Kanye West Earns 10th No. 1 Album With 'DONDA'
Marking the biggest opening week of 2021 so far.
Kanye West is back on top of the Billboard 200 as DONDA opens this week at No. 1.
According to Billboard, the 27-track project earned a total of 309,000 equivalent album units — just below its initial 350,000 units forecast — with 272,000 streaming equivalent units, 37,000 in album sales and under 1,000 in track equivalent album units. DONDA garnered 357.39 million on-demand streams in its first week, surpassing the previous record set by J. Cole‘s The Off-Season as 2021’s largest streaming week for an album.
Other new debuts on this week’s Billboard 200 are Halsey‘s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which opens at No. 2 with 98,000 equivalent album units, and Lil Tecca‘s We Love You Tecca 2 at No. 10 with 30,000 equivalent album units.
Elsewhere on the chart, Olivia Rodrigo dips to No. 3, followed by Doja Cat and The Kid LAROI at Nos. 4 and 5. Making up the bottom half of this week’s top 10 are Morgan Wallen, Billie Eilish, Rod Wave and Trippie Redd.
In related news, André 3000 released a statement on the leaked Kanye West track “Life of the Party.”
