Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” gets a huge boost on Billboard 200 chart.
Kanye West is enjoying the success of streaming platforms as he’s been the top listened to artist on US Spotify in the past few days. Not only on DSPs, but the rapper now also gets a huge boost on Billboard 200 Chart.
Kanye West’s second studio album “Late Registration”, which was dropped in 2005, re-enters the Billboard chart, its first appearance in over 5 years. The rapper is earning praise for his latest “jeen-yuhs” docuseries on Netflix, which resulted in a major jump for his debut album “The College Dropout”.
.@kanyewest‘s ‘Late Registration’ re-enters this week’s Billboard 200, earning its first appearance in over 5 years.
— chart data (@chartdata) March 1, 2022
.@kanyewest‘s ‘Late Registration’ re-enters this week’s #Billboard200 chart at No. 184.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) March 1, 2022
The album which was released 18 years ago, rises from 109 to 36 on this week’s Billboard 200 Chart. The album is expected to move 20k equivalent units this week. The College Dropout opened at #2 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, selling 441,000 copies in its first week. It became West’s best-selling album in the United States, selling over 3.4 million copies domestically by 2014, and was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2020.
The project was dropped on February 10, 2004, through Roc-A-Fella Records & Def Jam Recordings, and it was recorded over a period of four years, beginning in 1999. The album received a Grammy Award for “Best Rap Album”, and it is named by various publications as one of the greatest albums of all time, including Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list.
.@kanyewest‘s ‘The College Dropout’ rises 109-36 on this week’s #Billboard200.
It marks the album’s highest ranking on the chart since March 2005.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) March 1, 2022
Following the second episode of the Netflix documentary “jeen-yuhs”, Kanye West’s “College Dropout” is projected to sell 20k this week! pic.twitter.com/7u0WmRvt50
— OnThinIce (@OnnThinlce) March 2, 2022
The rapper is now announced as the headliner for Rolling Loud Miami 2022 festival along with Kendrick Lamar and Future.
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