8211; ye (210K total US units)<br \/>\n2) Post Malone &#8211; Beerbongs &#038; Bentleys (99K total US units)<br \/>\n3) Ghost &#8211; Prequelle (60K total US units)<br \/>\n4) Luke Combs &#8211; This One&#8217;s For You Too (53K total US units)<br \/>\n5) Cardi B &#8211; Invasion Of Privacy (48K total US units)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Ye&#8221; predictably won this week&#8217;s US sales and consumption races.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047],"tags":[300,11108],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kanye West&#039;s &quot;ye&quot; Wins US Sales Race, Claims #1 On Billboard 200 (Update)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Billboard has made the news official, revealing that Kanye West&#039;s &quot;ye&quot; debuts at #1 on the Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts. 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